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TenBears
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 05/06/2008 : 10:20:30
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87's are tougher to come by than Walkers. I got lucky and found 61 in one box. I have no idea why there were so many in that box. I had a couple rolls from years past but they were one or two here and there, not in bunches.
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Sounds like you were the fortunate recipient of a treasure someone else did not know they had. I bet that sheeple went to bank and dumped a bunch of 87s without realizing those had never been circulated. Some people, or sheeple, never cease to surprise me. |
"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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eharrison
Penny Pincher Member
USA
234 Posts |
Posted - 05/07/2008 : 10:35:07
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$140 from my main "other than pennies" bank
This has left a bad taste in my mouth. I was hoping to get at least a 40% because this week I am fasting from pennies.....I just need the break.  |
Freedom is popular
That's why I voted
Ron Paul! |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 05/08/2008 : 20:46:56
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| Nice pic of what usually happens to me with halves eharrison. That guy looks like he's getting ready to bite you! |
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. |
Edited by - HoardCopperByTheTon on 05/08/2008 20:48:05 |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2008 : 10:44:49
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| Don't give up on the halves fellas. Got a great phone call from a buddy of mine last night that does a lot more halves than I do. He picked up a box of halves he ordered from the bank yesterday. He said the first 30 rolls he sorted were the normal cute creature pictured above that we are all used to. The next roll had a darker colored half in it. He almost couldn't believe it when he looked at it. It was a nice original 1854 Seated Liberty half dollar in AU! He said he had to call me to tell somebody that could properly appreciate what he had found. When he showed the coin to his wife she just said "That's nice honey" So you just never know.. that next roll of halves just might be the one with something special in it. |
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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TXTim
Penny Hoarding Member
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Posted - 05/09/2008 : 17:44:22
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Wow!
I'd just like tofind a Barber, let alone a seated! |
Beer is my currency. |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2008 : 19:03:19
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| And for it to be in AU! Wow! I will see him tonight at coin club. Taking him a special holder to put it in. |
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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knibloe
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1066 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2008 : 21:20:48
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I got a barber one day. 1912. I was traveling west on the state highway and stopped at 3-4 banks. Apparently someone else was travelling east on the same road and beat me to every bank. I was not a happy camper. I stopped at the last bank. One that I could always count on to have fed wrapped halves. They were cleaned out too. However, one of the tellers on the end said I have one. I looked at it and it was a barber.
Of course I bought it. The other guy may have gotten most of the halves, but I have no doubt that I got the best one. |
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knibloe
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1066 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2008 : 21:24:59
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BTW as is sit here checking out the posts, I am taking my weekly skunking. I got $1000 face today. I ordered $2000, but the bank said that they were only able to get $1000 thois week.
Box one down. One 40% and 2-2004. This is really low for me. I hope that box 2 is better. If it isn't, no big deal I will try again next week. |
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eharrison
Penny Pincher Member
USA
234 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2008 : 22:54:15
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I think I'll up my sorting ammount.
Got the rest of a $200 order my main bank usually places. SKUNKAGE! The vault teller is cool and said that she would order $500 for next week. 
I also did some drivebys for non pennies and got $100 in quearters and $100 in dimes. Nothing in either. I know the % of silver is really low but I thought I would break up my penny routine. |
Freedom is popular
That's why I voted
Ron Paul! |
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fiatboy
Administrator
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 Posted - 05/10/2008 : 19:44:45
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I got a barber one day. 1912.
That's amazing. After all these years, Barber halves are still out there.  |
"Bart, it's not about how many stocks you have, it's about how much copper wire you can get out of the building." --- Homer Simpson |
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copperpennies
Penny Pincher Member
USA
222 Posts |
Posted - 05/10/2008 : 20:28:45
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| i bought 3 halves today from the bank because i could see the rims, one 1978 one 1968 and one 1964. A nice find while picking up $150 in pennies. |
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Flbandit
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
851 Posts |
Posted - 05/10/2008 : 21:00:13
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| I've been able to find about 4 rolls lately, but skunkage. However, I decided to use some of them to pay for a nice ASE I won! |
Are you throwing that out? |
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eharrison
Penny Pincher Member
USA
234 Posts |
Posted - 05/14/2008 : 22:58:00
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WOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEE!
So after a few hundred worth of skunking I hit the biggest silver lot to date. I picked up $90 in halves along with $20 in CWR dimes at my main "other coins" bank today. I also stopped at a branch of RBC (whith who I just opened an account a week ago) that I had not been to before. I got some pennies there and they happened to have $100 in halves, CWR halves to boot. Not sure if the bank rolled these but my findings incline me to believe that these were someones grandpa's. I got 3 solid rolls of 40% and 1 roll of 19 40%! Another roll yielded 6 90% (all kennedies) The $90 from my main bank gave up 3 40% also. Total: 86 40% and 6 90% kennedy halves.
