Goldmanford
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Last Thursday was September 8th. I stopped by my favorite bank and scored $410 in CWR. Today I was armed with $100 in dime dumps for them so I could swap and clean out their vault and search all their dimes and leave them a little for the other customers. I generally like to start hunting as soon as I get home...like a kid at Christmas! I have had decent luck with CWR here finding a few silver Rosies in the past. Today I set a goal of at least 2 silver dimes in my rolls. If I could find that, I would be happy. I sat on the couch and started searching.
I had probably gone through over $150 of the rolls and so far it was a skunk. The time was nearing for our weekly cornhole league and my wife was asking about supper. Since I have a one-track CRH mindset, I was neither considering cornhole or eating. "One more roll, Honey!" I would say. I reached in the box and pulled out a light-green wrapper and turned it up to peer in the hole in the end of the wrapper. OMG...it was my first Mercury staring back at me (1944s) and I happily shared it with Jennifer. She was excited about and wanted to see it out of the roll but I wanted a pic of it first.
The next thing I notice is the roll. OMG...it looks VERY old. I go into the kitchen and grab the camera. I snap a few pics and then procede to pull back the wrapper to open the other end. Holy #$@& it's another Mercury staring at me. This one a 1941. By now, I am shaking and all Jennifer says is "I bet the whole roll is Mercury dimes". Slowly I dump all 50 dimes on the counter and pppfffftt, NOT true! ONLY 49 OF THEM WERE MERCURY and the sole Rosie was dated 1951s.
Talk about excited! Never in my dreams have I even thought I would find something like this. Looks like they have been hiding in that roll since the 1950s.
Here is a breakdown of the dates: 1919, 1924d, 1929 x 3, 1935, 1936 x 3, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1939d, 1940 x 3, 1941 x 6, 1941d, 1942 x 5, 1943 x 5, 1944 x 8, 1944d, 1944s, 1945 x 5, 1945s, 1951s.
BTW, the rest of the rolls were skunky except for a 1958d Rosie.
It's still out there folks. Go get it!!!
I had probably gone through over $150 of the rolls and so far it was a skunk. The time was nearing for our weekly cornhole league and my wife was asking about supper. Since I have a one-track CRH mindset, I was neither considering cornhole or eating. "One more roll, Honey!" I would say. I reached in the box and pulled out a light-green wrapper and turned it up to peer in the hole in the end of the wrapper. OMG...it was my first Mercury staring back at me (1944s) and I happily shared it with Jennifer. She was excited about and wanted to see it out of the roll but I wanted a pic of it first.
The next thing I notice is the roll. OMG...it looks VERY old. I go into the kitchen and grab the camera. I snap a few pics and then procede to pull back the wrapper to open the other end. Holy #$@& it's another Mercury staring at me. This one a 1941. By now, I am shaking and all Jennifer says is "I bet the whole roll is Mercury dimes". Slowly I dump all 50 dimes on the counter and pppfffftt, NOT true! ONLY 49 OF THEM WERE MERCURY and the sole Rosie was dated 1951s.
Talk about excited! Never in my dreams have I even thought I would find something like this. Looks like they have been hiding in that roll since the 1950s.
Here is a breakdown of the dates: 1919, 1924d, 1929 x 3, 1935, 1936 x 3, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1939d, 1940 x 3, 1941 x 6, 1941d, 1942 x 5, 1943 x 5, 1944 x 8, 1944d, 1944s, 1945 x 5, 1945s, 1951s.
BTW, the rest of the rolls were skunky except for a 1958d Rosie.
It's still out there folks. Go get it!!!
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