A Black Friday Indeed!!!!!! 11-28-2008

[GMan00001]

Visiting my parents for the Thanksgiving and since I had Friday off, I took a about a 120 mile (round trip) road trip to a bunch of the small towns near them.

Ended up visiting a total of 24 Banks in my 5 to 6 hour trip.

Bank #1
picked up a $1000 bag of dimes, a $200 bag of nickels, and a $50 bag of pennies. The half dollar bag was empty...shipped out last week.....not a good start as this bank has always been good for a few silver in the bag..

Bank #2
picked up 2 - $50 bags of pennies. Again $0 in halves....bad signs continuing.

Bank #3
$7.50 in loose halves skunked....can't buy the bag as the right person is not in...

Banks #4, #5, and #6
skunked on a total of $1 in half dollars

Bank #7
$55 in the coin machine and the bag fills at $100, but I don't have $45 in halves to fill it yet. Consider stopping back on the way home if its still open. ...somebody recently had picked up all the loose halves they had (other than the coin bag) and they had been sitting awhile...I start thinking...Am I too late? Did someone make this run recently?

Bank #8
Nada

Bank #9
$37 in loose halves in the tellers tray with 6 silver showing.... finally a break through. Also turns out this branch rolls coins for other banks and had like 20 or 30 bags of pennies in the back so I bought 2 more $50 bags of pennies as well. Turns out they were all 40%, but that was fine with me.
6 - 40% Kennedy (1966, 1967(3), 1968-D, 1969-D)

Bank #10
$1 in loose half dollars....skunk...couldn't ask to buy the half dollar bag until monday...too late for me.

Bank #11
2 rolls of 2000-P halves.., but I did spot a 1964-D silver dime in the tellers tray.

Bank #12 + #13
Nada again

Bank #14
$80 in customer or bank rolled halves...got to the car to check them out..pour out the first handful.....and got like 14 silver and 6 clad...2nd roll....repeat...for the 8 rolls ended up with
65 - 40% Kennedy (1965, 1966(2), 1967(32), 1968-D(18), 1969-D(12))
That sure brightened my spirits...

Bank #15
Zip

Bank #16
$140 in mixed hand and fed rolls
1 - 40% Kennedy (1967)

Bank #17 + #18
$3 + $7 in loose half dollars...skunk

Bank #19
Dancing gleefully at getting rid of their $99 in loose half dollars
1 - 90% Kennedy (1964)

Bank #20
Willing to sell me $100 in halves...may have had more...didn't push it..nothing grand
2 - 40% Kennedy (1967, 1968-D)

Bank #21
30 fed rolls of half dollars...parked and did a quick in car search....produced pretty well.
1 - 90% Kennedy (1964) 7 - 40% Kennedy (1965, 1966, 1967(3), 1968-D, 1969-D)

Bank #22
$60 in loose halves
1 - 90% Kennedy (1964)

Bank #23
$21.50 in loose halves...skunk

Bank #24
I decided to cash in all my reject halves for the trip and buy back the half dollar bag if it was close to full before I started. Well, they started running the halves and almost immediately it stopped (maybe $100 in or so)....The one teller starts asking me if I had been there before (which I hadn't).... Well apparently someone else had been there asking for all the halves in the place apparently somewhat recently. After some discussion they decided I could buy the bag which apparently although he had cleaned out all half dollars in the bank, he had not touched the half dollar bag....whew!!!! So I buy the bag back for $1000. I had heard what I thought was the sound of silver in the back room when they set the bag down, so I was pretty sure there was something in it. Although the light was starting to get dim at this point, I reached in and grabbed a handful. In that handful, I had 3 - 40% Kennedys....looks like a fun bag....decided to wait until I got back to my parents house and see if my son wanted to search with me.

On the way home, I swung back to bank #7 and picked up the $55 in the coin bag since it was still open (had 10 minutes to spare...lol)
I stuck my hand in the bag in the car and pulled out a walker and franklin....decided to let my son help me with that bag too.


So I get home and since we were going out for dinner as a family shortly I asked my son to help me sort through the $100 bag as I knew it wouldn't take very long. Turned out to be a good bag...16 silver halves.
3 Walking Liberty (1936, 1943, 1944-D)
2 Franklin (1960-D, 1963-D)
1 - 90% Kennedy (1964-D)
10 - 40% Kennedy (1965, 1966, 1967, 1968-D(4), 1969-D(3))


So at this point I was pretty happy with my trip as I had found 97 silver halves and 1 silver dime and I knew I had a $1000 bag left to search that produced 3 - 40% in the first handful.


After dinner, my son goes straight to the bag of half dollars and asks if we can sort it now....*twist my arm*....lol My daughter decides she wants to help out too.

So I get all set up on my parents kitchen table and dump out some (a few handfuls worth in front of each of them). They immediately start picking out silver one after the next....by the end of that first little bunch they had a few franklins, a number of 64's and some 40% Kennedys. I was thinking...could it be? Could this really be that good throughout??

