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Yesterday I acquired three boxes of half dollars from my "go-to" bank. Initially I didn't think I would find much of interest because I found only one good "ender" (a proof coin). However, I found five more proof coins in that box plus three half dollars that contain 40% silver (including the fifth silver Bicentennial half dollar that I've found since I started CRH almost three years ago). The second box was a doozy. It contained 19 proof half dollars, two coins that contain 40% silver, and a nice Walking Liberty half dollar. The third box also was very good -- it contained seven more proof coins, another Walker, a Franklin half dollar, and two more 40% silver Kennedy half dollars. An unusual thing is that 90% of these near-pristine 32 proof coins were minted between 1983 and 1988 (including five NIFC 1987-S half dollars). It's odd that someone would have had so many duplicate proof coins in their collection. Perhaps Grandpa ordered several proof sets from the US Mint every year. Then one of his heirs disassembled the sets and cashed them -- plus his silver coin collection -- at their bank. In that case, many proof quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies from the collection also are circulating. Because I found proof and silver half dollars in all three boxes, I'm looking forward to buying three more boxes next week.    |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Wow - very nice finds!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Maybe someone is now missing there collection , too late now, congrats.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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 United States
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did somebody just wrap up and dump their collection?
excellent finds!
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New Member
United States
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Sometimes the proof is in the pudding, sometimes they're in the rolls. Nice finds lol
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
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Excellent find, congrats!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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WOW! Excellent Finds. That's why I've started to try and buy everything my local branch has (and then dump everything on the main branch  ). |
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United States
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I can understand wrapping up impaired proofs because they really are just worth face but I never understood wrapping silver to cash in for face.
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I never understood wrapping silver to cash in for face. Most of the silver coins that I've found were in bank-wrapped rolls: i.e., someone cashed them at a bank -- which subsequently transferred them to Loomis or Brinks. Those silver coins were mixed with a much larger amount of common cupro-nickel coins at their facility and rolled there. This explains why a box of bank-rolled half dollars rarely contains more than 20 silver coins (i.e., 2% of the total amount). Once in a while I will find a CWR that contains only silver coins. They commonly are in old-fashioned wrappers -- indicating they were set aside many years ago by a coin collector. Much later someone who didn't realize their value took the rolls to a bank and cashed them for face value. |
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