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Nice find! So, how'd that slip though everybody else's eyes?

 

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In the past couple of weeks:
2 rolls of Hawaii quarters (D)
2 rolls of DC quarters (D) many with die chips or something?
(They seem to have a progression and all in the same place.)
Found a bank (Wachovia off RM620 in Lakeway, Texas, Austin area) that has all but the Washington presidential rolls. (Senior Adams thru Harrison) and future rolls to come.
1-1919S wheat in fine condition with a deep gash
1-1958d shinny wheat au?
Many nice shinny 60’s memorials.
3 more rolls 09d Lincoln loggys.
1-wheat (can’t tell the date, crusted over with crud.)
2-rolls 08d nickels
1-roll 08d dimes
1-83d quarter au? (Light toning) edge nice with clad orange.
1-67 half (beaten up, looks like it ground on the pavement)
1-nice 78d Ike
In the past year or so I found about 20-30 pennies (cents) in my garden while digging (60's and 70's) all cruddy, found about 10 in one shovel full, money falling out of the ground.

 

What is with these 09 coins and there impossibility to come by

 

People hoarding number 1... When people see em' they put them away
There is a "low" mintage for these, even though they are high, they are lower than what we are used to seeing

 

Boxes of Half Dollars

I'm lucky my bank orders me 1 box of half dollars every week, been doing this for about 3 months so far. The last 2 boxes have been my best, I have found the following:
1917Walking Liberty
1935Walking Liberty
1936Walking Liberty
1939Walking Liberty
1941Walking Liberty x 5
1942Walking Liberty
1943Walking Liberty x 7
1944Walking Liberty x2
1945Walking Liberty x 2
1946Walking Liberty
1949Franklin Half
1950Franklin Half x 2
1951Franklin Half x 3
1952Franklin Half
1953Franklin Half
1954Franklin Half x 5
1957Franklin Half x 2
1961Franklin Half
1962Franklin Half
1965Kennedy Half
1966Kennedy Half
1967Kennedy Half x 5
1968Kennedy Half x11
1969Kennedy Half x5

Needless to say it really was interesting, I've had to start collecting walking liberty havles now.
It sure is fun to go thru those boxes.

Hal

 

If you are finding walking liberties this is really something, that is for sure!

 

I just finished searching $400 worth of quarters from my friend the arcade owner. Not much to show for it, unfortunately. I couldn't even fill my State quarters Dansco (I'm only missing an Alaska P, I found about 30 Alaska D's tonight...).

9 bicentenial quarters (my 15 year old likes them)
8 2009 D. C. quarters "Duke Ellington's) - no errors
1 2009 Puerto Rico quarter

I will probably keep several others that were state quarters in AU condition, but nothing else.

I had fun though.....

 

Halpeters, Your finds are simply amazing. You are the luckiest guy around. Seriously, I can't believe you found those....

 

Well at least you found something...
No silver???
Too bad, maybe next time...THERE IS ALWAYS A NEXT TIME!!

 

Bobbeth87,
My friend that got me started also could not believe how many i found in those 2 boxes, he told me not to get my hopes up since that is very unusually to find such a high number of coins in a box, if i remember correctly, I found 30 in the box I pickup from the bank on May 15th and 32 from the box I picked up from the credit union on May 13th. They are worn no doubt about that, but its still interesting to find coins that old by just looking thru the boxes.

Hal

 

WORN!!! DOES NOT MATTER WHEN YOU FIND WALKERS FOR FACE VALUE!

I would be so excited to get Walkers at face, then sell for profits,(to raise the dough for my $10 Indian) no matter HOW worn!

 

Besides the silver value, what would they be worth?
I will try and take a couple of pictures of the 1917 and a couple of others to post this evening.

Can you recommend a book or such that can help me find out what they would be worth?

Anything special that I hould keep them in?

I'm so new to this it hurts....

 

still lost

i cant find the threads from my emil too post an answer i always come out at the wrong site dont know whats wrong is any one here too talk

 

Well if they are real worn, silver value might be all(Depends on dates)...STILL A NICE PROFIT FOR FACE VALUE...

 

Well, melt value alone gets you up to $5. Your average basic Walking Liberty in G-4 condition is probably worth $7. More (of course) for rarer dates or "not so worn"

We look forward!

I like to go to numismedia.com

That (and any other place) presumes you know how to grade coins

 

Beats me! It was a buy-it now and I wish I had seen it earlier cause he had a lot more available. I snagged the last of them. I had to do a double take. Most of them are still in mint cello!

 

anyone on here ever search the Pacific NorthWest (Washington, Oregon, Idaho)? curious as to know if i'm the only one or not

 

I have tried my hand at taking pictures of 2 of the walkers:









Worth more than melt? Not that I would sell them but just wondering.


Sholom, can you recommend anything for someone who has no idea about grading coins?

Hal

 

Nice walkers, you could sell them on ebay for probably $1 or $2 more than melt, with free shipping being offered

 

Hoo, boy. I know next to nothing about Walkers. And I'm on pretty shaky ground venturing an opinion in front of all these experts . . . . but, I'd say the 1917-S is in AG-3 condition or so. That might make it $7 or $8. The 1939 is, what, VG-8 perhaps? That'd also put it in the $7 range.

As for how to grade coins? Well, people take a lifetime at doing that! But I suppose some good starters are "Official ANA Grading Standards" (which I picked up used, cheap, and has diagrams), "Grading Coins by Photographs" by Bowers (hey! can anyone else tell me if I should get that -- I'm intrigued), and "How to Grade U.S. Coins" (can anyone else chip in an opinion on that one?)

Or, an even more basic start: get a "Red Book" guide to US Coin prices, and there's a very short summary for each coin about how to grade.

And also poke around the internet on "how to grade".

Good luck! And welcome to the fun and exciting world of numismatics.