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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;petro89, post: 857183, member: 17048&quot;]Hey all. Hope everyone is well. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So get this...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I work at a bank and as such I occasionally get some nice little finds...silver Ikes and halves, wheaties, etc. My best day was when a customer brought in a couple rolls of silver halves. I always tell them what they have before I take it, and I&#039;ve saved some people from giving up Morgans and Peace dollars, as well as other stuff for face value. Sometimes they just say something like &quot;oh thanks but thats ok...I don&#039;t want it&quot; or whatever.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Anyway, over the 7 years I&#039;ve been there I&#039;ve accumulated like 4 rolls of halves 90 and 40%, a handfull of silver dimes, 4 walkers, a few franklins, a few nice foreign coins like Philippines silver, a ton of wheaties and even a silver 3 cent piece. But I never thought I&#039;d see anything like what I got yesterday.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It was actually at another bank. One of my former coworkers knew I collected odd stuff like that and has always kept an eye open for me at her new bank. Over the past two years I&#039;ve gotten a few silver pieces from her including 4 barber quarters. I always pay her something around halfway between face and spot for her troubles. She&#039;s a great kid.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So she calls me and to my disbelief she says some lady brought in 8 rolls of old quarters and 4 rolls of halves from the 60&#039;s.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So she gets them and brings them to me. Sure enough they are all rolled up in old old wrappers. I tell her if they are all silver we&#039;re talking a lot of money.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So I usually give her like 5 or 6x face which she&#039;s happy with although she knows that she could get like 10x at the store.,,I guess its a friend price <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> She says she has to leave and asks for like $300. I instead give her $620 so she is clearing $500 over face. We agree to adjust if there is non-silver mixed in. She&#039;s really happy.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I take them home...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I start unwrapping and this is what I get... make sure you&#039;re sitting down <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>4 full rolls of 90% halves...all 1964 Kennedy&#039;s except for one 1962 Franklin. About half are AU or better, including a handfull of BU&#039;s and 4 or 5 with a beautiful pink/yellow tone.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>6 full rolls of silver Washingtons...1935 through 1964. The majority are from the 40&#039;s. Only a few 1964&#039;s. One appears to be a 1943 DDO! They range from F to XF with maybe 5 Vg&#039;s and 5 AU&#039;s mixed in.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The 7th roll has about 25 more of the same...and about 15 regular clad Washingtons. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Then I get to the last roll......<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>20 more silver Washingtons, </p><p>3 standing libertys (2 no date, a really nice 27,)</p><p>12 Barbers including get this... a semi key 1914S in F+ !</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>and it gets better...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>5 Seated Libertys including an 1868 and an 1860s! </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I couldn&#039;t believe it!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I get three coins with mintages of 250,000 or less. The 1914s is around that, the 1860s seated is around 60,000, and the 1868 is less than 30,000!!!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So for $620 I got over $1200 in silver and 3 semi-keys worth over $100 apiece. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I sell half of the spot coins to my buddy at the branch for half of what I paid cause we always split what we get at the same price (two sets of eyes are better than one lol) I gave him most of the barbers and all of the SLQ&#039;s but I&#039;m keeping the semi-keys.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So after its all said and done for $310 I got over $600 in silver and the three great coins. A possible 43DDO, And about 4 bucks in clad quarters hehe! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Needless to say, I&#039;m one happy camper!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Talk about a great day![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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