Bank #1 - $1.50 loose halves - skunk Bank #2 - $10 loose halves: 6 90% (1943 Walker, 1961-D Franklin, 1963 Franklin, 1964 Kennedy x 2, 1964-D...
I'll pop into a bank branch if it's not too busy and ask about half dollars. At least 2/3 of the banks in my area don't carry half dollars at all....
Got a 1963-D quarter in change in 2013 - that's what re-kindled my interest in coins actually. In the past year I've found in change: 1963-D dime...
My best guess would be acid or some kind of chemical. Doesn't look punched or drilled.
Bank #1: $3 loose halves: skunk (4x Bicentennial) Bank #2: $5.50 loose halves: skunk Bank #3: $5.50 loose halves: 8 90% (1945 Walker, 1954...
$30 halves - 1 NIFC (2004-P) $3 Ikes - 72, 78, 78-D made up for this bust when an ebay purchase arrived - $11 for 7 Kennedys that included a 64,...
Do the Amazon gift card option - no rake, and you can buy just about anything on there. Use it to buy things that are hard to find in your area, a...
$10 pennies: 9 wheats (including a 1919 roll ender, and 4 wheats in one roll). 10 Canadians (all Elizabeth II), 3 1970-S, above average copper...
I throw low-grade, common date wheats into my copper pile. There's only so many ugly 1957-D specimens a guy needs...
If not eliminating the penny, why not just make fewer of them? Mint them in reduced numbers, and only increase if a shortage arises.
As a teenager I worked as a cashier one holiday season, and someone paid with about ten $10 bills from the 1930's in pristine condition. I...
Even if the MS66 grading is suspect, it's still a pretty nice coin and worth a premium over circulated condition, correct?
That's the one. Says it's a SMS coin. I didn't immediately recognize the slab but then again I'm not an expert on these things.
I recently started getting back into coins, after not actively adding much to my collection since the early 90s. Back then, professionally graded...
Halves - upside is sometimes you can have a big score, downside is that they can be tough to get and possibly already searched by others....
$30 CWR halves - 1 NIFC (2005-P). The rolls looked really promising - old paper, held together with some Scotch tape. Something straight out of an...
$14.50 loose halves: 1 90% (1952 Franklin) 2 40% (1966, 1969-D) 5 NIFC (2x 2003-P, 2x 2003-D, 2008-D) also kept an almost-new looking 1984-D
$10 nickels - 1945-P (war), 1942-D (non-war), 1951, 2009-P $5 pennies - 3 2009's, 1945, 1957-D, 1 roll was 7 cents short
I count up a lot of money at my job, and occasionally pull star notes or bills with interesting serial numbers. I'm not an expert at this, so I'm...
$20 dimes - 2008-S (First ever proof found in the wild. The edge suggests clad, but it makes a silver-y ping when dropped on the table) $10...
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