JFK Half Dollar Roll Hunters: Silver, Proofs And Other Finds

Arby96
Very nice find on the 90% congrats.

4 more boxes for me found
3,40% no more boxes until next week

I'm going to cut back to 4 boxes a week for a while.
I'm fix-in to have neck surgery so I have to take it easy
for a while.
Good luck to all.

6 boxes.

A few NIFC, a Magicians coin, a 1982 no FG polished off seriff, a glitter reject, and this bicentennial.

Hopefully skunk season isn't here.

Anyone remember when I said I hate enders? This one wasn't an ended but the roller got it sometime in the past.

I did win $25 on a scratch off afterwards though. That has to be as good as a few 40%ers and a 90%.

Thanks DCM for point out my mistake. I love when people do that it makes me feel better about myself. That is the whole goal of doing that correct! I know lighten up.

Arby....no criticism was intended, and my apologies if it was taken that way. I simply wanted to know if it was one of mine that you got.....that's all. Peace.

DCM that is why I used the faces, the quote " I know lighten up" was me saying that about myself, I was messing around and of course very difficult to do in a written message. What marks do you make, I have gotten several and would like to know? Thanks David.

Arby, when time permits I stamp common circulating coins with my initials, "DCM". I serialize the cents, front-facing nickels, quarters, halves, and dollars with serial numbers, since there's room on the obverse for them. It's something I've done off and on for ten years, and as of late I've been stamping a lot of halves.

Almost all counterstamps are spent where I live, Tucson AZ. Once in a while I'll slip in a few into rolls that I'm dumping at banks, but my preference is to spend these in day to day transactions.

It is tempting to dump $20 worth of JFKs into a Coinstar machine, as that I buy on Amazon from time to time, but that hasn't happened.....yet.

I guess some folks wonder why I do this.....several reasons.

1. I can't help but wonder if I'll get these back in change. I got one of my own nickels back, and I've seen three of my JFKs in a CWR roll.

2. By keeping a spreadsheet of dates/mintmarks, this tells me how many of a certain date/mint that I've seen. For example, I frequently see 1965 quarters, but not that many 1968 or '69 quarters.

3. If someone notices my marks on a coin, they might come to this forum to ask about it (it's already happened twice), and my thinking is that this might promote coin collecting as a hobby.

4. I find it fun, although I have other diversions which compete with counterstamping. I've been doing a lot more reading lately and not as much stamping. I'm thinking I might also resume some songwriting projects.

Again, I counterstamp common circulating coins. I'm not going to stamp states/ATB quarters, NIFC halves or dollars, bicentennials, Lewis & Clark nickels, or 2009 cents/nickels/dimes/quarters/halves.

I am aware that there are a lot of counterstamped JFKs with 1960 & 1985 on them......and counterstamped cents with states shapes, Freemasonry emblems, and Lincoln smoking a pipe. Not to mention that we've got an Ike counterstamper (or at least we had one once) who provided one of the mods here with a neat avatar!

Nice finds Jack, yea I got lucky and have found one this year too. Now I need to pull a barber, commemorative, and an 82 no FG. Should get another 8 boxes this week. As much as it sucks to get skunked its twice exciting to see that white rim in a roll, never gets old. LOVE THE HUNT!

Been bleak that last few weeks. 15k and only one 40%er to show for it. I got 5K coming this week. If not better results then ill move to something else for awhile.