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FINDS TODAY IN HALF-DOLLAR ROLLS AT THE LOCAL BANK!! - - WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN "LAST" POS
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CONTEST OVER!! WINNERS IN WHAT IS CURRENTLY THE LAST POST!!
Well, after reading all the recent posts from folks who have gotten a few rolls of halves from their banks full of 40%, 90%, Franklins, & Walkers, I decided to ask if there were any rolls available at my local bank - - the one which never seems to have any of the new State Quarter or Presidential Dollar rolls on order..............
I was with my son & explained what kinds of finds one could come up with by searching halves rolls, and, as luck would have it, the bank actually had 4 older, hand-wrapped rolls available!
I jumped on them & brought them home for us to search thru, and we found............................................
...................Guess the results!!
Average Grade of all Halves searched = ????
Most Common Date/Mintmark Found = ????
# clad JFK's = ????
# 40% Silver JFK's = ????
# 90% Silver JFK's = ????
# Franklins = ????
# Walkers = ????
# Barbers = ????
Random drawing to be held among all who post guesses here, with the winner getting one of the coins which qualifies as "Most Common Date/Mintmark Found" - - in a quality he or she should be VERY pleased with!!
Results & drawing by Sunday, Dec 21.
- - Dave
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Whoops...just changed the 40 to 80 heh heh
2)1986-d
3)65
4)7
5)3
6)3
7)2
8)0
- - Dave
Hoard the keys.
1964D
0 clad
0 40%
80 90%
I hope that you did that well! Thanks for the chance!
Most Common Date/Mintmark Found = 1976 P
# clad JFK's = 72
# 40% Silver JFK's = 6
# 90% Silver JFK's = 2
# Franklins = 0
# Walkers = 0
# Barbers = 0
Most Common Date/Mintmark Found = 1979-P
# clad JFK's = 68# 40% Silver JFK's = 6
# 90% Silver JFK's = 2
# Franklins = 1
# Walkers = 3
# Barbers = 0
2 Franklins
1 Walker
19 40%s.
# Clad JFKs: the rest
0 Barbers
Most common is probably the 1976 P
Average grade? I hope you weren't really keeping track of this. XF
I'm guessing you got 4 rolls of franklins!
Many members on this forum that now it cannot fit in my signature. Please ask for entire list.
BTW I went through 25 rolls today and found.......................................NADA
whos closest
Clads 1776/1976= 60%
Kens 40%= 20%
Kens 90%= 20%
Frankies 0%
libs 0%
All coins on the average is Vf+
Finger crossed.
(1) MS63
(2) 1964-(P)
(3) 0
(4) 0
(5) 20
(6) 52
(7) 7
(8) 1
...not that I would believe this.
NSDR - Life Member
SSDC - Life Member
ANA - Pay As I Go Member
2. 1964D
3. 40
4. 20
5. 10
6. 5
7. 3
8. 2
Most Common Date/Mintmark Found = 1942 P
# clad JFK's = 15
# 40% Silver JFK's = 15
# 90% Silver JFK's = 3
# Franklins = 20
# Walkers = 25
# Barbers = 2
Most Common Date/Mintmark Found = 1964 P
# clad JFK's = 0
# 40% Silver JFK's = 12
# 90% Silver JFK's = 22
# Franklins = 12
# Walkers = 22
# Barbers = 12
Cool giveaway - and I hope you got what I guessed!!!
I am a YN that likes collecting state quarters and newer dollar coins
only a very small number of people came even close to guessing the distribution correctly....................
......... while most people guessed closer that the halves I found in the rolls rated among the higher grades for average condition.................................
keepdachange was thrown a bit by my choice of wording that ".... the winner will be very pleased with the coin give-away...", whereas I really stated that the giveaway coin would be "in a QUALITY he or she should be VERY pleased with!!"
Nothing worse than a lousy coin in lousy condition!!........................
Which brings me to my official results and declaration of a winner................................ AND "special runner-up/consolation prize winner"..........................................
Let me just say that I WISH my finds were as good as others lately on this Forum, as well as most everyone's guesses! And, Halfhunter06.......... I'm SURE you could blow away what I found!
because on this day, it looks like I got "skunked" by another collector, who must have gone thru a bag of halves from the Mint looking for coins to slab & wrapped the rest.........................
........official results:
Average Grade of all Halves searched = MS62??
Most Common Date/Mintmark Found = 1990P (66 out of the 80 coins!!! - - fresh as the day they were made by the mint!!)
# clad JFK's = 80
# 40% Silver JFK's = 0
# 90% Silver JFK's = 0
# Franklins = 0
# Walkers = 0
# Barbers = 0
So, with his guess of 72 clad, 6 40%, and 2 90%, the winner of a VERY NICE example of the most common date coin (1990P) is.....
rbf !!!!
Congrats!! Shoot me your addy, and the coin will be on its way!
And a special prize of another such half goes out to: keepdachange, to console him for coming up with NADA in his own search of 25 rolls yesterday..................
Oh, well. At least I have a guaranteed replacement for my existing 1990P halves in my & my sons' Whitman folders, even if I did otherwise come up empty-handed in the silver & amazing-find categories. There's always tomorrow!!
Thanks for playing!
- - Dave
keepdachange................ I still need your address to send you out your consolation prize!
- - Dave