Hah – that’s just cheating right there! ;)

Reminds me though of when you could by up $1 coins from the mint using credit cards to rack up the rewards, and then bringing them straight to the bank to deposit. It was all the rage in the blogging world back then, but shortly there after it was cut off.

Anyways, glad you had better luck than I did with rolls!

i did the coin box thing back in 2009 with 4 banks and 4 boxes per bank.

i just cut a vertical slice in the roll with a razor to look at the cross section of the roll and pulled out any silver half dollars and replaced with a normal half. took about 14 min a box all up. it was good pickings for about a year until my banks wouldnt let me return them back to them anymore and i did notice the silver coins were less and less. i think maybe they started culling out the silver before rolling( just a guess). Anyway it seemed like a good game back then. Glad to see someone else figured it out as well.

“at least PRETEND to go to the back and look for MY sake…..K?”

that is hilarious, haha..

I feel ya man. If I ever accomplish my bucket list item of working at a bank one day, I will let you know and you can call me anytime you wish to search for goodies.. gotta infiltrate from the inside!

(though of course I’ll be taking all the good stuff first ;))

Now when i call ANY Chase branch if I ask for half dollars or BIG dollar rolls they immediately say the ‘dont have any’ without even LOOKING….damn man…at least PRETEND to go to the back and look for MY sake…..K?

So I figure I give up on that and just try to get some Susan B’s for some emergency coinage instead…just for amusement since theyve ruined the silver hunting for me.
But theyre catching on that Im buying rolls of dollar coins, removing the Susan B’s and bringing back the others….as if THAT is ruining their business day or something.

Not even the coin shops around here know where a good source of even Susan B’s would be. Thats pretty damned telling.

Hah – yeah, much harder to find pre 1947 for sure :) I’ve actually found two dimes in the past year w/ silver in it here in the States, but still pretty rare to come across. They’re def. still out there though!

DC area! I thought that cost was expensive? I did get fees waved going through AAA, but aren’t batteries usually like $40 or something? I just don’t know much about installing and all that so I’m always happy to pay to have it done properly.

It was the cookies that sold you, huh? :) 8 weeks is scary though for sure – I’m glad it worked out for all of you!