Found my first Franklin EVER ... and my 2nd!

[jrf30]

After doing this for almost a YEAR, and seeing all sorts of great posts showing Franklins and Walkers and even a few Barbers, I've finally found a Frankjlin half! And I found TWO of them in fact.

I still have NO luck on boxes. I'm up to 42 in a row for skunks on silver right now and still counting. I get some NIFC, and I keep those, but 42 boxes in a row have been silver skunks for me here in AZ. However, I continue to pick up all the loose halves I can get. The banks save them for me when they come in. And yesterday I scored finally on some Franklins.

I went in to Chase and they said they had $9 in halves. Someone had dropped off $120 worht, and htey gave someone else $1 but had $9 left. I hoped that it wasn't that someone took the only two silvers in the batch and left the rest. I take them ALL. ALWAYS. This way I don't have to explain what i am looking for. Even if i know they are all clad, I want to be known as the guy that takes all halves all the time. So, I took $9. I could see two silvers in the pile as she counted them in her hand. I put them in my pocket (I never look there) and smiled as I knew I had 2 more. And they looked good enough on the rim that i guessed they were 90%'ers.

Outside I looked and saw that the first one was a BEN!! Then I looked at the second one and it TOO was a Franklin.

I have done this for a LONG time, and have had TERRIBLE luck with Halves. I just don't have what others have. But I'm okay with that. And now I'm VERY happy to finally have broken into the Franklin club. :-) A 1951 and a 1953. neither in great shape, but I don't care They are my first ever Franklins during CRH. (I've found a few Detecting in the past).

So that's my story, and i'm sticking to it! I have two Bens!! YEAHHHHHH.

 

[Lucky Jack]

wow!!! 42 skunks in a row? I would have given up long ago. My luck with boxes isn't much better though. I usually get at least 1 box a week just to stay in the game but by far my best luck has been the hand rolls I get from cold calling. My only Franklin came that way.

 

[DrDetector]

That 1953 is actually a pretty tough date as well, fyi. Nice pickup.

 

[Silver_Fox]

Nice find. Welcome to the Benji club
HH, S_F

 

[thurmownator]

That 1953 is actually a pretty tough date as well, fyi. Nice pickup.

Yes, can you confirm that the '53 is not a "D" or an "S"; as the Philly version is among the scarcer Ben's in the series......and for it to be among your first would be special indeed.

 

[jrf30]

That 1953 is actually a pretty tough date as well, fyi. Nice pickup.

Yes, can you confirm that the '53 is not a "D" or an "S"; as the Philly version is among the scarcer Ben's in the series......and for it to be among your first would be special indeed.

They are both actually in very good shape. Maybe EF. The writing is pretty clear, and nothing is smudged over. So it is easy to see if there were a D or S. Nope, it is a 1953 plain.

Better than i even thought! :-)