NZ49er
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Hey all, I just posted yesterday that I was waiting on my first 90%ers and what do you know, today's the day! I went to the main branch of my local bank and picked up $500 in halves. $300 were in MWR, 100 in bank wrapped rolls (I used to be a teller, I know), and they were originally only going to give me $400, because the last bit they had were in bags. I told them I was fine with the unrolled coins.
Got back to the house and found no silvers in the MWR or bank wrapped rolls, but THREE Franklins in the bag coins. Well, I went back and bought the rest of the bank out ($190), but only got a 2003 proof in the remainder of the bag mix. I'm stoked: my first 90%ers were Franks. I also pulled out 3 NIFC (2003 D, 2013 P, 2015 D). Oh yeah, the tellers said that their bags were "off" count because of some foreign/fake coins I asked to buy them and they just gave them to me. Got a 1937 UK Penny, a 1954 Greek 5 Drachmai, and a 1979 Mexican Peso.
Also did $39.00 in cents yesterday. Got another zinc planchet. That's two in a week. Funny how that works out, I only ever found one other and that was over 15 years ago. Also got 6 Canadians ('41, '61, '64(x2), '80, '97, '00) and 11 wheats: '36, '40, '41D, '44D, '45, '49S, '56D (x2), '57D, and a '58 uncirculated.
Well, I got another 2 boxes of cents to do this weekend. Looks like I'll be running through that instead of detecting, unless I get up the will to head out in the rain tomorrow. No more halves for a while until the bank gets some more in.
Thanks for looking and good hunting all,
NZ49er
Got back to the house and found no silvers in the MWR or bank wrapped rolls, but THREE Franklins in the bag coins. Well, I went back and bought the rest of the bank out ($190), but only got a 2003 proof in the remainder of the bag mix. I'm stoked: my first 90%ers were Franks. I also pulled out 3 NIFC (2003 D, 2013 P, 2015 D). Oh yeah, the tellers said that their bags were "off" count because of some foreign/fake coins I asked to buy them and they just gave them to me. Got a 1937 UK Penny, a 1954 Greek 5 Drachmai, and a 1979 Mexican Peso.
Also did $39.00 in cents yesterday. Got another zinc planchet. That's two in a week. Funny how that works out, I only ever found one other and that was over 15 years ago. Also got 6 Canadians ('41, '61, '64(x2), '80, '97, '00) and 11 wheats: '36, '40, '41D, '44D, '45, '49S, '56D (x2), '57D, and a '58 uncirculated.
Well, I got another 2 boxes of cents to do this weekend. Looks like I'll be running through that instead of detecting, unless I get up the will to head out in the rain tomorrow. No more halves for a while until the bank gets some more in.
Thanks for looking and good hunting all,
NZ49er
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