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Monday's box of halves.....skunk. Curiously.......they used different wrappers in this box......

Tuesday's box of halves.....skunk-a-roo......

Wednesday's box of halves......skunkage.....

Monday's box of halves yielded...1 x 67!

Was able to score 7 Eisenhowers today. All 1976, and 6 of them are in very nice condition.

Tuesday's box of halves......skunk.....

Two banks - 15 dollars in halves - absolutely nothing.

I decided to search three rolls of quarters. Pulled 2 bicentennials.
Also, i noticed my first 2025 quarter of the year. It was an ida wells Denver mint; a Philly would have made the First to find thread.

Bought a customer wrapped roll of halves this morning and pulled two silver: 1967 & 1969.

Hopefully the eye problems of the last month are in remission. Now have to wait for cataract surgery.

$200 dimes.
1949
1941
Yeah.

Oh and 1972 penny

Sorting dimes would give me an eye problem, I can barely see the mint mark on a half dollar!

Actually with just ,rim sorting, it was easier than having to use a magnifying glass on pennies.

Been a long time since I have found halves to sort.

Was out today to have lunch with an old friend.

Before going home I decided to go to a bunch of banks, probably about 12-15 banks total.

I got $408.50 face in half dollars.

No 90% silvers, BUT...

I did get 22 of the 40% halves. I figured (with silver bid at $38.77) this was like finding $104.57 on the street.

I got halves from 6 different banks today. All the silvers came from the same bank. It was funny because the coin wrappers were old style wrappers that haven't likely been used much in the past 10 years or so. I set those rolls aside because they were the same type I've had good luck with in the past. That banks had $80 in halves, so eight rolls. Five of the rolls didn't have any silver. But the other three rolls had 2, 8 and 12 halves, so 22 total silvers.

I saw a bunch of uncirculated 2023 halves today.

Now, as fun as that was, it is MUCH LESS WORK normally for me to make that much in the stock market. You can always argue that I can lose money in the stock market, but I can counter that coins can be stolen- no matter how well you think they've been hidden.

Setting that all aside, I like to have as many sources of income as possible including both coins and stocks.

I have a separate post on this subject that I will submit shortly. It will show my results from searching through $100,000 face in half dollars (200,000 coins). Stay tuned.