Results from Vegas

[GMan00001]

Well, got to Immyland (Vegas) on Sunday morning and left Friday morning. Amongst other activities while there, I did some slot machine searching. I'll just do a day by day breakdown.

*** Sunday ****
$800 in half dollars
2 - 1967

$500 in quarters
1 - 1958-D Washington

$160 in nickels
1 - 1936 Buffalo Nickel
1 - 1943-P War Nickel
1 - 1945-S War Nickel
39 other pre-1960 Jefferson (1938, 1939, 1940(2), 1941, 1941-S Small S, 1946(2), 1946-D, 1946-S, 1948-S, 1949, 1952, 1952-S, 1953, 1953-D, 1953-S, 1954-D(4), 1955-D(2), 1956, 1957, 1957-D(2), 1958-D(6), 1959(2), 1959-D(4)))

1 Foreign (Italy, 100 Lire(1993))

and a couple of recent Canadian nickels which I passed along as I get enough of those at home I didn't want to lug them home.

*** Monday ****
$1600 in half dollars
1 - 1942 Walking Liberty
1 - 1962-D Franklin
1 - 1964 Kennedy
1 - 1966
2 - 1967
1 - 1969-D
1 - 1973-S

$200 in quarters
Skunked

$70 in nickels
1 - 1942-S War Nickel
17 other pre-1960 Jefferson (1939, 1940-S, 1942-D, 1948(3), 1951, 1952-D, 1953, 1956-D, 1957-D(3), 1958-D(4))

*** Tuesday ****
Met with Immy for a few hours and also searched a little
$800 in half dollars
1 - 1964-D
2 - 1968-D
1 - 1969-D
1 - 2003-D
1 - 2005-P
3 - 2005-D

$60 in nickels
1 - 1943-S War Nickel
15 other pre-1960 Jefferson (1939, 1940, 1940-D, 1940-S, 1946, 1949-D, 1952-S, 1954, 1954-D(2), 1958-D, 1959, 1959-D(3))

*** Wednesday ****
$200 in half dollars
1 - 1967
2 - 2005-P

$131 in nickels
29 pre-1960 Jefferson (1940, 1941(2), 1941-D, 1941-S Small S, 1942-D, 1947, 1947-S, 1948-S, 1953, 1953-S, 1954-D(4), 1956-D, 1957-D(4), 1958-D(5), 1959-D(4))

**** Thursday ****
Did not search as although my wife was supposed to work Thursday she got done early, and so I didn't leave the strip.

**** Friday ****
$300 in half dollars
2 - 1969-D

$20 in nickels
4 pre-1960 Jefferson (1940, 1941-S Small S, 1942, 1958-D)


Overall for the trip

$3700 in half dollars searched
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1 Walker
1 Franklin
2 - 90% Kennedy
12 - 40% Kennedy
7 - Post-2001 Kennedy
1 Proof Kennedy

$1000 in quarters searched
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1 - silver Washington

$441 in nickels searched
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1 Buffalo
4 War Nickels
104 other pre-1960 Jefferson
1 Foreign coin
and a few recent Canadian nickel throwbacks (mid 1980's through 2000)

I had planned on searching a little more, but my wife had to work less than she had planned and a couple of nights I ended up drinking too much to feel safe driving downtown from the strip so I took those nights off. All in all a good trip.

 

[GMan00001]

Oh, and 1 of the 1942-D nickels is easily EF and possibly even AU. Probably the nicest one of that date I have found yet and it comes out of a slot machine in Vegas, go figure...

 

[soldierman]

Oh, and 1 of the 1942-D nickels is easily EF and possibly even AU. Probably the nicest one of that date I have found yet and it comes out of a slot machine in Vegas, go figure...

Strange EH.

 

[Silver Stripe]

I had my aunts BF scope out the casino situation near me (1 hour away) on one of their bi-weekly trips (small mining town legalize gambling to stay on the map here). He came back with they have half dollar machines and you buy them by the roll. One of these days I will make it up there, but I am leary of strange surroundings. 'Sides it would be on the weekend when I could go and that is when all the suckers go- been there to sight see and you can't hardly drive through town, looks like a harvest festival every weekend. Still need to test the waters up there sometime when I'm Jonsen like now for halves to search. May be a good thing. HH all, Mark