Excerpt from an e-mail sent to a buddy of mine. With Silver right at $36 no fool is probably going to turn any more silver halves in (or so I thought) and searching boxes is probably fruitless. I did get this one lucky roll today that was all silver but it wasn't just any silver, it was all silver proofs. Someone must have raided a collection. I have never seen a silver proof before up close (I have some but they are in sealed mint cases and it would ruin the value open them). Someone must have busted up some sets. Teller at this SunTrust on 141 said I guy had just brought them in. As I am sitting here typing this I am realizing how stupid I was. She had rolls and rolls of coins on her counter and she was getting ready to vault them. I'll bet I missed other stuff. I should have asked what else he brought in. I didn't think about it. Sure there were quarters and dimes too. Too bad I have to work tomorrow and can't go back there! I normally don't open rolls in the car but I just felt luck about this one. When I saw it was all silver proofs I didn't know what to think. One the way home I went to the post office to weight them. I wasn't even sure if they were real because there are a lot of fakes out there. I wrote down the weights of clads, 40% proofs, and 90% proofs respectively and then checked them against official published weights. They were right on so I know they are real. I got (all proof) 1964 1968 1969 1970 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2009
It seems to be happening alot more often... I've picked up a proof Kennedy and state quarter (both proof) from my local bank; both were visible in the teller's coin rack. You hit the "proof lottery" with your find!
