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Interesting finds in half dollar rolls . . .

. . . and I'm not referring to silver, which popped up relatively infrequently.

I found a nice 2004-P, which is the first date more recent than 2001 that I've seen among the thousands of halves that I've checked from local banks.

There was also a 1971-S clad proof--as you might expect, in not quite the shape it was in when somebody cracked it out of its mint holder, but clearly cameo.

There was this 1964 with an average mostly white obverse but with a much more colorful and lustrous reverse than this photo shows:

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And a very nice 1978-D that was good enough to provide an upgrade for that date/mm in my Dansco album.

Quasi-junk; but interesting quasi-junk.

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    I'd love to find a coin with that kind of color! Must have sat in an album for years... then some idiotic inheritor or some such just took it out and spent it. Very cool find!
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    MercfanMercfan Posts: 701 ✭✭
    Thanks, Tonedbuff!

    I'll see if I can get a truer image of this thing and post it. It's a much flashier and more colorful reverse than this photo shows. Just a bit of brown toning along the rim between 11:00 and 1:00 on the obverse, so I'm guessing it was in a folder-type album?

    Until I get a camera with a decent macro setting, I'll just fiddle around with trial and error shots.

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    guitarwesguitarwes Posts: 9,308 ✭✭✭
    Me likes the look of that one. I have two almost just like that with the exact same toning. It's really "lustery" under all that and is hard to get a good pic of it.....


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    mirabelamirabela Posts: 5,204 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have found some neat stuff like that. I found a whole bunch of 2003's; I have found 87 P & D, 72-S, 79-S, and 96-S proofs, and some wonderful album toned halves, both silver, 40%, and CN clad. It's really amazing how many coins from collections just get spent one day.
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    I one time found 30 Silvers, 50 40%'s, a 53-S Franklin, a walker and a proof in a $1000 box. Ya never know.
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