SilverForBrains
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I'm convinced I stumbled across someone's collection. I have been averaging 1 40% every two boxes. I usually pick up two boxes at a time, and that at least keeps me from being skunked.
Last weekend I had my girlfriend over and had her help me unroll. I told her "you can keep anything you find", figuring at worst I'd be coughing up a 40%er. I should have known better.
Side note - When I first started off coin roll hunting, I was going through nickels. I had $150 bucks worth. They were all skunks down to about the last ten dollars. My GF asked to open a roll, I threw her three and told her "you can keep everything you find."
She yells " buffalo nickel!" I go over there, and it's one of the new buffalos 
. Two minutes later, I hear "buffalo!" I was thinking you gotta be kidding me, she was fooled again. Sure enough, she's got a full date buffalo nickel. She only opened three rolls!! I've been through a thousand dollars in nickels and have NEVER found a buffalo nickel, let alone a FULL DATE! 
So I should've known better than to let her open halves with me and tell her she can keep whatever she finds. The first box I see a 40% ender, which I grabbed quickly
. Then we start tearing up the silver, I mean really tearing it up. Second box, same thing. All in all, we found two 1964s, almost a full roll of 40%ers, 3 silver bicentennials, and 2 amazingly beautiful 1967 proofs.
This must be a collection right? I mean three silver bicentennials and two 1967 proofs along with the rest of the silver?
The reason I bring this up is because I always assumed returned halves made it to a central facility where they were all homogenized, meaning averages are likely to be hit. Now I think that the coins don't really move too far away from each other and if you find lot's of silver it was from the same costumer who brought in a roll or two.
Fortunately she only kept a 1964 and a silver bicentennial, she's pretty nice. that was my best score ever. She is great luck.
Last weekend I had my girlfriend over and had her help me unroll. I told her "you can keep anything you find", figuring at worst I'd be coughing up a 40%er. I should have known better.
Side note - When I first started off coin roll hunting, I was going through nickels. I had $150 bucks worth. They were all skunks down to about the last ten dollars. My GF asked to open a roll, I threw her three and told her "you can keep everything you find."
She yells " buffalo nickel!" I go over there, and it's one of the new buffalos . Two minutes later, I hear "buffalo!" I was thinking you gotta be kidding me, she was fooled again. Sure enough, she's got a full date buffalo nickel. She only opened three rolls!! I've been through a thousand dollars in nickels and have NEVER found a buffalo nickel, let alone a FULL DATE! So I should've known better than to let her open halves with me and tell her she can keep whatever she finds. The first box I see a 40% ender, which I grabbed quickly
. Then we start tearing up the silver, I mean really tearing it up. Second box, same thing. All in all, we found two 1964s, almost a full roll of 40%ers, 3 silver bicentennials, and 2 amazingly beautiful 1967 proofs. This must be a collection right? I mean three silver bicentennials and two 1967 proofs along with the rest of the silver?
The reason I bring this up is because I always assumed returned halves made it to a central facility where they were all homogenized, meaning averages are likely to be hit. Now I think that the coins don't really move too far away from each other and if you find lot's of silver it was from the same costumer who brought in a roll or two.
Fortunately she only kept a 1964 and a silver bicentennial, she's pretty nice. that was my best score ever. She is great luck.
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