Interesting Hunt With My Uncle On Easter

On Easter, I ate dinner at one of my uncle's house. He told me months ago that he used to run a liquor store and he'd keep any old coins or bills that came his way. After the meal was over, I asked if he could show me what he had and allowed me to help him organize what he had. His wife also had her own coin stash in a large plastic beer bottle.

After sorting out some foreign coins, this is what we found:

*A 1906 Indian Head cent (with full "Liberty" in the headdress)
*Six dateless Buffalo nickels, along with a 1916-S and two 1937's.
*A 1941 Merc and 14 silver Roosevelts, ranging in date from 1946 to 1964.
*Two dateless Standing Liberty quarters and five silver Washingtons, ranging in date from 1935 to 1944.
*Seven Franklins, dated from '48 to '61, and 11 40% Kennedy halves.
*A '21 Morgan along with about 17 Ike's and two or three Anthony dollars.

I told him to hold onto all the silver, but I asked if I could have the '16-S and the dateless Buffalo nickels, and he let me have them. The '16-S fills a hole in my folder and I had some Nic-a-Date to see what dates the coins were. They turned out to be '16, 2x '17, '17-D, '19, and '23. It's a shame that the '16 and '17-D were dateless, because I could have filled two more holes in my folder that way.

Most of the bills were pretty common, and not worth any premium, including worn '63 $5 United States Notes and a '34A $10 Federal Reserve note. Surprisingly, a counterfeit Series 1995 $10 bill was in the bunch; the paper looked like office white paper and it lacked security features. I wonder how that came my aunt's way.

The most interesting bills were Series 1935A and 1935B $1 Silver Certificates, a crisp star Silver Certificate from series '57 and '34A $5 and $10 Silvers. There were also crisp, stainless '53 $2 United States Notes.

All and all, it was a fun hunt and my uncle and aunt were pleased to see that they had some valuable coins in their possession.