Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Silver Halves and Ike dollars

Started going to a few banks everyday and started getting lucky. So far I have bought 14 Ike dollars for face value and 5 40% silver Kennedy halves. It seems maybe someone is cashing in halves for dollar bills which is fine for me I will buy them all lol. Once again I stress all you got to do is ask for silver dollars at the bank and they will sell them to you for face value. So far all I have got has been Ike dollars that are clad but the day will come I get lucky and get some peace dollars . And I bet I have bought $1000 dollars in halves and cashed them all back in minus the silver all profit no risk money.

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Silver 1959D Rosie dime

Wanted to go out this evening and look and with the heat as it is I decided to go to a nearby farm house I have found several wheats at.
After 30 minutes I had found a old steel ring and a marble and domino that I found while digging metal targets. Finally found a clad penny and then I got a strong reading with my ace that pegged on a dime 8 inches plus. I dug a decent plug and shining like a new coin was this mint looking 1959D Rosie dime.



I found this in a area that I had been to at least 10 times so it just goes to show you can always have fun and be lucky with a Garrett Ace 350.

War Nickel at a playground

With silver on the climb and gold going thru the roof its no wonder the fastest growing hobby of metal detecting is getting very popular. All you have to do is get you a good machine like my trusty Ace 350 and start swinging.
One saturday I was at a local school yard finding a ton of clad coins when I got a signal for a Quarter that said it was 6 inches deep. after cutting my plug and using my pinpointer to verify it was in the plug I slowly started breaking the dirt away expecting to find a clad looking quarter. To my surprise I saw that all to familar shiny silver luster. It was a 1945 P silver war nickel. Going to go back there and hopefully find more .

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Coin Roll Hunting for silver halves

I have often read in blogs and forums that there is more than one way to find silver and one of those ways is cleaner and not as dirty as using a Ace 350.This method has been labeled coinroll hunting. Its a rather simple way with no need to gain permission to search and unlimited places to look all you got to do is have a good bank that you have a account with that doesn't penalize you for depositing large amounts of change and you are set to become a CRH .
Most banks get 50 cent halves in in deposits and rarely give them back out in change and some people flat out refuse them when offered lol. So get at least 100 dollars to start with and go to any bank and ask for 50 cent pieces if they do have them they will be glad to let you have them. Also this is very important always ask for any silver dollars so people do still deposit these and all are worth more than a dollar so buy every single one they have as you will be making instant return on you money.
After finding the halves look for anything 1970 and under and you have silver.
1965-1970 are 40% silver
1964 and under are 90% silver
A lot of people are unaware of the 40% and will leave them out and with silver valued $40 a ounce you are looking at $8+ per coin for the price of 50 cents.
And the beauty of the whole thing is you do not loose any money just your time by doing this as you just deposit the clad(non silver coins) back into your bank and by doing so you know were they are and that in turn puts the searched coins in one place were you know were they are at.
I have had good results so far on 2 hunts this year the first hunt bought $7 dollars worth and found a 1964  90% silver Kennedy half.
The second hunt we found a bank that had $660 in halves and we bought every one.
out of all those halves we found 4 40% Kennedy halves and 2 2005 halves that were kept as well because they stopped making halves in 2001 for circulation so those were out of proof sets.
Here are a few tips to use while coin roll hunting.
1 ask for any and all halves buy them all.
2 ask for silver dollars you might get lucky
3 go to banks in small towns and in areas were retirement homes and older people live as they are the ones that hold on to older money and then cash it in
4 after getting your rolls look at the edges of the coins and silver will be silver and the clad will have cooper look to them.
5 make sure you got a place to deposit them after you are done.

If anyone has any other things to add please comment and let me know and I would also like to hear other peoples stories as well.


Tim Stroud   from
added this info about the halves and what to look for.
 From 2002 to present, Half Dollars are minted in both Proof and Business strikes. Nearly all the ones found in rolls are of the Business strike variety, not the Proofs. But still a good find none the less and can sell for as much as 2x face value

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Ace 350 @ my wife's grandfathers house


I went to my wife's grandfathers house and looked for a total of 30 minutes. found 15 clad coins and this old medallion that was her uncles that was made 30 plus years ago at a county fair. it has his name and his cousins name on it and has a American flag in the center and good luck written on the back.



Saturday, April 2, 2011

2 more wheats and other finds

Went out today after getting back my Ace 350 from Garrett after getting it serviced and reset found some clad and 2 wheat pennies one was a 1917 the other a 1945. Also found the Sagittarius key chain and a cool looking Catseye marble. Gonna go take my son turkey hunting in the morning and then go look some more.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Three wheats and some clad

Went out to a old house and found 3 wheat pennies all in the same area and all were from about the same 
 year. they were a 1951,1953 and a 1956D. Also found out on the same property a much older house stood in a area that is now a field that dated to the 1840's so next time I will be looking there.