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most likely plated, but....


a photo would help a great deal.

 

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I agree, likely a school science experiment involving electroplating.

Edit: Also found a '63 rosie and a '44P War Ni at work the past week.

 

Had a better BWR box of nickels today. Filled a slot in my book with a well circulated 1990-S. The box had 16 coins before 1950 and 13 coins between 1951 and 1959. Not many in fine or better condition, but good hunting nonetheless. First time in months that I found a 1938 (there were 2), and there were 3 1939s. All Phillys. Also found a dateless Buffalo, 2 2009-Ps and a 1943-P.

Good grab bag box. Happy about that hole filler!

 

I left work and stopped by the bank on my way home today so i could dump some halves I picked up yesterday. While dropping I told the teller I look through them and asked if they had any. She says $100 worth if I want them. I, as always, happily said yes and just traded mine in for the ones she had. Got to the truck and they are a lot like the same CWR I had seen yesterday from a town over. The rolls will say "1971" or sometimes "19-1973 and 1-1972" or something to those sorts and it always looks like the same hand writing. I wasn't excited because I had seen them before and they never paid off but I did find 1 40% in $120 worth yesterday. So I bought them and quickly went to the truck to search. My girlfriend helped and when we got done we had found one 68'.

Left there and went to the next bank to drop those. Told the teller I look for old ones and asked if they happened to have any because I could see some in the next tellers try (didn't look silver though). She says "ya, I've got some in the back that are like the ones you're dropping off". That just ruined it for me because these things are popping up all over this area it looks like. I told her naaa and that I would pass. I figured they were his again or even worse they were some of mine and I was just seeing them come back around.

When I got to the truck, I told my girlfriend about the situation and she looked at me like I've lost my mind. She tells me to go get them because I always get them and you never know....so I did. Went in and jokingly told the teller that I couldn't pass them up even though they are probably already all dingy and what not. Sure enough she sets them down and it's the same dang handwriting I've seen the last 2 days with descriptions of what the roll contains. I know about courtesy so I smile and say thank you and head out to the truck, even though the whole time I'm thinking "I'm about to just move these from 1 bank to another".

I get in the truck and set them down on the center console with a grunt. I already know that there is nothing there, but, the "silver fever" would never let me not check every last one of them.

We start opening rolls and on the second one my girlfriend says "Oh, look a 1967". Boom! Awesome! Alright! All of that runs through my head and before I can grab it to look at it she says "Oh, another one" and then "Hey, another one".

Well you guessed it. We hit a good one. When it was all said and done we ended up with

12-40%
1-1985 Proof
1-2011 MS60

My most successful day, by far!!!

 

Nice!! never give up!

 

Just stopped at a bank I don't usually go to for rolls of halves because there were none at my other banks. The teller produced 2 rolls of halves and right away I could feel my adrenaline pumping; These were the $20 rolls that I rarely see, and the brown paper looked very old and brittle. The teller told me that an old lady that's been banking there for years just cashed them in moments ago, and that she was thinking of buying them for herself but wasn't quite feelin' it. I SURE WAS!! I just got them home, opened them and slid the coins out and all I saw at a glance was silver in both rolls, JACKPOT!!!!!!!!!!
I haven't even looked in detail at the second roll yet, gotta stop trembling! Results of the first roll: 1ea 63-D Franklin, 3ea 64-D, 1ea 65, 1ea 66, 19ea 67, 10ea 68-D, 2ea 69-D and 3 1971-D's These 2 rolls have all the signs of having been put away since around 1971. Most of the silver is UNC or AU, and the 71-D's gotta be MS-65 or better, one of which has some doubling on Kennedy's ear (not sure if that's significant, but...)
After a break and some blood pressure meds, I'll take a closer look at the second roll, I guessing I'll find similar results

 

Sweet find! Post a pic!!

 

Two boxes halves: 2-40%, 12- NIFC.

 

She's a keeper!

(I'm talking about the girlfriend )

 

Picked up this morning at the bank and went through a total of $18 today (16 cent rolls and 5 nickel rolls)...

5 Wheat cents:

1916-P
1930-P
1956-P
1956-D
1957-D

1 Buffalo Nickel:

1937-P

2 Jefferson Nickels:

1956-P
2009-P

100 Copper Cents (1959-1982):

1959-D
1962-D (2)
1963-P
1963-D
1964-D
1965-P (2)
1966-P (2)
1967-P (4)
1968-P (2)
1969-P
1969-D (3)
1969-S
1970-P (2)
1970-D
1970-S - Large Date
1971-P
1971-D
1972-P
1972-D (2)
1973-P (3)
1973-D
1974-P (4)
1974-D
1975-P (2)
1975-D (4)
1976-P (7)
1977-P (2)
1977-D (2)
1978-P (7)
1978-D
1979-P (3)
1979-D
1980-P (10)
1980-D
1981-P (10)
1981-D (3)
1982-P (6) - All Large Date
1982-D (2)

1 Zinc Cent:

1982-P - Large Date

 

Nice finding that '16 penny and a buffalo! I'm still looking for the '16...

I don't really understand keeping the not-rare copper cents. I just toss all of those back, unless they're in near mint condition. I do like to keep minty coins, but only so many. If I've got a tube of them, I'll toss out the worst when I find a better one. For non-rare dates, anyway.

< shrugs >

I ran out of fresh rolls yesterday, so I've been doing maintenance on my quarters today. That box of BWR cents I finished yesterday was my worst ever. Only 7 wheatbacks in the box and all but one were corroded or road rash or loomis circle marked (grrr). Also, every roll but one had at least one really badly corroded coin, which makes it tough to get the coins out (my banks only accept rolled coins, so I re-use the rolls).

I guess I deserved a poor box after finding that 1909-VDB last time...

 

You got that right!

 

Yea the copper cent hoarding thing could very well turn out to be a massive waste of time. The common and circulated-condition copper cents will never have numismatic value within our lifetime. I keep them for the simple fact that their melt value is higher than face value. As of right now the higher melt value is not a large enough difference to do anything with them. Maybe some day that will change if copper demand drastically increases and melting the coins becomes legal.

If not then maybe filling out folders and selling them as complete sets can net me a nice return. Worse case scenario I just turn them in for face.

 

I suppose if you have space for them it's OK. But... I think of my uncle who passed last spring - he left over 20 big white pails full of them in his garage. Left a huge mess for the family. Massive horder (not just coins). My cousin spent a week just emptying the garage.

So, I try not to go overboard. And I'm planning on documenting my stuff for my heirs. I know I've already got too much stuff piled up, but I'm working on getting more organized.

 

I'm doing the same with a cell phone app I downloaded to my smart(dumb)phone... so far, A+ in my opinion

 

Charlie, what's the ap you are using?

 

Ya I'm curious as well.

 

It's called "Coin Collection" found in the Google Play Store (I'm assuming you could find it in the iApp Store) and the app image is a 2009 Lincoln Penny. You can add detailed descriptions, how many of X coins, and edit at any time, grade. A really superb app.

 

Searched a few more rolls from the penny box I've been working on. I found 3-1955 D's in 3 rolls back to back. All 3 were same condition. It's always strange to me when something like that happens. Filled a hole with aa really nice red 73 P and scored a 69 SS in great shape.