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So the mint does this? Or someone does it as, say, a keepsake?

 

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post mint, by sellers who charge silly premiums.

 

Ahh, OK. Guess I'll just hang on to it for a novelty then. Thanks!

 

Nice find!!!!

 

Thanks! It's boxes like that that makes this hobby SO addicting!

I think that the day I get skunked on 4 straight boxes, I may give up. But, then again, you'll always be thinking about that 1 box that may be the next great one--------

 

Speak for yourself, I've given up hope of finding a "great" box. I'd honestly be happy with 5 silvers per $500, which would be a .5% ratio. I mostly am doing it because I'm addicted to seeing the silver in the roll. I might actually bite the dust if I opened a roll that was almost entirely silver.

 

I would check my meds for a certainty ! I would think I was hallucinating !

 

YEP ! My grandpa gave me a 1932 S quarter in 1958 that he had saved. It is AU and I still have it. One of these days I will get it graded and slabbed.

 

My grandmother was forced to sell her coins to pay county taxes.

 

After 149 boxes, my AVERAGE is 3.87 silver coins per box.

for whatever that is worth....

 

I'm at $8,540 searched (Could swear it's more than that...) and I have found 9 90%'s and 39 40%'s. I'm running around a 2.8 average.

 

My finds are 79% silver clad and 21% of the 90% variety

 

Yeah, I'm running at a nearly identical ratio to you. 81% clad, 19% silver.

Am I the only one who finds that almost all of their '64's have an almost inky black toning? I pulled one with a completely black reverse earlier this week.

 

Taking a break for lunch halfway through box #2. This box is more of the "normal" variety---so far pretty disappointing. One bicentennial clad proof and a 1969.

Train, I haven't found that my '64's have been darkly toned. Most of them have normal stored in rolls toning like the 40%ers.

 

I'll bust mine out and take a pic of 'em. Some look really neat with a black and gold thing going on... If only I was from Pittsburgh.

 

then you wouldn't be able to find halves! and the local coin stores will say open on the door with all the lights on, but the door will be locked and nobody around!(okay, well thats only one shop, but its the one in walking distance).

 

You know, I've always wondered how local coin dealers have managed to stay in business since the advent of eBay. If you take, say, a 40% half to them, they'll offer you 75 cents, maybe a dollar for it---when you can sell one anyday on eBay for 2 or 3 dollars. My guess is that they only deal in REALLY rare stuff from the 18th, 19th and early 20th century---but, you can still buy and sell a good lot of those on eBay as well---

 

If I was a dealer, well... If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Lots of dealers around here get their stuff from estates, and do business both as a brick and mortar, and on ebay.

 

Out of (I don't remember, but about 200$?) + 290 bank rolled I haven't gotten to yet (but no high hopes) + 500$ that was presearched & I returned (Not worth looking through for the single 40% that might be there)

2 Walkers (42, 1 no date)
2 Frankies
14 90% Kennedy
44 40%

My dump bank is beginning to get annoyed, but they claim to have had worse in the past, with cusotmers bringing in buckets of quarters (literally). I told them if I remember, I will try to bring them something next time.

They were happy with that. Maybe I'll pick up doughnuts or chocolate bars for them:hug:.

 

Exactly ! I had an offer of $2 each for my silver quarters. I was selling 4 at a time on eBay and getting $11-13 + shipping. After all the fees, I am still ahead of what the dealer would do. So, I no longer use the dealer. I get all my supplies on-line and eliminated the middle man.