Dean’s finds

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Great finds Dean. I wonder where those consecutive 50s were hiding this time. Glad you saved them from the shredder.

I appreciate the tellers at my local banks that let me go through their mutilated pile. Some of my best finds have been from there.

Great finds Dean. I wonder where those consecutive 50s were hiding this time. Glad you saved them from the shredder.

Hi Magnolia,

In my searches, I see so many brand new Journey series banknotes, especially $50s and $100s in the mutilated piles.

There are many people who deal exclusively in cash and since the $1000 note is no longer available, they use $50s and $100s to hoard wealth.


Usually, I leave journey notes behind but I will take them if I know someone who wants them.

Often, I only have a couple of minutes to look through the notes so I can't check serial numbers for insert notes.

Dean

Understandable, you can only do so much. Personally I never find enough at once that it is a bother for me to just take everything they've got. If I change my mind later and don't want to keep it I can always just spend it. It sounds like you go through much more than me though, haha.

I once worked with an older lady who knew of my hobby. When her elderly mother passed, they went through mom's house and found massive amounts of cash hoarding. This lady and her brother split the hoard, and she invited me over to her place to look through it all and trade out anything I wanted before she brought it to the bank. Aside from being very grateful, as a younger collector (I was born in the mid 90s) it was fantastic to be able to comb through massive quantities of 50s and 100s from before I was born. I added a lot to my collection that day, including a few EHX in decent shape.

it was fantastic to be able to comb through massive quantities of 50s and 100s from before I was born. I added a lot to my collection that day, including a few EHX in decent shape.

That's a great story!

I got some consecutive EHX replacement $50s at face value from a bank a few years ago.  They would have been Uncirculated but the person who deposited them crunched them up! 

I kept them anyway, because they are still replacements but now, they are VF at best. 

Dean

Aug 3rd finds:

I searched through some coin rolls that I bought last Saturday.

There was no silver, but I did find a 1947 maple leaf nickel, a 1941, a 1955, and some nickels from the 60s. There was a fair number of US coins, including more than one full roll of US dimes.
The most interesting coin was a 10c piece from the British Caribbean Territories-Eastern Group, dated 1955.

Enjoy!
Dean

August 4th finds:

Yesterday, I stopped by a bank and I picked up some coins since there were no bills available.

I was surprised when I got a variety of foreign coins; a 10 sen piece from Malaysia, a 5 pence coin from the UK, a coin from Kuwait, and a fair number of US coins.

The cherry on top is of course not one, but two chrome plated Canadian nickels dated 1953 and 1954!

Unfortunately, the 1953 and 1954 nickels are the common variety and also rusty.   

Enjoy!
Dean

August 6th finds:

Today, I hunted some coins that I brought home yesterday.  There were some interesting foreign finds in the rolls such as a coin from Ukraine and a nice 2000 commemorative quarter and a 1983 nickel.  (Should I be saving 1983 dated coins?  Please comment…)  But the highlight as to be two British Indian 1 Anna coins from 1939 and 1945!

It’s amazing what people stuff into these rolls…

On a less exciting note, the teller also offered me 40 rolls of pennies.  Of course, I had to take them!

Enjoy!
Dean