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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stldanceartist, post: 1175512, member: 13307&quot;]Hey everyone…just had a **** of a good coin week, figured I’d share it with you.</p><p><br /></p><p>Arrived home from completion of my first year of graduate school on Sunday.&nbsp; 22 hour drive = long, long nap.</p><p><br /></p><p>Monday – went to local coin shop where I got the following deals:</p><p><br /></p><p>1970 D Kennedy Half - $5 (saw it in the junk 40% half box, sorted the rest and pulled a second 1970D out for the store.&nbsp; As a reward, he sold me one for bullion price.)</p><p><br /></p><p>1965 Kennedy Half SMS - $5 (second find from sorting the junk box.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Having decided to work on a set of modern commemoratives, I looked through a box marked “Commemorative Halves - $3.50 each.”&nbsp; Pulled out any that I didn’t have and got them for $3 each.&nbsp; When I got home to look them up, I was surprised to find that I’d gotten (book value in parenthesis):</p><p><br /></p><p>1986 Statue of Liberty MS ($5.25)</p><p>1991 Mount Rushmore PR ($18.50)</p><p>1992 Olympics PR ($9.00)</p><p>1992 Columbus MS ($11.50)</p><p>1996 Atlanta Olympics – Soccer PR ($100.00)</p><p>1996 Atlanta Olympics – Swimming PR ($34.50)</p><p>2001 US Capitol Visitor Center MS ($13.50)</p><p><br /></p><p>That’s $192.50 in book value for $21.&nbsp; After looking up all the values (because I don’t yet have them all memorized – so I had no idea the deal I was getting) I called the coin shop to ask if they wanted me to bring them back – since I’d gotten SUCH a great deal.&nbsp; One of the owners told me, “Hey, don’t worry about it.&nbsp; Consider it a welcome home present and come back and see us.”&nbsp; Talk about gaining a customer for life!</p><p><br /></p><p>Tuesday, I went to the local antique mall to scour for silver that was underpriced.&nbsp; I’d walked through the entire mall 3 times, and was waiting for my girlfriend to look through some old movie posters when I decided to look at the glass cases ONE LAST TIME…and found, nestled in a case of pocket knives, belt buckles, and other American flag/wolf emblazoned items, a silver ounce round with the image of a wolf on it.&nbsp; Asked the gorgeous girl working the front desk to open the case (“What I want to look at is going to be embarrassing, but I’d like to look at an item in a case, please…”) and sure enough, got it for $21.75 with tax.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Wednesday, picked up 2 boxes of halves from Bank of America (they were kind enough to order them for me) and got 1 40%, 1 proof, 7 NIFC, and 15 high AU-UNC halves.&nbsp; Not a great haul, but for face value…always a great deal.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Thursday, went to the bank to pull out money to buy my second half dollar order and, as a whim, got $100 face of one-dollar bills.&nbsp; Found my first ever repeater note (a BEAT up 2006 F08020802A.)&nbsp; Still cool, though – never found a RADAR or repeater, and as a teller for 3 months you’d better believe I searched EVERY bill that came near me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Stopped back into the coin shop and sorted through their box of Canadian Silver.&nbsp; Found the following:</p><p><br /></p><p>Quarters, $8 each (this price was from the manager himself, so don’t think I was trying to take advantage of them):</p><p><br /></p><p>1900 (mintage 1.3m, VG-F, BV $15-20)</p><p>1903 (mintage 846k, VG, BV $15)</p><p>1908 (mintage 495k, VG-F, BV $15-30)</p><p>1909 (mintage 1.3m, VG-F, BV $12-20)</p><p><br /></p><p>Dimes ($3 each):</p><p><br /></p><p>1891 (21 leaves, mintage 800k, G, BV $10)</p><p>1900 (mintage 1.1m, VG, BV $9)</p><p>1901 (mintage 1.2m, G, BV $5)</p><p>1903H x 2 (mintage 1.3m, G, VG, BV $4, $8)</p><p>1909 (mintage 1.6m, G, BV $4)</p><p>1913 (both small leaves, took a chance - mintage 3.6m, F, VF, BV $3, $8)</p><p><br /></p><p>Friday, picked up my 4 boxes of halves from another local bank that had just opened a new branch.&nbsp; They were from the Federal Reserve, so I was pretty excited to finally find some decent silver….and this is the day my luck ran out.&nbsp; 4,000 coins and not a single silver half.&nbsp; No proofs, no commemoratives.&nbsp; I did find 6 NIFC and kept 5 high-grade coins…but in all it was a huge letdown.&nbsp; Not only was it extremely picked through, at least 33% of the coins had marker on them – including 3 that I would have kept.&nbsp; Personal complaint – I know it helps you to sort coins faster – but you do realize that you’re messing these coins up for someone else who may be trying to build a collection from roll-searching.&nbsp; I wish these people would knock that off and save their scraps for the rest of us…</p><p><br /></p><p>So I’d say it was a pretty fine week…hoping next week (another two boxes of halves, hopefully hit some more antique malls) will give good results as well!</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, just got my macro lens – so once I get back home I will start taking some better photos of my coins (for my records, and for practice.)&nbsp; It’s going to be a great summer!</p><p><br /></p><p>~benjamin[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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