First Try

Well they were all common dates and I got .03 for them. Plus I was buying silver coins that day and he threw in two extra silver dimes.

Ouch, yes, it appears you got someone's dump. No problem. Dust off and try again.

But?

Usually a "but" follows a sentence like that.

As in, "Nothing along the lines of silver... but I found several proofs!"

No but's sorry...
I dumped all he dimes on this side of town and picked up on the other side. But what I have mostly been doing is dumping in the coinstar for gift certificates where I shop at. Or... I will take a few rolls every other day into the bank inside the store. Just wish they would give out gift certificates to my grocery store! Then I would be set :-)

A friend special orders books for customers who don't want/can't use the Interwebs. She gets full-value cards for Amazon.

I know what it is to be broke, so that is why I buy the pennies, but really, they are a lot of fun to search. Every now and then when I can, I buy as many half dollars as I can. I will drain my bank account to buy a box if my husband has just gotten paid. I figure out of $500, at least $480 or more will go back, and if I got more than $20 in clads, I will put them aside so we can go turn them in. Sometimes it comes in handy. A year or so ago, I was able to turn in my silver and make my van payment! That was extremely lucky, and I have not been that lucky since, but I have been saving my clads since that time, and before the end of the summer, if need be (which is almost a certainty) I will turn them in again.

So, AWESOME first score! I have been doing this for a while, it is addicting, fun, educational, and I just like it.