My grandmother was lucky with Circ coins
Moonbiter
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The vast majority of my collection was given to me by my grandmother. She never had a lot of money and acquired most her collection in circulated change. She would take what little money she had, and got rolls of pennies, dimes, nickels etc etc from the bank and looked through them. She started this in the mid fifties.
Her "holy grail" to find was a 1909 S vdb penny, which she finally found in the early sixties. I had a friend send it in last year to PCGS and it graded VF 20. In her collecting, this is what she accomplished.
1 set of washington quarters. She had to buy a 32d and paid $31 for one in AG to G condition.
1 set of Mercury dimes minus the 16-d and another almost complete set.
1 set of buffalo nickels and another almost complete set.
2 sets of Roosevelt dimes
1 set of Jefferson nickels
1 set of franklin halves - bought the coins to make a set
That is not to bad in my book. She also had a hefty amount of silver coins in reserve.
Thats not to bad for a change hunter. She was lucky to be able to live at a time when change was actually exciting to look at, and you could find stuff without the use of high power loupes and scopes to find the errors in this modern stuff.
Even though these key date coins aren't super expensive, they will be going to PCGS one by one to get graded and encapsulated.
Here is her 1913 s var2 buffalo nickel and her 1922 no d weak reverse penny. It will be interesting to see what that penny grades at, since the reverse is so weak, and you can tell the obverse didn't have a strong strike either.
The date is a bit better in hand, as the 1 and 3 are clearly visible in hand.
This '22 no D is a very weakly struck coin. Most the detail never made it to the coin when it was minted.
Her "holy grail" to find was a 1909 S vdb penny, which she finally found in the early sixties. I had a friend send it in last year to PCGS and it graded VF 20. In her collecting, this is what she accomplished.
1 set of washington quarters. She had to buy a 32d and paid $31 for one in AG to G condition.
1 set of Mercury dimes minus the 16-d and another almost complete set.
1 set of buffalo nickels and another almost complete set.
2 sets of Roosevelt dimes
1 set of Jefferson nickels
1 set of franklin halves - bought the coins to make a set
That is not to bad in my book. She also had a hefty amount of silver coins in reserve.
Thats not to bad for a change hunter. She was lucky to be able to live at a time when change was actually exciting to look at, and you could find stuff without the use of high power loupes and scopes to find the errors in this modern stuff.
Even though these key date coins aren't super expensive, they will be going to PCGS one by one to get graded and encapsulated.
Here is her 1913 s var2 buffalo nickel and her 1922 no d weak reverse penny. It will be interesting to see what that penny grades at, since the reverse is so weak, and you can tell the obverse didn't have a strong strike either.
The date is a bit better in hand, as the 1 and 3 are clearly visible in hand.
This '22 no D is a very weakly struck coin. Most the detail never made it to the coin when it was minted.
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The 1922 is the Die 3.
<< <i>Very nice and neat story.
The 1922 is the Die 3. >>
Well, that shows how bad I am, I was thinking Die 4.
Cool lady she was....
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<< <i>Did your grandmother need another grandkid? I'd have been available for adoption BTW...
Cool lady she was.... >>
Probably, I am the only grandchild in my family. My mom's sister never got married.
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My Washington Quarter Registry set...in progress