Blank half planchet ('99-P), silver '76-S, Franklin....
Had a strange day today. Started off machine dumping some coins. The teller, who I know, asks 'Do you collect the silver?', 'why yes, yes I do.' 'I have two silver halves back at my try if you want them'. Got a '66 and a '68. Grabbed a lone box from a pick up. Box didn't look exceptionally good but I ended up squeezing a '67, 4 '68-D's and a '62-D. Good box and the really good news is that I have 4 more boxes from the same carrier to pick up later in the day. Fast-forward to the 4 boxes and out of 400 possible enders, probably 350 of them of 1999-P. Two of the boxes were showing solid '99-P and two of the boxes were predominately '99-P's. We start with the 'good' boxes first. I open a roll and find nothing, my 6 year opens a roll and chucks them into the dump box. Can clearly here silver so we fish a nice '68-D back out of the box. A few rolls later he says "daddy, this one's weird, it looks silver but it has a castle on the back??" Cool. Only the 2nd silver '76-S we've found. 7 year found a '68-D a few rolls after that. The next box was a skunk. Now on to the solid '99-P boxes. The kids went outside to play so the wife and I are opening the rolls. She breaks open one of the rolls and see's something weird. Looks kind of like a casino coin but it's not really worn. There's no reeding and it looks the slightest bit smaller than the halves around it. Turns out it's a blank planchet, and as we found it in a solid date box I can actually say with a fair amount of certainty that it's a '99-P blank half planchet. That's the first one we've found.
After the first box of the day I had high hopes of a ~25 silver day and was disappointed a bit with the boxes but the Franklin / AG '76-S / blank planchet trio pretty much made up for it.
Thanks for looking.
Had a strange day today. Started off machine dumping some coins. The teller, who I know, asks 'Do you collect the silver?', 'why yes, yes I do.' 'I have two silver halves back at my try if you want them'. Got a '66 and a '68. Grabbed a lone box from a pick up. Box didn't look exceptionally good but I ended up squeezing a '67, 4 '68-D's and a '62-D. Good box and the really good news is that I have 4 more boxes from the same carrier to pick up later in the day. Fast-forward to the 4 boxes and out of 400 possible enders, probably 350 of them of 1999-P. Two of the boxes were showing solid '99-P and two of the boxes were predominately '99-P's. We start with the 'good' boxes first. I open a roll and find nothing, my 6 year opens a roll and chucks them into the dump box. Can clearly here silver so we fish a nice '68-D back out of the box. A few rolls later he says "daddy, this one's weird, it looks silver but it has a castle on the back??" Cool. Only the 2nd silver '76-S we've found. 7 year found a '68-D a few rolls after that. The next box was a skunk. Now on to the solid '99-P boxes. The kids went outside to play so the wife and I are opening the rolls. She breaks open one of the rolls and see's something weird. Looks kind of like a casino coin but it's not really worn. There's no reeding and it looks the slightest bit smaller than the halves around it. Turns out it's a blank planchet, and as we found it in a solid date box I can actually say with a fair amount of certainty that it's a '99-P blank half planchet. That's the first one we've found.
After the first box of the day I had high hopes of a ~25 silver day and was disappointed a bit with the boxes but the Franklin / AG '76-S / blank planchet trio pretty much made up for it.
Thanks for looking.
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