Casino gives up semi-key buffalo!

[Immy]

Toted home $55 in nickels and $20 in pennies. Nickels were first so after I dumped them out one of the first things I saw was the reverse of my first buffie this year, and it was an S-mint. So I drove myself nuts and waited till I went thru all the $75 before looking at the date. Was I surprised to read [red]1926-S[/red] in solid Good condition, a $25 coin!! Woo hoo!! The rest of the nickels were so-so, but that buffie made my day.

Wheaties were pretty good too: 1938, 1945, 1950-S, 1951-D, 1952-D

And I got a 1966 from $200 in halves.

Great day!

 

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[Cat J]

Congratulations!!!!!! Nice find

Cat

 

[LJ]

Nice job Immy!!! Personally, I would not be able to wait that long before checking the date...ha. You have more patience than me.

Congrats on your first Buff of 08.....I am sure there will be many more.

 

[low xtreme]

nice! you have more patience than me too

 

[GMan00001]

Nice find Immy.

Just curious, why is the 1926-S considered a semi-key and not a key? It has the lowest mintage of any buffalos at 970,000.

 

[TxTim]

Nice payoff!
Congrats, Immy!

 

[GPURS]

I'd have been squirming in my chair to look at that nickel!!! Way to go on being able to hold out!! HH Gpurs...

 

[Immy]

Nice find Immy.

Just curious, why is the 1926-S considered a semi-key and not a key? It has the lowest mintage of any buffalos at 970,000.

It's a real puzzler. Book after book and site after site list it among "the other dates to look for" behind the mintmarked 1913 Type 2's, 1914-S, 1921-S and the varieties (doubled dies, overdates, 1937 3-leg, etc.). I guess it depends on value.

You just reminded me that this now becomes my lowest mintage US coin ever found in circulation, awesome!

 

[theeteetotaler]

Immy,

I was recently told that all vegas casinos have gone to TITO on primarily all machines, are the halves you're getting from the casinos the ones reserved for blackjack 3/2 payouts or are these slot halves? also, how many do the cashiers let you get at one time??

 

[GMan00001]

Immy,

I was recently told that all vegas casinos have gone to TITO on primarily all machines, are the halves you're getting from the casinos the ones reserved for blackjack 3/2 payouts or are these slot halves? also, how many do the cashiers let you get at one time??

I was in vegas a few months ago and all big casinos on the strip were TITO, but the downtown ones were mixed and some still had half dollar machines. I assume its still the same.

 

[Immy]

GMan is right. 95% of the Strip has gone TITO but many of the smaller casinos downtown are very much coin-op. By my count there are 55 half dollar machines spread out over a handful of casinos. The Western, my new hangout, is all coin-op, including a couple dozen penny machines.

The Sahara is the only Strip locale TIKO that still has coin-op, even a free counter in the center of the casino. But here's a laugh, the counter has a sign on it that says what coins it won't take, which includes pennies, dimes and "Pocahontas dollars." LOL

 

[thurmownator]

Nice find Immy.

Just curious, why is the 1926-S considered a semi-key and not a key? It has the lowest mintage of any buffalos at 970,000.

It's a real puzzler. Book after book and site after site list it among "the other dates to look for" behind the mintmarked 1913 Type 2's, 1914-S, 1921-S and the varieties (doubled dies, overdates, 1937 3-leg, etc.). I guess it depends on value.

You just reminded me that this now becomes my lowest mintage US coin ever found in circulation, awesome!

Nicely done Immy !

You did show remarkable restraint (not looking at the date for as long as you did).

Kudos !

 

[killerwine]

Sweet find Immy!!!