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rainsonme wrote:1 box $500 halfs from Brinks = 3 40%; best box I have had since November. Sad.

1 bag $495 in halfs yielded 1 40% and a 1880-H canadian silver 5-cent piece. Very worn. Smaller than a dime. 0.034 ounces of silver.

And I had $800 in halfs from Friday that I turned back in and got $750 back --- that made my lone 40% half on Friday a very expensive coin.

What do you mean you only got $750.00 for $800.00?

$250 Brinks box of dimes

one Canadian
one 1958D

$500 string box of halves

1 1964
1 1965
3 1966
3 1967
3 1968D

A pretty good box

The second $500 string box of halves

silver skunk
1 2003P
1 2005P
1 2006D

preservingThePast, I got $800 in halfs on Friday, and put all but 1 40% sliver back in a canvas bag. I took that bag to the bank the next day, and the teller told me the count was $749.50. I am pretty sure her count was $50 short; if i had droped $50 in halfs in my car, I think I woudl have noticed it. But I consider it a hazzard of this strange hobby. I have not noticed that branch making errors. I dump there every Saturday morning for 4 years. This is the first significant under count. So if I advertised that $50 over the past 4 years, its' not much of a fee to pay. If it was all counted against that one poor 1967 half, it was quite an expensive coin.

Just yesterday I said I was done with quarters for a bit, but it seems that I'm a glutton for punishment.

$500 Brinks box of quarters
Skunk

$250 Brinks box of dimes
1961

$250 Brinks box of dimes
1963

$250 Brinks box of dimes
1962

$250 Brinks box of dimes
1954

$250 Brinks box of dimes
Skunk

$250 Brinks box of dimes
Skunk

$1k bagged halves...nothing.

AGCoinHunter wrote:The silver drought is over in AG land. Finnally got a decent bag tonight.

$1k in bagged halves yielded...
39 - 40% including a 1970S proof and a bicentenial S proof.
9 - 90% kens including a proof with DML (deep mirror like)
5 - walkers (45, 45D, 42S, 41, 34S)
2 - franklins (61D, 50)
3 - clad proofs
$4.73 in extra change
A guitar pick
A presidential token - John Quincy Adams
20 cent Australian coin.

Country,
Also found in this bag was a 1986 clad Nation of Immigrants half. Due to my excitement of the large amount of silver in the bag I somehow missed this one.

Half boxes

Skunk
skunk
skunk
#4 finally- 1 40% half and a 2008 proof

8 boxes Halves: 7 Skunks, 1 box gave up (4) 40% and an 2001S Clad Proof.

As if this weren't bad enough...I found 2 coins clearly marked BAMA JOE!!!

Dumpster Diver wrote:8 boxes Halves: 7 Skunks, 1 box gave up (4) 40% and an 2001S Clad Proof.

As if this weren't bad enough...I found 2 coins clearly marked BAMA JOE!!!

Always happy to share the love DD - not that my luck is any better at the moment

Half Box #139 - Skunk

Half Box #140 - Skunk

Half Box #141 - Skunk

Half Box #142 - Skunk

Dumpster Diver wrote:8 boxes Halves: 7 Skunks, 1 box gave up (4) 40% and an 2001S Clad Proof.

As if this weren't bad enough...I found 2 coins clearly marked BAMA JOE!!!

Ha!....I love it. Good find on the Bama Joe Halves

You gotta post a pic.

You should put those BAMA JOE halves up for auction.. I hear they bring a premium.

Here is today's finds. Not too bad, I expected worse..

Box #1 $500.00 Halves
Skunk
(1) 1984-S Proof

Box #2 $500.00 Halves (1 40%)
(1) 1968-D

Box #3 $500.00 Halves (1 90% and 19 40%)
(1) 1964-D (This was staring right at me when I opened the box )
(2) 1966
(8) 1967
(9) 1968-D

Box #4 $500.00 Halves (1 40%)
(1) 1968-D

Box #1 $250.00 Dimes (1 Silver Roosie)
(1) 1963-D

Box #2 $250.00 Dimes
Skunk

Country wrote:

involuntary tentacle wrote:First ever box of $500 Halves

A single 40% Half Dollar

I have another box coming in on Tuesday.

Oh yeah.. country - lump me in with the West crowd, thanks!

OK. Another searcher from California....

nope
i will say that i am from a state that is in the "west" region of the map you have.
but not california

it is a state you dont have data for, but i dont want to reveal my location.

Figured I was due for a bad bunch, since I found a few last week.
Eight boxes were skunks
Two boxes 2 40% each

5.50 loose halves. nothing. but i was surprised that they even had any.

$500 box of halves
SKUNK

200 dollars in plastic wrapped dimes from Wells Fargo, SKUNK.

40 dollars in customer wrapped dimes from Wells Fargo, 1 Roosevelt 1964.

$550 in CWR dimes

1958
1962D
10 Canadian dimes

Half Box #143 - Skunk

Half Box #144 - Skunk

Then Box #145. Somebody must have screwed up, it actually had a little silver and broke my skunk streak.

1 1967
2 1969D

1 1964

$500.00 Halves from coin counter (1 40%)
(1) 1968-D

The bag was short $1.00 in halves

$500.00 Quarters from coin counter (1 Silver Washington)
(1) 1964

$500.00 Dimes from coin counter (2 Silver Roosie's)
(1) 1957-D
(1) 1958-D

$12.50 Halves loose from teller tray
Skunk

The worst part is that the teller asked if I was a collector and I told her yes. She told me that about a month ago she had a whole bunch of older half dollars that were made of a different kind of metal, maybe lead or something? They sounded different and were older.. I was like man.. I wonder what I missed out on?

$0.50 Half Dollar from teller tray (1 40%)
(1) 1967

Report on dimes searched:

$125.00 -- 25 CWRs

Silver dimes found - Two -- 1/1946, 1/1959
2009 dimes found - Fourteen
Other found - None


Other stats: Four rolls over ten cents each roll

Overage/shortage total: Over forty cents

Enjoy your coin searches, everyone.

Report on nickels searched:

$50.00 -- 25 CWRs

V nickel - none
Buffalo - none
War Nickel - One -- 1/1942P
Proofs - none
Canadian pre-1982 - none
2009 - none
Other found - 1/1987D -- Son's birth year and this one was in really great condition

Kept for nickel album - none


Other stats: One roll shorted 5 cents; One roll over 5 cents


Overage/shortage total: Even

Enjoy your coin searches, everyone.

On March 21 I found 36 40 % and 3 90% halves in $105 of loose and CWRs from my new favorite bank. I also got skunked with $40 from another bank. On March 28 I found 1 40% in $80 of CWR halves. I also found 5 roosies and one merc in $225 of CWR dimes. I got skunked on $400 CWR dime rolls that someone must have had the gall to search before me ... how dare they search *my* rolls (lol)!!!