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A little silver in my change.......
William81
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I took my bride out to lunch after church yesterday....we ate at a truck stop just outside Columbia MO as it is near an antique mall we were going to check out that afternoon. Paid the bill with cash and received my change and headed out....
When I got home and dumped my change into the coffee can I throw all my change into at the end of the day..I heard that sound....and sure enough, a 1946 dime...a.ways fun to get some "free" silver....
When I got home and dumped my change into the coffee can I throw all my change into at the end of the day..I heard that sound....and sure enough, a 1946 dime...a.ways fun to get some "free" silver....
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Unless it is a double die !!!!!!
It used to happen to me at least a couple times a year....this was the first one in about 3 years....no worries on Lottery Ticket....Never bought one in my life..
The girl at my bank saved a Mercury Dime for me a few weeks ago!
^6-8 years ago, a young girl used to save all kinds of silver for me. Maybe 4-6 different random pre '65 items a week! It went on about a year.
She told me, she didn't have enough room in her dresser drawer and it was too heavy for any more and knew I appreciated it!!
Damn,
I miss her!
When I was a lot younger it was common to get V nickels, Morgan coins & even the occasional Indian cent. I filled up the Lincoln cent book from circulation & trading duplicates for ones I needed. The only two I finally had to buy were the 1909 SVBD & 1932?s (Not sure that was the rare one)
They both cost me $10 each which was nearly three weeks of delivering newspapers. Collecting for the papers each week meant a lot of coins went through my hands.
Wow! Considering the 1909S-VDB in average shape is worth about a $1000 today you did really well. I sold a lot of silver back when The Hunt brothers tried to corner the silver market. They got the value up to almost $50 an ounce and then the price crashed and they lost billions 1n 1980 money. If it ever gets back up to almost $50 an ounce I might sell what little I have now. Fingers crossed that some rich fool tries to do what they did. Bob
I found a small plastic bag with three dimes in in one was a 1908 not in th every good shape but was a fun find
People today can't imagine that the half dollar was a very common circulating coin. The Kennedy Half ended that. The older halves disappeared because they were silver & the Kennedy halves were hoarded for sentimental reasons.
Went in the bank today to deposit a check and the 2 girls working the counter were stacking /sorting coins by hand. Asked if they ever found any silver coins? They said no.
Since I was very familiar with the precious metals I worked that aspect for him while there. Relating to finding coins in ones change I had a lady looking into the counter at coins one day.
She said she had just got a coin in a roll of nickels that looked like one of the coins in the counter. I asked her if she still had the coin. She answered that she had given it to her son so he could try to find out if it had any value. I said you should get it back from him and bring it in. A couple days later she came back with the coin which was a $5 gold piece. Came out of a roll of nickels from the bank she said. At the time I gave her $200 for it. She was very happy.
Best find I ever heard of being found in change.