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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;berto, post: 3792010, member: 68428&quot;]This afternoon I stopped at the bank where I picked up $50 in cwr halves Saturday and found a couple 40%ers.&nbsp; They had only 1 cwr of halves left plus 2 loose.&nbsp; The cwr was junk, and the 2 loose were Cu-Ni clad and had been burned so they were a nasty black color.</p><p><br /></p><p>I stopped at another bank and the teller was thrilled when I asked for halves.&nbsp; He said someone had deposited $130 worth of halves, 34 Ikes, and 2 dime booklets dated 1957 earlier today.&nbsp; I thought I had ascended into Heaven!</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought everything.&nbsp; Here is a photo of all the goods.&nbsp; Obviously, someone had cashed in their collection at the second bank!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1013124[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I was sooo excited!&nbsp; I pulled an adult beverage out of the fridge and slowly sipped it as I opened the rolls and booklets...</p><p><br /></p><p>1, ‘67 half</p><p>1, 68D half</p><p><br /></p><p>Numerous AU ‘71-76 halves, common circulated Ikes, and the dime booklets held ‘65-72 Roosevelts. Most of the Cu-Ni clad halves had corrosion on the edges like this</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1013125[/ATTACH]</p><p>Which is a lesson to all of us to put our coins in plastic tubes instead of paper wrappers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here’s a photo of the AU-BU dimes inside the booklets</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1013126[/ATTACH]</p><p>The copyright date on the booklets was 1957.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was disappointed, but I admit opening the rolls and booklets was @$@?! exciting <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Happy hunting all![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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