I have a lifelong friend that works as a vault teller at a bank, he knows I'm into coins and keeps an eye out for me when people bring in old change or certain bills. Got a text from him today saying he hit the jackpot, while it may not be a lot I'm certainly %100 jealous of his position to be able to find these so easily. Can't wait to add a few of these to the collection! The pieces I have my eye on are the Walking liberty quarter, barber quarter, some of those mercs, and the nickels. Might end up buying them all though. What do you guys think of this find? Anyone else have friends that work at banks and get these kind of finds?
Nice score! Although I don't have friends that work at a bank I do have random luck while searching half dollar rolls. The "walker quarter" is actually a Standing Liberty Quarter but either way that's quite a variety.
My wife works at the local newspaper and helps count money perhaps 1 or 2 days each week. She usually finds between $0.50 and $1.00 in silver each time. They get about $3,000 in change every day. She also gets the tokens and foreign coins for free to bring home. The oldest coin she's found was an 1898 Indian head cent. The oldest quarter was a 1906 Barber. Many of the 1960's quarters are still in nice shape, a few even with luster. When my daughter worked at the Dairy Queen, she would bring home about $2.00 in silver each week, seemed like mostly Mercury dimes. I'm sure kids were getting into dad's desk drawers for ice cream money.
It really just depends, sometimes he just gives them to me because I'm the only one he knows (besides himself) who's really interested in currency. Other times I'll pay either just the silver face value or a few bucks less. I do consult the forums first though if he finds something that looks like it might be worth more than the silver value. He's a good friend so I wouldn't want to give him $20 for something that could be worth $100.
It has been many years ago when I was on temporary duty with the Virginia National Guard at Camp A. P. Hill, not too far from Fredericksburg. I would guess the year to be 1969. I got an almost perfectly new looking 1926 SLQ in my change from a cashier in the Post Exchange. I couldn't believe my eyes! These quarters were still found in change from time to time back in the Sixties, but they were always considerably worn as in the OP's photo. Alas, this and a few other very special coins, were taken when my house was robbed in the early 1980s.
My tellers save silver, pre 1964 anything except cents and old interesting bills for me all the time. They are pure sweethearts. I went in last year and bought over 40 ten dollar bills, all in crisp condition, for face. Series 1934.
