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Another box with silver Enders. 2 40% Enders and 3 40% in the box total. I would've thought more but certainly not complaining My experience is that I generally find fewer silver coins in a box of bank-rolled half dollars with silver "enders" than I expect to find. The rolls in one box display 100 ends: i.e., 10% of the total number of half dollars in that box. Therefore, if a box contains three silver enders, I would expect to find 30 or so silver coins in it. But I typically find only half that number of silver coins -- or even a smaller amount -- in a box with three enders. Once I found a box with two Benjamin Franklin enders -- but they were the only silver coins in that box! I think the explanation is that because silver coins are slightly heavier than cupro-nickel coins, they preferentially wind up at the end of a roll. But I can't prove this. I also find more obverse silver enders than reverse silver enders. I don't know the reason for this outcome. |
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Another box with silver Enders. 2 40% Enders and 3 40% in the box total. I would've thought more but certainly not complaining Fantastic!  |
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Quote:...Lightening struck twice. Two boxes each contained one silver ender, and I found 40% silver Kennedy half dollars in all three boxes. The boxes with enders contained 18 silver coins. I found three more silver half dollars in the third box. To top it off, the reject tray of the coin-counting machine contained a silver Washington quarter and a silver Roosevelt dime... Outstanding! They certainly earned their pizza.  |
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Congrats to all on some nice finds. I picked 2 boxes this week first was a skunk second had these.  |
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Great finds, cabowabo!
Errers and Varietys.
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I picked 2 boxes this week first was a skunk second had these. Fantastic! |
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Excellent results! |
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Bounced around a bit yesterday picked up a few.  |
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Got a few more today.  |
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Bounced around a bit yesterday picked up a few... Got a few more today... Outstanding! |
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Two of the three boxes of bank-rolled half dollars that I acquired two days ago contained silver coins. They may be from the same collection dump that I've been lucky enough to sample the three previous weeks. I found a 1964 Kennedy half dollar and five coins that contain 40% silver in the box with a silver "ender". The other good box had another 1964 half dollar and two more 40% silver coins. These two boxes also contained about 40 NIFC half dollars. I purchased the seven silver dimes at face value at a BoA branch I visited on my way to the other bank. The teller told me a customer recently cashed them. She kindly held them for me.  |
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Errers and Varietys.
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