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theo
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
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 Posted - 03/13/2009 : 20:05:29
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It was just a 1967 Kennedy (40% silver), but it was exciting nonetheless. I don't search through rolls of Kennedy Halves like some of you guys do, but when at the bank, I do pay close attention to the Kennedy halves in the tellers' coin tray. Sometimes I even ask if any of their halves are from the 60s. Anyway today I didn't have to ask as I could clearly see "67" as the last two digits of the date of the lone Kennedy in the tray. Its surprising how buying a coin worth $2.00 for 50 cents can make your day.
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fb101
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 03/13/2009 : 20:09:03
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Congrats. But be careful. The next thing you know you'll be asking for a roll, then two. Then you're hooked. It keeps going until soon you're up to a box a week, then two, then who knows?
I suggest you head for a rehab right away.
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oober
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1304 Posts |
Posted - 03/13/2009 : 20:51:07
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| Need to protect the youngins... Dont get started on roll hunting. Any silver you find is silver I CANT find... |
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Flbandit
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
851 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2009 : 19:17:59
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| Hello, I'm FLbandit, and I'm a roll hunter....oh wait, I don't want to be cured from that one. |
Are you throwing that out? |
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slickeast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2533 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2009 : 19:21:02
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Nice job. I love finding them at the bank in trays better than in rolls.
You are right. Finding a 50 cent coin worth $2 makes your day. |
You don't have to be the BEST you just have to be.......SLICK
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ME CO
Penny Pincher Member
USA
199 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2009 : 19:39:14
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Originally posted by fb101
It keeps going until soon you're up to a box a week, then two, then who knows?
Then who knows? I know, you'll wake up one day and realize your up to 42 a week. It's taken months of theropy and hard work to curb this addiction to just under 30 a week. From time to time I catch myself thinking "Come on, 6 more boxes won't hurt ya".
Run, save yourself LOL.
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pennyman
Penny Pincher Member
USA
101 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2009 : 20:28:36
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moboman
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2555 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2009 : 20:31:58
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Next thing you know you'll start doing these silly pennies. Then you'll be getting a machine to sort them. Then you'll be buying security and camera systems and flood/fire protection for them. Then you'll be buying guns and ammo to protect them. (this might be the first step, or the last. You never know.  ) |
"99% of all lawyers give the rest of them a bad name"
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theo
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
588 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2009 : 21:04:42
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Actually I'm already sorting pennies. I'm still a hand sorter so I can't do much more than a box a week. As others have pointed out here its relaxing; great to do while watching T.V. or listening to the radio. I was actually dumping zincs when I noticed the silver Kennedy.
I was thinking that its hard to believe that this coin went undiscovered for over 40 years; especially considering that silver hit $50 per ounce briefly in 1980. Judging from its better-than-average condition, I'd say it spent most of its life in a drawer somewhere. My find and the fact that some of you guys are still turning up Walkers and Franklins is testament to how little some people know about currency.
P.S. Great to have to site back! |
"Hobbies? I got no hobbies! Everything I do; I do for real." The Gold Coast |
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jadedragon
Administrator
Canada
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Posted - 03/15/2009 : 23:51:06
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| or someone's wife or kid went and spent that coin so you could find it. Good job, and while you are in the bank anyway why not buy all their 1/2s. They are fun to spend as tips and small purchases. |
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw.
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WIZARD1
Penny Sorter Member
USA
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Posted - 03/17/2009 : 05:40:53
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| I use to do pennies silver is a much bigger high and you hear about silver Santa but when you meet him which I have only once nervana baby nervana |
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