4/27/11 mini road trip

kb4iqm

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I'll not list all of the banks because so many had no halves. I started out with a full charge on my Pruis and headed towards the Atlanta GA direction. Hit up all the small banks along the way.

I scored a roll and $7.00 in loose halves at one bank, could see one silver edge as she was handing them to me... it was a 1966.

At another bank, a teller offered me $100 of halves rolls from the vault. She said some old guy had dropped them off after searching through them. The rolls all had a big black X drawn on them. I took them, scored a 1967.

On the way back I took a different route, stopped at a bank I had never been to, no loose halves. The head teller asked if I wanted $170 in halves rolls from the vault. She said they had been brought in by an old guy that had searched them, and that another guy had bought them, searched them, and returned them. Twice searched rolls, what the heck, might as well. When she brought them out, I recognized the rolls and big black X marks, exactly the same as the rolls from the previous bank. Scored a solid roll of 1976, over half of which look fresh from the mint so I kept those. Scored some 2004 NIFC's, most of which still looked fresh from the mint. And scored a 1969D. So much for being twice searched.

Drove back and went to my dump bank, dumped the halves and the quarters bag. Today was box delivery day at my main buy bank so I picked up 2 boxes of halves for later.

Made one more stop at a small local bank in town and I could see some silver in the halves in the teller tray. I bought her halves, $9.50 of them, scored 8 40%'ers!

Drove home as one happy CHR'er. Drove 186 miles round trip, only burned a little over 1 gallon of gas due to driving on pre-charged electric from home for the first 100 miles or so.

40%

3 X 1966
2 X 1967
2 X 1968D
4 X 1969D
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NIFC

12 X 2004D
1 X 2004P
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Uncirculated Bic's

2 X 1976
11 X 1976D

I took pics, will upload tomorrow when I am near broadband wifi.

Bob

Edit: Added pics
 

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Very nice hunt! it would be cool to think of not wasting gas with a prius.. you lucky dog ;P
 

brendan1414 said:
Very nice hunt! it would be cool to think of not wasting gas with a prius.. you lucky dog ;P
I'm an alternative enerygy researcher, so my Prius is not stock. It's modified with extra batteries so I can pre-charge from solar power at home. That gets me about 100 miles or so, then the engine will start and charge the batteries as needed. When using the engine to maintain charge on the fly, I get about 47.5 MPG on gasoline alone or 60+ MPG on gasoline with hydrogen assist. It helps greatly to ease the cost of CRH'ing when my travel expense is low.

Bob
 

Some nice scores you got. It sure would be nice to have a electric car with the price of gas right now......Matt
 

enamel7 said:
Nice score! But why keep the 1976's?
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I kept the ones that are really pristine. A few have the beginnings of toning setting in, and one already has a really nice rainbow toning. As a coin collector, I can appreciate the beauty of many relatively common coins that have managed to avoid having their mint states destroyed. To me, they don't have to be gold, silver, rare, or particularly valuable, to have a beauty that should be preserved. These were so nice that I would hate to return them to circulation and have their beauty forever marred by Brinks rolling machines or bag marks.

The lone 2004P has a bag mark near the tip of Kennedy's nose, too bad I only found the one. It'll still go in my collection folder, maybe to be replaced by a better one later. I put aside all of the 2004's, they are worth keeping to me, despite one of the 2004D's having slight Brinks rolling machine damage. Who knows, some day another collector might need some of the extra NIFC's that I saved.

Bob
 

I added the pics to my original post. Darn cellphone camera is horrible for taking pics that are too close for the far setting, yet too far for the macro setting. There is no in-between setting.
 

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