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<p>[QUOTE="VistaCruiser69, post: 26122804, member: 107016"]Yeah, for many years my mother collected these quarters. She worked as a waitress at an airport for like nearly 20 years so she had access to so much currency. She used to pull them out of the tills at the end of the day, replacing them with either paper and/or coin currency. She had around a total of 16 one-pound coffee cans full of them at one point. From memory, it seems each coffee can weighed like 40 pounds. Very heavy. She had them lining half of the wall circumference of her walk-in closet.</p><p><br /></p><p>She ended up realizing they weren't going to be worth anything over .25 each so she eventually turned them into the bank and bought a Camaro with the money.</p><p><br /></p><p>I've come across a few very nice condition bicentennial quarters in my change that I've hung onto just for s&g. The one in my avatar is an S mint proof that I got at the self-serve carwash quarter machine a number of years ago. Not at all worn and still has the mirror shine background and frosted high points. Must had just been put into the machine by the time I got it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="VistaCruiser69, post: 26122804, member: 107016"]Yeah, for many years my mother collected these quarters. She worked as a waitress at an airport for like nearly 20 years so she had access to so much currency. She used to pull them out of the tills at the end of the day, replacing them with either paper and/or coin currency. She had around a total of 16 one-pound coffee cans full of them at one point. From memory, it seems each coffee can weighed like 40 pounds. Very heavy. She had them lining half of the wall circumference of her walk-in closet. She ended up realizing they weren't going to be worth anything over .25 each so she eventually turned them into the bank and bought a Camaro with the money. I've come across a few very nice condition bicentennial quarters in my change that I've hung onto just for s&g. The one in my avatar is an S mint proof that I got at the self-serve carwash quarter machine a number of years ago. Not at all worn and still has the mirror shine background and frosted high points. Must had just been put into the machine by the time I got it.[/QUOTE]
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