mrbks22
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Last Friday when I was able to pick up two boxes of halves from a different bank and when I stopped at my usual pickup bank on the way home, they had a bag of dimes and quarters off the machine for me. I recently posted about my first bag of nickels from them, but these would be my first bag of dimes and quarters. I know quarters are tough, but I didn't want to pass up the chance to check them.
I decided to open the halves first since I thought that would be faster than tackling the bags. Well, I've been on a mini seven box skunk streak, so I was really not expecting much. Six rolls into the first box, I see this:
That is B.E.A.Utiful. I've only had one other roll that was a double so I was thrilled. Turned out to be a nice '66 and even nicer '64.
That was all that box had, but I was on an AG high so it was ok.
I proceed to box number 2 and about halfway through I see another beautiful, but dirty rim.
Could it be....
Dirty old Benjamin. Oh how I love you Benji!
That was it for the 2nd box, but finding 3, including 2 90%ers was a great feeling.
Saturday, I moved on to the quarters. Lord knows how many hours later (kept getting interrupted), and nada. Slightly disappointed, but not totally surprised, I moved on to the dimes. I get down do the last few handfuls from the bag and finally this pops up.
Now here's where the fun starts. As I was getting ready to take a picture, for this very post, I picked up one of the empty half boxes where the dime was sitting and it slid off the box and....you guessed it, back into the bag of dimes. I literally sat there staring at the bag for a full two minutes, astounded at my stupidity, and prayed it was in the first scoop out of the bag. In the end, I had to take about $150 worth of dimes out of the bag before I found it again. I learned a valuable lesson that day.
All in all, it was a good weekend for me.
Happy Hunting all!
I decided to open the halves first since I thought that would be faster than tackling the bags. Well, I've been on a mini seven box skunk streak, so I was really not expecting much. Six rolls into the first box, I see this:
That is B.E.A.Utiful. I've only had one other roll that was a double so I was thrilled. Turned out to be a nice '66 and even nicer '64.
That was all that box had, but I was on an AG high so it was ok.
I proceed to box number 2 and about halfway through I see another beautiful, but dirty rim.
Could it be....
Dirty old Benjamin. Oh how I love you Benji!
That was it for the 2nd box, but finding 3, including 2 90%ers was a great feeling.
Saturday, I moved on to the quarters. Lord knows how many hours later (kept getting interrupted), and nada. Slightly disappointed, but not totally surprised, I moved on to the dimes. I get down do the last few handfuls from the bag and finally this pops up.
Now here's where the fun starts. As I was getting ready to take a picture, for this very post, I picked up one of the empty half boxes where the dime was sitting and it slid off the box and....you guessed it, back into the bag of dimes. I literally sat there staring at the bag for a full two minutes, astounded at my stupidity, and prayed it was in the first scoop out of the bag. In the end, I had to take about $150 worth of dimes out of the bag before I found it again. I learned a valuable lesson that day.
All in all, it was a good weekend for me.
Happy Hunting all!
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