Kind of a fun return to the roots with my kid. Dansco Kennedy Album ONLY from bank boxes
PutTogether
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I thought this would be kind of a fun thing to share. My daughter is starting to show an interest in coins, and half dollars in particular. She seems to like them for the same reason I did when I was 10; you just don't ever see them. About a year ago, we started going through bank boxes of halves and trying to fill a Dansco album from coins that we found. So far everything we've added has come from the bank, but I DO plan to cheat a little and buy a 70-D. It's a been a fun thing to do together, and look forward to AND dread finishing it up.
A few things I've learned:
My God did they mint a ton of 1972 and bicentennials
You really CAN (rarely) find silver in bank boxes. I think we've found a total of 4 x 90% and around 10 x 40% out of 5 or 6 boxes. Amazingly, 3 of the 4 90% coins were Franklins.
It is interesting how many mint set only coins and proofs make their way to a bank eventually.
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Thats a decent t album to put together as well. Nice. I like
Fun way to put a set together.
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Now THAT is awesome. Somebody in our club is plugging a Euros album one by one from circulation during trips to Europe. It's just so much fun to watch someone enjoying the journey rather than just throwing a bunch of money at a process that could be completed in one day sitting in front of a laptop.
Official PCGS account of:
www.TallahasseeCoinClub.com
Thanks for that, gives a sense of what might be the better later dates.
Very cool, sounds like a lot of fun.
That's awesome! I hoped my daughter would have gravitated towards Kennedy Halves, but she liked the bigger shiny silver dollars and opted for Peace Dollars.... with birthday/Christmas/allowance money and what the "Tooth Fairy" would bring. Silver was only ~$5/oz at the time...
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Great idea. Congrats on spending hobby time with your daughter.
Jim
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I did the same thing when I used to search bank boxes. It was fun! It took a couple years to finally find the silver 1970.
This is really neat! I'm impressed by what's been accomplished so far and by having your daughter involved in the set assembly. That will always be a special set for both of you.
Enjoy your time with your daughter..... life is short !!
When the wife and I first married 17 years ago, we were searching 10 boxes weekly for silver (we've now pared that down to two). Couple years later I started selling coins on eBay and I decided to put together sets to sell. I sold several dozens of complete sets, plus a couple hundred more sets of the NFIC dates. I bought two rolls of 1970-D coins along the way, but I also found 16 of them in the boxes. I also built several sets of Proofs to sell, plus silver Bicentennial coins. Additionally, there were several dozen each of silver and clad commemoratives. Literally hundreds of Franklins and Walkers, 50 or so Barbers and, last but not least, three Seated halves. With the exception of the 40 1970-D's, all of these were pulled from bank boxes. Those were good times.
Great idea and it looks great
Mr_Spud