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A good end to a BAD day! (Bank Find)
Yesterday was a BAD day! I found out the hard way that the automatic Windows updates didn't work on my entire deployment of about 300 public workstations in five different library buildings. (Of course, it worked on the test machines just fine.) I had to kick everybody off of them and power them down until we could go around and patch them by hand (with the network cable unplugged). College students are not very understanding or forgiving when assignments are due, and the reference staff wasn't much better (at first) when I gave them the news. So, like I said, yesterday was a BAD day! My wife recently went back to work. She didn't want to, but she ended up working in a bank again. Well, when she got home last night, she held out her hand and said "Would you like this?" I got all excited, but then she handed me a Lincoln Memorial Cent that looks like somebody tried to cut it in half with bolt cutters. I declined on that one. She said, "Okay. How about this one?" She then hands me a Buffalo Nickle. Now, this is my first circulation (or bank) find Buffalo Nickle, so I definately accepted this one! The date is almost completely gone, but I'm fairly certain it is a 1916. It might be a 1906 or a 1926, but I don't think that there is enough room for that wide of a digit. Then, she said, "Would you like this one?" and handed me a 1939 D Washington Quarter. When I took that one, she said, "How about this one?" and handed me a 1966 Kennedy Half Dollar. After I took that one, she said, "How about these?" and handed me a sealed envelope. When I opened it, I discovered it had 113 Lincoln Wheat Cents and one blank planchet. Needless to say, I took them all! None of the coins are in great condition, and I'm a bit rusty on grading. Plus, it was pretty late before I could even go through and look at dates and mint marks. So, no grades for now, but none of them are going to grade very high. Still, they will make nice hole fillers in my Lincoln Cents from circulation collection. Here's the list: 1958 D x2 1958 x2 1957 D x14 1956 D x8 1955 D x4 1954 D x2 1953 D x5 1952 D x9 1951 D x10 1951 x1 1950 D x3 1949 D x1 1948 x1 1947 D x4 1946 S x1 1946 D x1 1946 x1 1945 D x2 1945 x5 1944 S x1 1944 x3 1942 S x3 1942 x4 1941 D x1 1941 x3 1940 S x1 1940 D x1 1940 x3 1939 S x1 1939 x1 1938 x1 1937 D x1 1937 x2 1936 x1 1935 x1 1934 x1 1930 x1 1929 x2 1919 x3 1917 x1 1911 x1 Well, that only adds up to 112, but I know there were 113. I must have missed one when I grouped them, so one of the numbers above is one smaller than it should be. I'll have to double check when I have more time... - Andrew W Applegarth Now I just have to convince her that the Canadian coins that came in with this is worth bringing home to me... |
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Andrew W Applegarth wrote in
: Yesterday was a BAD day! I found out the hard way that the automatic Windows updates didn't work on my entire deployment of about 300 public workstations in five different library buildings. (Of course, it worked on the test machines just fine.) I had to kick everybody off of them and power them down until we could go around and patch them by hand (with the network cable unplugged). College students are not very understanding or forgiving when assignments are due, and the reference staff wasn't much better (at first) when I gave them the news. So, like I said, yesterday was a BAD day! My wife recently went back to work. She didn't want to, but she ended up working in a bank again. Well, when she got home last night, she held out her hand and said "Would you like this?" I got all excited, but then she handed me a Lincoln Memorial Cent that looks like somebody tried to cut it in half with bolt cutters. I declined on that one. She said, "Okay. How about this one?" She then hands me a Buffalo Nickle. Now, this is my first circulation (or bank) find Buffalo Nickle, so I definately accepted this one! The date is almost completely gone, but I'm fairly certain it is a 1916. It might be a 1906 or a 1926, but I don't think that there is enough room for that wide of a digit. Then, she said, "Would you like this one?" and handed me a 1939 D Washington Quarter. When I took that one, she said, "How about this one?" and handed me a 1966 Kennedy Half Dollar. After I took that one, she said, "How about these?" and handed me a sealed envelope. When I opened it, I discovered it had 113 Lincoln Wheat Cents and one blank planchet. Needless to say, I took them all! None of the coins are in great condition, and I'm a bit rusty on grading. Plus, it was pretty late before I could even go through and look at dates and mint marks. So, no grades for now, but none of them are going to grade very high. Still, they will make nice hole fillers in my Lincoln Cents from circulation