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I stopped at a Wells Fargo branch today and asked for halves. It's a branch not far from home that tends to be a good pick-up branch for me. The teller didn't have any but one of the other tellers did. She was busy finishing up a transaction with an elderly couple so I waited for them and then went to that teller's window to buy her halves. Between her and another teller they had a little over $20 worth. I spotted two silver in there as she counted them for me. Score!!

On the counter in front of the teller were several rolls of coins that she received from the elderly couple that was at her window ahead of me. Feeling lucky with the couple of silver halves I just got, I asked if I could buy the rolls of pennies she got in. She was happy to sell them to me but wanted to check the rolls first. She pulled out a magnet and said she has to scan the rolls to make sure no foreign coins were in there. The magnet stuck to two of the rolls. I said there could be a steel 1943 cent in there and I wouldn't mind buying the rolls as-is. She opened them up to check anyway. Both rolls she emptied out on the counter were full of wheats and each had a single 1943 steel cent in it. I immediately asked if I could be buy up all of the nickels, dimes, and quarters the elderly couple had just brought in. Maybe it wasn't "his" collection but the coins are now waiting to join my collection. A total of $124 in pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters that I need to go through. I hope they are all like the two rolls that the teller opened up for me.

She was taking him to the cemetery. She needed him alive long enough to help carry the coins to the bank.

SUPER curious what you got!

and the sequel to the cliffhanger is ....

Comeon!!!! We know you've gone through them all by now!!!
How good were the goods????

Great lead in my friend. Waiting patiently for the rest of the story.

And the results are....????

i just did a quick check of a few rolls this morning and no silver yet. I'll post the results for the whole batch when I get them all sorted.

TwoAndAHalfCents wrote:i just did a quick check of a few rolls this morning and no silver yet. I'll post the results for the whole batch when I get them all sorted.

Do you need help?? some of us here would be happy to help you sort them.

I sorted the pennies and posted the results in the tracking thread. Still need to finish up the nickels, dimes, and quarters.

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$10 CWRs

Wheats:
6 - older (1925, 1926-D, 1928, 1928-S, 1935, 1936)
2 - steel (1943 x3)
49 - 1940s
103 - 1950s

Copper non-wheat (38.80%):
382 - Memorial 1959-1981
6 - Memorial 1982

1 - U.S. clad dime

I finally finished going thru the batch and didn't get the huge stash of silver dimes and quarters I was hoping for. There were a total of 20 rolls of cents about half of which were from an old stash and the other half just the typical mix from current rolls. That old stash consisted of about three and a half rolls of wheats and the rest were memorial cents from 1959 to 1969. There were a total of seven rolls of nickels in the batch. Only one of those rolls was from the same old stash. It had coins up through 1969 and included five buffalos in that single roll. Four of the five were dateless and the fifth had a barely readable 1923 date. The dimes and quarters were just a mix of the typical current coins. Overall not bad from an extra pickup of coins following the original $21.50 in halves that I was out to get in the first place which had four 40% silver among them.

Thogey wrote:She was taking him to the cemetery. She needed him alive long enough to help carry the coins to the bank.

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Well done, Mike. Still a good haul regardless.

Thanks John. Now it's time for one of the other members here to run into a nice batch of coins. Who's it going to be?

Oh! Pick me, pick me!!!!

Please...

I haven't had a nice haul since buying 12 50% Silver BC 1871-1971 Canadian silver dollars for face value. Just watched one sell for $11.50 US plus shipping on ebay.