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Last weeks finds.

 

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Found earlier today searching BWR's of Quarters:

Mint State 1969 D Type B Proof Reverse on a Business Strike Coin

 

have to admit, that is a cool find - so difficult to find nicer early date clads now. I don't even see many 60s dates in circulation anymore.

 

Nice George V.

 

In 9 years of roll searching I have only ever found 6 of those, at least one was a nice EF 1925!

 

Weird, weird, weird day...and I hope I have more like them!

I went to three banks this morning. The third was a Bank of America. They had 25 rolls of halves. Five were bank wrapped with nothing inside. The next 10 were labelled "xxx": somebody's dump. The rest were mostly labelled "Bicentennial" but a few were labelled "Assorted year Kennedy halves."




The last one really caught my eye though:



The assorted half rolls were pretty good:



but the good silver roll was the best:



I wound up with

18 1964's
2 1965's
8 1966's
9 1967's
13 1968's
3 1969's

I also bought a box of dimes from the bank and got 6 silver Rosies (way above average). So that was a little over 12 ounces of silver from one bank. And, by the way, the teller said she was thrilled to get rid of the halves...

So I stopped by a few banks on the way home. Unbelievably, I see two silver dollar coins in a teller tray. One a Morgan and the other a Peace. I asked if I could buy them, expecting a no AND GOT A YES! For two dollars I got two silver dollar coins!!!!!! It felt really good until I got them in my hands...both FAKES! I told the teller but kept them anyway.


(look at the reeding on the right edge...there is a straight line almost like an old Canadian nickel...you can also see bubbling on the surface...not a struck coin)


The Peace dollar kind of looks ok, but the Morgan is a real mess. Still, I was pretty excited at first. I'm glad I already had 12+ ounces in the bank (so to speak), that kind of took the sting off the silver dollars. I did find four more part silver halves on the way home. For a total just under 13 ounces.

I have only ever found one silver dollar CRHing...a Peace dollar. Sure would have been nice to triple that. But I am not complaining. I have only gone crhing 7 days so far this year and I have more than 240 silver coins and more than 50 ounces. Plus a type one 1913 Buffalo that is still in good shape!

 

Last years finds

 

Then today and a roll of pennies I found this and I am very new to this so I have no idea what it is if its anything please help. I'm guessing it's nothing special but curiosity is killing me

 

That is an excellent find! I've only found one so far, and it was xf. Are you going to get it graded?

 

At least I have found about 29-30 IHC's, from 1871-1907, also a couple of 1858 FE cents.

 

12 boxes of halves over the weekend yielded zero silver coins, ouch!

 

Nice cud. There is a web site that identifies them. nice 54S

 

nothing, just an abused cent

 

1 box of halves. 1963D Frankie. I am still only a month into this and my hit ratio for silver in halves is 1 every 5,000 coins. Kind of frustrating but I'll keep moving.

 

You have to go through a lot of coins to occasionally hit a jackpot, but it does happen.

 

10 rolls BWR quarters:

- found a few upgrades for my state quarter collection, nothing else interesting

10 rolls BWR dimes:

- nothing interesting.

10 rolls CWR nickels:

- 1916 Buffalo
- 1945-P silver
- 1963 BU

10 rolls CWR cents:

- found 8 wheats, mostly for common dates in 40s & 50s, oldest was 1928.
- another BU 1962 (I found same thing a couple of months ago)

 

I found another one of my bank branches that has halves. I'm going to bump it up to two boxes a week and hopefully my luck will turn.

 

I think you will find that in time you will improve your results with regular searching efforts. I've gone weeks at a time with no significant results, and then had remarkable finds all of a sudden. You won't get rich, but you will over time accumulate quite a nest egg of silver that you only paid face value for. Good luck with your search!

 

Are subway tokens rare? I found like five of them.

 

They are not rare, but not often seen since practically no place uses them anymore - I think the last I used was in Toronto in the late 1990s and it was a little tiny aluminium thing worth C$2.