Skunks Galore... BUT Found My First Commemorative... Wont find another one of these!

[xnytxowlx]

Skunks Galore... BUT Found My First Commemorative... Won't find another one of these!

Been through 40+ boxes of halves this year with a 90% skunk rate (found a total of 7 silver coins). It has been a brutal year thus far. However, yesterday, out popped this beauty. It is my most valuable coin I have found so far, and by FARRRRRRR the lowest mintage!





Hopefully this is a sign of things to come... I need to find some silver here at some point!!! Geez!

Happy Hunting!

 

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[Iamrussell]

Dang thats worse than my finds-up till this weekend- all I can say is way too many new people coming in to the hobby and not enough collections being dumped means skunks galore

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just keep stacking, just keep stacking, stacking stacking stacking

 

[Infowarrior]

Pretty neat, but I too would rather have a 40% than that Although Ive had decent luck selling some of the clad comm's i find for 10-25 a pop...

The finds are getting less and less, atleast for me... I did great until november, but december on has been real bad... not even worth it most of the time.

HH

 

[xnytxowlx]

I would DEFINITELY take this commem over ANY silver. This is easily a $25-30+ coin!

Iamrussell, I definitely feel your pain this year. Last year, over about 200 boxes, I averaged over 1.5 silvers a box (this was helped by the 57 silvers found in one box, but still, the finds were very consistent last year). January has been absolutely brutal for me.

Hopefully it turns around, but this commemorative helped a ton!

I have been through over $30k of dimes/nickels/halves this year with a total of 3.66 oz of ag! Yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[boristhespider88]

That comm. half is one that I've always wanted and thought about buying.



Nice find!

 

[nleet22]

very nice

 

[agme]

That is an awesome find X, have found some commems myself, but have never seen that one. Congrats!
agme

 

[BuffaloBoy]

That is awesome, I would take that commemorative over 40% silver halves all day long.

 

[MIhunter]

Unc commemoratives like proofs are only valuable if they are undamaged, MS 65 ot PF 65 or better.
I cant tell from Pic, if they are any dings or scratches.

 

[BRChiver]

That's an awesome commemorative half! I haven't seen one of those before, great job.
HH!
BRChiver

 

[BuffaloBoy]

I prefer the uncirculated version of the commemorative halves, they generally have a much lower mintage.

 

[agme]

Unc commemoratives like proofs are only valuable if they are undamaged, MS 65 ot PF 65 or better.
I cant tell from Pic, if they are any dings or scratches.

That may be true, but I'd love to find one, dings, scratches and all.

 

[boristhespider88]

That may be true, but I'd love to find one, dings, scratches and all.

Same here. And seeing as how I want one, I would still pay over FV for one, even if it was circulated.

 

[xnytxowlx]

1) its not the proof version. 2) its in great condition

3) side note: found my first v nickel of the year -1912

 

[SilverFace]

1) its not the proof version. 2) its in great condition

3) side note: found my first v nickel of the year -1912

Nice find with the V nic too....and make sure to check for a mint mark on that one.

HH!