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ZigMeister
Penny Sorter Member
USA
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Posted - 09/30/2009 : 13:30:53
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Just a quick follow-up. I went back to the bank where I found all the Wheat cents and bought all the CWRs they had. $200 in Quarters, $120 in Nickels, $35 in Dimes and $20 in Cents. Nothing spectacular, but a couple of nice finds as follows:
Quarter rolls contained an extra $1.50 (always nice), the Nickel rolls yielded 2 WT and 1 1936 Buffalo (made me happy), nothing in the Dime rolls, and the Cent rolls had 12 Dimes (8 in 1 roll) with approx 20% Cu. |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 10/01/2009 : 00:17:20
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We were all rooting for you. Stories like yours allow all of us to enjoy the finds vicariously.. even when they are not being added to our own hoards. We were hoping you would get a bigger score, but it looks like you did ok. It was the percentage play.  |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
Let me see if I understand this? If you cross the North Korean border illegally, you get 12 years hard labor; the Iranian border illegally you are detained indefinitely. If you cross the US border illegally, you get a driver’s license, a social security card, welfare, food stamps, free health care!
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ZigMeister
Penny Sorter Member
USA
42 Posts |
Posted - 10/01/2009 : 09:12:34
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Made an interesting find today. I went to a bank to dump the quarters, dimes and zincs I had searched and asked them if they had any halves. They had 8 rolls plus some loose...so I took them all. Before I leave I usually weigh the half dollar rolls to check for any shortages (I've been burnt in the past and being short 1 or 2 halves in a roll does not make me happy). One of the rolls weighed 223.7 g which is below the 225 - 226 usual weight so I opened that roll at the bank thinking that there was something other than a usual half dollar...nope, there were 20 Kennedy halves...so I took them. Later at home I started to check that short weight roll in detail and what I found was a 1967 (40%) half that weighed only 9.7 g (should weigh 11.5 g). The coin is the thickness of a Quarter. It was a Half Dollar punched on Quarter thickness stock. I've heard that this occasionally does happen and is listed as a mint error, but what I don't understand is the error is on a 40% silver half...they didn't make 40% silver Quarters in 1967.
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Let the good times roll, or be unrolled as it were
