Silver, 2nd proof dime & broke my Quarter slump.

[Rosco53]

Treated myself to a coin show this weekend, and got it in my mind to try my hand at dimes and quarters again to break the monotony of cents (14 straight bags now). Pulled this silver early on:


Then I pulled this too, only my 2nd proof in 200,000 dimes:

Found something nice in the last 4 dime bags now, starting to get scared.

Then I did the quarters. I was hoping for one of the new Guam-War In The Pacific ones, saw them at the show and love the design. Thought maybe I'd pull a foreign if I were lucky. Nope.

Found this one about midway through. First noticeably off-centered coin I've pulled!


Annnnnnd then, just to top it off, my 6th:

 

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[Uncleslick18]

Nice finds rosco!

 

[Immy]

Great stuff! Nice to see the quarters welcoming you back.

Any nice acquisitions from the coin show?

 

[Megalodon]

Congrats on the finds Rosco,

I dump at a credit union where I often see another coin dumper who owns a chain of vending machines. This is one branch that uses free coinstar machines that reject silver. I don't mind waiting behind him & we both enjoy our conversations about coins. He says he gets silver dimes about 1 per roughly $1000. Handling thousands of coins every week, silver quarters are a rare find with "maybe" one every $5000 or so. Unfortunately, he doesn't keep notes or records about the silver but he looks forward to finding them and saves them all.

 

[port ewen ace]

nice O/C qtr. worth about 50 to 100X face VS silver at 8-12X

 

[Rosco53]

Congrats on the finds Rosco,

I dump at a credit union where I often see another coin dumper who owns a chain of vending machines. This is one branch that uses free coinstar machines that reject silver. I don't mind waiting behind him & we both enjoy our conversations about coins. He says he gets silver dimes about 1 per roughly $1000. Handling thousands of coins every week, silver quarters are a rare find with "maybe" one every $5000 or so. Unfortunately, he doesn't keep notes or records about the silver but he looks forward to finding them and saves them all.

I've somehow lucked my way into finding 7 silvers (2 of which were canadian, but still) in only 70000 quarters now. Last 3 bags were skunks though, and still no W, though guess I shouldn't complain with those ratios...

 

[Rosco53]

Great stuff! Nice to see the quarters welcoming you back.

Any nice acquisitions from the coin show?

Few nice acquisitions, probably more than I should have but... Got 25 random modern foreigns, was an idiot and didn't notice the big bag of randoms for $10 until someone bought it... Then got some nice old ones:
1859 Canadian Victorian penny
1917 Canada Large cent
1890 British one penny
1855&1864 Italian one cent
1945 Canada Nickel (with the morse code, couldn't resist for a quarter)
1832 6 Skilling (Sweden)
1862, 1885, 1895 Austrian cents
1894 Austria 20 cent
1882 Mexican nickel
1894 Farthing
1882 Swiss 10
1895 Swiss 20
1955 East Caribbean States 25 cent
1944 2 1/2 cent Curacao (love the random denomination like that, need to find some cheapos on ebay)
1938 half penny
1882 Dominican 2 1/2 Centavos holed
and a chewed up Indian head the dealer had in a 10cent bin, cause why not...

Got 5 "ancient" coins too, plucked ones I could make out heads/figures, so probably Roman, but still cool. And got a 1941 Newfoundland 10cent a guy had in with his Canadian coins for cheaper than I should have...

Then things got ugly... One dealer had a nice half price bin...:
1866 3 cent piece
1864, 1865, 1868 2 cent pieces
1828 one cent (holed)
1897 Barber Half
1853, 1857, 1861 Seated Liberty Quarters
1894, 1900s barber quarters
1892 barber dime

I generally try not to purchase US coins, with the hopes of pulling them outta bank bags, but pretty sure the odds were against ever finding examples of any of those.

Went to the show in the hopes of finding a bunch of old foreign ones, but when that wasn't going to happen figured wtf and splurged on those. Relatively sure I was one of the few there just for the history of the coins, not looking for examples or certain ones. When I got the seated liberty quarters the guy was like "I have this nice quality one for less than any of those 3", I pointed out the fact that these were pre-Civil war and could've been carried during, so gladly passed. He seemed confused... We got to talking, and he had actually seen me at work, was from the area, so instead of treating me like a walking wallet he thought of me as a person. We talked for a bit, I ended up buying more than I would've, and he gave me a break on a couple older ones too cause of my appreciation for the history. Most dealers there, the minute I went to the bargain ones instead of their slabbed ones, wouldn't really give me the time of day anymore...

Also got a crap-ton of flips at the end of the show for cheap, as I had fallen behind on my coins. Lastly, got a beautiful old Buffalo Nickel album. "Library of Coins Buffalo Nickels 1913-1938 Vol. 6", guessing from the 60's? Got it cheaper than I would've a brand new one, and this has the plastic pull outs so you can see the face and obverse as well... Figured after finding my 2 herds, about time to see what all I have, maybe even aspire to complete the set someday.