Find o' the Week: silver halves in circulation
drewmann
Leo M. Cavanaugh III wrote in message ...
>>Best luck I've had in a while. What has everyone else found recently?
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Junk.
ToddEStan
biggie, I also saw my first 2000 dime in circulation today.
Todd
Leo M. Cavanaugh III wrote:
>
> While getting several rolls of halves from the bank for my nephew (and
> me) the both of us lucked out in getting over two rolls of 40% silver
> halves. Apparently with the spot price of silver being low and the
> robust economy, people are finally spending the coins being saved in
> jewelry boxes and the like. Plenty of Bicentennial halves to be found
> as well.
>
> Here's the running total:
> 1 1963-D (and pleased to teach him about Ben Franklin)
> 2 1964
> 2 1965
> 5 1966
> 9 1967
> 18 1968-D
> 12 1969-D
>
> Oddly, none from the '90's were found in 8 rolls, even though they're
> indeed out there. I'd love to find a 2000 P or D.
>
> Best luck I've had in a while. What has everyone else found recently?
>
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"Leo M. Cavanaugh III" <touc...@softhome.net> wrote in message
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> While getting several rolls of halves from the bank for my nephew (and
> me) the both of us lucked out in getting over two rolls of 40% silver
> halves. Apparently with the spot price of silver being low and the
> robust economy, people are finally spending the coins being saved in
> jewelry boxes and the like. Plenty of Bicentennial halves to be found
> as well.
>
> Here's the running total:
> 1 1963-D (and pleased to teach him about Ben Franklin)
> 2 1964
> 2 1965
> 5 1966
> 9 1967
> 18 1968-D
> 12 1969-D
>
> Oddly, none from the '90's were found in 8 rolls, even though they're
> indeed out there. I'd love to find a 2000 P or D.
One of my daughters likes to get her allowance in halves (she turns in for
folding money before spending). The mix I've gotten from the bank includes
lots of bicents, but no silver at all.
Low spot price or no, why would people spend '63s and '64s which probably
worth 3x face as melt? Doesn't make sense when people are hoarding sacs and
SQs.
Tom Rea
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> I found a 1919 cent not too long ago. Made my day! Though it isn't a
> biggie, I also saw my first 2000 dime in circulation today.
>
By the way, is anyone going to call the 2000 dime a variety? or a
type? The portrait is smaller.
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Stujoe
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> ToddEStan wrote:
> >
> > I found a 1919 cent not too long ago. Made my day! Though it isn't a
> > biggie, I also saw my first 2000 dime in circulation today.
> >
> type? The portrait is smaller.
I would consider it a new type because the difference is so apparent. Or
would that be variety? I get the distinction confused but either way I
would classify it different than 1999 and before. It will be interesting
to see what the Redbook does with it. I think if it was a popular,
obsolete coin such as a Bust or Mercury, they would be listed as
Roosevelt Dime, Large Head and Roosevelt Dime, Small Head. But since they
are a less popular series and modern on top of that, I am not sure it
will get the same attention or classification.
--
Stu Miller
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Wayne Dyer
>While getting several rolls of halves from the bank for my nephew (and
>me) the both of us lucked out in getting over two rolls of 40% silver
>halves. Apparently with the spot price of silver being low and the
>robust economy, people are finally spending the coins being saved in
>jewelry boxes and the like. Plenty of Bicentennial halves to be found
>as well.
I'm about to dump several clad halves at the bank. My aunt went crazy
saving Kennedys and Ikes because "they don't make them any more". I'm
keeping the silver-containing halves, and I might keep some of the Ikes
because I've got both varieties of the bicentennial, and examples of the
regular reverse in high and low relief. Not valuable, but interesting to
look at at least.
-W-
Jenn
prescription with $7.00 worth of Walker and Frankin halves (which I promptly
bought from the register, of course!)
Matthew B. Vigor
> Best luck I've had in a while. What has everyone else found recently?
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I usually find one 40% silver Kennedy per $40 or $50, and one 90% half for
every $200 or so. I find about 1 silver quarter or dime each year, and
it's fairly easy to find older nickels, even from the 1930's.
-Matthew
ADVANSPEC
>"...I usually find one 40% silver Kennedy per $40 or $50, and one 90% half for
every $200 or so. I find about 1 silver quarter or dime each year, and it's
I find it interesting at how wide of a difference people in this group
report circulation finds. Some people want to know when wheat cents &
Jefferson nickles before 1970 "dissapeared" from circulation, & others find
these same coins common! Being in retail I may "see" more coins than the
average person, but in the past 18 months just some of the coins my wife & I
have culled from circ have been: silver dimes, quarters & 40% halves, a 1909
VDB penny along with very numerous wheat cents 1911-1958, 2 Indian cents 1899
& I forget the other year, Silver "war" nickles, Jeffersons from all decades
(very common), "s" mint pennies & nickles etc, $5 US red seal notes, etc....
I would say that wheat cents are still almost "common", see them every month.
Likewise with Nickles from the 40's & 50's. A silver coin or 2 seems to show
up every year. This week so far: A 1664-D dime, a 1949-D nickle, a 51-D & 57
cent & a 1969 Canadian quarter............
Bob Flaminio
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> [...] This week so far: A 1664-D dime [...]
That is one *old* dime...
-Bob