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I don't really have one... YET.

The only thing I can share is, my father and I were at a car part swap meet in PA around 2006, and came across a guy with a literal BUCKET of silver Liberty halves! They were an estate find. He was asking $5 each for them. I bought 4, as my budget that day was reserved for car parts, but I did score 3 S coins and 1 D.

Can someone please move this to the right section? I created it in the wrong place

Here is the link to a thread I started a few years ago called War Stories about Coin Dealers. There should be some interesting stuff in there...

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And here is another thread I started a while back about war stories about banks/credit unions and dump sites. Enjoy.

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Read both of those threads I posted (dealers and banks/credit unions). There is some very entertaining stuff in there.

I was born 12/12/56. On 12/12/12 I turned 56 and that day I got a wheat penny in change and it was a 1956.

My biggest coin story is consistently bank mining for silver and copper. Ten years of consistently spending weekends and evenings try to eek out some value beyond what the pay check provided.

I had edge sorted a bag of dimes and was dumping them into a counter at the bank to turn them back in. I noticed one that looked different, so I pulled it out of the tray just before I dumped it into the machine. Turned out to be 1864 silver token from the Sanitary Fair that was held to raise money for the Union Troops.

When I was about 9 or 10 years old I was playing in our gravel driveway and I found a beat up foreign coin. It ended up being a 1954 Italian 5 Lire. That coin helped start my interest in coin collecting. Still to this day I wonder how that coin got in the driveway gravel.

I was about 7 or 8 when an older kid, whom I did not know, cornered me in the boy's room at school. He said " Hey kid wanna see a trick?". He put a quarter on his bent elbow popped his arm straight and snatched it with his hand.

That might have been the most amazing feat of greatness I had witnessed up to that moment.

My friends and I quickly mastered the skill and it became a contest, stacking 5-10-20 coins at a time.

Failure was really loud upon the kitchen floor.