Well my daughter got bored after the first bunch (no surprise...). My son however was totally into it as there was a lot to find.

So I dump out the next bunch for each of us...well let me tell you as I dumped out each bunch.. the bag seemed to get better and better...Franklins and walkers coming out by the dozens with each batch dumped out (maybe $50 worth in a batch).... and then about halfway through the bag.....I spotted it.....MY FIRST BARBER!!!!!! 1899 worn, but readable.

It continued like this for the remainder of the bag....my dad even stopped by and was checking things out a bit...

And then in the last bunch (which of course I let my son do)....he pulls his first BARBER!!!! a 1907-D.

The Totals for that bag alone
2 Barbers
121 Walking Liberty
175 Franklin
126 - 90% Kennedy
35 - 40% Kennedy

459 silver halves in that one bag and almost all 90%....I was absolutely floored.

Here's the breakdown
2 Barbers (1899, 1907-D)

121 Walking Liberty (Unknown date (3), 1917-S Reverse, 1918, 1918-D, 1918-S, 1919-D, 1920(2), 1927-S, 1933-S, 1934(4), 1934-D Large Mintmark(2), 1935(2), 1935-S, 1936(5), 1936-D, 1936-S(4), 1937(2), 1937-D(2), 1938(2), 1939, 1939-D(3), 1940(4), 1941(5), 1941-D(10), 1941-S(2), 1942(6), 1942-D(6), 1942-S Small S, 1942-S Large S, 1943(10), 1943-D(4), 1943-S(2), 1944(10), 1944-D(5), 1944-S, 1945(8), 1945-D(4), 1945-S)

175 Franklin (1948, 1948-D(3), 1949, 1949-D(2), 1949-S(2), 1950(3), 1950-D, 1951(3), 1951-S(10), 1952(5), 1952-D(17), 1952-S(3), 1953, 1953-D(5), 1953-S, 1954(3), 1954-D(18), 1954-S(7), 1957, 1957-D(10), 1958-D(9), 1959(4), 1959-D(7), 1960(5), 1960-D(11), 1961(2), 1961-D(6), 1962, 1962-D(10), 1963(3), 1963-D(20))

126 - 90% Kennedy (1964(59), 1964-D(66), 1 two headed 1964)

35 - 40% Kennedy (1965(4), 1966(8), 1967(15), 1968-D(4), 1969-D(4))

1 Proof Kennedy (1979-S Filled S)

2 Canadian 2-Dollar (1996(2))

2 Foreign (Australia, 1 Penny (1943), Great Britain, 1 Penny (1907))

2 Tokens
8 Quarters
3 Dimes
2 Nickels
1 Penny

So then I totaled up my road trip
Searched $1912 in half dollars and found:
2 Barbers
124 Walkers
177 Franklins
130 - 90% Kennedy
126 - 40% Kennedy

559 silver half dollars...mostly 90% type
1 silver dime

now I just have to go through the bags I picked up along the way
1 - $1000 bag of dimes
1 - $200 bag of nickels
5 - $50 bags of pennies

Oh and I tried to take a picture, but with some many I had to stand back too far to make a really nice pic....
In the pic...
The top row was the Barbers
the next 3 rows were all Walkers
the next 3 rows were all Franklins
the next 3 rows were all 1964 Kennedy
the next 2 rows were all 40% Kennedy
and the bottom row had the foreigns, proof, tokens, and the dime.

 

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[treasurefiend]

Wow thats awesome!!!

 

[Scott (Mich)]

Now that is the kind of Black Friday that I would like to see any time. Nice finds.

 

[seger98]

Congratulations, what a score! How did you do deer hunting?

 

[maine_Jim]

That is amazing!

Maine_Jim

 

[golden silver]

That is freakin insane. Makes my road trip with 109 keepers seem sad and contrite. What awesome luck!! Congrats.

-Golden Silver

 

[Cat J]

Good for you. I am glad your friday was good. I had four skunk boxes of halves.

HH
Cat

 

[goldencoin]

sweet finds!

HH
-GC

 

[GMan00001]

Congratulations, what a score! How did you do deer hunting?

My party of 5 ended up with 3 deer: a doe, a 6 pointer, and a 8 pointer....I got the doe.

 

[TxTim]

Whoa GMan!!

That is awesome!!

Certified dream bag!!!

 

[Ju8vP3t]

Incredible Haul....by my "Rough" estimate, you pulled out over 171 Oz's of Ag ...outstanding

 

[BBcardsRI]

Nominated you for the banner my man.

That is an INSANE bag.

And you are certainly near the top of the list for people who deserve to get such a great bag, what with your constant searching of bags and insane road trips where you hit up so many banks.

Grats man, you earned it!

