Slightly entertaining story.

thadd

I was surfing eBay a couple of days ago and thought I’d look at rolls of Kennedy halves because there has been a lot of talk about them recently.

Well, I stumbled upon a certain auction and noticed it was only a half roll. Hmm, just 10 coins. Maybe a good idea, I only need to spend half the money. Well I looked at the pictures and thought “sure looks like more than ten coins to me”. I thought it was strange that the seller would show more coins then were for sale.

After scratching my head for a few minutes, it finally dawned on me.

Duh!

Here’s the auction. Click

Higashiyama

That is amusing.

If you had not described it as a "half roll", I would have read it correctly the first time as "Kennedy half" roll.

However, having read your description, my first read was "Kennedy BU" half-roll.

Deadhorse

Well, the same seller is offering a roll of Mercury dimes for sale. He lists it as 40 dimes........

sinin1

So, how many coins would be in a Washington quarter roll? 40 or 10?

tjkillian

Here's what I understand is the number of coins per roll:

small cents 50
Trimes 50
Half Dimes 50
Nickels 40
Dimes 50
Half Dollars 20
Dollars 20

Tom

MadMonk

Punctuation can sure come in handy at times!

thadd

<< <i>That is amusing.

If you had not described it as a "half roll", I would have read it correctly the first time as "Kennedy half" roll.

However, having read your description, my first read was "Kennedy BU" half-roll. >>



I actually tried to tell this story so readers would see it the way I saw it. I guess it woked.

NumisEd

That took me about 5 minutes to figure out. I guess that my mom was right: I am as dumb as I look.

Shamika

I half to admit (), I couldn’t figure it out at first.

Wardhaines

I did the same thing when first looking for a franklin set in an album. I thought half set of Franklins? What year do they consider the start of the 2nd half. I was confusing short set and half set.