It's that time of year.. Time for a Silver Santa visit
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2012 4:54 amIt's that time of year again. The time of year when us members step up our acquisition of coins.. in the hope that that we might get a visit from the "Silver Santa" We hope that Thogey's ol' widow might make a deposit to one of our pickup banks.. or that shoppers eager to stimulate the economy might roll up a bunch of coins from all over the house and that me might get a nice Christmas surprise. We eagerly pick up our little tubular Xmas presents and take them home to open before Christmas.. visions of silver dancing in our heads.
Now I admit I have stepped up my sorting of non penny rolls lately. Last weekend I even got talked into taking $800 in quarters from one of my regular banks. It made my regular vault teller happy that he didn't have to break them open and ship them off. There was no silver in them, but I did get 11 bonus quarters. I picked up $200 in dimes from the same bank. Didn't get skunked on that one.. got 1 silver dime for the hoard. $200 in dimes from another bank yielded another silver dime. $100 in nickels got me a silver nickel. Not exactly the makings of a good Silver Santa story.. but at least I am getting a little.. and you can't win if you don't play.
So today I actually got off work early (imagine that) and stopped by the bank I got those quarters from last week about 10 minutes before closing. My regular vault teller says he is glad to see me and that it is good I came in today since he is off tomorrow. He comes out with 2 trays of dimes and tells me "it isn't much, but I think you will like what I got for you." He tells me he didn't think I was coming in this week so he went to break some rolls and ship them off. He sees the silver and decides he should set these aside for me. He shows me one of the green rolls where it says 1964 on it and pours them out in his hand to show me all the silver dimes.
Out of the 20 rolls, 14 of them were almost all solid silver! One roll was a short roll.. with only 44 dimes in it, but I don't mind short rolls when they make that silver bells sound as you pour them out into your hand.
Total for my stocking was 692 silver dimes.. 682 Roosies and 10 mercs.
Now I admit I have stepped up my sorting of non penny rolls lately. Last weekend I even got talked into taking $800 in quarters from one of my regular banks. It made my regular vault teller happy that he didn't have to break them open and ship them off. There was no silver in them, but I did get 11 bonus quarters. I picked up $200 in dimes from the same bank. Didn't get skunked on that one.. got 1 silver dime for the hoard. $200 in dimes from another bank yielded another silver dime. $100 in nickels got me a silver nickel. Not exactly the makings of a good Silver Santa story.. but at least I am getting a little.. and you can't win if you don't play.
So today I actually got off work early (imagine that) and stopped by the bank I got those quarters from last week about 10 minutes before closing. My regular vault teller says he is glad to see me and that it is good I came in today since he is off tomorrow. He comes out with 2 trays of dimes and tells me "it isn't much, but I think you will like what I got for you." He tells me he didn't think I was coming in this week so he went to break some rolls and ship them off. He sees the silver and decides he should set these aside for me. He shows me one of the green rolls where it says 1964 on it and pours them out in his hand to show me all the silver dimes.
Out of the 20 rolls, 14 of them were almost all solid silver! One roll was a short roll.. with only 44 dimes in it, but I don't mind short rolls when they make that silver bells sound as you pour them out into your hand.
Total for my stocking was 692 silver dimes.. 682 Roosies and 10 mercs.
I can definitely relate to your story, the area etc (we've shared a few stories and have a similar mindset on some things). I love December; the silver Santa has already been good to me so far this year (today's take alone was 8 90%, 8 40% and 6 dimes). I usually triple my bank visits this time of the year, as the sheeple always turn in the good stuff....and always spend FRN's that they don't have, in order to buy (mostly crap) that their loved ones don't need. I love the holidays.