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knibloe
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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 Posted - 03/05/2009 : 19:18:58
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Well, it took me 40+ years, but I finally found my first silver in pocket change.
I was at the car wash and only had a $20. I put it in and got $15 back in qtrs and I traded $5 to a guy who couldn't get the machine to take his $5 bill. When I got home, I looked at the qtrs. There was a canadian in there (because it couldn't be a silver). I looked at it anyway and low and behold it was a 1964 I hope there wasn't any other silvers in the $5 that I traded.
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 03/05/2009 : 19:56:06
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Welcome to the silver club! Fairly exclusive, but the club is growing.
Deal |
Live free or die.
Plain and simple.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your council or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
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misteroman
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 03/06/2009 : 08:58:50
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c'mon u never found silver in the 60's or 70's?I assume you were young maybe thenbut should've found something.
Anyways good find lol |
Buying CU cents!!!! Paying 1.2 unlimited amounts wanted. Can pick up if near Ohio area. |
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Copper Catcher
Administrator
USA
2092 Posts |
Posted - 03/06/2009 : 12:19:20
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| WhoooooooooHoooooo! Congratulations knibloe! If I make a suggestion. Go to your local bank and order $500 in halves dollars! Search them and I bet you will have another story to tell. |
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Computer Jones
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1112 Posts |
Posted - 03/06/2009 : 14:13:56
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Don't forget to put a Buck on the Lotto.
When you get good luck, push it! |
There's profit if you melt things!!
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daviscfad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1664 Posts |
Posted - 03/06/2009 : 21:32:54
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| i love to hear stuff like this! I have only received one piece of silver from pocket change and it was a 1964 quarter. Received it from a CC's pizza in South Florida. My buddy thought i was nuts b/c i was so excited about it |
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knibloe
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1066 Posts |
Posted - 03/06/2009 : 22:24:41
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Misteroman, I have never found silver in my pocket change before. Not even in the 70's.
Copper Catcher, I do sort halves and find silver there, but I don't consider it pocket change if I go out looking for it.
Computer Jones, you're right about the luck. I once bought a soda and won a free one with the bottle cap. Then later that day I got a burger at McDonalds and one a free one. I then decided to buy a lottery ticket (the first and only one). I won my $1 back. |
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ME CO
Penny Pincher Member
USA
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Posted - 03/07/2009 : 09:09:11
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| I sometimes go to the car wash just for that reason- thought I got one once but it was a new state quarter with a D MM, don't know if they made silver D's or not but its long now anyways. HH Mark |
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Posted - 03/10/2009 : 22:27:01
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| saw a 1921 peace dollar in the drawer at the local grocery, asked the (young)girl what it said on it..she picked it up and read it out loud, "one dollar", I handed her a worthless green piece of paper and traded her to save her the extra hassle of counting out her drawer later...aren't I a nice guy! not quite a true "pocket change" story, but illustrates that you may find what you look for. |
"it is the tradition that a Kentuckian does not retreat, he does not have to" |
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misteroman
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USA
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Posted - 03/10/2009 : 23:03:50
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| wow,I wouldve asked her who brought it in and would give her your number and said if she ever seen that person again to give it to them and if they contacted you,you would take care of her. |
Buying CU cents!!!! Paying 1.2 unlimited amounts wanted. Can pick up if near Ohio area. |
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Posted - 03/12/2009 : 21:57:26
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| I always ask the tellers for halves, as you all do and have often heard "someone has already been here to get them", but recently heard that the post office just bought the halves to reload the stamp selling vending machine...just a thought...halves given back in change? |
"it is the tradition that a Kentuckian does not retreat, he does not have to" |
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wagsthadog
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
565 Posts |
Posted - 03/13/2009 : 13:14:26
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Hi there-
Ummmm.......a 1921 Peace? You can buy many 1922 dollars with that "one dollar" : D
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Only when they CAN'T have it, ......THEN they'll want it.
I love Cents. If you get an UNC box, you win. If you get a regular circ. box, you win. If you get a zinc box, you don't lose....so you still win. |
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My first silver pocket change find
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