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PennySaved
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USA
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Posted - 07/01/2010 :  14:55:12  Show Profile Send PennySaved a Private Message
I went to one of my pick up banks today where I buy pennies and nickels. I asked the merchant teller if she had any halves and she told me no. She had to excuse herself to go to the bathroom.

I went down and asked one of the other tellers if she had any halves and she said she had $18 worth. When I looked down at her tray, I could tell that the top one was not a JFK half.

She sold me tthat she had $18 and I bought all of them; when I looked through them one was a 1960 Franklin half and another one was a 1968 D JFK 40% half. The rest were all post 1970.

I was pretty excited when I found that Franklin

SELLING COPPER PENNIES 1.4X FACE SHIPPED......“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principles of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale” Thomas Jefferson

Edited by - PennySaved on 07/01/2010 15:09:52

dakota1955
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Posted - 07/01/2010 :  16:26:22  Show Profile  Send dakota1955 a Yahoo! Message Send dakota1955 a Private Message
great start
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TXTim
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Posted - 07/01/2010 :  21:35:54  Show Profile Send TXTim a Private Message
Good start!
I'll never forget the day I asked for halves and they brought out over 600 silvers including 443 bens!



Beer is my currency.
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PennySaved
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USA
1720 Posts

Posted - 07/02/2010 :  17:11:07  Show Profile Send PennySaved a Private Message
Yeah mine are just trickling in haha I found a '64 from a pick up today. I just stop in at one of the banks as I am doing errands and ask them if they have halves.

SELLING COPPER PENNIES 1.4X FACE SHIPPED......“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principles of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale” Thomas Jefferson
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wolvesdad
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USA
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Posted - 07/02/2010 :  18:47:41  Show Profile Send wolvesdad a Private Message
yeah, you'd have to be a vegetable to forget a 600 piece silver half score.

"May your percentages ever increase!"
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