And in the $20 in dimes I got 1 1952 rosie.
Today was a good day. :D
Now begins the next batch of skunkings that I am used to. ;) |
Freedom is popular
That's why I voted
Ron Paul! |
Edited by - eharrison on 05/15/2008 02:13:22 |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 05/15/2008 : 06:24:08
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Originally posted by eharrison
WOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEE!
So after a few hundred worth of skunking I hit the biggest silver lot to date. I picked up $90 in halves along with $20 in CWR dimes at my main "other coins" bank today. I also stopped at a branch of RBC (whith who I just opened an account a week ago) that I had not been to before. I got some pennies there and they happened to have $100 in halves, CWR halves to boot. Not sure if the bank rolled these but my findings incline me to believe that these were someones grandpa's. I got 3 solid rolls of 40% and 1 roll of 19 40%! Another roll yielded 6 90% (all kennedies) The $90 from my main bank gave up 3 40% also. Total: 86 40% and 6 90% kennedy halves.
And in the $20 in dimes I got 1 1952 rosie.
Today was a good day. :D
Now begins the next batch of skunkings that I am used to. ;)
Sweet find. Good deal.
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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eharrison
Penny Pincher Member
USA
234 Posts |
Posted - 05/16/2008 : 13:04:09
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sorted $100 in halves from my main "other" bank.
found 2 40% kennedys- about usual % per 100. |
Freedom is popular
That's why I voted
Ron Paul! |
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knibloe
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1066 Posts |
Posted - 05/16/2008 : 22:50:03
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| Sorry about the late post, but it was real sweet finding the Barber half. Especially after not even being able to buy halves at the other banks. |
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Hirbonzig
Penny Collector Member
USA
451 Posts |
Posted - 05/17/2008 : 21:35:55
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| $100 in halves searched and skunked again. Its been a long time in finding any silver. |
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knibloe
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1066 Posts |
Posted - 05/17/2008 : 23:15:06
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misteroman
Administrator
USA
2565 Posts |
Posted - 05/17/2008 : 23:24:32
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I put an order in for next week for $1000 in halves.Haven't done halves in a few years.I'll post what I find.
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Buying CU cents!!!! Paying 1.2 unlimited amounts wanted. Can pick up if near Ohio area. |
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eharrison
Penny Pincher Member
USA
234 Posts |
Posted - 05/21/2008 : 01:12:36
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| got $100 from the usual bank. Found 4 40% and 1 90%, double my usual finds. |
Freedom is popular
That's why I voted
Ron Paul! |
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magnasort
Penny Pincher Member
USA
174 Posts |
Posted - 05/21/2008 : 06:06:10
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| $160 cwr halves, all 16 rolls bicentennial... no real numis value but kinda cool. Will save. Can sometimes use these at garage sales and get a better deal. |
Magnetic sorters, no moving parts except the coins |
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swusc
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
553 Posts |
Posted - 05/21/2008 : 13:26:10
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I always roll my bicentennial halves together. I am hoping someone buys those rolls and keeps them. Trying to reduce the clad % to up the silver % :).
-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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eharrison
Penny Pincher Member
USA
234 Posts |
Posted - 05/21/2008 : 22:09:10
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Sorted $200 today from my main "other" bank.
Got 10 40% kennedys and............
ONE NEAT COOL SPIFFY 1963 FRANKLIN!!!!!!!!!
Boy was I excited to see that it broke up the sea of JFK and it is 90% to boot. Needless to say my first.
Is a walking liberty in my future or perhaps a barber around the corner?!?!?! |
Freedom is popular
That's why I voted
Ron Paul! |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 05/22/2008 : 06:15:47
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Originally posted by eharrison
Sorted $200 today from my main "other" bank.
Got 10 40% kennedys and............
ONE NEAT COOL SPIFFY 1963 FRANKLIN!!!!!!!!!
Boy was I excited to see that it broke up the sea of JFK and it is 90% to boot. Needless to say my first.
Is a walking liberty in my future or perhaps a barber around the corner?!?!?!
Nice find. I like the Franklin's myself.
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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swusc
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
553 Posts |
Posted - 05/22/2008 : 09:10:30
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Yea i really like the Franklin myself aswell. I just started hunting halves. Hopefully, I will find a Franklin soon. I have found 90% JFKs, but nothing older.
-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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