Teller made my day. (Pics Included)

JJTheisen

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I have always read stories about guys who go from bank to bank and then randomly find a good collection that someone turned in. I, unfortunately, do not get to go out and CRH in the wild very often, so I only have a handful of banks that I order from and dump at. Today I was at one of my banks and one of my tellers, that I take very good care of, told me that an older woman had come in the day before and tried to dump a collection, but that their machine would not accept the silver coins........SO she had placed all of them in her coin tray. She asked if I would like to purchase them from her. I , thinking it was probably a few quarters or halves, was more than glad to see what she had. SO, she pulls out her coin tray and all I can see in her dime and quarter rows is solid silver stacked about 3/4 to the top with a few clad mixed in here ant there, and a few silver halves. So I did what any good CRHer would do, and I bought them. While this was not some incredible huge hoard as I have seen sometimes on here, it was huge to me and it really made my day. I know I preach it every once in a while on this forum, but treat your tellers right and they will treat you right in return. The total was 48 silver quarters, 59 silver dimes(4 mercs), 3 90% halves, and 2 40% halves. Hope this happens to everyone at some point in their CRHing experience. Pics below and sorry for the quality, I was having issues with the camera.

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Wow!!!! That is STUNNING!!!!!!

I've never scored like that...but I will keep dreaming about the possibility.

Congrats!!!!!!
 

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy and his bride. $491.22 in silver. Awesome JJ
 

coolpix9 said:
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy and his bride. $491.22 in silver. Awesome JJ

You da man jim! Glad to know you are picking up boxes again! I dont know what this hobby would be without you man!

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JJ
 

That is a huge score! Quarters are so hard to find in the wild. HH
 

Silver quarters are pretty hard to find but this shows they are still out there.

Golden Silver
 

Nice find. You should ask that teller (as politely as possible) if you can buy the bags of cents and nickels off the machine. I bet that old lady dumped some old nickels and cents.
 

That Canadian Guy said:
Nice find. You should ask that teller (as politely as possible) if you can buy the bags of cents and nickels off the machine. I bet that old lady dumped some old nickels and cents.

You make an EXTREMELY good point. I guess the thought just did not cross my mind. This bank, unfortunately, does not allow buying the bags off of the machine. That is some really good strategy though!

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JJ
 

FingerGrime said:
Wow! Any good dates/mintmarks?

To be honest, I havent even gotten the chance to look them all over. I did make sure to look over the mercs to make sure there were no early years. The two benjamin halves are basically in mint condition, which I dont find tooo often CRHing.

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Congrats JJ. Good to see another oldtime CRHer making a big find :icon_thumleft:
 

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