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Good evening everyone. This is a portion of my search for the last 12 days. I lost some information pertaining to my finds so in a few places the information is incomplete .Thanks for looking.

1/16-Used TD's penny arcade

1/17-Box of nickels(brinks)dateless buffalo,1943-P,1938,1994 Canada

1/18-Made 5 bank stops
#1-box cents(brinks)10 common wheats,13 canadians including a 1947,1950
#2-box cents(garda)23 wheats including a 1925,1936,1939 and 14 canadian including a minor clipped cent(bank had no halves)
#3-penny arcade-found a 1964 dime
#4-10 rolls dimes,10 rolls nickels(skunk)(garda)bank had no halves
#5-20 rolls dimes(mix customer and garda)(skunk)bank had no halves

1/19-Box of halves(garda)1-40%

1/20- Took a vacation day and went on a road trip, made 36 bank stops
#1-bank had no halves
#2-$20.00 in machine rolled halves(1-40%)
#3-bank had no halves
#4-bank had no halves,$100 in dimes yielded a 1963 rosie and a foreign coin
#5-$100 in machine rolled halves(skunk)
#6-$5.00 in halves(skunk),$40 in nickels, most machine rolled(1928 buffalo)
#7-bank had no halves, bought 2 Ikes
#8-Returned a bag of halves and withdrew some cash
#9-bank had no halves
#10-$10 in cents(garda)cent totals listed below. Bought 1 customer halve roll(9-40%ers, and 2-64s)This was in an older roll.This was the highpoint of the trip.
#11,#12,#13,#14 all had no halves
#15-No halves,$100 in dimes(1 modern canadian)
#16-No halves
#17-$4 in halves(skunk),$5 in cents(totals below)
#18-No halves,$50 in dimes(garda)(skunk)
#19-$8.50 in halves(skunk)
#20,#21,#22 had no halves
#23-1 clad half($40 in nickels gave up 1 dateless buffalo)
#24-1 clad half
#25-$3.50 in halves(skunk)
#26-No halves(someone came in the previous morning)
#27-No halves,$100 in dimes(garda)1963 dime
#28-No halves
#29-2 halves(skunk)
#30,#31-no halves
#32-Returned some coin
#33-Box of cents(brinks)Total wheat count for the day(20 including 1915-D,1920-D and 10 Canadian including a 1943 and 1962
#34-Box of nickels(brinks)(1937 buffalo, 1943-P,1944-P,1945-D)
#35-Box of halves(garda)skunk
#36-Returned 1 bag of halves

1/21- $30 in cents from 3 different banks and $10 in nickels from another(forgot what was found)
4 boxes of halves(garda)
#1-1-64,1-40%
#2-1951+1952 bens,3-40%
#3-1-40%,1-1987
#4-skunk

1/22-No searching

1/23,1/24-7 bank stops(This part is where my notes are messed up, i found this and more)
#1-Used penny arcade
#2-Returned 4 bags of halves and bought a box of cents and nickels(brinks). The cent box had 13 wheats(oldest 1927),11 canadian, 1 barbados coin. The nickel box had a 1937 buffalo(looks dug),1942-S,(2)1986 canadian nickels and a dime stuck to a nickle
#3-box of nickels-1945-P,1987 canadian
#4-box of nickels-2000 bermuda 5 cents and a bent dime
#5-box each of cents, nickels, dimes, and quarters.
Cent box produced a 1895 Indian,13 wheats(oldest 1935), and 5 Canadian(oldest 1945)
Nickel box produced 2 war nickels, a nice 1955 proof, 1920 buffalo, and 2 canadian
Dime box produced 1946 and 1962-D dimes
Quarter box produced a 1964.
#6-Penny arcade(found another 64 quarter in return and bought 2 more(61+63-D)from teller's tray
#7-box of nickels and cents(forgot results)

1/25-Another day off and another road trip. I lost track of how many banks i stopped at. Toward the end of the day, at my 3rd to last bank of the day, was when i hit the 6 solid rolls of silver!! That more then made up for all the previous skunks of this road trip and the ones before. 1 silver dime was found in a roll as well.
1/26(box of halves-garda)1-40%

1/27(box of halves-garda)1-40%,1-64

Keep up the search, your dream box,bag or roll could be at the very next bank. MM2
 

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wow!!! simply AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! also, do you have a pic of the nickel/dime combination? id really love to see that! thatnks...keep it up and hh!
 
I always enjoy your trips and highlights. Great score on the Walkers :hello2:

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The photos of your excellent finds are the best I've seen in a while. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
HH
Rich
 
I would have fainted if I had found those solid silver rolls! Congrats on that super haul.

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WOW, congrats on those solid silver rolls.
Great stats and pics! :thumbsup: You had another nice CWR roll with the 11 silvers. Seem to get a nice avg for war nics and wheaties, also. Nice score on the IH.

HH,
Legend
 
Simply amazing!!!!!!!! WTG!!!!
 
Some good hunting! Awesome variety and plenty of silver! :occasion14:
 
Mountainman..."Jerseyboy"....You hit the Jackpot this week and thanks for some great photos.
All the best to you and I hope you hit it again next week. It's out there for the finding.
Congratulations on some excellent finds,
rileyboy
 

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