Unrolling 1,250 $1/2 Coins

After getting up this morning I got the great idea (actually I came up with the idea yesterday) to go to the bank in search of some half dollars.  Not because I wanted half dollars, as I don't have that kind of extra money, but because I was in search for silver ones.  Every now and then a silver one or two gets cashed in with them and you will find them - usually in a roll of $10.    I quickly got up and showered.   I then ran right out to my car with a bucket of change I wanted to change out for cash.  But I didn't have peace.  I sat in my idling car for several minutes.  I really, really wanted to go to the bank, but something wasn't sitting right with my spirit.   God kept saying spend some time with me.   I kept telling Him that I had already tried this morning and had no luck.  I had kept getting too distracted and couldn't focus.   I thought maybe if I could get this fun thing out of the way I might be able to focus.  But, thank goodness, God knows me better than I do.  He told me that I didn't try spending some time with Him in His word.  I told Him my "concern" with that - that I would quickly become tired - as I didn't really feel like doing anything at the moment (except go to the bank) and I had no energy period.    But God kept saying to spend time with Him.  So I turned off the car and went back inside.  I put on the Bible on audio (thanks You Version) and sat down to listen.   I started with Joshua 1 and before Joshua 5 was finished I had to stop it.  A few words (in the way the version had phrased them) really stuck out to me.  God told me to write them down.  So I did, and as I did, I was able to write more about what I noticed with them and how I could apply it.    My application had a lot to do with God reminding me that He will provide and He will take care of my, just as He always had done.   After my quite time, I had a ton of energy and God gave me permission to go to the bank.  I was excited and hopeful.  

At the bank I cashed in my loose change and what I thought was going to come back around $11, came back about $31.   Wow, that was a bit of provision right there.  I asked if they had any half dollars and they said no.  But the lady suggested to go more into the city and check there as sometimes they will get more older coins cashed in there.  The lady said as she was handing me my cash that she actually just got a roll of quarters that had a silver one in it (you could see it - silver ones have a different color as they don't have the same copper content in them).  She gave me the roll as part of my $30. I felt peace about going into the city, so I went home and Googled all the banks within the city (within this one branch/company).   While I was home I looked up the silver quarter I had got and I was a bit confused as it was silver but I couldn't find any recored of this quarter ever being made.  So I decided to take it to a coin dealer and check it out.   Come to find out it's only a regular quarter that someone had plated with silver - it's still  only worth about 25 cents.

Anyways I headed out towards the city.  I stopped at 3 different branches of this bank and walked away with 4 half dollars, and none were silver.  I was very disappointed.  My 4th destination my GPS told me was 12 minutes away.   I decided to head home instead, I didn't need to drive that far - I didn't have the gas money to drive that far.  But God directed me the opposite way when I went to head home.  It was different than the way home and different than the other bank.  But He eventually told me to go to another branch that was a bit further away.  I knew that this branch likely had them as they have had them in the past, but it was quite a long ways away - a lot further than 12 minutes from where I was at and I had already ruled it out. But God told me to go there.  On the way I listened to 2 of Steven Furtick's Podcasts from Elevation Church.  By the time I got there I was pumped!  I went in and walked out with no half dollars.  However as I was walking out, the lady suggested another branch on the other side of town that would likely have some rolls.  That got me excited.   I drove over there and while I did I called Heartland to see if there were any updates as far as my School math assessment mess.  Nothing yet, I have to call back on Monday morning when the right people are in.

So I went into this bank, which I've never been in before, but its one of the branches of the bank that I bank at.    I had at one of the other banks withdrawn some money to exchange for the half dollars.   This bank told me they had tons and asked how many I wanted.  I gave them my cash and with drew another $95, telling them I wanted $250 worth (500 $1/2 coins).   They gave me them and I took them out to my car.   I unrolled all the rolls (each roll is $10) and went through them searching for silver ones - I found quite a few 40% silver ones.   Then I took them to the bank back on the other side of town that I was just at and to cash them in for cash - as I didn't want to cycle through ones I've already done.   That took a bit longer than I was expecting as their old coin counting machine didn't like half dollars and could only take 2 at a time.    As they gave me cash for them, I withdrew more cash taking my bank account down very low.  Then I went back to the bank where I had got the half dollar coins and got another $360 worth (720 coins).  As I was getting into my car I heard God tell me to wait to open the rolls and search through them.   But I was too eager so I started to rip them open.  I got through $100-$150 worth before I stopped as I didn't find a single silver one - previously most rolls had at least one silver one in them.    I thought, "I know that God asked me to wait, but the contents of the rolls will be the same if I wait as if I open them now.... But then again God is bigger than that, He can change the content."  God told me again to wait - and this time I had waited.   When I got home I had permission to open the rolls and I found a silver one in most of the remaining rolls - one roll even had 4 in it I think.    One roll, the second to last on, had a USA Half Dollar Commemorative coin in it - valued somewhere between $3-8.    Also there was a 90% silver half dollar in one, also valued $3-8.   In all there were well over 40 40% silver coins, each valuing $2-3.   WOW GOD!   Because He told me to go to that other bank - not only my gas cost was covered, but also God provided for other things too.  If I had to estimate, I would say I made about $100 profit today in value of the coins.   Now I want to go back and get more - I don't know if I will or not though.