Do You Remember The First Time You Got Lucky?

[DustDevilMarc]

Tonight, after 4 1/2 boxes, I got lucky. My first time. I hit silver. Do you remember your first time?

 

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[boristhespider88]

Yes, I remember my first silver half (I'd found a dime or two, a war nickel, some wheats, and a buffalo in the month or so before I full on started hunting) but my first silver half was special to me, a 1968-S 40% proof from a teller tray.

 

[Infowarrior]

My first silver score, it took me about 12 banks until I found one with halves($510 worth)

Made out with 70 40% and 23 90%...

lol obviously ive been hooked since.

HH

 

[fistfulladirt]

Even though I've been roll hunting since 1978, I remember it was about 2007 when silver started to climb again. First bank I went to had a few rolls of halves. 1894 Barber and 90% Kens peppered one of the first rolls. Almost every bank I went to had rolls half full of 90's and 40's. Had a great run, up until about 2010 when things really seemed to dry up.

 

[johnomerta]

1st box. 1968 and thats all it took. Junk silver junkie ever day since then.

 

[CoinFetcher]

My first roll of halves had a 40%er in it. I thought this was going to be easy.

 

[SilverForBrains]

one fateful day back in the late 80s. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was just a lad finishing high school. I was waiting at my girlfriends house waiting for her to get out of soccer practice and her mother came home from work early....... the rest is history

 

[iontyre]

one fateful day back in the late 80s. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was just a lad finishing high school. I was waiting at my girlfriends house waiting for her to get out of soccer practice and her mother came home from work early....... the rest is history

I knew this was coming eventually...

 

[johnomerta]

one fateful day back in the late 80s. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was just a lad finishing high school. I was waiting at my girlfriends house waiting for her to get out of soccer practice and her mother came home from work early....... the rest is history

Lmao

 

[xr7ator]

The first time I pulled AG from a roll of coins was in the 70's.
Edit; I didn't get "lucky" until the early 80's. lol

 

[SilverFace]

Congrats on your first silver. Well it wasn't my first silver find but my first big score that really got me interested in CRHing as a continuous hobby was about 4 1/2 years ago in Sept '09 when I scored a solid cwr of '59-'63 Ben's (pic below). I still keep that roll of Ben's in the same brown wrapper that I found them in. I never really thought I'd have that kind of luck again but about a year and a half later I scored 4 Morgan's from that same bank. And on Sept 02 2011 (I still remember the date lol) less than two weeks after joining Tnet I had my best score ever with 3 solid rolls of Walkers and Bens from another bank in the same part of town just a couple of miles away.

H$H!

 

[cazisme]

Silverforbrains did you marry the daughter?

 

[Nydus Touch]

When I first learned about silver coins: I very excitedly ran out to my car to date check the approximately 3$ of coins I had in my car. I then had the idea to CRH so I borrowed a silver dime from someone I knew and practiced finding it a few times in a handful of clad dimes. Then went to my little credit union and asked if I get as many roll of dimes as they would give me. The teller asked me if I meant a box of Dimes, to which I replied: YES!.......wait.........how much is a box? and yes in fact: I did want the box. Then found out I'd have to wait a week. One agonizing week later I got my box, went through a few last practice reps of identifying the known silver, muddled my way through about a third of the box and almost had a heart attack when I found my first silver Dime. I felt like I had made some major discovery tantamount to finding a complete T-Rex fossil under my couch. That was how it all started and not much has changed!

 

[BuffaloBoy]

It took me 8 boxes of halves before I found a single keeper.

 

[theekman]

I picked up 100 in dimes and 100 in quarters before I even knew crh was a thing. I got 1 quarter ans 3 dimes (1 was a merc too)

Then it took me 4 boxes of halves to find anything. On the 4th I got 5 40%ers

 

[Bigheed]

i was 15 and she was blonde :-D

 

[MuckyBottles]

Tonight, after 4 1/2 boxes, I got lucky. My first time. I hit silver. Do you remember your first time?

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Wow! That is a loaded question..

 

[SilverForBrains]

my first CRH score though was a war nickel in a box of nickels. I figured those were the least known and I had the best chance of finding one

 

[silvereyes]

I remember my first silver well. A few years ago I first tried some rolls of halfs at my credit union. After a few weeks nothing. Then I read about a road trip. That week I plotted out a road trip through the country. Finally a teller had 7 dollars worth of loose halfs. She threw them on the counter and I saw Ben's face. She picked up Ben and looked at it for long awhile. I thought she was gonna take it back. My heart was pounding as I tried to keep my cool. She sold them to me. I ran out to my car and held the 1958 Ben half. My birth year. What a coincidence. I got goose bumps. Hooked for life..........

 

[gordon and tanner]

My first time was so special I wrote a poem to commemorate the event.

Yellow was the sun, blue was the sky, We were alone just her and I.

Her hair was brown, here eyes were blue, I knew exactly, what she wanted to do.

Her face was so calm her body so fine, I ran my fingers down her spine.

I got up the courage, I did my best, I place my hand upon her breast.

I was getting so nervous, I could feel her heart, as I slowly spread her legs apart.

I knew she was ready, but I wasn't sure how, because this was the fist time, I milked a cow.


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