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$500 bag of halves:
1963-D franklin
7 40%s
and a 1989-D magician's coin that lands heads ~90% of the time when you spin it on a table

I couldn't figure out why the coin machine wouldn't take it... I dropped it on the counter and it just made a plastic sounding thud (turns out to be lead, which is what makes it land heads). I also noticed that the reverse is upside-down, the D mint mark is too big, kennedy's head is too small, and the serifs on some of the font don't quite match. The coin does have both the copper and nickel colors showing from the edge. I couldn't figure out why the heck someone would make a fake of a common coin, and I only finally figured out it was a magician's coin when I was showing my dad that it didn't ring like a genuine half dollar, and I noticed it seemed to bounce weird... so I spun it 40 times on my kitchen table, and 36 of the 40 turned out heads! Looks like I figured it out !

 

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A very productive day Coin roll hunting! On our way to the bank to pick up our first box. I told UNC Walker , Baby I have a feeling we are going to have a very good day finding silver. He smiles and says I hope you are right LOL.

In our first box I found a nasty looking 68D. Hey silver is silver, right? Plus one other 40%.
2nd box had 4x90%ers and 4x40%ers.
3rd box- 1x90% and 7x40%ers.
4th box - SKUNK
UNC Walker says Baby we can't end the day with a skunk, we are 2 short of reaching our goal of 20 today. We drive across town to dump and pick up 1 last box for the day.
We open the box and by now Makescents has joined us and wants in on the action. Very first roll he sees a 68. One roll had an ender so we pulled it for last. We gave Quicksilver the ender. We knew there was silver in that roll. Quicksilver opens the roll without showing any emotion. When he finished , he said here is the ender (68) and here is a 69 and a Frankie. Thats why we call him Quicksilver.
Final tally - 24x40% and 5x90% including a 1954D Ben Franklin

In the end Always a Lady ws right "A very good day"

Good Luck Tomorrow

 

Wow, nice day UNC. I called around and found a TD Bank willing to sell me some boxes so I grabbed a box of dimes and a box of nickels. 3 silver dimes and 1 no-date buffalo. Meh.

 

$500 bag of dimes gave up a single '62 roosie.

 

Second box of cents today yielded another 5 wheats so it was, in retrospect, as skunky as the last one. The odd thing was there were 300+ 1977-D cents in AT LEAST AU 58 condition interspersed in the box. This also applied to quite a few 1977, 78, 78-D, 79, and 79-D cents as well. They were everywhere. I only hesitate to call them MS because I found them in circulation... Are there any reasons for me to keep all of these coins?

 

I see sometimes you get your own rolls back...My dumps go to some cashiers at stores, sothe good thing is I don't have to worry about that. The bad thing is I can't do as much, like a box of everything on a daily basis.

Anyway, Today's results:

$4 Pennies: 53 Copper, 1956D Wheat, 1967 Canadian. The bird on the reverse instead of the leaf.
$16 Nickles: 1941P, 1953P.
$20 Dimes: One extra.
$260 Quarters: A United Arab Emirates coin.
$29 Dollars, loose: One Millard Fillmore P hole filler.

 

I just spun the magicians coin 200 more times, ended up with 172 heads and 28 tails. 86% heads.... this thing is pretty cool

 

Box of halves - '67

 

$100 CWR dimes: 1960 Rosie

 

I see some of you guys just drive around going from bank to bank sometimes? I think I'm gonna spend a couple hours tomorrow trying that to see if I can find anything good. What kind of success rates do you guys usually see?

 

Very nice, UNC and pballer!

Two boxes of halves: Nothing. August boxes have been brutal.
$260 CWR halves: Nothing. One batch of $100 only had XF to AU coins dated from 1971 to 1983.
$6 loose halves: One 40%
$6 loose Ikes: Nothing
$50 CWR dimes: Nothing
$10 CWR nickels: Nothing

 

Box of dimes - 3 roosies.

 

1) Box of halves = 4 NIFCs
2) $35 - Eisenhower Dollars.

 

5 rolls pennies

1 1992 canadian penny looks like some kind of commomerative, fills a hole

58 95% coppers

1944-P, 1940-D, 1918-S wheaties

 

2 Boxes of nickels last night:
(results from both boxes together)
3 Buffs
1 War Nick
1 Grosse Ile Bus token (used in the 70s I've learned, but it doesn't have a date)
and a plastic Lincoln Cent that says "School Money" instead of "IGWT"

 

Beginner CRH having lots of FUN!!!

New to the site and new to the hobby, so I did not start keeping track until box #3 of pennies...
Pennies Box #3
1919, 1955-D, 1957, 1957-D 1958-D (2), 1959, 1959-D (x3) and 6 Canadian pennies one is a 1947
Halves Box #1
1967 (3), 1968, 2003 (2)
I have a box of nickels and pennies waiting for me to do when my 1 year old goes to sleep tonight and I may pick up some loose halves in the area I will be in today. So far I am having lots of fun...even just reading others results. Thanks everyone!

 

Those seem to be some really great finds for someone just starting out. Do you typically do so well jlaramie?

 

I guess it's beginners luck...I hope the luck stays with me. Everyone on this site seems really great and I have learned a lot from them. That definitely helped a little bit Thank you mikecouil!

 

I picked up $500 and $312.40 bags of coin counter dimes today. I haven't had time to search them, but I took a quick peek in the $500 bag - and saw a 1960 roosie looking back at me! Here's hoping for a jackpot!

 

Picked up 10 rolls of nickels to search. Got 1941S-vg, 1945d warnick-f, two dateless Buffs
type 2 and an AU 1960 Bar.