collection. Here's the list: 1958 D x2 1958 x2 1957 D x14 1956 D x8 1955 D x4 1954 D x2 1953 D x5 1952 D x9 1951 D x10 1951 x1 1950 D x3 1949 D x1 1948 x1 1947 D x4 1946 S x1 1946 D x1 1946 x1 1945 D x2 1945 x5 1944 S x1 1944 x3 1942 S x3 1942 x4 1941 D x1 1941 x3 1940 S x1 1940 D x1 1940 x3 1939 S x1 1939 x1 1938 x1 1937 D x1 1937 x2 1936 x1 1935 x1 1934 x1 1930 x1 1929 x2 1919 x3 1917 x1 1911 x1 Well, that only adds up to 112, but I know there were 113. I must have missed one when I grouped them, so one of the numbers above is one smaller than it should be. I'll have to double check when I have more time... - Andrew W Applegarth Now I just have to convince her that the Canadian coins that came in with this is worth bringing home to me... Andrew - that sure WAS a good end to your bad day! Holy cow! You have a great wife, there, to think of you as she works! That's a nice haul of coins, even if they are low-grade! Congrats! She's a keeper! -- Smile!! Eric Babula Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA |
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Eric Babula wrote in
1: Andrew - that sure WAS a good end to your bad day! Holy cow! You have a great wife, there, to think of you as she works! That's a nice haul of coins, even if they are low-grade! Congrats! She's a keeper! I know that she's a keeper! She has put a lot of coins into my collection during her years working at various banks. She actually gave me my first silver coin, a 1942 S Walking Liberty Half Dollar. It has a hole in it, but I love it! (I'm playing with my digital camera, and I just posted a pic of it in ABPN if you're interested.) She's only worked at this bank for about a month, and she had already brought home 3 other wheat cents. This is the first silver from this location. I got $5 in rolls of cents to go through from her bank a while back. I've only had time to go through $4 so far. (I have a nearly 3 year old and a nearly 6 month old, so time is precious. Plus, my 3 year old son likes coins, so I have to look at the 'good' stuff when he isn't around. When I go through my change, he claims most of it and I have to fight to keep the few that I want.) There were two rolls that were 2004 D cents. I picked through and kept the best, then released the rest into circulation. The rest are largely from the seventies. If it wasn't for the pitting and corrosion, some of them would be some really nice coins! As it is, I'm finding very few worth saving. :-( They have a coin machine, and she has promised to let me buy a $50 bag of cents off of it once she starts getting paychecks and we catch back up from having to pay for daycare up front in order for her to start working... I'm real excited to see what I might find in the 'local collection'. (They don't roll their own coin, but send the bags to the armored company and then buy rolls back from them.) Well, I'm rambling when all I really meant to say was that she is DEFINATELY A KEEPER!!! - Andrew W Applegarth I may have to cross post this to a newsgroup she actually reads... I could use some extra brownie points! |
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Andrew W Applegarth wrote in
: I got $5 in rolls of cents to go through from her bank a while back. I've only had time to go through $4 so far. (I have a nearly 3 year old and a nearly 6 month old, so time is precious. Plus, my 3 year old son likes coins, so I have to look at the 'good' stuff when he isn't around. When I go through my change, he claims most of it and I have to fight to keep the few that I want.) There were two rolls that were 2004 D cents. I picked through and kept the best, then released the rest into circulation. The rest are largely from the seventies. If it wasn't for the pitting and corrosion, some of them would be some really nice coins! As it is, I'm finding very few worth saving. :-( Blasphemy! You better watch your mouth, or Alan will have your head! -- Eric Babula Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA |
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Eric Babula wrote:
Andrew W Applegarth wrote in : I got $5 in rolls of cents to go through from her bank a while back. I've only had time to go through $4 so far. (I have a nearly 3 year old and a nearly 6 month old, so time is precious. Plus, my 3 year old son likes coins, so I have to look at the 'good' stuff when he isn't around. When I go through my change, he claims most of it and I have to fight to keep the few that I want.) There were two rolls that were 2004 D cents. I picked through and kept the best, then released the rest into circulation. The rest are largely from the seventies. If it wasn't for the pitting and corrosion, some of them would be some really nice coins! As it is, I'm finding very few worth saving. :-( Blasphemy! You better watch your mouth, or Alan will have your head! Nah. I'd have to concur. When I search 10 rolls of cents, I always have $4.50 rerolled and about 30 loose when I've finished. 20 of 500 is about one in 25 that I actually 'can'. Maybe one in 500 gets it's own living space in a mylar. Alan 'liberal adoption policy, but not all-inclusive' |
