A dump! A dump! A dump!

smokeythecat

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I went to get a box of quarters, they didn't have one. I was able to get $200. They have not been searched yet. As an after thought, I thought I'd ask if they had any halves. Well, both tellers grew smiles a mile wide, the angels sang and the heavens opened up. The one teller said she had $110 and thought she would be STUCK with them forever. Boy, she was ECSTATIC to sell them to me.

At first look, they were freshly wrapped, and all I could think was "rats".

DSCN0370.JPG This is what they looked like.

But then...gasps! I opened them and every last roll had silver in it. I haven't counted them yet, but check it out.

DSCN0371.JPG I also noticed a clipped half! My second clipped one ever, I just got my first one the other day.

MOST of these halves are UNCIRCULATED, with the exception of the walkers. Unreal!

Going to hunt for errors now. I found a 1995 Lincoln Cent DDO and it was pretty...I had it graded and it wound up MS-67. Never know what you'll get even now!
 

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Someone probably passed away and the family didn't realize the coins were worth more than just face value.Glad someone got them that knows better.
 

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Why is this happening to everyone except for me?

Awesome find Smokey! Congrats
 

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Very nice Smokey, congratulations! :icon_thumright:
 

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Blimey - since when does treasure come gift-wrapped like that? Congrats mate! :skullflag: :occasion14:
 

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Thank you. I'm looking for errors now. There were precisely 80 silvers. Twenty two 90% silvers and the other 58 were 40% silvers. DSCN0372.JPG I did get that second clipped coin! Also had a strike doubled coin with a filled mint mark.
 

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Well...somebody lost one of the rolls (temporarily) under the car seat where it rolled. There were 13 more 40%'ers in it. That's a big score!
 

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Why is this happening to everyone except for me?

Awesome find Smokey! Congrats

You and I are in the very exclusive skunk streak club. We need to work on our secret skunk handshake. I'm thinking we move our paws like we're digging grubs while making some faint peeping sounds.
 

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What a nice afterthought! Congrats on a great score!
 

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That's three good...really good scores since 2016.
 

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Wow sweet score! Takes me back to some of the big ones I had found(and posted 5+ years ago lol). I gotta get to the banks and find a dump bank so I can make some CWR runs lol. Congrats and HH
 

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The bank employees are becoming hard to deal with. I have taken off months between looking. All three times I have done well, I was just at the right place at the right time.
 

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Lucky you, right place at the right time, a BIG CONGRATS.
 

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No more errors in the batch. They're going back to the bank today, the rejects, that is.
 

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The final take was (let me get the math right), 20 Liberty Walking halves, 2 1964 Kennedys and the rest were 40% Kennedys, some BU. One clip error.
 

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20 Walkers! Congrats! I'm almost surprised there were no $10 gold pieces mixed in (maybe next time?).

I've found 18 Walkers in the last year (none recently) - in 137 boxes (that's 6850 rolls).
 

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