Post your best find in a junk silver bag!

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lsica
lsica Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭✭
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With the price of silver climbing so fast that it's pretty much quintupled (j/k ;-) )by the time I start this post to the time I end typing this post, more and more better dates and better grades wind up in bags along with the usual 50's and 60's George's and Frankie-Dee's. What's the best thing you ever found in a "junk" silver bag?

Philately will get you nowhere....

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  • PickledThrickels
    PickledThrickels Posts: 124 ✭✭✭✭
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    A slick 1921 SLQ is probably the most valuable coin I've found. All that's left is the space between the 2 and the 1 plus a tiny bit of the top serif. I've also found a 1934 DDO quarter and a cleaned AU 1918-S Merc.

    I only have photos of the DDO at the moment

  • USMarine6
    USMarine6 Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    1895O morgan not once but twice

  • lkenefic
    lkenefic Posts: 9,519 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I found a crusty 1932-S Washington Quarter in a bulk bin of silver probably 25 years ago in a small LCS in Albuquerque. The owner/dealer was an older gentleman that I had built up a rapport with as I was just getting back into collecting at the time. I gave him a "heads up" ... and the coin...

    Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

    Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
  • Dave99B
    Dave99B Posts: 8,947 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I bought a bag of junk silver Mercury dimes at the Boeing Coin Show about 10 years ago. I found an original VG 1921-D that more than paid for the entire bag. Flipped it on eBay for a nice profit.

    Dave

    Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
  • may
    may Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Not me but a friend found a half eagle amongst a box of foreign coins at an auction.

  • Veep
    Veep Posts: 1,513 ✭✭✭✭
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    I found a 1916-D Mercury dime in AG. Another bag yielded a 1937 DDO Quarter in AU. Many years ago, at a small town auction, a Ziploc bag of quarters produced six 1932-D Washingtons that all certified as MS61’s and MS62’s.

    "Let me tell ya Bud, you can buy junk anytime!"

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