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<p>[QUOTE="bugo, post: 2437715, member: 53226"]A couple of weekends ago, it was Saturday evening and I had to do laundry. All the banks were closed and Walmart and other stores don't like giving out change. I thought to myself "who could I get quarters from this late?" and I thought "the casino!" I quickly found the cashier's booth and asked the guy for $30 in quarters. He opened his drawer and pulled out a huge handful of quarters and I spotted it immediately just be looking at the edge. I didn't want to get my hope up in case this was a false positive so I thought to myself that it might not have been silver in the first place. When he put the quarters into the sorting machine, it jammed up several times. Whether this was from a particular quarter or if the machine always jammed is not known. The machine counted out $30 worth of quarters and the cashier gave me a handful of them and it was lying right on the top of the pile of clad pieces: a 1958-D quarter. This makes the second silver quarter that I have found in the last few months, as I found a 1936 in a Coinstar machine. It's funny. I don't gamble. I don't even play Powerball or buy lottery tickets. Not of any moral objection - I just don't enjoy it and I don't want to blow my meager wages on gambling. I left the casino with more than I entered it with, so I guess that's a plus. Maybe I should have put $20 in a slot machine because I had good luck that night.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u126/bugo348/IMG_1250_zpsj8wivf6o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u126/bugo348/IMG_1257_zpsyyixxkeo.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bugo, post: 2437715, member: 53226"]A couple of weekends ago, it was Saturday evening and I had to do laundry. All the banks were closed and Walmart and other stores don't like giving out change. I thought to myself "who could I get quarters from this late?" and I thought "the casino!" I quickly found the cashier's booth and asked the guy for $30 in quarters. He opened his drawer and pulled out a huge handful of quarters and I spotted it immediately just be looking at the edge. I didn't want to get my hope up in case this was a false positive so I thought to myself that it might not have been silver in the first place. When he put the quarters into the sorting machine, it jammed up several times. Whether this was from a particular quarter or if the machine always jammed is not known. The machine counted out $30 worth of quarters and the cashier gave me a handful of them and it was lying right on the top of the pile of clad pieces: a 1958-D quarter. This makes the second silver quarter that I have found in the last few months, as I found a 1936 in a Coinstar machine. It's funny. I don't gamble. I don't even play Powerball or buy lottery tickets. Not of any moral objection - I just don't enjoy it and I don't want to blow my meager wages on gambling. I left the casino with more than I entered it with, so I guess that's a plus. Maybe I should have put $20 in a slot machine because I had good luck that night. [IMG]http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u126/bugo348/IMG_1250_zpsj8wivf6o.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u126/bugo348/IMG_1257_zpsyyixxkeo.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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