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AlteredToneAlteredTone Posts: 304
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I have had a couple of rolls laying around - nothing special I thought. Clad quarters, cents from the early 70's, etc. Nothing to get excited about. I decide to not fool with them and just dump them into my Coinstar bucket.

As I am emptying out one of the Washington quarter coin tubes, something shiny catches my eye.

All proofs!

Not my proudest moment...

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I will fish them all out of the bucket and put on the BST...

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  • eCoinquesteCoinquest Posts: 1,485 ✭✭✭
    Thats too bad. I have done similar but with an error coin and it took almost all day to fish it out.image
  • LeeBoneLeeBone Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image
  • edix2001edix2001 Posts: 3,388 ✭
    C'mon, that's great! That is the action we all wait to to find the results of. Think of the surprise on how many faces down the road.

    Ooops! I thought they went into CoinStar.
    member, Greater Houston Coin Club - Edwin's Coin Cabinet
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,705 ✭✭✭✭✭
    After COINSTAR gets done with a proof, it'll be all scratched up and worth very little.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭
    I found a Proof state quarter in change a couple weeks ago. Minnesota, I think it was.

    Definitely caught my eye when I saw the deep mirror! It has nice peripheral toning.

  • PlacidPlacid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭
    I put a roll of 90% silver quarters on eBay and didnt look through it first.
    Right before I packed it I decided to count them and discovered there were 49 coins in it.
  • mrpaseomrpaseo Posts: 4,753 ✭✭✭
    No
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,705 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I put a roll of 90% silver quarters on eBay and didnt look through it first.
    Right before I packed it I decided to count them and discovered there were 49 coins in it. >>



    That's one way to guarantee possitive feedback. image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • 1794half18391794half1839 Posts: 505 ✭
    My first coin collection when I was 7 or 8 (junk silver, wheat pennies, common modern world coins) was kept on my desk in a box wrapped in tissues. One day my mother was cleaning my room, saw a box of crumpled tissues, and threw the box away. Luckily the bag they went into was still in the trash can when I got home from school. Spent a few hours sorting through garbage trying to find my coins.
    Greg Cohen

    Senior Numismatist

    Legend Rare Coin Auctions
  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,219 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>My first coin collection when I was 7 or 8 (junk silver, wheat pennies, common modern world coins) was kept on my desk in a box wrapped in tissues. One day my mother was cleaning my room, saw a box of crumpled tissues, and threw the box away. Luckily the bag they went into was still in the trash can when I got home from school. Spent a few hours sorting through garbage trying to find my coins. >>


    Wow. Just think if you'd had Taco Bell napkins instead.
    John
    Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution

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