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Dean
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« Reply #750 on: May 13, 2025, 11:22:56 pm »

May 13th coin hunting finds:

I went back to the bank that had given me rolls of dimes containing silver and once again, they did not disappoint!

In $100 worth of dimes I found:
Three colour 2021 dimes
$1.10 in US dimes
Four 1968 nickel alloy dimes
And best of all, another 1939 dated silver dime!

Silver coins are still out there!

Enjoy!
Dean


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« Reply #751 on: May 13, 2025, 11:43:49 pm »

May 13th find:

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure!

While running some errands this evening, I walked by an apartment complex in my neighbourhood that had a lot of garbage at the curb.  Garbage day is Wednesday, so normally I wouldn’t think anything about the boxes of trash and household junk in these boxes, but something stuck out;  I saw the Canadian coat of arms on a cardboard box and immediately, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up.

I was delighted to see that it was a case for a 1967 coin set, but what was even better was that there were coins inside of the case!. Sadly (but not unexpectedly) there was no $20 gold piece in the set.  🤣

But finding free coins is always a thrill, especially when some of them are silver!  Why would anybody throw coins into the garbage?

The question is:  Do I leave it as-is?  Do I replace the tarnished coins with better examples?  Do I complete the set by buying a 1967 $20 gold coin?

What would you do?

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Dean


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« Reply #752 on: May 14, 2025, 12:20:38 am »

UH-OH! It was probably someone’s moving day and you walked away with their coins.

Is it just a harmless prefix-kix or do I live for that next prefix-fix?
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« Reply #753 on: May 14, 2025, 04:09:40 pm »

Today was your lucky day! I imagined if they threw away  the set that also included the gold coin and it went to the landfill  :'( but at least you saved it from the garbage. One man's trash is another man's treasure. But I did some research about the golden $20 coin and I see the melt value is $1400 but it sells upwards from 2.5k to 2.7k which is very expensive but if you have the money then I would buy it.

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