Bicentennials

Yea I got ya. When I get a box of halves, I will usually pull 3-4 rolls worth of bicentennials, sometimes more.

2$ return on investment isn't bad! Seeing as they are extremely common.

And here are washingtons.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1976-Washin...em43c3d99367

At one time I had 5+ rolls of circulated Bicentennial quarters that I convinced my mom to save from the pop machine at her store back in the early 2000's.

I saved 2 rolls and the rest went to the bank. Also in that deposit were 3 or 4 rolls of Delaware quarters.

She tends to save the dollar coins, half dollars and $2 bills that come through the register.

-MV

Well that auction is only charging a buck over face and 99% of people call a clad Ike a Silver dollar. My LCS says unless they are proofs they are worth face value, Give it 150-200 years and you might have something worth while.

Cut an Ike into the shape of Elvis, place on ebay, and you'll get bids to the moon!

I save the BU ones, and toss the rest back. The halves and Ikes are no more rare than any other date from the 70s, and the quarters are only rare because of extreme rates of hoarding. I was manning a cash register during the "great change dump" of 2008-2009, and I saw about 4-5 *per day* during the peak months. They aren't rare and will probably never be valuable.

I use bicentennials as a marker for rolls. I have kept every from halves and quarters boxes I have gotten, so in the event I get a box without one, I will assume I already saw that box. so far less than a roll worth per box of quarters and 6~9 rolls of halves per box. it makes me feel less bad when I keep SOMETHING from a box instead of searching a whole box just to have nothing from it. semi-related it is why I was happy to find a 1970-S in a box of dimes, because there was nothing in it at all worth keeping, no Canadians, no 2009's, no silver, just mostly 1980's. So as long as I have the extra to keep them I will so that I always keep something from every box I hunt. Now if I find someone that wants 9 rolls of halves that won't let them back into circulation so I do not see them again in boxes, I will happily part with the 9 rolls of Phillie '76 halves without regrets at face value even.