My first flying eagle was only a good start

Spizzerinctum

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Mar 8, 2013
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Bounty Hunter Tracker IV
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I got a call from a bank where they know me well but I've only been stopping there monthly lately. The vault teller said she was saving $160 in nickels and $100 in cents for me. When I picked them up she said there might be collectable coins in there since an elderly woman who's husband was a collector before he passed brought some of them. Most of the rolls were average and I might have been happy with getting the normal couple dozen wheats and couple of war nickels if she hadn't got my hopes up. But there were 2 rolls that made it a better than average day. One roll of nickels was all pre '50 (no silver), but 12 were liberty nickels, one from each year starting with 1899 - 1912 except for '02 and '09. Not great condition, G8 or F12 at best, but a fun find. Then a roll of cents with the following - a '60d for some reason, 21 wheats from the '40s, 16 pre '40 wheats, the best being a nice '27s. The rest were pre '09 - 1857 flying eagle, 1859 indian head type one, a '00, '02, '04, 2-'06 (one with original luster), '07, '08 and the best - an '08s. My guess is that the '08s is somewhere between F20 and XF40. I'll try to post some pics when my kids come over since I don't have a smart phone.
 

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Congrats! Can't wait to see the pics. That's the dream right there.
 

I can wait to see the Silver porn, I mean, nickel and copper porn....lol!
 

You CRH'd an '08-S IHP? That's an instant ticket to the hall-of-fame. Unbelievable score. Nice work my man, congrats.
 

Wow! These are the stories that keep my pilot lit lol. Great score! Can't wait to see some pics
 

Nice job. Being in the right bank at the right time. Congrats
 

I'm trying without success to post pictures. I'll try something else.
 

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