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Hirbonzig
Penny Collector Member
USA
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 Posted - 07/16/2008 : 15:06:56
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| I went back to my "silver" bank and got another $300 in halves and found 7 40% JFK's. I hope the tellers did'nt pull all of the 90% halves, but I'll take the 40% halves-they add up too. |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 07/16/2008 : 23:06:36
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Went through $370 in halves the other night. Found 1 clad Proof Bicentennial. No silver at all.  |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
Now selling Copper pennies. 1.6x plus shipping. Limited amounts available. |
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TenBears
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1021 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2008 : 09:08:44
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| I'm getting a box today. If I can't find some Indians maybe I will at least find some silver. |
"Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got." Robert Ruark
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...-----still taunted
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fb101
Administrator
USA
2856 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2008 : 11:10:51
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Last box (Tuesday) was a skunk. The one before that I pulled a 1976s silver proof, seriously impaired and 3 @ 40%.
Another box today from a new source and another box of pennies. |
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knibloe
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1066 Posts |
Posted - 07/18/2008 : 21:00:02
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I expect som e pity on this one. I bought two boxes of halves today. I was very suprised to find that 3-4 of the rolls were $1 short. Anybody else see this with Fed rolls before?
Anyway, I have sorted $700 so far and found:
12-40%
2-1964
2-2003
1-2006
1 1972S |
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Hirbonzig
Penny Collector Member
USA
451 Posts |
Posted - 07/19/2008 : 08:07:10
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About a month ago I was shorted 74 cents in half dollar rolls. I got a quarter and a cent in place of two halves in the same roll. quote:
Originally posted by knibloe
I expect som e pity on this one. I bought two boxes of halves today. I was very suprised to find that 3-4 of the rolls were $1 short. Anybody else see this with Fed rolls before?
Anyway, I have sorted $700 so far and found:
12-40%
2-1964
2-2003
1-2006
1 1972S
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knibloe
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1066 Posts |
Posted - 07/19/2008 : 22:36:20
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I expect to be shorted every now and again on CRWs but not on Fed rolls.
I have even been lucky on CRWs before. It is nice to open a roll and see a Susan B $1. |
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Gr33nday43
New Member
Uzbekistan
10 Posts |
Posted - 07/20/2008 : 00:40:58
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| Hey, I sort nickels. Usually I find about 1 war nickel per box. I'm thinking of getting the nickel chute to save me time for my ryedale(I have pretty bad eyes). |
Edited by - Gr33nday43 on 07/20/2008 00:42:00 |
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centsless
Penny Pincher Member
119 Posts |
Posted - 07/20/2008 : 07:13:22
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| i usually dont collect or sort halves, but i was cashing a check yesterday which came to $23.49 and the 20 yr old female teller said do you want two quarters? if so i need a penny. On the spur of the moment i said "Do you have a half?" she said she didnt but she asked another teller who gave her one. she brought me a beautiful 1967 clad half. my eyes got wide and i said to the other teller " do you have any more of those?" "i have $12 dollars worth" so i ran down to her and hurredly looked thru them all, but alas, nothing but coppernickel. |
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fb101
Administrator
USA
2856 Posts |
Posted - 07/20/2008 : 07:32:39
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| My last $1000 yielded 1 40%. |
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centsless
Penny Pincher Member
119 Posts |
Posted - 07/20/2008 : 07:49:02
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| a big help now is that young people have no idea that silver even exists in old coinage, this half could not have stood out more if it had a neon sign on it. |
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knibloe
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1066 Posts |
Posted - 07/21/2008 : 20:39:33
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| I love it when I go to a bank to get halves and hear the tellers ask eachother why someone would want them. I generally get silver and always go back. |
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centsless
Penny Pincher Member
119 Posts |
Posted - 07/22/2008 : 16:29:00
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| absolutely, its like a rush when somebody hands you a collectible and you know THEY HAVE NO IDEA what they have just done. |
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TenBears
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1021 Posts |
Posted - 07/22/2008 : 18:36:35
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quote:
Originally posted by fb101
My last $1000 yielded 1 40%.
At least it was not a total skunking. |
"Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got." Robert Ruark
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...-----still taunted
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fb101
Administrator
USA
2856 Posts |
Posted - 07/22/2008 : 20:09:17
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Tuesday night sorting report;
$500 halves and $500 quarters.
Skunk and Skunk |
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TenBears
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1021 Posts |
Posted - 07/22/2008 : 20:15:33
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quote:
Originally posted by fb101
Tuesday night sorting report;
$500 halves and $500 quarters.
Skunk and Skunk
Well, da-- ...ng. Two new skunk patches for you. Last box of nickels I sorted was a silver skunk. Got stiffed on my last box of halves by the bank. Told me they were ordered, went in on two separate days, and the "change ordering" teller finally fesses up and tells me she forgot to place my order. My halves should be in tomorrow, however. |
"Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got." Robert Ruark
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...-----still taunted
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Hirbonzig
Penny Collector Member
USA
451 Posts |
Posted - 07/23/2008 : 08:00:56
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| $160 in halves checked and found 1 1969 40% silver. |
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Bluegill
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1964 Posts |
Posted - 07/23/2008 : 20:09:19
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I tried to buy some halves today. 3 separate banks asked what was so special about them, I was the second person this week asking for them. 
I lost count how many banks I hit up today for halves and nickels. I was only able the find $5.50. No Ag, 5 of them were bicentennials.
What's up with the bicentennials, I've been seeing a lot of them lately...
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Bluegill
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1964 Posts |
Posted - 07/24/2008 : 18:17:38
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I hit up some banks in a different area. Got told twice that somebody already bought all of them. I'm not likin' that...
I did however finally find a bank that had a whole unopened box. It yielded 6 40%, 1 90% and a boatload of bicentennials. I'm starting to get sick and tired of those bicentennials...
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fb101
Administrator
USA
2856 Posts |
Posted - 07/24/2008 : 19:55:31
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| Thursday. Pepe LePew is in town again. |
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tadpole
Penny Sorter Member
63 Posts |
Posted - 07/25/2008 : 15:59:37
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How is this for a $1,000 bag of halves: 16 40%, 10 Benj, 5 Walkers,
3 1964, and I don't know what they are called, 1 1901, 1 1863 & 1 1870! |
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aboxaweek
Penny Collector Member
USA
326 Posts |
Posted - 07/25/2008 : 17:42:43
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| well that sounds just fine! 37 silvers |
*HUCKABEE*
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swusc
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
553 Posts |
Posted - 07/25/2008 : 18:32:56
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Originally posted by tadpole
How is this for a $1,000 bag of halves: 16 40%, 10 Benj, 5 Walkers,
3 1964, and I don't know what they are called, 1 1901, 1 1863 & 1 1870!
So you found 2 seat liberty and a barber?
That was a great bag then.
-SWUSC |
`Everybody is ignorant. Only on different subjects.' Will Rogers
"This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the "hidden" confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard." Alan Greenspan, 1966. |
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TenBears
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1021 Posts |
Posted - 07/25/2008 : 19:05:36
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| At least no skunking. 2 40 percenters. |
"Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got." Robert Ruark
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...-----still taunted
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misteroman
Administrator
USA
2565 Posts |
Posted - 07/25/2008 : 20:15:53
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| Damn, a seated liberty in a roll?That has to be like finding a s VDB in a roll |
Buying CU cents!!!! Paying 1.2 unlimited amounts wanted. Can pick up if near Ohio area. |
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