That Canadian Guy
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Before I go into detail I just want to say a few things. I did not search coins throughout January due to studying for tests, school and related reasons. That explains why my posting this is so delayed. On Jan 6th my favourite teller at my favourite bank called while I was at school so my dad took the call. She said someone had dropped off a very old coin collection which included some 50 cent pieces. I have said many times before 50 cent pieces do not circulate in canada what so ever and it is a great day to find any, silver or not. My dad picked up the coins as soon as he got off the phone and he was surprised to see all the old coins. I got home from school and I my dad showed me the collection. So here is what we found.
Pennies:
38 solid rolls of King George VI pennies. Thats right, 1900(one thousand nine hundred) King George VI pennies. The dates range from 1937-1952 as those were the years George VI was king.
10 rolls of young queen pennies(1953-1964) Many of the 1963s and 64s are reddish brown and are in pretty high grades.
14 rolls of BU (shiny and red) pennies dating from 1965 to the late 1970s.
A lot of the King George VI rolls are dated and have writing like "1942 pennies: April 1967" So I assume that means this guy completed a roll of 1942 pennies in 1967. That would explain the BU pennies from the 1960s and 1970s.
Nickels:
217 King George VI nickels dating from 1937-1952.
23 BU 1967 centennial rabbit nickels
25 BU 1966
10 BU 1968
Various pure nickel young queens from mainly from 1960-1964.
I also got an original mint roll of 1966 nickels. I don't want to open it because it has value being an un-opened original roll from 1966.
Dimes
91 silver dimes consisting of
70 King George VI dating from 1937-1952
14 80% silver queen elizabeth dimes and 7 1967 centennial dimes, 6 of them still have their original mint lustre and are nicely toned.
Quarters
40 silver quarters consisting of
12 King George VI
11 80% silver queen elizabeth
11 1967 centennials all of them in the same condition as the dimes, original mint lustre, nicely toned.
I also got a handful of mint state 1973 mountie commemorative quarters. They aren't really rare but everyone hoarded them so they are very hard to find in circulation.
6 50% silver 1968
50 cent pieces
6 silver 50 cent pieces (First silver 50 cent pieces I have gotten from a bank!
)
King George VI 1944, two 1945s, 1946. Then queen elizabeth, two 1967 centennials just like the other centennials they are in perfect shape. On top of that I got 8 non silver 50 cent pieces.
And the icing on the cake was a beautiful 1981 clipped planchet quarter I found mixed in with the mounties.
I found more of every coin in that one buy than I have found in my previous year of coin roll hunting.
I would say this is my dream score and it will be pretty hard to top this score. Oh and the total of what I paid was a whomping $89.50.
Then on January 31st the same teller called and said she had some "old loonies and 50 cent pieces" (the loony is what we call our dollar coin). Again I was at school so my dad picked these up. There were $103.50 worth of 50 cent pieces and nickel dollars. No silver was found there. In case you are wondering the nickel dollar is like the canadian equivalent to the Ike dollar. It circulated alongside the dollar bill from 1968-1986 so they were seldom seen, they aren't incredibly valuable but they are hard to find and to the right person they can have a premium. The odd thing about these were that about half of the coins were in plastic coin pages. This was obviously a collection.
I apologize for giving everyone so much to read but I had a lot to share. I will do my best to try to get some pictures up soon.
On a side note I am back in the hunt. Today I got $100 in CWR dimes as that was all the bank could spare and I found 3 silvers, 1964,1965 and 1968. The 1964 and 1968 were side by side in the same roll. Thanks for reading happy hunting.
Pennies:
38 solid rolls of King George VI pennies. Thats right, 1900(one thousand nine hundred) King George VI pennies. The dates range from 1937-1952 as those were the years George VI was king.
10 rolls of young queen pennies(1953-1964) Many of the 1963s and 64s are reddish brown and are in pretty high grades.
14 rolls of BU (shiny and red) pennies dating from 1965 to the late 1970s.
A lot of the King George VI rolls are dated and have writing like "1942 pennies: April 1967" So I assume that means this guy completed a roll of 1942 pennies in 1967. That would explain the BU pennies from the 1960s and 1970s.
Nickels:
217 King George VI nickels dating from 1937-1952.
23 BU 1967 centennial rabbit nickels
25 BU 1966
10 BU 1968
Various pure nickel young queens from mainly from 1960-1964.
I also got an original mint roll of 1966 nickels. I don't want to open it because it has value being an un-opened original roll from 1966.
Dimes
91 silver dimes consisting of
70 King George VI dating from 1937-1952
14 80% silver queen elizabeth dimes and 7 1967 centennial dimes, 6 of them still have their original mint lustre and are nicely toned.
Quarters
40 silver quarters consisting of
12 King George VI
11 80% silver queen elizabeth
11 1967 centennials all of them in the same condition as the dimes, original mint lustre, nicely toned.
I also got a handful of mint state 1973 mountie commemorative quarters. They aren't really rare but everyone hoarded them so they are very hard to find in circulation.
6 50% silver 1968
50 cent pieces
6 silver 50 cent pieces (First silver 50 cent pieces I have gotten from a bank!
)King George VI 1944, two 1945s, 1946. Then queen elizabeth, two 1967 centennials just like the other centennials they are in perfect shape. On top of that I got 8 non silver 50 cent pieces.
And the icing on the cake was a beautiful 1981 clipped planchet quarter I found mixed in with the mounties.
I found more of every coin in that one buy than I have found in my previous year of coin roll hunting.
I would say this is my dream score and it will be pretty hard to top this score. Oh and the total of what I paid was a whomping $89.50.
Then on January 31st the same teller called and said she had some "old loonies and 50 cent pieces" (the loony is what we call our dollar coin). Again I was at school so my dad picked these up. There were $103.50 worth of 50 cent pieces and nickel dollars. No silver was found there. In case you are wondering the nickel dollar is like the canadian equivalent to the Ike dollar. It circulated alongside the dollar bill from 1968-1986 so they were seldom seen, they aren't incredibly valuable but they are hard to find and to the right person they can have a premium. The odd thing about these were that about half of the coins were in plastic coin pages. This was obviously a collection.
I apologize for giving everyone so much to read but I had a lot to share. I will do my best to try to get some pictures up soon.
On a side note I am back in the hunt. Today I got $100 in CWR dimes as that was all the bank could spare and I found 3 silvers, 1964,1965 and 1968. The 1964 and 1968 were side by side in the same roll. Thanks for reading happy hunting.
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Good for you! I have a friend who bought a 1973 set which had the large bust quarter in. The person who he bought the set from didn't know what he had so my friend just gave him $100 for the whole set and he still got a great deal because the large bust is so rare.
