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Pillar Of The Community
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What kind of rolls were these? Paper wrapped or clear shrink wrap. I know it doesn't matter but I'm curious. I'm amazed that it was a box and not CWR.
43/76 holes filled in my Dansco 7070 (Not Including Gold Page)
Oldest Coins Found in Circulation:
Cent: 1907 Indian (roll)
Nickel: 1916 Buffalo (roll)
Dime: 1926 Mercury (roll)
Quarter: 1964 d Washington (cash register)
Half: 1946 Walking Liberty (bank tray)
Dollar: 1971 Ike (bank tray)
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Valued Member
United States
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that's awesome,...major congrats on the tribe
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Pillar Of The Community
United States
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Thank you very much for that picture, Captain. You may have just saved more than one key date from the acid!  And Murry, I mentioned in a previous post that these were indeed CWR. At this particular bank, customers deposit their coins in bags, and the tellers put the coins through their coin wrapping machine in the back. They have their own paper and boxes. (I can post pictures of these if you want) I've also counted up the numbers of the different categories of buffalos I got. Here's what I have: Dateless (no MM): 282 Dateless (D Mintmark): 35 Dateless (S Mintmark): 12 Readable date: 236 (detailed list of dates posted earlier in the topic) |
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Pillar Of The Community
United States
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Sorry, must have missed the post of the CRW. But again, wow. That must have been so fun!
43/76 holes filled in my Dansco 7070 (Not Including Gold Page)
Oldest Coins Found in Circulation:
Cent: 1907 Indian (roll)
Nickel: 1916 Buffalo (roll)
Dime: 1926 Mercury (roll)
Quarter: 1964 d Washington (cash register)
Half: 1946 Walking Liberty (bank tray)
Dollar: 1971 Ike (bank tray)
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Valued Member
United States
147 Posts |
aw dude and I was excited about my '42 S war nickel... I'm going to have to go ahead and agree.. buy some other boxes of cents, nickels dimes etc... maybe even explain to the teller what you're looking for. I know mine is always curious about my finds but doesn't care enough to look for herself! Congrats buddy. I'm envious!
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Pillar Of The Community
United States
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Thanks! and yes, I'm definitely going back first thing on Monday to take some samplings of the other denominations. It would definitely be worth the trip, given the potential payout.
Edited by Kefiroth
03/18/2012 12:32 am
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Pillar Of The Community
United States
1847 Posts |
That is by far the most exciting nickel box I've ever seen! I too used to search nickels regularly, and you've inspired me to get back in the game this week!
Oldest Found-------
Cent: 1842 (from machine)
Three Cent: 1866 [Nickel] (from machine)
Nickel: 1883 (from roll)
Dime: 1911 (from roll)
Quarter: 1932 (from machine)
Half: 1917 (from roll)
Dollar: 1880 (from machine)
Foriegn: 1863 (from machine)
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Pillar Of The Community
United States
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Wow...that's an awesome score! Sounded like an eBay auction "buffalos on the ends". LOLOL
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Pillar Of The Community
United States
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Based on the picture Captain posted, I figured out that the Dateless S-mint with two feathers is a 1920!
Probably not worth much in the condition it's in. The date area looks darkened like it was Nic-a-Dated in the past.
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Pillar Of The Community
United States
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Wow! Thats a nice herd of buffalos you got there!  |
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Pillar Of The Community
United States
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WOW, 1921S found! I think.
Based on the hair detail, it's definitely a 1921, but it's so worn (probably grades FR-2) that only the top third of the S is visible.
I can try to take a picture, but I may not be able to pick up the key details.
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03/18/2012 9:24 pm
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United States
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Incredible box! The picture alone was worth the wait.  Jbuck! ... Coin Collector since 1978 ... Learn about my Avatar here!
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Pillar Of The Community
United States
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well it is Monday now, did you go back yet. I want to see what else you found.
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Pillar Of The Community
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I did go back. I picked up a box of pennies, nickels, and dimes.
Unfortunately, neither the pennies nor dimes had anything good in them. And I did not find any more buffalos in the nickel box.
I did however find one of my two remaining missing Jefferson nickels! A 1938D, in really nice condition too. Like most everyone else, I now only have the 1950D left for my Jefferson collection.
So I assume that I either got all the buffalos they had, or that they had already distributed a portion of the good rolls and I picked up the last of them. In any case, I can't help but be satisfied with what I ended up with.
Now I'm really torn with what to do about all the mintmarked dateless I have. I really HATE using acid, but there may be no other way. On one of the D-mint dateless, I can see the top of the last digit is flat, which means 1913, 1915, or 1917. I REALLY don't want to use acid unless I absolutely have to.
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Pillar Of The Community
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You can do comparisons based on the position of the "F" initial below the date, as well as other minor design changes that happened throughout the series (the strength and position of LIBERTY and the nose are a couple things to look at, for instance.) See if you can find, e.g. a really heavily worn 1917-P that has a just barely readable date and compare these features.
With patience you may at least be able to narrow some of them down.
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