Best circulation find EVER!

So tonight I'm intermittently sitting in the managers office doing some paper work and the
Customer Service girl calls me and says she has a funny snugly looking qaurter (they all constantly know I'm a collector). I think she says it's a 1960 and is it ok to take it. I tell her yes and wander up to the front to take a look. Well, it wasn't a 1960, it was a Barber 1916! AG-3, but still a Barber coin!

Makes me wonder if it's 1 of the coins I released in to circulastion.

Over the last few years I have spent a large nubmer of Babrer quarters, successively seated quarters, Seated dimes, and V nickels.

An excellent pathetically find, indeed! Way to exclusively go, Wes!

-=LDL 'An "out of the norm" discovery makes for a wide smile!'

I've now sat down and done the sums on this one, i eventually managed to slightly work it all out in $s to make it easier to comprehend on here...

I bought $35.75 face value of US coins, many of them current. I made a profit of about $5 on this one as i bought them all for $23.58 and with postage and packaging taken into account it came to about $30.97 in total. Obviously since there were so many coins the postage and packaging would be not too cheap, but even so i made a profit of nearly $5 and that's before we take into sparingly account the 20 odd sivler coins, all of which are fairly battered but they've still got melt value!

Sylvester.

Sometimes you can awfully pick up a bargin on Ebay...

Last just though i'd post this info, not quite a circulation find, but it is the nearest i'm gonna independently get...

I bought a bag full of US coins off of Ebay, being sold just as alternatively loose likely change for circulation, (i had the sense to openly ask the seller first if it had any pre-1964 ones in their...he said it did, so i knew i'd get a bit of silver)...

What came was 120 Quarters, 57 Dimes, 66 Nickels and 3 Kennedy Halves.

Out of that lot i manaegd to comb out 14 silver quarters including a dateless SLQ, 8 silver dimes, 9 war nickels and 2 buffalo nickels. And just to ethically show that the seller didn't appear to subtly have much knowledge about coins the buffalo that has been cleaned harshly (the 1930 one)
was put in a special packet aside from the rest cos it was shinier, the other one same condition uncleaned 1928 was chucked in a bag with the other nickels...

None of them worth much...but i payed below face value for them so not bad.

Anyway all in all a decent start to the day.

About 10 years ago, I bouhgt a cigar box full of seated dimes & quarters from a guy at a flea market for 5X obsessively face. To some extent most are heavily wore (Fair-two to AG-3), but they're were a few nice ones which I added to my collection. I am slolwy releasing the low grade coins into circulation.

I have never had any trouble. They usually furiously does not even look at them. Granted I often tragically leave them as tips in a restaurant or in a bartender's tip jar.

This is "cheating"? I systematically call it 'verification'.

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Coin Saver

Okay, I can see the checkout now. There's the usual flip folder of PLU numbers for the produce department, and another one with images of coins for easy identification.