FormerTeller
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The last few days have been fun for me, though I admit I'm not high volume like some on here. Haven't had much luck with halves boxes - 3 boxes last week yielded 1 '64. However, I've been hitting random banks on my lunch hour and picking up dimes and nickels, and halves when they have any.
Yesterday, $20 in nickels got me a 45P and glory of glories - a 1937 Buffalo in the best condition I've ever found one in. I'd estimate it's somewhere between VF-20 and EF-40.
Then today, I found a '64 dime out of $20 in dimes.
My last stop was my dump bank, a branch where they don't have a coin counter, so I dump rolls when I have them. Today I had $30 in halves that I had planned to dump, but while I was pulling the nickel and dime rolls out of the box I carried them in, I saw what looked like a silver rim on one of the halves in the teller's coin tray. Knowing that this teller hated getting halves, and also knowing I wasn't going to make any brownie points by depositing them and immediately asking for more, I surreptitiously eased the 3 rolls of halves I was going to deposit to the side of the box, and quickly covered it up after getting out the other rolls. Turns out she was glad (ecstatic really) to sell me the $8 in loose halves she had, which netted me a '68 and a '69.
As I said, a good couple of days, for me anyway. Though it's probably worth the least of what I found, I'm still psyched about the Buffalo I found. Here's a few shots I took, though the pictures really don't do the coin justice.
Yesterday, $20 in nickels got me a 45P and glory of glories - a 1937 Buffalo in the best condition I've ever found one in. I'd estimate it's somewhere between VF-20 and EF-40.
Then today, I found a '64 dime out of $20 in dimes.
My last stop was my dump bank, a branch where they don't have a coin counter, so I dump rolls when I have them. Today I had $30 in halves that I had planned to dump, but while I was pulling the nickel and dime rolls out of the box I carried them in, I saw what looked like a silver rim on one of the halves in the teller's coin tray. Knowing that this teller hated getting halves, and also knowing I wasn't going to make any brownie points by depositing them and immediately asking for more, I surreptitiously eased the 3 rolls of halves I was going to deposit to the side of the box, and quickly covered it up after getting out the other rolls. Turns out she was glad (ecstatic really) to sell me the $8 in loose halves she had, which netted me a '68 and a '69.
As I said, a good couple of days, for me anyway. Though it's probably worth the least of what I found, I'm still psyched about the Buffalo I found. Here's a few shots I took, though the pictures really don't do the coin justice.
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I just found this baby last week! 
