Silver skunked on a 50-lb container of change

Discussion in 'US Coins Forum' started by sekrah, Jan 17, 2011.

  1. sekrah

    sekrah Member

    Mother-in-law brought over a big container of change she's been filling for the past 5+ years. Not a single silver piece in it. I'm thinking she yanked them out and had a good laugh as I spent 4 hours going through it.

    Anyway, here are the highlights with my estimated grades.

    - Pulled out about $10 worth of pre-1982 pennies. (I'm a copper hoarder).
    - About a dozen nickles from 46-59. A 1954 (circ 47m) in rather decent shape (XF40) was the highlight
    - 11 wheat pennies. A 1952 (AU-50), 1957 (XF40) and 1953 D (XF40) stood out as the best.
    - Two 1968 Lincoln pennies, one in AU-53, the other could potentially fetch an MS-62. The Au-53 has a spectacular tone. I'll post pictures when I get a chance.
    - A few dozen 1980-2010 in MS-65+ or better. I can't help but tucking these away when I see them.
    - 2005 Canadian Dime, MS 62.
    - 1972 Canadian Nickle, AU-58.
    - A Bahama one-cent, 1998. Has Commonwealth of Bahamas on the obverse and starfish on reverse. Anyone know anything about it?


    Anyone else spend 4 hours rooting through a big lot and have very little to show for it?
     
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  3. jared46

    jared46 New Member

    Several times! lol For the past month or so I've gone through around 1700 in change each week. I've kept a handful of coins. :D
     
  4. robbudo

    robbudo Indian Error Collector

    I got 10 coffee cans full of mostly pennies that were saved from 1980 to 1990. I got 25 common wheats, and $65 of copper.
     
  5. Merc Crazy

    Merc Crazy Bumbling numismatic fool

    Looked through my moms, all I found was a 1953 Canadian dime... a few red 196x's cents I love, and a handful of wheats.
     
  6. vnickels

    vnickels Matt Draiss Numismatics & Galleries

    You should sign up for Newbie Institute!
     
  7. Merc Crazy

    Merc Crazy Bumbling numismatic fool

    WTF? Don't spam your thing in random threads... that's great and all if you want to try and do something, but there's no need for you to advertise it...
     
  8. LowFlyin99GT

    LowFlyin99GT New Member

    I've gone through 50lbs of pennies my grandparents have been saving seince the 60's. I went through the oldest and found 2 or 3 common wheats, a roll worth of S mm memorials, and one or 2 MS 1960's. That took a span of 3 days and prolly 6-8 hours total. There's 2 more containers that have 50ish Lbs that im gonna go through eventually. lol anyone wanna help??
     
  9. Check the 1998-2000 Lincoln cents for WAMs. :) TC
     
  10. Merc Crazy

    Merc Crazy Bumbling numismatic fool

    This. I've found one of each 1998-2000 in the past week, it's crazy, haha.

    There's actually WAM's on a few other years as well, don't recall exactly. 1992 has the CAM (Close AM)... big money.
     
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