Got these from a small jewelry shop in town, saved them from melt! I'll start sorting by decade, then year.
During the coin shortage i couldn't get very many halves from the bank for CRH, so I started checking out pawn shops and jewelry stores in addition to my LCS for silver cherry picking. I found a jeweler who gets silver coins in from time to time so I usually make the rounds once a week to see what I can find. Price is usually $2 cheaper than LCS per dollar face.
I've thought about asking jewelry stores for silver coins but I never have before. I think I will next time I am by one. I doubt they search them for key dates/errors but maybe a person before them did... Did you find anything good?
Well, there were a bunch of Franklins in the pile: Franklin's 103 Walker 1940s 164 Walker 1930s. 29 Walker 1920s. 2 Walker pre-20. 4 Barber 2
I was at a local jewelry shop today as well and came away with 4 silver quarters for $20. 2-1926 S standing 1932 & a 1937 S
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present: the closest thing you'll ever find to an actual UNSEARCHED LOT. If the jeweler isn't even sorting them out according to type, it's highly unlikely the jeweler is picking out keys. In fact, I'd submit that lots like these are probably better in the long run than "unsearched lots" from old change -- because some of the inherited (or, let's admit the possibility, stolen) lots that get turned in will be from collectors who did pick out better dates. It's like one lot of culls that I bought from a jeweler on eBay -- it was the saddest lot of corroded, rusted, holed, or gnawed coins you'd ever hope to see, but among them were a green 1931-S cent, a brown-and-red 1912-S nickel, and a holed, engraved, and worn proof Trade Dollar. One man's trash...