by Morsecode » Fri Jun 24, 2011 10:55 pm
When silver heats up, like it did late 2010 early 2011, the guys working the coin distribution centers for all the armored companies spend a little more time poking through the halves they process. The dimes are too small and too numerous, the war nicks blend in with junk nickels, and silver quarters in the wild were all grabbed up by the public years ago...but the 50-centers are big and noisy, and tiny in population compared to the other coins.
I knew a guy years ago worked in a local Brinks counting facility. He stashed away a few bags of halves in the short span of his employment there.
From hence ye beauties undeceived, know one false step is ne'er retrieved
and be with caution bold.
Not all that tempts your wandering eyes and heedless hearts is lawful prize,
nor all that glistens gold.
- Thomas Gray, 1747