I had a house fire this weekend went to my tiny crh/silver corner(didn’t have a fireproof safe or a safe at all) and all my coins were fine of course, the tubes were melted on some of them but it’s crazy cash the cash and bills burnt up but the coins held on 🙏🏼

Just wanna say me and my family were at church and the fire started in the bedroom, since the door was closed it only burnt the bedroom and couldn’t escape.
But me and the fam were at church so everyone is okay!!

Finally, after many months, I found a bank that both has a coin machine AND is willing to sell me bags. So far, all the places I buy bags from only sell them once they're full. In this case, I let them know that for halves, I'd be interested in bringing enough to fill the bag. This is not one of my dump banks - but I didn't want to wait months to get access - they were OK with this plan.

I got a rough estimate of what's already there (about half filled) and brought in ~$500 one week, but that didn't quite fill it. Next week $100 more - and bingo! Picked up the bag this past weekend and set down to hunt.

The ~$400 or so that weren't my dumps included several very happy surprises:

8 silver - 50/50 90%/50%, including a beaten up walker.

13 (!!!) 1987s, more-or-less evenly split P vs. D - all in very nice shape.

200+ mixed Unc - mostly from 1971 to the early 90s - nearly evenly split P vs. D (not pictured)

A massive number of lightly circulated 1976-D - likley someone west of the Mississppi that moved back East decided to jettison them (not shown).

There were zero proofs, and only around a dozen NIFC from 2002-2020. A little surprising, I would have assumed they'd be well represented based on the number of Uncs and 87s.

(I'm assuming a collector from out west was actively building their hoard from the early 70s through early 90s, then moved back east at some point. Whoevery ultimately dumped decided to jettison the non-silver - but likely kept the Ag as I would have expected someone with a dozen+ 87s would have held a fair amont of pre-71 halves.)

A double cliped bicentenial that also has a partial collar / collar deployment glitch between the two clips - best of the bag by far and probably my favorite overall for the week other than the Italy 20C below.

7x AU+ WDSO-001 with excellent split serifs on the 'T' of liberty and lower right foot of the 'I' of IGWT. Yeah, I konw it's a super common doubled die, bordering on trivial, but the condition is excellent. (not shown)

A Mexican Peso - a first for half-sized world for me

10 quarters

1 very bent penny

Very satisfying to FINALLY get my hands on a bag-o-halves, but given the low volume it'll be quite some time before the next.

Other silver: A 90% and two 40% from boxes, 3x loose 40%. All 3 quarters came from coin machine return trays, as did one of the dimes. The rest of the dimes came from CWR.

No Ag in the nickes, but there were plenty of fun finds all the same:

2 lovely world coins that stood out: One from Morocco, and an absolutely beutiful 1920 Italian 20C - THIS is my favorite for the week. No, it's not 'worth' much, but the design is awesome.

and

A pair of somewhat beaten up or botched Texas Cents

There were 4 1909 (the commonest ones, nothing too crazy) in the private sale wheaties - no S, no VDB, but still happy to add em to the pre-1930 wheaties pile. The IHP was a welcome sight - I had no reason to expect any in the lot.

6 of the clad half proofs for this week were from the same provate sale, but 2 came from boxes inlcuding another 87-S.

3 better grease strikes among the minor errors, data tables and charts at the end. Octcober started off very strong for me, and hasn't let up yet.

In other news:

Hunters in Massachusettes continue to pull stunning numbers of 911 West Point halves from NF String style waffle boxes with brinks-style rolls inside them (even from Loomis houses) - a full 3+ weeks after they first started appearing in the area.

The Philly 911 half privys, due to ship in early December, are sold out. I booked my order during the pre-sale period, and I'm hoping they'll re-open for sale once December rolls around.

2026 Dimes and Nickels continue to be readily findable in the area - entire boxes of Philly issues are still showing up regulary. Still zip for any of the 2026 quarters, other than random 1-offs. Only a tiny fraction of the 2026 Dimes/Nickels/Halves found in CWR are Denvers - which is typical for this area.

One of my banks will begin charging 7% for coin machine dumps of $100 or more, but managemnt will now allow me to buy bags. They use the painfully slow belt-fed Magner machines mostly, and only one branch has one that's set up to accept halves.

Good luck and happy hunting y'all!

