So a year or so ago my mother gave me the family hoard.. My gramps them father had wanted it to go to me.. I took all of the
US coins she brought out, but left the box of world coins... So the other day I go there for dinner and ask her to grab those and she comes out with that box, a few other smaller boxes and 5 old blue Whitman folders.. I'm like... "Um... What are those?"
And she's like "the stuff you didn't want last year"
...ummmm.... No... I'd never seen any of that except the bigger box. She had given me tons last year including the same whitman folders of most series of
US coins...
Well my mom, god bless her, has a horrible memory.. And had "forgot" to bring these out last year.. (Although she still swears I saw them.. If I had they would have been home with me a year ago...)
So it was 3 pre 65 (and just after)
Washington quarters whitmans, 5-6 per page of 3 folders, I think there's 35 total.. most rough but rainbow (the last page of silvers is nice condition, the rest not as many.. But most all rainbow) plus 4 more pre 64 doubles in the last page of the clad part of the last folder. So 39 silver quarters..
A pre 65
Roosevelt dimes, only 12 dimes but most nice rainbow.
And a blank half dollar Whitman.. With a barber, 4 walkers, 3 franklin's, 2 64 Kennedy's (one was nicer than the MS-64 in my Dansco and crazy crescent rainbowed so it's not in the photo, it's in my album, the one in the photo also has a crescent but nowhere like the other) and 4 40%s pretty toned..
Unreal!! I was SOOO happy.. Those have probably been in those folders for over 25-30 years.. Maybe opened twice... If that!!
(Then there were about 15 rolls of sacagawea, pres,
SBA dollars, tons of non silver Kennedy's and Ike's.. And a tub of over 800 wheats.. Some really nice (later years obviously.. I didn't go through them yet but right on top was a 1909... I grabbed it REAL QUICK.. But just a regular 1909, lots of teens on top too though.. And nice grade full luster 40's-50's that I can see, so I'll post if there's anything spectacular)
I grabbed the box of world coins too... But it looks like its gonna be a while still before I get to them...
I can't get good photos of the rainbow... Soooo hard to do.. You just have to imaging the few exampes I put up look better in hand.. And I'm only going to put pics of some.. It would be too many... Ok... There's never too many... But it would take too long.. Lol.



This page looked the best and best condition:


Reverse of the 1964 when taken out of the folder:

What most of the Washington's looked like.. Minus the last page.

The dimes... Too bad you can't make out the toning, the 1946s is amazing!
