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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jonny oneal, post: 2179646, member: 70367&quot;]i was trying to complete a JFK set of half dollars. my wonderful wife stopped at our branch bank and asked if they had any halves. she brought home a roll of walkers bought for face value. none was a rarity and all were probably VF20, but that occurred when silver was about to peak over $35 per ounce, so I took her to dinner or did some chores for her trying to pay her back. she has not struck &quot;fools gold&quot; like that since, but she still brings home the occasional uncirculated post-2000 JFKs, and many of the more collectible ones like 1982-1987. i work a counter in iowa city while in grad school about 1974-76. we collected all silver cause people still had it to use. you could tell without looking when a customer slapped a silver dime or quarter on the formica counter because it rang differently than clad. we put all those in our pocket after replacig them in the till. unfortunately, when the Hunt Bros. spun the market in 1980, we sold about half of what we had without checking because collecting had not yet infected me. of course we made quite a bit more than we surrendered. it helped that a baby Hunt was in my brother-in-law&#039;s frat here in tulsa cause we had some insider trader and sold just before the false rise fell. it was fun though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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