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I apologize in advance, this is going to be a long post.
I stopped to pickup my other two boxes of halves this afternoon (the two boxes they forgot to order for wednesday that they assured me would be in today) and they didn't order them. This is the second time this has happened with this bank and they never call me. I'm usually pretty easy going, but I have made 5 drives to this bank in the last three weeks and gotten one pickup out of it. Today I flat out asked the vault teller: "Is it a problem that I order these boxes every week? You can tell me if you don't want to order them. I have plenty of other banks that have no problem ordering". He said: "It is no problem at all. It is just a communication problem amongst our staff and I apologize. They are already on order for next week". Honestly, if this happens again with this place I'll just start ordering at one of their other branches.
Enough with the rant: They offered me 5 rolls of halves that they had in the vault and I took those. They were MWR and they were all skunks.
Since I had gotten out of work a bit early I decided to ask for halves at a few other banks around there. In total, I stopped at 6 banks.
Bank 1: No Halves
Bank 2: $1.50 in halves (skunk)
Bank 3: $8.50 in halves (3x'64) TELLER TRAY SCORE!!!!
Bank 4: $13.50 in halves: $3.50 loose in teller tray (1x40%) & $10 CWR from the back (10x40%'ers) SWEET!!!
Bank 5: No halves but sold me $120 in MWR dimes
Bank 6: 3 rolls of halves (3 U.S. Mint NIFC Rolls)
Now the rest of the story:
All of these banks were within a quarter mile of the first major teller tray score I had back in February that started me hunting seriously. The two silver scores today were from banks that were literally right next to eachother.
The bank that had the three '64's asked me if I was from (insert town name here). They said another branch had called asking for halves and were sending a customer up to get them. I told her I wasn't "the guy" and she said: "well, that was a few hours ago and first come first serve". So if you were going to pick up loose halves at a WF today and they were gone, sorry, but I'm not sorry.
I feel really lucky with that timing. I actually almost didn't even stop in this bank.
These banks are not in a really elderly area or anything. I can't figure out why there is so much silver concentrated in this area, but I intend on making weekly stops at all these banks.
I was hoping for a solid roll from that other bank, but I got my first half-solid roll, so I'm psyched about that.
Now to my question: These NIFC mint rolls do not look like they are in great shape. They are still sealed, but the coins on the end look like they have a gold tone to them. Are these worth anything over face value? I stopped at the coin shop I usually go to, but he was closed. I was honestly going to give them to him for face + a few coin tubes. Should I save these rolls or break them open and dump them
I'll update the outcome of the dimes once I open them. Update: Dimes were a skunk.
Here are the pics:
I stopped to pickup my other two boxes of halves this afternoon (the two boxes they forgot to order for wednesday that they assured me would be in today) and they didn't order them. This is the second time this has happened with this bank and they never call me. I'm usually pretty easy going, but I have made 5 drives to this bank in the last three weeks and gotten one pickup out of it. Today I flat out asked the vault teller: "Is it a problem that I order these boxes every week? You can tell me if you don't want to order them. I have plenty of other banks that have no problem ordering". He said: "It is no problem at all. It is just a communication problem amongst our staff and I apologize. They are already on order for next week". Honestly, if this happens again with this place I'll just start ordering at one of their other branches.
Enough with the rant: They offered me 5 rolls of halves that they had in the vault and I took those. They were MWR and they were all skunks.
Since I had gotten out of work a bit early I decided to ask for halves at a few other banks around there. In total, I stopped at 6 banks.
Bank 1: No Halves
Bank 2: $1.50 in halves (skunk)
Bank 3: $8.50 in halves (3x'64) TELLER TRAY SCORE!!!!
Bank 4: $13.50 in halves: $3.50 loose in teller tray (1x40%) & $10 CWR from the back (10x40%'ers) SWEET!!!
Bank 5: No halves but sold me $120 in MWR dimes
Bank 6: 3 rolls of halves (3 U.S. Mint NIFC Rolls)
Now the rest of the story:
All of these banks were within a quarter mile of the first major teller tray score I had back in February that started me hunting seriously. The two silver scores today were from banks that were literally right next to eachother.
The bank that had the three '64's asked me if I was from (insert town name here). They said another branch had called asking for halves and were sending a customer up to get them. I told her I wasn't "the guy" and she said: "well, that was a few hours ago and first come first serve". So if you were going to pick up loose halves at a WF today and they were gone, sorry, but I'm not sorry.
I feel really lucky with that timing. I actually almost didn't even stop in this bank.These banks are not in a really elderly area or anything. I can't figure out why there is so much silver concentrated in this area, but I intend on making weekly stops at all these banks.
I was hoping for a solid roll from that other bank, but I got my first half-solid roll, so I'm psyched about that.
Now to my question: These NIFC mint rolls do not look like they are in great shape. They are still sealed, but the coins on the end look like they have a gold tone to them. Are these worth anything over face value? I stopped at the coin shop I usually go to, but he was closed. I was honestly going to give them to him for face + a few coin tubes. Should I save these rolls or break them open and dump them
I'll update the outcome of the dimes once I open them. Update: Dimes were a skunk.
Here are the pics:
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