My first 90%!
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 5:21 pmHi folks. Had to share my latest find with the realcent community!
I've been searching through every coin that's passed through my hands over the last six years or so, and never found a single 90% coin. The best I've manged has been a handful of 40% halves that I've gotten from the relatively few amount of halves that I occasionally pick up at banks. I usually put most of my efforts into penny sorting, so the halves are more of a rarity for me. Anyways, today I went to my local bank to pick up some pennies, and on a whim I decided to inquire about halves. The teller says she has plenty and proceeds to pull out 10 CWR rolls. I only had enough $ to buy two of them. So I get home and open the rolls, and am quite pleased to find one 40% half in each roll. Being quite stoked, I grabbed another 80 bucks and headed back to the bank for the remaining rolls. Ten more 40% halves and one beautiful, shiny 1964 half were the result!
I think I'm going to make a concerted effort to start asking for halves more regularly after this bonanza.
From today's melt prices:
12 X 40% = 52.32
1 X 90$ = 10.67
Total- 62.99
Not too shabby!
Good luck to everyone in their searches.
I've been searching through every coin that's passed through my hands over the last six years or so, and never found a single 90% coin. The best I've manged has been a handful of 40% halves that I've gotten from the relatively few amount of halves that I occasionally pick up at banks. I usually put most of my efforts into penny sorting, so the halves are more of a rarity for me. Anyways, today I went to my local bank to pick up some pennies, and on a whim I decided to inquire about halves. The teller says she has plenty and proceeds to pull out 10 CWR rolls. I only had enough $ to buy two of them. So I get home and open the rolls, and am quite pleased to find one 40% half in each roll. Being quite stoked, I grabbed another 80 bucks and headed back to the bank for the remaining rolls. Ten more 40% halves and one beautiful, shiny 1964 half were the result!
I think I'm going to make a concerted effort to start asking for halves more regularly after this bonanza.
From today's melt prices:
12 X 40% = 52.32
1 X 90$ = 10.67
Total- 62.99
Not too shabby!
Good luck to everyone in their searches.
I did get a 1964 dime in my change at a Starbucks last month. I was happy. They paid me that day 