Right place....right time!!

I also had something similar happen around 2008.

When getting food for the week, the young cashier ask if I would mind taking a half dollar as part of the change. Thinking it could be a 40% half, I told her sure. Image my surprise when she hands me a Walker. I ask if she had any more halves and she said she had a lot, as an elderly man had paid part of his purchase with half dollars. I ended up with the following at face value:

Walker - 7
Franklin - 9
Kennedy 90% - 10
Kennedy 40% - 8
Counterstamped Stone Mountain Half
Foreign Coin 1934 80%

 

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To me, it sounds like someone found someone's collection and used it to make normal purchases or something. Sad, but untraceable in likelihood.

 

yeah sad but it happens. Guard your stash of coins

 

I will always guard my collections, It is sad that someone in a family would ever consider doing such a thing. As for me my collection is everything to me so if any one wants to take it you will have to take me down first. I don't care who you are, but as my saying goes, "touch the coin, get hit in the groin".

 

Wow ! Great find!!

 

Great Find !!!!

 

What was the stone mountain counterstamped with?

To re-phrase, what was the counterstamp on the stone mountain?

 

I didn't know what the Counterstamped Stone Mountain was until someone, on this forum, told me what I had. I thought someone had ruined the coin and I threw it in my junk silver coin pile for 2 years. Sent it in to be slabbed and sold it.

 

Nice!!! I remember a time when evey now and then you would get some silver in change but not so much anymore. This gives me hope that there still out there. Check them for rpm's and doubled dies.

 

yeah <sigh> I remember getting the random silver Roosy or Merc. in change even Buffalo nickels weren't that uncommon in change. guess showing my age.

 

When I first started working in a small grocery everything was silver, almost all cents were wheat backs.

 

I beg to differ! You scored!!!

 

OK that answers what I was wondering. Whether it was just a random counterstamp or one of the fundraising ones.