~Dave

 

[Scalper]

Super score Gman wow what a bag of coins plus a deer , congrats Ed

 

[LJ]

Speechless..........That is awesome GMan!!! Congrats. No doubt a load of silver.....a huge load of silver! Kudos to you & your son on the Barbers.....I know that was exciting for both of you....lol.

Congratulations GMAN.....WAHOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Jsayre1234]

Holy moly!!!! Did you find that cat in the bag too?

 

[ugotit22]

if i get 10-20 silvers on a road trip im happy. This is just plain nuts
huge congrats

 

[ScoobaSteve]

WOW!!! The story is great with a nice build up!!! What a score that is, I'm sure you will be dreaming about silver for the next 6 months!!!

 

[GMan00001]

Finally finished the last bag of pennies from this trip a few minutes ago.. so here was the rest of the goodies..

$1000 Bag of dimes
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5 pre-1965 Roosevelt (1952-D, 1953, 1959, 1962-D, 1964-D)

17 Canadian (1969 Small Date, 1973, 1980(3), 1981, 1982, 1986(2), 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995(2), 2001-P Volunteers, 2002-P)

3 pennies

$200 bag of nickels
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1 - 1943-S War Nickel

36 pre-1960 Jefferson (1939, 1940, 1940-S, 1941(2), 1941-D, 1942(2), 1946(2), 1946-S, 1948, 1951(2), 1953, 1953-D, 1954-D(3), 1955-D, 1956, 1956-D, 1957, 1957-D(2), 1958, 1959, 1959-D(8))

18 Canadian (1961, 1964, 1966, 1971, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1985, 1987(2), 1992, 1993, 1998, 1999(2), 2000, 2001)

3 pennies

1 flattened penny from "The Edge Resort and Water Park"

Penny bag #1
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16 wheat pennies (1938, 1942, 1942-D, 1944, 1945-D, 1946, 1950-D, 1951-D(3), 1952-S(2), 1953-S, 1955-D, 1956, 1957-D)

30 Canadian (1943, 1952, 1953 Shoulder Fold, 1959, 1963, 1964, 1969(2), 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1979, 1981(2), 1983(2), 1984, 1987(2), 1991(2), 1992, 1993, 1996(2), 2000(2), 2001, 2005)

1 Dime

Note: The Canadian 1953 shoulder fold is the rarer of the two...

Penny bag #2
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14 wheat pennies (1919, 1941, 1944-D, 1946, 1948-D, 1950-D, 1951-S, 1952-D(2), 1955, 1956-D, 1957-D(2), 1958-D)

52 Canadian (1940, 1952, 1961(3), 1964(2), 1965, 1966, 1968(3), 1974(2), 1976, 1978(3), 1979(2), 1980(2), 1981(3), 1982(3), 1983(2), 1984, 1985(2), 1987, 1988, 1989(2), 1990(2), 1991, 1992(3), 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000(2), 2001, 2006, 2006-RCM)

1970-S small date <--I think its a small date, but difficult to tell for sure on this coin.

Penny bag #3
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23 wheat pennies (1925-S, 1926, 1937-D, 1942, 1944(2), 1944-D(2), 1945-D(2), 1947-D, 1948, 1948-D, 1950-D(2), 1953-D(2), 1953-S, 1956-D(2), 1957-D, 1958-D(2))

46 Canadian (1958, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965(2), 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970(3), 1972(3), 1973, 1975, 1981(4), 1982(3), 1983(2), 1984(2), 1985, 1986(2), 1987(4), 1991(2), 1993, 1999(2), 2000(3), 2001, 2005)

1 Foreign (Panama, 1 Centesimo (1996))

1 token from Moondance Walker, MN
1 clear plastic round


Penny bag #4
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16 wheat pennies (1920, 1926(2), 1944, 1944-D, 1945, 1946-D, 1947-D, 1952-D, 1955-D(2), 1956-D(2), 1958, 1958-D(2))

18 Canadian (1961, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1973,1979, 1980, 1981(2), 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994(2))


Penny bag #5
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17 wheat pennies (1926, 1926-D, 1941-D, 1944-D, 1945(5), 1949, 1949-D, 1951-D, 1952-D, 1953-D, 1955-D, 1956, 1958-D)

28 Canadian (1962, 1964, 1965, 1972, 1973(3), 1974(2), 1975(2), 1976, 1978, 1981(2), 1982(2), 1983, 1985, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2002, 2004(2), 2005)

That wraps up this trip...

 

[fiddycent]

that was one heckuva trip Gman! i'd still be in ICU if i hit a score like that. that's an absolutely insane amount of walkers, franklins & '64 kennedys! heck...the 40's alone would have made it a great day!

congrats and may you have many more!

 

[Codes]

A Black Friday You must have meant a SILVER Friday. Unless of course you were talking about the person that dumped all those. Then it would be a Black Friday.