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Message:: [QUOTE="Kanderus, post: 1366160, member: 28447"]My work pulls: Also, I am counting pulls 1&2 as work pulls because they came FROM work. Not from the register, but from the box we keep our rolled change in that we use to fill the register up. Back up change I guess you could call it. 1st find: Asked boss if I could get $5 in quarters for laundry, as I did not have $10 for the whole roll. He said "Sure, just get a new roll out, take $5, and but the other $5 in the register". I did so, and when I was counting out my $5 I found a 1961-D. Boss didn't notice it, so it ended up in my split of the roll =P BTW the roll was CWR if IIRC. 2nd: About 2-3 weeks after find #1 I needed quarters for laundry again, but this time I had the full $10 for a full roll. Once again, I clear it with the boss (who btw is also a numismatist.) and swap Alexander Hamilton for a roll.  I get home, carefully tear the roll open and my desk and about 1/4 of the way in, a BLAST WHITE AU to low MS 1964-D is staring up at me in all it's beauty. 3rd: This is the one where I feel like either there is a god of numismatics, or I just really really lucky.  A few months after my first two back to back hits, I am once again at work. It is really early, and the register is low on quarters again. I go into the back-up change area and there are maybe 4-5 rolls of quarters. I grabbed a darker, older looking roll, and start making my way back to the register. Then I stop, turn around, and swap out the roll I just grabbed for a newer looking NF String roll. I just had this gut feeling about it, since my 2nd work pull also came from an NF String roll. I start pulling the quarters out, maybe 6 at a time or so. Nothing. I am maybe 3/4 done with the roll when I look down in there and see a white Washington portrait. I remember saying "Whoa, that looks different." out loud, as I got really excited. Then, I just dump the roll out into my hands and there it is: A 1957-D AU Washington Quarter!  This is the first quarter than I had actually pulled from work that was meant to go into the register. I frantically searched my pockets for 25 cents and THANK GOD I took my change to work that day...infact thank god I even had MONEY that day. So I dropped a quarter in the drawer, pocketed the 57D and didn't say a damn word to anyone at work about it. Especially my numismatist boss / owner of the business.  Honorable mention: Somewhere between pulls 2 and 3 I swung by the Wells Fargo that is located inside the grocery store by my house. I, of course asked if they had seen anything unique or old come through lately and I get the standard "no." answer.  So, as I am depositing some cash into my account I notice a coin sitting all by it's lonesome in the neighboring teller's tray. I noticed the white edge of the coin, but that is ALL I can see.  I asked the teller helping me "What is that?" and I pointed towards the coin in question. Either he truly thought I was pointing at something else, or he just tried to save his co-worker's find.   "Oh these, these are chocolate coins a customer gave us!" He said with a smile and he held up the gold-colored foil wrapped chocolate bullion. "No, no, that there, just behind your Mountain Dew." Says I. He looks about, sees the coin I am talking about, examines it, and leans to the teller who's tray he pulled it out of. "Do you want to sell this to him?" He said in a slight whisper. "I have to, I have no choice....I have to." said the neighboring blonde teller in more of a whisper than he co-worker had just spoken in. He said "That will be a quarter I suppose." So I handed over some junker quarter for yet another High EF to AU 1964-D...this one had a couple black spots on it around the date, but is mostly stark white as well. So that last find DID come from a cash register...just not MINE =P.[/QUOTE]

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