What will I find? 07-02-07

[GMan00001]

First off, I took a relatively short Sat. morning road trip a couple of days ago and picked up $1000 in loose half dollars ($500 from two different banks) and $200 in loose nickels (2 - $100 bags) from a third bank.

The halves didn't produce very well with only 2 - 40% (1967 and 1969-D) as well as two foreign coins France, 5 Francs (1972) and Guatemala, 1 Quetzal (2000).

And though I don't remember the exact details on the nickels as I am at work, the first bag of nickels was okay (around 20 pre-1960 nickels and a 1936 buffalo nickel). The second bag was my best $100 in nickels since I started tracking it. If I remember correctly 65 pre-1960 Jeffersons including a 1943-P and a 1944-P war nickel as well as an 1897 50 Ore Coin from Norway (also silver) . My previous record for pre-1960 nickels out of $100 was 40 (or close to 40).

Well because of my good success at the one bag of nickels, I decided to do what is always talked about when one has good success from somewhere, buy all other denominations that were turned in at the same time. There is no guarantee that the other bags that were filled while the good bag was filled haven't already been picked up by the armored service, but I am hoping that isn't so.


So I ended up picking up:
4 - $500 bags of quarters
2 - $500 bags of dimes
1 - $100 bag of nickels
6 - $50 bags of pennies

Only $34 in the half dollar bag so they obviously didn't cash in halves.

Just for fun, anyone care to guess at what I might find? Final results may take awhile....at least for the pennies since I still have a backlog from before that I will probably do first, but the quarters, dimes, and nickels I am hoping to do most of tonight (though probably just edge search and not date search like usual).

 

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[GMan00001]

Re: What will I find? 07-02-07 - Updated

Went through the quarters, dimes, and nickels last night. Edge searched the quarters and dimes since I needed to cash them in today.

I am at work, so the following is from what I remember, I will update it later with the parts I am not sure on.
The $2000 in quarters produced the following:
1 - 1963 Washington quarter

1 - 2006-ML Canadian quarter
1 - Great Britain, 10 Pence (1992)
1 - South Korea, 100 Won (2005)
1 - Costa Rica, 10 Colones (2005)
1 - Austria, 1 Schilling (1972)

and 1 Car wash token and 1 lithium battery

The first $500 bag of dimes produced the following
2 Mercury (1919-D, 1943-D)
5 pre-1965 Roosevelt (1948, 1951, 1954-D, 1964-D(2))
8 Canadian (1968 Nickel, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1994)
3 Foreign
1 - Denmark, 10 Ore (1948)
2 - Great Britain, 5 Pence (1990)
and 3 memorial pennies

The second $500 bag of dimes produced the following
2 pre-1965 Roosevelt (1964-D(2))
2 Canadian (1973, 1989)
1 Foreign
Great Britain, 5 Pence (1991)

and 1 Memorial penny


The $100 in nickels produced
1 - 1945-D War nickel
and 20 other pre-1960 Jefferson (1939, 1940, 1941-D, 1947, 1948-D, 1948-S, 1949, 1952-D, 1953-S, 1954-D, 1957(2), 1957-D(2), 1958, 1958-D(3), 1959, 1959-D)
1 Canadian (1984)



The 1 bag of dimes I suspect was from the same time as the bag of nickels, just have to hope that at least one of the bags of pennies was from then as well, going to try to catch with June's pennies first though.

 

[thurmownator]

Great finds gman, and great strategy !

Part of me actually prefers buying bags, especially for halves, so you can cherry pick the "low hanging fruit right away, than look through all the others.

Happy Fourth !

 

[GMan00001]

Went through the first of the penny bags last night...nothing special.

14 wheat pennies (1917, 1941, 1941-S Small S, 1947-D, 1948, 1948-D, 1950-D, 1951-D, 1952-D, 1953, 1953-D, 1956-D, 1957-D, 1958-D)

17 Canadian (1963, 1964,1966, 1969(2), 1979, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005)

 

[GMan00001]

Well today, after cashing in all the pennies I went through this past weekend in my mad dash to catch up before my trip to Vegas, I completed another $50 bag of pennies from this batch.

First, for those who are afraid to cash in large quantities at one time, today I cashed $542 dollars, approx $97 in nickels and $445 in pennies. In other words, just under 18 boxes worth of pennies. My new largest total coin volume cashin 46,440 coins at once.


Ok, now back to what was found in this bag.
14 wheat pennies (19XX (pre-1941), 1920, 1929, 1937, 1941-D, 1942-D, 1944(2), 1944-S, 1947-D, 1956, 1957-D, 1958-D(2))

18 Canadian (1959, 1962, 1964(2), 1974(2), 1975(2), 1978, 1981, 1988, 1994, 1996(2), 1998, 1999, 2001(2))

1 Foreign (Netherlands, 25 Cents (1975))

1 Dime with some type of strike error it would appear.


The 19XX, I am guessing, is a 1909, but it is so worn I can't be sure.

Also here are some pictures of the dime mistrike. Any idea if this is worth anything?

 

[tw656]

very cool dime.

 

[GMan00001]

Another bag of pennies done

22 wheat pennies (1929-D, 1945(3), 1946-D(4), 1948-D, 1948-S, 1951-S, 1952-D(2), 1953-D, 1953-S, 1955-D(2), 1956-D(4), 1957-D)

26 Canadian (1951, 1964(2), 1965, 1967, 1971(2), 1974, 1975, 1979, 1980, 1981(3), 1982, 1983, 1984, 1993, 1994(2), 1995, 1996, 1997(2), 2001, 2002)

1 dime

 

[GMan00001]

Finished another penny bag tonight:

14 wheat pennies (1940, 1944-D, 1945-D, 1946-D, 1947-D(2), 1949-D(2), 1951-D, 1956, 1956-D, 1957-D, 1958, 1958-D)

22 Canadian (1956, 1957, 1965, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1974(2), 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2000)

Only 2 left.

 

[GMan00001]

Decided to try to finish my oldest remaining penny bags first. This was one of them.

Not so hot.

7 wheat pennies (1935, 1941-D, 1945, 1950-D, 1950-S, 1957-D, 1958-D)

15 Canadian (1960, 1964, 1966, 1975, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1991, 1997(2), 1999, 2001(2))

1 Foreign (Mexico, 20 Centavos (1998))

2 play pennies


Only 1 bag left from this batch.

 

[GMan00001]

Finally finished my last bag of pennies from this batch (and last bag from July)...Did okay

16 wheat pennies (1928-D, 1935-D, 1937, 1941-D(2), 1944-D, 1945, 1948-S, 1950, 1952-D, 1953-D, 1956-D(2), 1957-D, 1958-D(2))

20 Canadian (1959, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1984(2), 1985, 1987, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2005)

1 Foreign (Panama, 1 Centesimo (1996))