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Wow! That is an amazing box! Nice job

Still waiting on my first Walker

 

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There's another thread about a 1969 possibly Silver Roosevelt. From nw on, I am weighing every early clad, just to make sure.

 

I will be taking my husband's pay to a nearby town's bank and draining all their halves. I am wondering if buying other denoms are worth it, especially quarters due to the statehood quarters being such a main attraction. I have a golden half dollar. It is gold on both sides. I have seen this a couple of times before, but did not keep them, due to I thought someone had been bored and just painted them. Is there any significant meaning behind the gold on the coin?

Other than the obvious (1965-69 for 40%, 1964 and before for 90%), are there any other key dates, mints or other criteria I should be looking for?

May this be an addiction I never get a cure for.

Thanks.

 

P.S. I use my own bank for dumping, but put my initials on the wrappers, so if they do get new ones in, I won't get mine mixed in the pull.

 

I'm tired of dumping.

Think I'm done with searching boxes, at least for a few months. Might be done with the hobby altogether.

 

Done with searching?

Wow, what a bummer that would be. I know I am still new,but what about going for a lovely drive to a town or city you have not been to in a while and drain their supply. Good luck, and don't give up. I have had good luck overall, but once in a while I do get skunko's.

 

I know how you feel Merc, sometimes I feel awkward going into the bank just to seek out boxes or halves and especially when it comes time to dump what is left...

 

I don't feel strange either purchasing or dumping. My bank, where I dump as well as purchase--but mostly dump-- thinks it's pretty neat that I get such finds and will ask me how I am doing from time to time. As far as purchasing, I don't care what they think. I am the one with the amazing find. According to this site's calculator, my 40%'s are worth just over 1000 dollars. Not bad for what I paid into it.

 

You've inspired me, I think I might take similar measures... such a thought was prancing about in my own mind ever since that thread started. Maybe not every coin, but at least some of the 'weird' looking ones. It's pretty cool how boxes and boxes of coin searches results in the inadvertent cultivation of an "eye" for metallic anomalies in coins.

 

Yeah, today I drove up to the girlfriends grandparents' house in Easton, PA. I live in North Wilmington, De, it's about a 2 hour drive. Hit 15 banks, most in the middle of ****ing nowhere, got a ton of clad, bag of Ikes, and 1 40%'er. Silver is just too high... too many ****ing cherrypicking tellers for me to deal with.

I think living outside of a densely populated metropolis like Philly just works against me. Maybe if I move south to the Carolinas as I've been dreaming of doing for years, I'll take it up again. But I'm just done right now.

That, combined with the fact that dumping is just a general PITA and I'm beginning to question the accuracy of the non-half dollar dumps, means I'm done. Might get bags from the banks that will let me buy them, but otherwise, it's just not worth it.

 

I live about 60 miles from Wilmington, NC. In the middle of pretty much nowhere. My town makes Mayberry look like NYC. I try to concentrate on one area for a few months, but if I am near a bank in another town/city, I try to make sure I have either cash on me (rare) or go to that branch of my bank.

 

Where about in Carolina are you? I'm also in NC but work the central to Eastern side of the state. Want to make sure I don't hit your dumpsite. I primarily dump in Smithfield, Clayton, and Wilson.

 

I hit up that area about 3 months ago (222 to Lancaster), didn't find anything worthwhile either.

 

Silver is much harder to find now than a year ago. I agree, I think more tellers are wise to the value of silver....

 

$200 in dimes found squat.

 

Where about in Carolina are you? I'm also in NC but work the central to Eastern side of the state. Want to make sure I don't hit your dumpsite. I primarily dump in Smithfield, Clayton, and Wilson.

I am in Bladen County. Smithfield, NC I think is about an hour or so from me. I use Wachovia for my dumpsite. What do you use for your dumpsite, or do you have a specific bank? I will buy from other branches of Wachovia, though. I have a rather unique relationship with my branch tellers. They do their best to make sure I don't get back what I gave them.

 

I took 611 north from the PA turnpike. West, I've gone down route 1 to Rising Sun, MD, with nothing to show for it except 1 40%. South, I've gone down to Christiana and found nothing... the Lewes/Rehoboth/Dewey area was dry too both in the summer and when I was down there with my dad to check out vacation homes. East, I've taken... route 55 and 47 to Cape May with nothing to show for it.

I just have no luck whatsoever at all. All of my solid finds have come locally from banks I hit up semi-weekly.

 

Me n wife had a good evening of hitting the local banks found 15 Ike Dollars none silver.

Got a bunch of quarter, dime, and penny rolls. Haven't fully went through those.

Ordered 4 boxes of Halves im sure to find something good in there.

 

Any type-2 1972's?

 

Overkill by miles, man. The odds of finding an error like that is very, very low.

Put it like this, between all Roosevelt dimes struck for circulation from 1965 to present, you're looking at 75,227,977,630 dimes. Let's say, for the sake of argument, 10,000 silver planchets were struck. The odds of you finding one of those silver planchets is approximately one in 7,522,797. One dime in $75,227,977.60. Even if 10k silver planchets is way off and it's actually 100k, well, just divide the above numbers by ten. The point is, the odds of finding one are simply astronomical.

Even if you did find one, you'd probably notice it nearly immediately from the different color, the different sound, and the reeding, of course, lacking copper.