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I found a circulated '98 wide AM recently

 

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Persistance pays, dude. That is one of the best scores I've seen yet. Congratulations!

 

thanks bigswick.

 

My bank never has had half dollars when I ask but a few days ago they had $5.00 in loose halves and I found this circulated bicentennial proof.

 

Hey Tater,

Is that the first Franklin you've found? I've gotten 29 so far (including a '49-S) and 6 Walkers. One guy here (can't remember who- MOEN maybe??) got a Barber one time.

Looks like you are keeping stats. Good idea. I keep track of everything I find in a journal. After you've been at it for a while it is really cool to go back and see how you've done.

 

Nice find. It's beat up, but so what? I've never found a '76 proof. Nice score!

 

Just a quick interesting note - Back in 2006 I went through $100 in pennies and tallied everything up. My goal was to find out the annual attrition rate of pennies (what percentage of coins are lost from circulation each year by comparing what should be in circulation based on mintage totals and what is actually in circulation). Got some interesting numbers that I might post later, when I have the time.

Anyway, I just uncovered the old notebook that had all the numbers in it. Out of those 200 rolls of pennies, I found a grand total of 43 wheat cents. The majority were from the fifties, of course, but I did run across a 19, 19-S, 20, and 35-S. (Also 8 Canadian cents, and 4 dimes).

Running the numbers, that works out to 1 wheat cent out of every 232 cents. Pretty discouraging.

Did the same thing back in 2005, and I recall similar results. However that paperwork is lost somewhere when I moved, so I'll have to dig it out for actual, hard numbers. That's a far cry from when I was a little kid in the late seventires, going through ten bucks of pennies at a time, and I could pretty much expect a wheat cent in every roll. I filled in most of the holes in my Whitman album that way - thirty years later, good luck with that idea.

 

second Frankie. My other was a 1950-D. What condition was the 49-S in? That's a keeper. I've never found a walker but I've found some Mercs.

I see your from up North, how has the searching been going lately?

 

The 49-S is in about MS-62 (my best guess) with some gold and purple toning. It has no wear that I can spot, but Franklins are tricky for me to grade because so many had weak strikes. This one has about an average strike. Also, I'm a little rough at grading toned coins, so that makes it a bit harder. Some might call it AU-58, others MS-63, difficult for me to say other than it is nice, my best find to date. I'm sure it came from a collection, probably taken and spent by someone's child or grandchild unfortunately.

The searching here got really slow last year, so bad that I quit for about 10 months. I was finding like one or two 40% silver halves every other box or less. I started back a few months ago and the results were so-so at first- 3 here, 4 there, a Walker, a Franklin, a few 64s- until week before last. I got the 2 great boxes that I mentioned earlier in this thread. I pick up 2 more on Thursday. Hope my luck continues.....

I search Lincolns once in a while and seem to average about 10-12 Wheats per box. Halves, for me, are a lot more rewarding, but I still like picking through cents once in a while.

 

i found four pieces of brilliant 2002 (d) sac dollars from the long island railroad station. the mint must throw out a lot of 2002 (d) uncirculated dollars.

 

hey, that's pretty good considering I went through 1000 cents recently only to find one 1945 in the whole lot. And it wasn't even a nice 1945. It looked like it was made in 1845.

 

I dumped a customer roll out today to find all of them wheaties minus three. One was a nice shinny 1964 D and the other two were Indian Head Cents!!! A 1901 and a 1898!!! Oh yeah! I looked back in my stash and pulled two more rolls out and BAM they were all mostly wheaties too! I have about 10 more rolls that have the same wrapping that might be loaded as well. So far all of them are commons but I did find one RPM and one blank plachet. Here are the planchet and the IHCs.

 

Score!

 

Picked up about 30 rolls of halves from a couple banks over the weekend. Found 5 40% Kennedys, but the biggest surprise was 3 proof Kennedys! A 76, 88, and 90. They were all circulated (the 76 was the best condition), but it was cool to find proof coins in rolls. Also found a 2002 D. Cool stuff.

 

From $ 20 in nickels today:
1939 2
1940 1
1941 1
1945 s 1 :smile
1947 1
1953 d 1

Probably all these (except the 45-s) are worth about 5 cents each, but they are fun to find anyway.

 

I found a dateless Buffalo & a 1939 Jefferson.

 

Wow...that buffalo has been around some, nice find though.

 

Just picked up $25 in pennies - among them were 8 nearly-solid rolls of wheat cents. All of them forties and fifties, lower-to-mid-grade coins - common stuff (the kind of stuff that usually goes for two cents a coin). So no real value at all, but it's not something you run across every day. Looks like some coin collector was culling his low-value wheaties.

 

Just got a box of nickels. I found 25 pre-1960 jeffersons and a dateless buffalo. No silver but I was excited to find a buffalo.

 

I got a box of nickels. All of the rolls were 2004-P peace medals in unc. I'm currently searching through them for an error.

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