Your greatest finds

Found this beauty out of 12 rolls of CWR back in April along with 8x 40% and 2x 90% 64's. Haven't scored anything close to it yet.

 

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Is that toning or gold plating? Either way, amazing find. I've only found a Stone Mt.

 

No, it's neither. It's white and brilliant, it probably wouldn't grade no higher than a 60. I took it late last night and the light coming through the lampshade gave it that gold tone. It has a couple light hits on the obverse. But it is an amazing find, trumps my 1893 columbian expo I found in a roll that looked like it was a dryer coin. And that's my claim to fame on this one.

 

Given that I'd grade it 63-64, I'd give you 60 money for that coin in a second.

 

This find from last March pales in comparison to some others, but it was plenty big enough for me.



I can't find the original post on Roll Searchers gigathread, but it was something like 4 clad, 6 or 8 90%, and the rest 40%.

I did have one bigger, where I found a guy trying to dump old jars of coins into a CoinStar and bought something like $24 face of silver from him. But it wasn't from roll-hunting, and I did give him more than face value, so not sure if it counts.

 

TWO! Count 'em two silver dimes!

 

Oh I know you would Merc. In a heartbeat!

 

Wow Inquisitive, your franklin find is crazy, I wasn't here for that.

For me, my best find was 77 40%, 2 1964, 22 Franklins, and 5 Walking Liberties out of a 3 box stretch. I also found a full roll of 40% on my first trip to look for halves, which got me hooked.

This picture is of the 3rd of 3 boxes, it contained 20 40%, 11 Franklins, and 4 Walking Liberties.

Nickels - 1888 V-Nickel, and 1950-D

Pennies - I have had 3 boxes with over 100 wheaties. 1899 Indian Head. My favorite individual coin find of all denominations was a 1995 Doubled Die, which I sent in to be graded and it came back a MS64.

 

Best find (at one time) I ever had was $140 face value in halves and ALL Frankies. I almost wet myself that time. Wonderful feeling that I haven't duplicated (but had many other good finds nonetheless) since.

 

1964 silver quarter and 1901 Indian.

 

Didn't take pics too much when I started months ago but came across a teller that had a mix of 66 Ikes and marked the rolls of halves. After looking, there was face value of $40 that was silver, 10 90%, 30 90% Kennedys. The Ikes even had some proofs in with them! I was hooked. A week after that came across 120 in Ikes also. Haven't even come close since then!

 

Had a few good half dollar teller scores, the biggest of which was about $260 worth and produced approx 65 x 90% and about 240 x 40%

Dollars - 1976-S 40% silver Ike. Bought some others a few months ago that included one with a silver rim, so I was getting excited and hoping the teller wouldn't notice it and decide to keep it... except when I got the coins I realized the silver rim was just a plated Ike.

Quarters - never found silver in a roll but have gotten silver quarters in Coinstar reject slots, from bank tellers, in change, and in the change slot of a vending machine.

Dimes - Got 4 silver dimes in change while buying a burrito a few months back.

Nickels: 1923 Buffalo was pretty nice. Found a 1939-S once too.

Pennies: Bought some customer rolls that were more than 50% wheats - mostly brown common dates but a few 20s & 30s coins. Overall oldest finds include 1911, 1913-D, 1915-D

 

Best find was not in a roll....had a table at coin show in Houston when silver was around $30. Guy walked by rolling a suitcase behind him. I smiled, and enthusiastically asked "whatcha got?" He sat, opened the case, and produced two gallon-sized freezer bags full of Mercs. I locked up my cases, and walked him to another table where a buddy had a scale. Somewhere just shy of 10,000 grams (approx 4000 dimes). Paid him melt minus 12%, and he was gone. Could have sold them the same day at -8%.....but curiosity forced me to check a few of them. In the first handful, I found a decent 21-D. It was a sign!!! It took a week to go through all of them, but in the end I had three 21-Ds and one 21. Off to PCGS, where they came out in grades 8, 15, 15 and 20.

Right up to the end, I was holding my breath hoping for the elusive 16-D...sadly it was not there.

 

I was willing to wear out my eyesight to find it!!

 

You almost make me want to get back into roll hunting again (almost).

 

In the mid 1960's, 1 roll from a 25.00 box was all 1930, 31, and 33 dates. It included 2, 1931 S, 1 MS-63 and 1 AU50. 5 other dates were Choice uncirculated as well.

 

Once found a '78-CC Morgan just lying on the ground when I used to deliver mail. Ugly little bugger, but I bet I was the happiest mailman in the world that day.

Not a CRH find, but a find in a more literal sense.

 

Love it Mailman! Was once assigned job of flying to distant location to pick up car and drive it back to new owner (heir of deceased owner). I was instructed to load certain personal items in car, AND permitted to load car anything I found in house and wanted in the large already-picked-over home. Family figured I was doing them a favor, and reducing their hassle of dumpster/estate sale.

Smile! TREASURE HUNT ENSUED! [warning: small payoff, but satisfying].

In a shoebox, I found some worthless golf spikes--with an old sock stuffed inside. Maybe 30 inconsequential IHPs and 50 low-value Wheaties------and a poor grade 1891-CC Morgan!! Ok. Ok. Maybe I'll fetch $50 for this dog, but I found it!!!!

Kept digging. Packed up 40-piece set of plates, bowls, serving items, etc., which were far nicer than crummy stuff in my kitchen. Yay! But had to ignore dining table and chairs, living room furniture, lamps.....toms of cooler stuff than you would find in my house. Sigh.

Booze was gone, though I did find one bottle of red wine, which fueled me to keep sniffing!!

Into bedroom, I found an office set-up, with several cool items better than mine! Yay! Cordless mouse and keyboard set-up!! Upgrade. Much better monitor for my desktop! 2 reams of new printer paper, plus hundreds of useful office gizmos and supplies!! Small finds, but would save me hundreds of dollars in expenses over 2-3 years...

Into another room with bookshelves full. Grabbed a couple titles of interest to me. Kept sniffing, pulling books, flipping pages, looking for $20 bills hiding between pages (well, I had 12 hours of darkness before I needed to head home). Nothing, nothing, nothing, SOMETHING. A hollowed-out book with a hidden compartment for hiding small items. Did I find 5 straps of honey bees? Nope. I found 5 Jacksons! $100. Yeah baby! Another glass of wine!

Then to basement. Oh God. A lot of nice stuff, for which I had no time to monetize. Had to pass on nice golf clubs, nice furniture, a ton of sewing gear, supplies and eqpt, 1000 LP albums (these are red hot today), 1970s stereo set, fans, space heaters..more cookware, flatware, stemware, china.....

Basement exceptions. The sterling flatware had long before been identified and taken by family. But they missed sOme weighted sterling candle holders (about 12 of them, most small, but 2 monsters), Some sterling rimmed coasters, and a 120+ piece set of silverplate Flatware, which Were way better better than the forks in my kitchen. Turned out these were top-knotch plate, and 10 yrs later, I sold them, for $100 or so.

A worthwhile venture, IMHO

 

fun story

 

My greatest find is this double struck penny error