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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bobbeth87, post: 1076773, member: 18369&quot;]<b>Are you ready for a funny story?</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Ha ha ha ha ha.&nbsp;&nbsp; Scroll up a bit and you&#039;ll see my post about getting shutout on a box of dimes, that boxes of dimes in my area just don&#039;t produce.&nbsp; Then I whine a little about never finding a merc dime.&nbsp; I conclude that I&#039;ll not be doing boxes of dimes any time soon (though bags of dimes have been modestly productive).</p><p><br /></p><p>So, tonight I drive to a bank a little ways from my house because all of the banks in my area are out of halves for the week.&nbsp; I called this bank and they had a box of halves.&nbsp; The box of dimes I got skunked on yesterday was one with clear wrappers.&nbsp; So, I just opened only 7 or 8 rolls to pull out a couple of 2010 P and D coins, but carefully looked for silver in the remainer rolls.&nbsp; Finding none, I posted the aforementioned complaint about dime boxes.&nbsp; So, I take in this mostly full box to the teller to turn them in to help pay for the box of halves, and they tell me that they can&#039;t take the rolls, that I will have to put them into the coin counting machine.&nbsp; I say to them, &quot;Are you serious?&nbsp; You can see that they are dimes through the plastic wrappers.&quot;&nbsp; They insist.&nbsp; I grumble over to the machine and start opening the rolls.&nbsp; About halfway through, I notice a white dime in a roll.&nbsp; Oh my goodness.&nbsp; It looks like I missed a silver dime.&nbsp; I pull it out and low and behold, it is a 1939 D in VG10 or F12....MY FIRST MERCURY DIME FIND........EVER!</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was a boy first getting into coins in the late 1960s/early 1970s, my brother had a large jar full of Mercury dimes (he&#039;s 10 years older than me).&nbsp; I loved the design, and started looking for them.&nbsp; I never found one checking my change all my life.&nbsp; Of course, it never occured to me to buy rolls from the bank and search through them (duh!) until April 2009 when I found this forum.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have found all kinds of silver halves, that are worth a lot more money.....but I can honestly tell you, I was more thrilled with this find today....and to think, I almost missed it.&nbsp; By the way, I showed it to the teller and thanked her for making me put them in the machine as I never would have found it.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Bob[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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