The silver gods have been kind

[cyberdan]

I picked up my usual two boxes of halves Friday after work and Saturday I went bank hopping.

There are a few large Asian communities near where I live so I have been concentrating on their banks for the last couple of weeks. As I pointed out in an earlier message they tend to own small mom and pop types of stores that have a lot of cash transactions. I had $800 in cash to spend and spent $507 of it. I got 186 IKE dollars and $321 in loose and rolled halves. A lot of the Ike's were in hand made $25 rolls or taped up $5 piles (yes, sticky mess)

First let me tell what I found in the brinks boxes and loose halves from Saturday.
6 - 90% JFK
30 - 40% JFK (one was a silver bicentennial half)
11 - Franklins (one roll had 2 next to each other)
7 - Walking Liberty (one roll had 2 plus 2 - 40%)



Look at the date pattern on the good ones. (I did not record all the mint marks)
1941
1942 (2)
1943 (2)
1944
1945

1949
1951 (2)
1952
1953
1954
1957
1959
1960
1961
1962

The duplicates had different mint marks. Not one coin was repeated. That could only mean one thing, they were popped out of a coin album and spent all at once. Who knows if it was someone that inherited them and didn't know their value or they came from a stolen collection and used to buy their next bottle of ripple and a pack of smokes.

Now, I have kept the bast for last. Out of the 186 IKES that I bought (of course for face value) I am only going to keep two of them.

But they were not Ike's.

One is an 1886 Morgan Silver dollar and the other is a very beat up silver eagle. (one ounce of 999 fine silver)



I think this was my best weekend ever. I have found more coins (mostly 40%) but never silver value (probably $220)

I noticed there were several missing dates and mint marks in the halves. Monday I am going back to my bank and see if they just happen to have another box that was delivered at the same time as these. I wont count on it, but if they do, it's mine.

 

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[tw656]

My MY, the gods have been kind. Awsome finds.

 

[Daniel964]

Very sweet finds their. I've got two boxes on order to pick up friday. I hope I do as well.

 

[Pennyworth]

Wow a Barber, Silver Eagle,Walkers,Franklins, and lots of Kennedy's what a perfect day,week,month and year!! I don't know how you are going to top that! Congratulations!!!

 

[fiatboy]

All hail the silver gods!!!!

 

[Rothgo]

That's a great haul!

 

[scotto]

Sa-weeet!

 

[LJ]

Good Gosh!!!! I remember your post on the Asian communities and also remember you did well in that post and talked about going back. You had a plan and it definitely worked out.

Great job Dan!!! That's a homerun!! Hard to imagine a silver eagle being out there. You scored a little of everything.

Congrats.....keep em coming.......

 

[low xtreme]

luckyyyyyyyyyy

 

[thurmownator]

Awesome finds !

.........and a Morgan and silver round to boot.

Kudos.

 

[cyberdan]

Wow a Barber, Silver Eagle,Walkers,Franklins, and lots of Kennedy's what a perfect day,week,month and year!! I don't know how you are going to top that! Congratulations!!!

Thanks, I sure am going to try.

One bank said come back next Saturday she has over 250 IKEs in the vault and wants to sell them. She will have them out for me. In her strong Korean accent I think she also said she has a lot of halves that I can buy if another regular (CRHer) customer does not come by and ask for them. He has not been by in a few weeks.

 

[packerbacker]

Wow, very nice!!

 

[cyberdan]

Hard to imagine a silver eagle being out there.

I know what you mean. The teller pulled a baggie out and I could see the white edge of a silver coin but it looked thinner so I figured it was going to be a token of some kind. I told her I needed to count the coins. If it was junk I would have given it back to her. I counted them, saw what it was and ignored it while quietly doing the $14 per oz silver dance and putting all back in the bag.

 

[cyberdan]

UPDATE

Just an update on my liberty and benji finds.

I went back to BofA on Monday and asked if they had any more boxes of halves that came in with my two boxes from last week. They had one left. I bought it thinking it would also have some keepers.

The first roll I opened I saw silver, a 40% JFK. I knew this was going to be a good box. WRONG. I got skunked on the next 29 rolls.

But then after a bit on the bottom layer I got another Franklin a 1952 S again the mint did not match the other '52 I found. But that was it for the oldies.

I ended up with:
1 franklin
1 90% JFK
2 40% JFK
1 clad proof (nice coin)
3 clad BU (that were much better than the proof)

So not to bad for an extra box. I went through almost $2500 in one week. Am I hooked or what?