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Posted 08/14/2023 8:46 pm
I bought $345 in CWR from a local branch on Friday. When the teller took her tray of rolls out, the two marked "silver" were on top. She said an elderly customer brought them in, and they belonged to her late husband.
The first roll was indeed all silver, 1959-1964 to be precise. Most were AU-MS. The second roll was 11 Mercuries, including a 1928-D, and 39 almost uncirculated Roosevelts, mostly late 50s.
Wow! What a score. I returned and asked if the customer had brought anything else in, but the teller said no, just these rolls. The teller offered to leave my information with the depositor should she return, but I told the teller instead to firmly recommend that the customer should bring any other coin from her husbands collection to a trustworthy LCS less than five minutes from the branch.
That night, I went through some other rolls from that batch, but found nothing else. I figured the excitement was over. But the next day I searched a few more, from the same branch but a different teller. I weighed a short roll and found it to be very overweight, and sure enough, 47 silver coins were inside. Then I found a second short roll, which had 49 silver coins.
The contents were incredible: 70 Mercuries and 126 Roosevelts, including many early dates and branch mints. After examining them, I suspect this was a Whitman folder for Roosevelts and Mercuries that was emptied, as each date and mint had only one coin. Most early dates are AG-VG, later ones are F to VF. The 1916-P is about EF-45, and the 1945-P is probably MS-63 (with typical weak bands).
All dates and mints were represented except 1916-D, 1917-P, 1918-P, 1919 D and S, all 1921s, 1923-D, 1926 D and S, 1927 D and S, and 1931 P and S. 1938 was missing, and 1938-D showed up twice. The only Roosevelts missing were 1955-D and S and 1950-S. A 1955-P and 1954-S filled a hole for me.
I can't say whether the first two and last two silver rolls were related. The wrappers were different, and they were from different tellers. Could it be that I blundered into two separate collection dumps at the same branch? It's possible, and it makes me wonder if there might be a rolled up Whitman Buffalo nickel or Wheat cent folder buried in a tray in that branch somewhere.
The first roll was indeed all silver, 1959-1964 to be precise. Most were AU-MS. The second roll was 11 Mercuries, including a 1928-D, and 39 almost uncirculated Roosevelts, mostly late 50s.
Wow! What a score. I returned and asked if the customer had brought anything else in, but the teller said no, just these rolls. The teller offered to leave my information with the depositor should she return, but I told the teller instead to firmly recommend that the customer should bring any other coin from her husbands collection to a trustworthy LCS less than five minutes from the branch.
That night, I went through some other rolls from that batch, but found nothing else. I figured the excitement was over. But the next day I searched a few more, from the same branch but a different teller. I weighed a short roll and found it to be very overweight, and sure enough, 47 silver coins were inside. Then I found a second short roll, which had 49 silver coins.
The contents were incredible: 70 Mercuries and 126 Roosevelts, including many early dates and branch mints. After examining them, I suspect this was a Whitman folder for Roosevelts and Mercuries that was emptied, as each date and mint had only one coin. Most early dates are AG-VG, later ones are F to VF. The 1916-P is about EF-45, and the 1945-P is probably MS-63 (with typical weak bands).
All dates and mints were represented except 1916-D, 1917-P, 1918-P, 1919 D and S, all 1921s, 1923-D, 1926 D and S, 1927 D and S, and 1931 P and S. 1938 was missing, and 1938-D showed up twice. The only Roosevelts missing were 1955-D and S and 1950-S. A 1955-P and 1954-S filled a hole for me.
I can't say whether the first two and last two silver rolls were related. The wrappers were different, and they were from different tellers. Could it be that I blundered into two separate collection dumps at the same branch? It's possible, and it makes me wonder if there might be a rolled up Whitman Buffalo nickel or Wheat cent folder buried in a tray in that branch somewhere.
