Another Proof (very impaired) found roll-hunting

Previous posts showed the 2005-S Oregon clad proof (9/23/20) and the 2007-S Montana clad proof (9/27/20) found roll-hunting. Today found another clad proof, a 2003-S Maine. Like the others, flat surfaces are shiny, raised surfaces are frosted. And no - that's not a double die - just the lighting from left and above. As you can see, it looks like it's had years of circulation. But, hey - I'll take it! Stupid coins should stop role-hunting - I think the role they were born with (beautiful proof) is much better than the one they assumed (circulation)!

 

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Is that Nubble light house ?

 

Keep this up and you'll have all 50 states.

 

What kind of monster would pull a coin from a proof set and put it into circulation?!

 

never got this lucky the only proof I have ever found is a 1962 proof cent with a lot of green on the obverse and a hair lined reverse was very disappointed but was also expecting it to kinda be like that..

 

Proofs pulled from coin bags.

 

Beaver96 - Yup, hard work and due diligence. And lots of roll hunting!

BTW, did you find a lot of those proofs in one or two bags, like someone took their deceased spouse's collection to the bank?

 

Those were found generally one or two at a time over several years. My job allowed me access to several banks in a day so seeing $5,000 - $15,000 a day in coin wasn't unusual.

 

Wait til you find proof silver. My oldest is a 1954 Roosevelt dime that I found in a roll. Current silver proofs are reasonably common finds in coinstars etc. I have found probably a dozen or so in the last couple of years.

 

I'm curious... Are the average person oblivious to coins they get in change or other sources? I know my wife is. I ask her to give me her change purse from time to time. She knows that I collect coin. (SHE KNOWS IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT.) When I get a small package, her comment is, "Is that another one of your coins that you are spending our retirement funds for?" She tends to forget that when my parents died, they left us their house in California. I don't know if you know the value of houses there, but their little 1,100 sq ft house yielded $400K, of which I got one fourth of. Anyway, I average 12 purchases a year. Now that the Mint is gouging us with the increase of 30-40%, I'm using the same budget and only buy what I can with that budget. I spend an average of $300 a month or less. Some months-$0.
She spends that much on hair, clothes, fingernails and toenails, but she doesn't count that. (Have I mentioned that I am a retired CPA. If I could have the packages delivered to a Post Office box, she would never know. Oh, well! Life goes on.

 

Nice find. I always let my imagination go when I try to figure how one got into circulation. Little Johnny needed lunch money but mom was asleep as she worked two shifts at the bar, so he helped himself to a coin in a funny case that she had in her drawer.

 

The average person is absolutely oblivious to the coins, and notes, that go through their hands!

 

I've seen a couple cases where someone brought a group/box/bag of coins into a bank to cash in. When informed that they might have a bigger value at a coin dealer they replied that they didn't want to bother, just cash it in to settle the estate.
I've also been around long enough to know that it comes in from thefts, borrowing, or as a gift that didn't mean anything to them.

 

Pemaquid Point

 

Wow, that's way the heck up there .

 

My apologies. Whatever I wrote was in error so I deleted it.
It still puzzles me why people break up proof sets, keep certain coins, then dump the rest.

 

Mr. Mozzillo: I read in several places that the uncirculated S-mint quarters started in 2012. I have them, bought from CollecTons. Other than the S mintmark, they are identical to the P & D coins. All the impaired proof quarters I have found and posted about are before 2012. The raised surfaces are definitely frosted.

 

Aberdeen here.

 

@AZSteve. My apologies. I believe there's been a misunderstanding. My post was not directed at you. I wasn't referring to your collection of Impaired Proof Quarters. (Or quarters at all). However, whatever I was referring to was in error so I have deleted it.