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Alan Williams wrote in
: Eric Babula wrote: Andrew W Applegarth wrote in : I got $5 in rolls of cents to go through from her bank a while back. I've only had time to go through $4 so far. (I have a nearly 3 year old and a nearly 6 month old, so time is precious. Plus, my 3 year old son likes coins, so I have to look at the 'good' stuff when he isn't around. When I go through my change, he claims most of it and I have to fight to keep the few that I want.) There were two rolls that were 2004 D cents. I picked through and kept the best, then released the rest into circulation. The rest are largely from the seventies. If it wasn't for the pitting and corrosion, some of them would be some really nice coins! As it is, I'm finding very few worth saving. :-( Blasphemy! You better watch your mouth, or Alan will have your head! Nah. I'd have to concur. When I search 10 rolls of cents, I always have $4.50 rerolled and about 30 loose when I've finished. 20 of 500 is about one in 25 that I actually 'can'. Maybe one in 500 gets it's own living space in a mylar. Alan 'liberal adoption policy, but not all-inclusive' If it hadn't been for the vedigris (sp?), I would have had a much higher save rate. I may have Irish blood in me, but when it comes to coins, I fear the green! Since the coins were nothing rare, they didn't seem like good examples to keep. Plus, how many coins I keep tends to be inversely proportional to how often it happens and/or how many rolls she brings home for me... - Andrew W Applegarth |
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On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:23:56 -0000, Andrew W Applegarth
wrote: Yesterday was a BAD day! I found out the hard way that the automatic Windows updates didn't work on my entire deployment of about 300 public workstations in five different library buildings. (Of course, it worked on the test machines just fine.) I had to kick everybody off of them and power them down until we could go around and patch them by hand (with the network cable unplugged). College students are not very understanding or forgiving when assignments are due, and the reference staff wasn't much better (at first) when I gave them the news. So, like I said, yesterday was a BAD day! My wife recently went back to work. She didn't want to, but she ended up working in a bank again. Well, when she got home last night, she held out her hand and said "Would you like this?" I got all excited, but then she handed me a Lincoln Memorial Cent that looks like somebody tried to cut it in half with bolt cutters. I declined on that one. She said, "Okay. How about this one?" She then hands me a Buffalo Nickle. Now, this is my first circulation (or bank) find Buffalo Nickle, so I definately accepted this one! The date is almost completely gone, but I'm fairly certain it is a 1916. It might be a 1906 or a 1926, but I don't think that there is enough room for that wide of a digit. Then, she said, "Would you like this one?" and handed me a 1939 D Washington Quarter. When I took that one, she said, "How about this one?" and handed me a 1966 Kennedy Half Dollar. After I took that one, she said, "How about these?" and handed me a sealed envelope. When I opened it, I discovered it had 113 Lincoln Wheat Cents and one blank planchet. Needless to say, I took them all! None of the coins are in great condition, and I'm a bit rusty on grading. Plus, it was pretty late before I could even go through and look at dates and mint marks. So, no grades for now, but none of them are going to grade very high. Still, they will make nice hole fillers in my Lincoln Cents from circulation collection. Here's the list: 1958 D x2 1958 x2 1957 D x14 1956 D x8 1955 D x4 1954 D x2 1953 D x5 1952 D x9 1951 D x10 1951 x1 1950 D x3 1949 D x1 1948 x1 1947 D x4 1946 S x1 1946 D x1 1946 x1 1945 D x2 1945 x5 1944 S x1 1944 x3 1942 S x3 1942 x4 1941 D x1 1941 x3 1940 S x1 1940 D x1 1940 x3 1939 S x1 1939 x1 1938 x1 1937 D x1 1937 x2 1936 x1 1935 x1 1934 x1 1930 x1 1929 x2 1919 x3 1917 x1 1911 x1 Well, that only adds up to 112, but I know there were 113. I must have missed one when I grouped them, so one of the numbers above is one smaller than it should be. I'll have to double check when I have more time... - Andrew W Applegarth Now I just have to convince her that the Canadian coins that came in with this is worth bringing home to me... Sounds like its nice to have a wife that works at the bank and knows her husband is into coin collecting!! Congrats on your "FIND" !! Gary |
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