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After my 13 skunk boxes in a row and finding 8 silver on my hunt yesterday I decided to take $1,000 and head to a small town I hadn't been to before. My main buy bank recently bought 14 branches of another bank and the account I setup at a new bank came in very handy today.
Bank 1 had no halves.
Bank 2 was a branch of my new bank. The teller was very nice until I told her I wanted to buy a bunch of halves. She said "We know you people who buy allot of halves just look for silver to sell on the Internet and thats not what we get halves for. We had to put a stop to a guy who was doing that a while back." I wanted to calm her down a bit and told her I have never sold any halves on the Internet (Which is true) and I am trying to fill the holes in my coin binder (Also true). She said she was not going to give me her whole box of halves and I could have $300 worth. She asked if I had an account and I was glad I could say yes. She said OK and she would get my $200 in halves. I decided it wouldn't be a good idea to remind her she initially offered me $300 and just took the $200 and left. No silver but I did find a 74-D DDO.
Bank 3 had a very nice teller and asked how many halves I wanted. I told her $500 and she got them for me. These were bank rolled not FED rolled. I found 64x2, 66x2, 67x7, 68-Dx4, and 69-Dx2.
No more banks in this town but I still had $300 left so I told my wife we were going to a another small town and see if I could find another $300 worth.
Bank 4 was an interesting stop. Another very nice teller which always helps. She said she had 1 roll and they had 1 roll in the vault. I asked about the counting machine bag and she said she could probably sell those to me. She said they had $715 in the bag which took me by surprise because every other bank I've been in pulls the bag at $500. I was also thinking I'm screwed because I only have $300 and I'll miss out on this stash. Then I come to my senses and remember this is a new branch of my main buy bank so they can pull the extra money out of my savings account. I told her I'd take it and she gives me the "I'm not sure I should sell it to you because they have been in there a long time and the count may not be accurate." Now I really wanted them and told her I understand it may be off but I'll take it anyway. She said she would run it through the machine again for a recount, it would make her feel better. Since the machine was right in front of me I said OK. Another teller starts dumping the halves into the machine and stops to pull a small tray out that had a half in it. The nice teller tells her the machine dumps the pure silver ones into the reject tray, my excitement starts to fade away. I asked if I could also buy the ones in the reject tray and she said sure. At the end 6 had fallen into the reject tray and she dumped it back into the hopper and they all went through to the bag. I asked her about the halves going through the second time and she said they must not have been pure silver. I ended up with $745 total from this bank. No 64 or older halves so it must work well picking out pure silver, but it did let me have 65x1, 66x2, 67x4, 68-Dx7, 69-Dx2, my first 70-D (Yeah), and my first 82-P no initials.
I know 34 silver is a bad days total for many here, but that combined with the 70-D, 74-D DDO, and an 82-P no FG makes it my best day so far.
Bank 1 had no halves.
Bank 2 was a branch of my new bank. The teller was very nice until I told her I wanted to buy a bunch of halves. She said "We know you people who buy allot of halves just look for silver to sell on the Internet and thats not what we get halves for. We had to put a stop to a guy who was doing that a while back." I wanted to calm her down a bit and told her I have never sold any halves on the Internet (Which is true) and I am trying to fill the holes in my coin binder (Also true). She said she was not going to give me her whole box of halves and I could have $300 worth. She asked if I had an account and I was glad I could say yes. She said OK and she would get my $200 in halves. I decided it wouldn't be a good idea to remind her she initially offered me $300 and just took the $200 and left. No silver but I did find a 74-D DDO.
Bank 3 had a very nice teller and asked how many halves I wanted. I told her $500 and she got them for me. These were bank rolled not FED rolled. I found 64x2, 66x2, 67x7, 68-Dx4, and 69-Dx2.
No more banks in this town but I still had $300 left so I told my wife we were going to a another small town and see if I could find another $300 worth.
Bank 4 was an interesting stop. Another very nice teller which always helps. She said she had 1 roll and they had 1 roll in the vault. I asked about the counting machine bag and she said she could probably sell those to me. She said they had $715 in the bag which took me by surprise because every other bank I've been in pulls the bag at $500. I was also thinking I'm screwed because I only have $300 and I'll miss out on this stash. Then I come to my senses and remember this is a new branch of my main buy bank so they can pull the extra money out of my savings account. I told her I'd take it and she gives me the "I'm not sure I should sell it to you because they have been in there a long time and the count may not be accurate." Now I really wanted them and told her I understand it may be off but I'll take it anyway. She said she would run it through the machine again for a recount, it would make her feel better. Since the machine was right in front of me I said OK. Another teller starts dumping the halves into the machine and stops to pull a small tray out that had a half in it. The nice teller tells her the machine dumps the pure silver ones into the reject tray, my excitement starts to fade away. I asked if I could also buy the ones in the reject tray and she said sure. At the end 6 had fallen into the reject tray and she dumped it back into the hopper and they all went through to the bag. I asked her about the halves going through the second time and she said they must not have been pure silver. I ended up with $745 total from this bank. No 64 or older halves so it must work well picking out pure silver, but it did let me have 65x1, 66x2, 67x4, 68-Dx7, 69-Dx2, my first 70-D (Yeah), and my first 82-P no initials.
I know 34 silver is a bad days total for many here, but that combined with the 70-D, 74-D DDO, and an 82-P no FG makes it my best day so far.
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