Captaindoodle
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- Feb 10, 2008
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Yesterday was my fourth anniversay of posting on T-net, and like a lot of others, CRH started innocently enough wondering over here from the daily finds forum.
First few bank stops to pick up whatever halves they had almost always yielded a few silvers...I was liking it and said..."I'll never get addicted...not me".
Well about the second week cold calling banks, I went into one that had $460 worth...I was inexperienced and only had $180 or so on me, so I asked the tellers if I could see them(two were arguing if what they had were dollar coins or 50 cent pieces), the younger one went back to the vault and brought up the 46 rolls they had in an old quarter box and handed me a roll....I poured it out in my hand and it was 20 mixed 40%'s. This was before I knew to always buy them all, but something told me..."buy them all!", so I asked them to hold on a minute, and sprinted out to the ATM (didn't have an account there, but it was the best $3 fee I ever paid). So I buy the goods and get on the road heading home...start pouring the rolls into my hand, and it's roll after roll of solid silver with the occassional roll of clad mixed in.
I called my wife to tell her (which registered as zero on the excitement meter for her), and drove home. I had probably opened about 15 rolls by the time I got home, and dumped the rest on the kitchen counter to open them up...final tally was 39 rolls of solid silver...639 40%'s, 81 64's, and 60 Bens.
At the time, the find's melt value was about $2800 ($4800 today's melt). The wife still didn't comprehend what I was excited about looking at a pile of odd, mostly tarnished coins on her kitchen counter...the face value of which was under $500.
So any way, I snapped a few candid shots before I knew how to use the macro function, and thought I'd share them with the group. Sorry for the crappy quality, but it was my first silver porn shoot
BTW...it's been a sordid tale ever since, and I've never felt the high I did that day again...although I keep hunting for it.
HH,
CD
First few bank stops to pick up whatever halves they had almost always yielded a few silvers...I was liking it and said..."I'll never get addicted...not me".
Well about the second week cold calling banks, I went into one that had $460 worth...I was inexperienced and only had $180 or so on me, so I asked the tellers if I could see them(two were arguing if what they had were dollar coins or 50 cent pieces), the younger one went back to the vault and brought up the 46 rolls they had in an old quarter box and handed me a roll....I poured it out in my hand and it was 20 mixed 40%'s. This was before I knew to always buy them all, but something told me..."buy them all!", so I asked them to hold on a minute, and sprinted out to the ATM (didn't have an account there, but it was the best $3 fee I ever paid). So I buy the goods and get on the road heading home...start pouring the rolls into my hand, and it's roll after roll of solid silver with the occassional roll of clad mixed in.
I called my wife to tell her (which registered as zero on the excitement meter for her), and drove home. I had probably opened about 15 rolls by the time I got home, and dumped the rest on the kitchen counter to open them up...final tally was 39 rolls of solid silver...639 40%'s, 81 64's, and 60 Bens.
At the time, the find's melt value was about $2800 ($4800 today's melt). The wife still didn't comprehend what I was excited about looking at a pile of odd, mostly tarnished coins on her kitchen counter...the face value of which was under $500.
So any way, I snapped a few candid shots before I knew how to use the macro function, and thought I'd share them with the group. Sorry for the crappy quality, but it was my first silver porn shoot
BTW...it's been a sordid tale ever since, and I've never felt the high I did that day again...although I keep hunting for it.
HH,
CD
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