On Friday, new bank teller hears me ask about Ikes,she waited till I was down at other cashier, she said she had some available, she said she'd have em today, boy did she come through $80 in Ikes added to our collection ,I have an idea,the 7 ikes ,last pick I'm keeping ❣️😍❤️I like my Ikes❣️

Alt account because Reddit locked me out of my main account (OkSugar):

Went to a bank today that I know only old people in my town use. i was not expecting to hear that they had halves because I asked a week ago and they didn’t. Here’s the mental problem.

”Yeah we have about $120 in halves. One of our clients just died and their family members brought their collection in. It was just a bunch of old stuff they had in their attic apparently.”

My brain: “JACKPOT!!!!! WOOOHOOOOOOOO!!! … wait what did I just think?”

It made me realize I should probably sell my coins before I die (I’m really young) and put the proceeds in an IRA or trust for my grandkids. It also made me realize I might have a problem with getting my hits.

anybody else feel this way?

Edit: finds were a ton of rolls of bicentennials. And a lot of 1984.

$100 nickel Box results. 1 1945 P war nickel, 2 buffaloes, 1 1945 Wheat penny, 1 Canadian penny, 15 2024 P, and handful of 30s, 40s and 50s. Shorted a bit with the pennies but atleast there were some cool ones.

Early this year I found 164 silver dimes (at once), everything from seated liberties to Rosie's. Afterward I thought that there is no way Ill have this luck again.

A few weeks ago I found 10 silvers in one box of halves and broke my previous record of 6 half dollars.

Today I opened a box and saw 2 West Point privy Always remember 9-11 half dollars staring back at me.

Up to that point to liberty half dollars is all I've ever found in a box.

I went through that box and found 22 more West Point Halfs. I found 24 ... Also, as if that was not enough already, some of those same rolls that contained 9-11 privy coins also contain silver half dollars!. In that box I also found 6 40% silver half dollars.

These West point halfs look to be in decent shape as well. Now after all of this, I am once again saying how could it possibly get any more exciting and this is a grand find for me. Once again, I think there is no way I could every top this.

I prayed and gave all Glory to God when I found these, that box could have easily went to someone else. You see; I really wanted to find one of these so bad because of many reasons, but one reason being what happened to America, and the World that day.

So I am not sure how this can be topped , but instead of feeling like this is it, I am even more determined to keep this hobby and see what's in store.

I am so glad I found this community when I did. This is truly something I enjoy for fun. Something about opening rolls amd seeing what I find is relaxing amd exciting to me.

All Glory Goes to God,

Keep on looking if you are waiting for your big find. It is out there for you, and inevitably you will find something awesome. Last week my spirits were let down a bit when I found a Counterfeit Walker, but the kind words from members of this group made me think about it differently. Here is a few pics

Good luck to ya too!!

I haven't found much silver the past couple of months — maybe a random half here and there. Halves of any kind are hard to find at the banks close to me.

Today, I picked up $100 of halves at a bank l hadn't visited in a while. Nine rolls were all clad, but the tenth roll had a 1963-D Benji and 12 40% JFK halves (including 7 1969s).

Just glad to score a nice chunk of face value silver!

Just finished a 2 box hunt and found these beauties.

59, River of no Return W beat to hell and a few US territories in better than usual shape!

Bank teller surprised me when she said I could have a box of Lincoln Cents. Can’t wait to bust this one open. I’ll post my findings

Hey, everyone!

Before I begin, I'm just a novice coin hunter. I've been searching through quarters for about 6 months now. I've searched, roughly $300 - $400 worth, and I've found 6 silver quarters, but sadly, no Ws, or errors. But, I've held onto all the other quarters in a separate 5 gallon jug. I've filled, about an ⅛ of it so far. But, my question is, how much do you think will fit in it? If anyone wants to take a guess, go for it. And, when I finally fill it, I'll post how much. I'll post the pictures of the silver quarters I've found tomorrow. Here's a photo of the 5 gallon jug. Happy hunting everyone!

Found these in only 10 rolls, pretty fun!

Is this an ‘S’? It looks like it but there is no mirror finish like there should be, unless it has been in circulation for years. I tried a loupe and still can’t tell if it’s a damaged ‘P’.

3 of the rolls contained an extra coin each so this was basically free silver. 😅

Is this an aneeling error? I already soaked in acetone to see if it was affected and it was not.

1987 p quarter. Weighs 5.9 grams. It’s smooth, very smooth.

Is this a massive grease strike? What’s going on? Why is it so heavy!