A Surprise in My Tumbler!

[KYshooter]

Yesterday I separated my pennies from my fake silver, worthless, American clad coinage that I dug this past year for tumbling. I loaded the tumbler before bed last night, ready for rinsing and drying this morning.

I was quite shocked when I found this shiny little disc in with my junk clad.

It’s a 1943-P 40% silver War Nickel! A surprise silver/gold find #98 for 2011! I must have dug it on my last day of hunting, December 28, before bad weather and my kitchen paint job (one of my Christmas presents for my wife … along story) kicked in. I dug a LOT of nickel signals that day and had a pouch full of nasty 5-centers. I didn’t look at any of them very closely. My bad …

The tumbler really did a number on that soft silver. I can barely make out the date.

Oh, well … it just goes in with all my other “junk silver” anyways. A nice surprise this morning, and I didn’t even have to go swinging to find it!

And I almost forgot … another surprise! I found a 1964-D silver Rosie in my daughter’s change last week. I saw it laying on her dresser and thought that it looked suspiciously like silver. I was right! Bonus find! I made the MXT “whump-whump” signal with my mouth as I waved my hand over the coin just to make it legal. That was silver find #97 for me in 2011.

Here’s a picture …

Thanks for looking. There’s still silver out there! HH
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[DrJoePrime]

Re: A Surprise in My Tumbles!

I like those kinds of surprises!

My last visit to Coinstar I found a bent '64 Rosie sitting on the shelf that I promptly stuck in my pocket. Then...Coinstar spit out another Silver Rosie from my clad! I also use the (free) Amazon gift card option and come out ahead most visits. BTW: Coinstar accepts most of my beach toast coins ... at least 98.5%. The real bad zincs I just toss in a BIG Jar.

HH Joe

 

[KYshooter]

Re: A Surprise in My Tumbles!

I like those kinds of surprises!

My last visit to Coinstar I found a bent '64 Rosie sitting on the shelf that I promptly stuck in my pocket. Then...Coinstar spit out another Silver Rosie from my clad! I also use the (free) Amazon gift card option and come out ahead most visits. BTW: Coinstar accepts most of my beach toast coins ... at least 98.5%. The real bad zincs I just toss in a BIG Jar.

HH Joe

We don't have Coinstars our here in the boonies. Thank goodness, though, my bank takes whatever I bring them. All loose change just goes into coin bags that are returned to the Federal Reserve.

 

[allen]

glad you caught that silver before you decided to spend it !!