Wow! TONS of proofs, plus lots of silver!!

Coinkid · Apr 17, 2008

I picked up two $1000 bags of halves from my local Bank of America today. To start off the day right, I noticed some halves in the teller's tray. 14 halves, 13 40%'ers. Not a bad start

I lugged the bags to my car, and right away I noticed that one of them, a canvas bag, was from a person that must dump in my area. Oh well. But as I put the other bag in the car, which was of the clear plastice variety, I see about 3 silver, one of which was a '64. Not bad!

I couldn't wait to get home, and when everything was tallied up, this came out to be one of my best bags ever!

Here are the numbers:

1- 1935P WL Half
2- 1952 Franklins, one P, one D
1- 1957 Franklin Half Proof (Nice!!)
13- 1964's
2- 1965's
10- 1966's
9- 1967's
21- 1968D's
7- 1969D's

Now, all the would have made me VERY happy, but there were also a whopping 42 proofs (excluding the Franklin!) in the bag, including 2 complete 1994-2002 runs!! Here's the break down...

4-1994 Silver (The picture only shows 3 because I accidentally put a silver one with the clads.)
1-2001 Silver

4-1988's
5-1994's
2-1995's
4-1996's
2-1997's
6-1998's
3-1999's
5-2000's
2-2001's
3-2002's

Oh yeah, and a clad 1986 Statue of Liberty Commem!

Here's some pictures!!

Not bad, huh?

-Paul

Cat J · Apr 17, 2008

Nice score

Congrats
Cat

AFModell · Apr 17, 2008

Sounds like an excellent day. Congrats on the fertile hunting ground!

jim4silver · Apr 17, 2008

Way to go!! That was obviously a collection that was released into the wild. I can't imagine a collector who goes to all that trouble to build it and save it over the years would just take it into the bank to dump. Probably a family member who needed the cash and knew nothing about coins.

I found a box like that when I first started out (not near the number of proofs, but it had 12 or so of different years plus some good silver coins). It spoils you to get a find like that. Makes the average non-skunk boxes seem less good.

Jim