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5 banks today had $950 in MWR halves, $80 in CWRs, and $6.50 loose.

Nothing in the loose, a greaser bicentennial in the CWRs, and 4, ‘64s in the MWRs, so I’m satisfied.

Oddly, the ‘64s were all in the same MWR, which was taped to hold it together, and one of the 64s was an ender on the taped roll.


Tons of marked halves in the rolls I picked up at WF. Thankfully, far fewer at a credit union. The 64s came from a credit union...Gotta love ‘em.

 

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Those are great looking '64s and a cool greaser! I've found a few greaser '76s missing letters on the back in "Independence Hall" and was wondering if I should hang on to them.

 

@Tuco I have set aside a number of bicentennial similar to what you mentioned. I am uncertain about added value, but I like them, so I am keeping them. This is what collecting is about

As an aside, it was pure coincidence I had enough cash yesterday to buy all the halves at each bank. The only reason I had the cash was I decided against buying a 4x4 p/u I had looked at the night before, so the cash was still in my car. Normally I wouldn't have had access to enough money to drop it on halves without pre-planning. I am glad I had it.

 

Found in pocket change — a 1957 Rosie! The red stuff seems like melted wax, lipstick, or crayon. I'm guessing it'll come off with a toothbrush and a rinse.

 

4 Boxes of halves gave up 5 silvers (1x64, 4x40%ers) and a gold plated.

 

That is very odd. Whoever taped it up didn't know the 1964 was silver.

 

I kinda like the odd foreign I find in half dollar rolls. Not so much the car wash tokens, lol.

 

In the first 2 full boxes of quarters I bought here back home, no Ws.
But, the 2nd box had these 2019-S business strikes. So how many of these were minted? I can’t find the mintages online. I wonder if they are as low mintage as the W quarters?

 

Pretty sure they are lower mintage than the West Point. I have found a few from years past and they were less than 2 million minted each.

 

Finished a box of cents last night and pulled this nice looking 107 year old fellow out of a roll. Was an upgrade for my Whitman album:

 

After dumping the halves from yesterday, the kids and I picked up $200 CWR dimes and $300 mixed CWR/MWR quarters. The CWR quarters were in fun wrappers.

Found 1 46P Roosie, a couple of foreign, a game token, a Nebraska leaky bucket, and ANOTHER proof quarter. This makes the 6th proof quarter this year (All from MWR) and the 2nd Mt. Rushmore Proof.

 

Congrats, I’ve never found one, probably because it’s a Philly coin and we get mostly Denvers here.

 

This one isn't as leaky as the other two I've found. But it it is leaky none-the-less.

 

So my half dollar box orders got reduced from 4 to 1 while I was gone for Christmas and New Year’s.
I’ve been making up for the gap by getting quarter boxes which have been entertaining. Today, I picked up my only half dollar box and it has a 1964-D ender, whoopee!

I also picked up the cash register change from our church supported thrift store for the poor. Our arrangement is that I search them, take them to my dump bank, and pay them face value for all of the coins. I also provide them with rolled quarters which they use for buying 5 gallon jugs of drinking water for their facility. Basically, I save them the hassle of counting the change and hauling it to the bank, and I find an odd keeper here or there. Well, I haven’t collected their change in over a month and look how much I picked up today!

 

On another front, Thursday I stopped at a bank that has sold me partial half dollar bags off their coin machine in the past. But they’ve never had silver as the head teller was a very pleasant but very efficient silver sniper, lol. The last bag I bought at this branch was over a year ago. Well a few months ago, I heard that the head teller no longer worked there. Fast forward to Thursday when I was told the bag had $573 in it, but the new head teller teller didn’t know how to sell it to me . So I called a favorite teller at another branch and he found the owner’s manual online (it was an older machine than the one at his branch), and walked them through the process of zeroing out the machine when a partially full bag is pulled off. Apparently, the new head teller didn’t want to make a mistake which is understandable. Yesterday I was gone all day quail hunting, and today I drove through the motor bank and asked if I could buy the bag. The teller assured me they now know how to sell me the bag, but I have to come into the lobby which is closed on Saturdays. I thanked her and said I would stop by Monday! Back when, this bag used to fill very slowly. So I’m thinking this bag has been on the machine since I bought the last one. If so, it could be good!

 

Good luck! I pulled my oldest CRH coin, an '18 S Walker, out of a coin machine bag.

 

The twin towers on the right are from ONE box of halves...you heard me correctly...ONE BOX. 4 40% enders on the top level all facing me and I knew this was going to set a record for me. Shattered my previous record of 22 from a surefire collection dump, although that box had 6 rolls of 70s & 80s UNCs that I kept, and had more 90%ers. However, this was awesome to experience, if only one time!
Final count was:
46 40%
1 JFK 90%
1987-D
2010-D
8 UNC/BU various years pre-1987

 

Hey I’ve gotten a couple of those 83 gold plates halves with the 1960-1980 counterstamp on them. Wonder who made them? They’re all in great shape so must’ve been done back in 83 from UNC bank rolls.

 

That’s an extremely polite coin roll!!

 

I miscounted and I have borderline OCD, so it was 48 total silvers.