So, I’m in shock. I haven’t hunted coin rolls for quite a while. Last two boxes of halves yielded nothing, zero, and that was over 10 years ago. Halves aren’t really in general circulation any more. I’ll usually ask the teller when I’m at the bank if she has any halves and usually she has 1 or 2 and I don’t even bother. Today I went to the bank and when I was done with my regular business I asked the teller if she had any halves. She had 8 rolls, hand rolled. I got four of them. Took them home, kind of forgot about them for a few hours. I go look at them and holy crap, out come Benjys, always a great sign. And a 37-S in stunning condition. From 4 rolls I got 11 qty 90% and 21 40%. Uhh, yeah, you bet I went back for the other 4 rolls. Out of 8 rolls I got 26 qty 90% and 41 40%’ers. You could go through 10 x $500 boxes and not get that many.
Investment: $80.
Value of coins
26 @ 17x face for 90% = $221
41 @ 6.5x face for 40% = $133.
A good day!
I was at a convenience store once and notice they had about 60 or so halves in the drawer. Someone had paid for gas with them or something. Bought them all, and it turned out they were about half 40%ers. Nice return.