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I haven't heard about vinegar, but have heard if you heat the coin up in an oven you might be able to discern the date. I just don't care for baking and destroying coins.

Same machine as the last, different day. I think I spy another dime(more silver???)under the machine again but after getting a pen and pushing it out from under the machine, a 1929-S Lincoln. F-VF. I like finds like this, especially given that Abe is 82 years old and from halfway across the country.

Yesterday went through the $400 from one bank, and $50 from the other one. Found three war babies, two Buffers - the dateless one has an S and the usual loads of 30s, 40s and 50's.

Sharp eyed and money loving Scot spied a wee dime under the CoinStar machine whilst exiting the grocery store. Unfartunately my wee lovely was just out of my paws reach, so I had to have my 16 yr old lad extend his lanky tendrils under the machine to get her.

I thought surely from the edge she was a Canuck 10c, the edge was copper free. But he pulled her out, and I saw that ubiquitous leaves and torch of the reverse of the Roosie dime. Aye, me lad has been a part of me getting my second silver dime in a mere two weeks - this time a '59-D. Last week he got a '63 in change at 7-11.

Have my order of $400 coming in tomorrow - first nicks searched since last week.

I really haven't found anything recently. Got a silver Roosevelt a few months back and that's it. I still have not found even one (1) America the Beautiful Quarter in change.

I got a '63 dime the other day at 7-11 when my son wanted a coffee. Then at a Speedway a couple of days later got a 1950 cent - this time buying my daughter a soda. I encourage my kidlets to drink, so I can check the change

That's the nice thing about circulation finds - you can never lose value.

Will you ever ever get bitten by the bug?

Yesterday was a bumper day for nickel rolls. In one bank branch, not very friendly BTW, they only sold me $10 - but one of the rolls had a dateless Buffer. Then I went out to where I used to live and visited them, bought a box that had lots of old codgers residing in it. That '42-S silver was a nice bonus. But my absolute sexiest find was the '39-D, now why would that be an exciting find? Hmm second lowest mintage of the whole series, just under the '50-D and a sweet $10 in it's VF-20 grade. One of my commercial banks I have a deal with that I take their cents, this time $10 worth, about 1/3 were copperheads and 10 of them were old codgers that got retired to my home for wayward wheaties.

 

If I can only remember to do this next time I pass by my banks... Unfortunately, they are newer banks in newer areas...

No problem, new banks often accumulate old money. Frankly I like the new Fed wrapped rolls, tend to be where I find more Buffaloes and Silver nickels than hand wrapped rolls.

George, there is a cure - go to your bank and buy nickels. I am finding in the rural banks they actually really like to see you coming as they wanna get rid of accumulations that are hogging vault space. And funnily enough I am finding out where some favourite tellers got exiled to - just yesterday I walked into a small branch in a little village and was greeted by my first name - yup, they know me there too

Oh, I almost forgot - my weirdest finds today were a bi-metallic Mexican Peso from 1994, and an Iceland Krona from 1984. I am noticing more and more Canadian five cent coins slipping through into the rolls - unusual because the ones before 1982, and after 2000 are magnetic and should have been rejected by the coin machines. I don't mind finding the pre-1982's as they are worth 10c melt now, and I have found as early as 1942. I have a complete set of QEII and with the exception of the Tombac coins of 1942-3, a near complete set of GVI coins.

The '40 is sweet, isn't it fun finding stuff in great condition that is 70+ years old?

I did four boxes on Monday, took two days break then did two more today. I have accounts with lots of credit unions and banks, and they have lots of branches.

So far this week, one dateless Buffer, and four silvers - three of them came from the box from Shangri-La, it had lots of good 1940's and 1950's era coins in the rolls. Including some sweet early S mints.

I think about half of my Buffers, about 25 or so?, have dates. Earliest dated is a 1923, several from 1934-7, and then the sweet '38-D. One I found last week is dateless, but has the T1 mound on it from 1913.

About the silvers, one of the ones I found last week, a '43-S was chrome plated - obviously someone having fun later on. I have found one that is in EF and not toned, the rest are fairly dark and heavily circulated. I like them because I have more luck finding silver in nickels than those flipping halves.

Four bronze cents, on the counter part of the machine.

Searched $442 worth of nickels today, turned up two dateless buffers, six silver war nickels including one that looks like it was chrome plated, lots of 40s and 50s dated coins and the usual bunch of S mints. And a blank die for something thinner than a nickel, and a Korean 50 won dated 1994.

Did I mention that I really like finding $15 worth of silver?

Yet another 43 this time from S, and had been reprocessed and plated again at some point. Looks like a dime.

122 more Ike dollars, including a whole bunch of brilliant uncirculateds that have lovely original roll toning. The best coins in the lot rarity wise are the 1973 and the 1977-S proofs. I have pretty much exhausted the large numbers of Jeffersons to go through so I am asking for other stuff at my banks.

Monday I went through $512 worth of nickels from six different banks. I found a total of three silver, a '43-S, a '44-D and a '45-P. A dozen or so 38s and 39s. About a hundred in the 1940s, about 150 1950s and lots of S mints from 40-S on up to 1970. No buffers.

Today only $64 worth from a bank I hadn't been to before. No silver, on 1939, a dozen or so in the 1940's a couple of dozen in the fifties and 6-7 S mints. But there was a well worn T1 Buffer - most definitely a 1913 - the only one I have gotten of the mound variety from the first year.

Visiting some out of town branches on a trip tomorrow. These small town branches like to see me coming, you'd be amazed how glad they are to get rid of the accumulated coins that pile up.

Lettered edge variety from 1795.

1943 Lincoln, a steelie in fairly decent shape, a 1956 12 sided QE II YH 5 cents, a 2005 Cayman Islands 10 cents, a 2002 East Caribbean States 25 cents, a 1994 Mexico 20 ctvos, all from the Coinstar machine at Meijer.

Finn - do you save the '68-70 S mints? I save all S mints, best so far is the 38-S. BTW on Friday I found a really super nice 1936 Buffalo. And another '43-P war baby. And two proof halves, 8 40% and 15 Ike dollars. I am now paying visits to branches of my one bank in lesser known off the beaten path environs.

Busy week for me, searched 7 boxes all total - found 2 Liberties : 1903 and 1910; three buffers : dateless, 1923 and 1936; four silver war nickels : 1943-P X3 1943-S. And a couple of dozen 1939s, several hundred 1940's and even more 1950s. The rares were the 1923 and a couple of 1950 Phillies.

I have two boxes on my dining room table, one done and one to go - so far a 1923 Buffer and a 43-P war baby.

Today I could only find $20 worth of nickels at an out of town bank. I thought, oh great, I am going to get skunked with nothing but maybe a couple of 1950s Jeffs and that was it.

On the 5th roll I opened up, halfway through, a 1910 Liberty in AG-3. Roll # 7 had a dateless Buffer. Roll #8 had a 1903 Liberty. Also got a 1939 a 1941, a 1954 and a 1958 to round out the finds.

Today I could only find $20 worth of nickels at an out of town bank. I thought, oh great, I am going to get skunked with nothing but maybe a couple of 1950s Jeffs and that was it.

On the 5th roll I opened up, halfway through, a 1910 Liberty in AG-3. Roll # 7 had a dateless Buffer. Roll #8 had a 1903 Liberty. Also got a 1939 a 1941, a 1954 and a 1958 to round out the finds.