My father-in-law passed back in February, leaving a coin collection, or more accurately a coin accumulation. It was kind of just thrown together in flips, 2x2s, trays, some CP holders, just about anything except an actual album. The exception was a Whitman album of 1946-1964 dimes in a Whitman folder. I didn't know that this lifelong Republican even collected Roosies, which is the only thing I've collected too.
Beyond that, he had bags full of old silver dimes and quarters. After 1964 he simply tossed silver coins into bags whenever he received them in change. Some of them were proofs (LOL!).
I foolishly decided to inventory them by dates rather than just weigh them as junk silver. I didn't bother with mint marks (once I concluded there were no 49-S full torches!), I was just curious how often various dates would show up. There were 981 coins, of which 111 were
Mercury dimes that I set aside. Of the 870 Roosie dimes that were left, here was the date frequency:
1964: 274
1963: 58
1962: 57
1961: 43
1960: 39
1959: 29
1958: 23
1957: 38
1956: 22
1955: 2
1954: 32
1953: 41
1952: 34
1951: 26
1950: 24
1949: 5
1948: 27
1947: 37
1946: 59
Strangely enough, that pattern was basically repeated with his bag of 422 quarters, which was 1 Barber, 15 Standing Liberty and 406 Washingtons. (Digression: If Liberty is really "Standing," she's standing on one leg in a T'ai Chi pose; looks like she's walking to me.)
The Washington census included:
1948: 4
1949: 1
1950: 1
1951: 14
1952: 14
1953: 13
1954: 10
1955: 3
1956: 9
1957: 15
1958: 14
So there you go. Collect those 1949s and 1955s!
Posted 04/14/2018 6:55 pm
to CCF all the same.
