So, decided to take advantage of my time off, and the spare silver quarters I found, to try to get an album and other supplies from my favorite LCS. 2 slight disappointments: 1. They didn't have the album I wanted (Dansco 7140, Washington Quarters 1932-1998, no proofs). 2. They weren't buying any silver, but they would take 90% silver coins in trade at 35x face value (seeing with silver roughly $60 an ounce, they're worth retail of about 40x face, not a bad deal if only doing at small quantities.) (They also had almost nothing in their main cases. Not sure why; maybe they did inventory, maybe they just came back from a coin show, something like that I guess. I didn't think to ask.) So... picked out a Dansco 7101 album for Indian Head Cents (have a few, so why not)- $17 lightly used (barely, from what I can tell.) Nickel and quarter sized 2x2 cardboard flips, $7.25 per box (not sure how many in a box, but quite a few) 4 Quarter size plastic tubes, 75 cents each. A 1905 Indian Head cent, looks gold or bronze plated or something. Not album worthy, but looks neat, and only $1 so why not. They would trade all this for $1 face worth of silver quarters, sounds like a good deal to me. I get out the door, taking mental inventory then realized... oops, I gave them $3 face (so $105 worth in trade by their standards). So went back in. She realized the mistake, and gave me back $2 face of silver quarters, but because they already dumped mine in their big box of silver quarters, they had no idea which specific 8 I gave them. So they just scooped 8 random ones and gave those back to me. Took them home and looked what I got back... 3x 1964, 1964-D, I think probably the same ones I accidentally left in the first place. A really, really nice 1962, high AU if not MS, and honestly really amazing looking. Definitely keeping that! A 1928-D Standing Liberty quarter, nice! A standing Liberty quarter, definitely an S, definitely a Type II, but I can't for the life of me read the date no matter how much I stared at it. I can only guess 1917-1924. Well can't really complain about that! Sadly my bank was out of quarters and I couldn't get another box to look through (maybe word got out on my 16-silver quarter box lol). So waiting a week or two to try another box. Quarter album should arrive in the mail by then so that works out.
Sounds like you did pretty well overall, always fun to get SLQs. Curious what store you visited - I am north of Denver and go to Erie Gold and Silver, they typically give close to spot most of the time and have a decent inventory of used folders/albums, most are Whitmans, but they have a few Danscos. If you want, I can check next time I am there to see if they have the 7140 album.
Um for some reason they deleted my reply and didn't delete the post I meant to have deleted. Er OK. I guess I'll just type it again... Anyway it was Rocky Mountain Coin, whose main branch is in Denver at Broadway & Virginia. I'll be honest, looking for the album was just a convenient excuse to visit for its own sake, to kill time, talk with the employees, and I still got supplies that I wanted (minus that specific album). Getting the 1962 and 2 SLQs was just icing on the cake after that. I then checked my second favorite store; they didn't have it either, but just for something to do (and because I felt the need to buy something to justify going there in the first place) I bought a few sealed packs of "junk wax" baseball cards. Didn't find anything amazing but was doing it just for the fun of it anyway lol. Was always planning on just buying the album online if I failed to find it at the local brick & mortar places anyway. I'm about to go on vacation, so I don't want to order it until I get back, because I don't want it to sit in my mailbox while I'm on vacation. Wasn't able to get another quarter box to look through yet anyway because my bank was currently out. But thanks for the offer!
P.S. If anyone's interested what I found in the baseball card packs, I posted a complete list in "General Discussion." Seemed off-topic to post in any of the coin boards, since well, they weren't coins lol.
P. P. S. I swear I almost convinced myself maybe that dateless SLQ looked like a 1923-S, but that was probably just wishful thinking lol (would be a semi-key date if so!). I honestly can't confirm an actual date on it, other than I can tell from the reverse it's a Type II, and the date is not recessed enough for it to be 1925 or later (in 1925 they recessed the date more and put more of a "box" around the date to protect it from wear better; some sources call the 1925-1930 SLQs "Type III"). So... all I can be sure of is it was definitely minted in San Francisco, as early as 1917 and as late as 1924. At any rate don't see SLQs often so keeping it regardless; still worth more to me than its weight in silver. And it effectively only cost me 25 cents, since I got it in exchange for a quarter I found coin roll hunting. Can't beat that, even if it is dateless!
