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Valued Member
 United States
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Partial bag of dimes - $432. Results: One 1964 dime. Better than being skunked.
I've done more than a dozen bags of dimes (at face $500 per bag.) and averaged about 2.2 silver dimes per bag. Assume that that's a representative sample (although I know that it is not.) Just for fun, I estimated how much silver is in circulation, in dimes. Drum roll: Around 1.6 million ounces of silver.
Somebody else take a run at this math. Make some assumptions about clad dimes lost from circulation either because dimes are lost, or because they have been melted as mutilated. See what you come up with.
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Valued Member
United States
137 Posts |
Local bank will no longer sell me partial bags off the machine. I have to wait until the bag is full. Finding less and less silver in circulation, or in bags, but still looking, still enjoying the chase. Recently picked up four proof coins in circulation, including one nice frosted Kennedy half. But of course, meaningless at this point. Still, I toss them in a drawer... keep them. On another thread I mentioned that I didn't know what to do with eight or ten rolls of steel cents that a cousin dug up. Each roll is rusted into one solid mass. I think I will gently pry apart, and spend. But would be an interesting display at a coin show. "Why not to bury your treasure." 100% of local bank staff at my Wells Fargo branch have changed in the past 90 days... so I need to start building new relationships. Darn. |
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United States
137 Posts |
One bank has agreed to save their "bypass" or junk that doesn't go down into the bags on their machine. Here's what I got today:
Mexico 36 ps current issue
Old Italy 500 Lira 1995
two USA nickels, both slightly mangled
one washer
one car wash vacuum token
one small key
Canada $2.16 in seventeen coins
one small Thailand coin, probably a "penny"
Anyway, not bad for nothing.
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Valued Member
United States
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Latest batch from the "reject tray" on my bank's machine o five 1 peso Mexico current vintage o three 2 peso Mexico o one 10 peso Mexico o three Canadian dimes, no silver o one Euro 2 cent piece o one token good for a free latte' - don't recognize the name o one Czech Republic 1 cent coin o three mangled dimes o one mangled nickel (tap it to make a ring) o one mangled quarter (tap it to make a ring) All for free. As always, anything Mexico goes to an orphanage that we like. Not long ago I bagged up all of the "odds and ends, non coin stuff" and sold it on ebay, 25 coins to a bag. Car wash, angel tokens, AA pocket pieces, flattened pennies, old store tokens, golf ball markers, commemorative medallions, dog licenses, etc. |
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United States
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@Bilboleslie:  of the silver Ike! |
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United States
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Will get the photos of the silver ike posted. For now, bank coin machine debris given to me yesterday, for free: o two watch batteries o One 2 cent UK 1999 o One toy Lincoln Cento Mexico: 3.5 pesos in four coins, all modern o Euro: five coins (1xEuro, 2x50p, 2x10p) totaling 2.2 Euros o Egypt: 3 coins totaling .70 Piastres (I think) all modern. o Canada: Dime, three pennies, all modern o US: .98 in fourteen coins, mix of mangled and glue stuck to them o And best: A slightly tired 1901 Indian Head cent |
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United States
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Bilboleslie, I imagine you have a very clean car!!   |
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United States
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Nope. It's a mess. All three of them. The only one that is half way clean is my 70 Mustang Fastback. My
daily driver, an 06 Scion Xb, is a mess.
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Valued Member
United States
137 Posts |
Another package that I forgot to record:
o 1.41 Canadian in six coins
o Mexico Ps 5.10 in two coins
o One Chuck E. Cheese game token
o Italy Lira .50 1968
o UK .01 2001
o Euro 5 cents 2013
o Rumania 1000 Lei 2001
o USA .12 in seven coins, all mangled.
o Range Land token good for a bucket of balls I suppose.
o One tired steel cent.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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What do you do with all the car wash tokens you collect?
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Valued Member
United States
137 Posts |
Throw them in a cup. I must have fifty or sixty or seventy of them. I tried to sell them back,
to the car wash, but they refused. I think they are all for using the vacuum, not for a car wash.
Open to ideas.
Also open to ideas for the 300 or 350 steel cents that were buried in an army ammo box that my cousin dug up...
Unfortunately, the can leaked, and they are all rusted to pieces. Too cool to throw away,
but not very collectible. Some were rusted together into columns of pennies, but they may have fallen apart.
I had a buyer in the UK, but the postage was prohibitive. I am thinking about seeding a local
beach with steel cents to give metal detectors a quick thrill.
I also have about 400 Hong Kong 5 and 10 cent coins from the late 1930's, some in ok shape, some
in rough shape. I may seed the same beach with those.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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nice indian head score. 1901 indian head is the oldest I have hunted down for a coin. from a bank box.
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Valued Member
United States
137 Posts |
Any idea on what to do with the steelies, or the HK? I think the HK stuff was buried and dug up, too. Not all corroded, but mostly.
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Valued Member
United States
137 Posts |
Next purge by bank of rejects from the coin machine.
o one plastic penny
o two watch batteries
o 4 car wash tokens
o 1 Chuck E Cheese token
o $6.53 Canadian in 40 coins
o .07 Great Britain in 3 coins
o Mexico $10 ps modern
o 25 centavos Venezuela 1970's
o 20 Bani Romania 2008
o .86 US mangled modern coins (about 20)
Only one collectible: Great Britain 1918 large cent, probably Fine.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Why would anyone buried those HK 5 & 10 cents? Saving for the depression? WWII? Pictures?
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