1st Silver Half Dollar found in a box from the bank

I found a 40% Kennedy Silver Half dollar on June 12th, 2009 in a box I got from my local bank.

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[DetroitLove4U]

Markaroni1952 - I just bought $80 in face value of American half dollars from a lady of whom gave them to me for just that $80 face value. The outline of this lot is that all Half Dollars - 160 of them in total - are of silver content! Whereas 134 of them are of the 40 % silver variety dated 1965 to 1969 and the remaining 26 are 1964 Kennedy Halves (90% silver D and Plain mintmarks 18 count ) & Benjamin Franklin Halves ( 8 count ). What a lucky exchange I got! I'm a long-time numismatist too!

[Markaroni1952]

I love when that happens.

[sku1123]

how do u know that it is 40%?

[Markaroni1952]

Halves from 1964 are 90% silver. Halves from 1965 - 1969 are 40% silver.

[fargonbastedge]

I just went through over 50 rolls of nickels, dimes and quarters and only found 1 dime.

[boipinoi604]

@inkey2 My mom handles the till and gets silver probably when some kids unknowingly spends their parents silver coins for $.25 candies

[inkey2]

@ScorpioBornIn69 I had been a retail store manager for about 33 years. I handled tons of cash over the years. Even in the 33 years of keeping my eye out for silver in the cash register i hardley ever came across it......once in a while but rare. A month ago I found a pretty damn nice 1964 quarter in my change....I was so surprised...it made my day

[ScorpioBornIn69]

I have been doing this for years and the silver halves used to be so easy to find. Not any more. They're as hard to find as the silver dimes and quarters. I went to the bank last weekend and got $1,000 and got NOTHING. If this were even just three years ago, I would've gotten at least 10-15 silver ones. With silver now over $40, more people are looking out after these.

[zekehooper]

@zekehooper Just to add to what I said....I just went through $370 in halves and only found one 69' . Must be the area I am in????

[zekehooper]

to help open the rolles I use my swiss army knife's bottle opener to unroll the sides. makes it alot easier!

[zekehooper]

@DetroitLove4U WOW! What a find.

[jaguarxj6vandenplas]

Cool, but you're letting the cat out of the bag.

[msungs]

I love when we outsmart the banks and the banksters. The Federal Reserve Bank as Federal as Federal Express is always planning something evil like inflation against the people so this is a way to fight back. Keep stacking. The next time I am back in the US I will have to hit up some banks and do some digging. i don't think too many people are doing this.

[ScorpioBornIn69]

With silver at $27.25 an ounce, silver value in the 90% ones are $9.85 and the 40% are $4.00.