LONG LIVE THE KING!!!!

bnicholas26 · Jun 14, 2012

Went to about ten banks over the course of the day...nothing. On the way home I stop at a bank and buy a box of pennies just have something to do tonight, I also ask for halves. She says "Our other bank (3 miles away) has like 300$ worth, some old man cashed in his coin collection"....needless to say my pulse went up. I go to second branch she has only 59$ left (drat!). I buy them and they were indeed a collection in plastic tubes labeled with respective dates and everything. Only scored 1 40% from a mixed paper roll AND I ended up with 5 plastic (squared) tubes. SO not a total loss........ So i go across the street the another bank just because I'm never in this town regularly. I ask for halves = "no but I have large dollar coins, 8$ worth" I buy them........no morgans, but I did score a KING! 1972 type 2 IKE! My first!..... ALWAYS ACT ON YOUR WHIMS!!

vetarun · Jun 14, 2012

Tellers split all the silver for themselves already. Good try though.

usernameerror · Jun 14, 2012

Congrats on your king! Just found my first 3 weeks ago. Unfortunately it had a verdigris spot on the reverse.

bnicholas26 · Jun 14, 2012

vetarun said:
Tellers split all the silver for themselves already. Good try though.

They were actually very nice to me. I think someone just got to it before I did with an even $300 in pocket. I left my name and number for them.

bnicholas26 · Jun 14, 2012

The penny box yielded a 1912 and 1937. love this hobby

Sleazyj · Jun 14, 2012

After I saw this post I looked at the Ike's I got today and I'm having trouble in determining whether mine is a t2

Merc Crazy · Jun 14, 2012

That is a T2. Congrats.

Sleazyj · Jun 14, 2012

Sweet ill defiantly not be throwing him back

bnicholas26 · Jun 14, 2012

Sleazyj said:
After I saw this post I looked at the Ike's I got today and I'm having trouble in determining whether mine is a t2

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Seconded. That is definitely a type 2. put it in a flip to protect.

Sleazyj · Jun 14, 2012

I'm amazed that today was a great crh day

santafeboy · Jun 19, 2012

I know Im a Canadian when my first thought reading this was " He found a King George VI half " LOL

Canadian hunter · Jun 19, 2012

That is what I also thought!

Canadian eh! Santafeboy, are you actually Canadian or the "KING" phrase is a test of how much your inner-self is Canadian?

BuffaloBoy · Jun 20, 2012

cool i never got hard plastic coin rolls before... the coin shop sells them for $0.80 each by me.
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Buff

santafeboy · Jun 20, 2012

Canadian hunter said:
That is what I also thought!

Canadian eh! Santafeboy, are you actually Canadian or the "KING" phrase is a test of how much your inner-self is Canadian?

I was born and raised in Toronto area eh lived there till coming to the US as a teenager I developed my coin addiction up there

Rascal · Jun 20, 2012

I just went through the better part of $160 worth of 1972 Ikes tonight and found nary a one I could with certainty say was a Type II. There were a couple I couldn't say for sure that the Earth even had landmass. One had such a nice reverse side I was scratching my head trying to figure out whatever happened to the Earth. Almost like someone took emery paper to it. Only the barest of hints remained. A few others were so scratched it was impossible to say Type I or II. [sigh] Guess I'll just have to sweet talk the tellers into ordering me another bag. Never know, may find a decent Type II and ANOTHER Peace dollar. :laughing7:

Rascal

Sleazyj · Jun 21, 2012

Rascal said:
I just went through the better part of $160 worth of 1972 Ikes tonight and found nary a one I could with certainty say was a Type II. There were a couple I couldn't say for sure that the Earth even had landmass. One had such a nice reverse side I was scratching my head trying to figure out whatever happened to the Earth. Almost like someone took emery paper to it. Only the barest of hints remained. A few others were so scratched it was impossible to say Type I or II. [sigh] Guess I'll just have to sweet talk the tellers into ordering me another bag. Never know, may find a decent Type II and ANOTHER Peace dollar.

Rascal

How much are those bags of Ike's?