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11th box of cents wasn't a great one:

1941, 1944, 1947, 1956-D, 1957, 1959, 1958-D, 1959, 1959-D (x3).

Canadian: 1963, 1970, 1979.

563 copper cents.

Next box is sitting here waiting to crack open over the weekend.

 

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ok here goes. my pics of my first $250 box....ugh it was all 2013. went back for another 1 at a different bank. got my girlfriend $25 in pennies too. . i found 2 silver dimes 1957-D and a1963-D and a slightly off center dime and a totally magalled dime. ok onto the pics/finds:

 

more pics...

 

in the penny box in the 2nd row from the left and the 6th roll down has a wheaty ender. in my last pic of my last post had this 1957-S wheaty on the end of the roll. sweet find.

 

I forgot to tell you all. I had searched a total of $500 in dimes today. yeilding 2 silver dimes and 1 off center dime. searching for silver is like treasure hunting for me. i love it.

 

just totaled my yearly finds.wheats-6500(09vdb,26s,31s)/ Indians-45/ s-mint memorial-700+ / WAM's-98-17 , 2000-10 /Canada-1250 / foreign-200+. I try to do $100 a week. Forgot to add these are all from my local bank.

 

it is very addicting and it we never find enough, the wheat ender was cool the is a thread for ender pics keep at it good luck

 

$50 in CWR dimes - skunk
$20 in CWR nickels - my first magician's coin, a double-headed nickel.
Have $10 in CWR cents to do today.

My CU's coin counter was broken this morning so that is now backing up my dumps. The vault manager assured me that it will be fixed by the time I have to pick up my order on Thursday. I hope so, if not I'm gonna have some issues in picking it all up.

 

Finished the $10 in CWR cents. Not too shabby. 6 wheats, oldest was a 29d. 2 Canadians and...my 4th 1995 DDO#1

 

Today's work finds:
11 wheats: 37, 38, 40, 41x2, 49, 51, 56, 56D, 57, 58D
Canadians: 1950, 1963x2
Nickels: 1939x2
1964 Silver quarter! I've been on a roll lately, 4 silver quarters from work in the past month.

 

MY BEST (almost circulation) FIND EVER!

So, I was at the bank a few weeks ago getting a dime box. The teller asked what I needed so many dimes for and I told her I was collecting coins. The guy behind me hears this and mentions he has a few old coins he was trying to sell for spot at the pawn shop, but they did not offer him much. I said I was sure I could pay more and would be glad to take a look.

We go back to the parking lot and he retrieves 3 coins from his car: all of them are silver dollars! There are two Morgans and one Peace dollar. The Peace dollar (1922) is BU. One of the Morgans (1921) is in good shape (AU/BU) but the other is well worn. The worn dollar actually has a couple of semi-circular scratches on it where someone put it in a coin counting machine! I offer him $15 for the worn Morgan and $20 for each of the two nice looking (AU/BU) dollars. He says that is more than the pawn shop offered him, takes the $55 and is happy.

There are so many well worn Morgan dollars worth nothing more than spot that I did not even look at the date of the third coin until about an hour later. When I did, I was surprised to see 1893. I was even more surprised to see an S mintmark on the back.

Cool, I have only a few Morgan dollars and none with a mintmark.

I still did not realize what I had. When I looked it up, I was shocked to see a mintage of only 100,000! 1893-S is THE KEY DATE MORGAN DOLLAR. But it is also the most commonly counterfeited. So I send it to NGC and now I know IT IS GENUINE! Here are pics:





If you look closely you can see a semi-circular scratch through "ONE DOLLA" on the reverse: that's from someone putting it in a coin counting machine! NGC graded the coin genuine, VG, damaged (because of the scratches).

Even so, it is THE RAREST and MOST VALUABLE "circulation" find I have ever made, even if it cost me 15x face value! And, to me, the scratches (almost) add to the coin: I can just picture someone putting the rarest Morgan dollar in a coin counting machine...

 

I just looked that up on the ngc price guide. That is crazy. Keep or sell?

 

I am going to keep it. Just too good of a story to ever sell it!

You could have knocked me over with a nickel three cent piece...

 

Congrats on the Morgan!!!!

2 boxes of halves: Skunk
some dimes and nickels: Skunk
1/2 way thru box of cents: some copper and 4 Wheaties.

So, basically nothing since my monster box of halves

 

$86 in CWR nickels:

13 pre-1960
1 silver war nickel

 

$40 CWR nickels over the weekend - 6 uncirculated 82-P&D/83-P&D. The rolls must have been someone's "accumulation". The rolls were full of 60s and 70s coins and two rolls were all 1964.

 

CTrollhunter - Congrats man! My old man recently paid 4 figures for a Morgan of that vintage. It was a problem coin and not in the best of shape and it took him a long time to find one for sale. Maybe next time I'll steer him to that dealer I met that gets hundreds and hundreds of all the rare specimens....

But anyway, 2 boxes of halves today. My bank apparently front ran me as I was not expecting them until the end of the week. Same with the other bank in the rotation, which I'll pick up tomorrow. That will wrap up my roll hunting for the year. Next post will have some overall stats for the year.

So I found 3 40%ers today and another 3 NIFC. One of the 40%'s is a 68 and it is Ugly. As in has half a copper edge on it. Not as ugly as that '67 I found I found earlier in the year, but ugly all the same. Apparently, it isn't too uncommon for 40%'s to show core material on the edges. You'd think that the mint would be better at quality control, but they must have let quite a few of these out the door. At least this one rings right. Before it's all over, I might have to try my hand at ugly coin marketing. I seem to be a magnet for them.

 

2 rolls of '64 nickels? Doesn't surprise me one bit. I see them all the time.

Nice find on the Morgans.

 

finished the last box halves (forth of 4) one 64 and 5 more NIFC. also a curiosity, a reverse where the nic clad didn't cover the whole planchet and there is a spot of copper showing deep in one of the lower, recessed parts. Kind of cool in it's own way.
Still getting nearly 8 2001 per roll of 20 coins.
Still wondering, did the mint or Federal Reserve release a bunch of halves they had been sitting on? 7 of my last 9 boxes had wayyy too many 2001 for average stats. and they are gleaming mirror shinny new. This would have had to be many boxes of 2001 added to circulation to get these many in the mix for this many boxes over the last 4 months.

 

Stopped by a bank to check for halves. None. So, I will then normally ask for 8 rolls of dimes and a roll of quarters (to look for ATBs for the album). Found 2 '64 dimes.