Bonding

Last night was a great night for me. Henry and I had our best fifteen minutes together. I sat him on the sofa next to me and told him about coins, showed him the good ones, and smiled a lot at him. He smiled back alot at me and followed the coins with his eyes. I realize he doesn't understand any of this, but it was fun to talk to him about something and he seemed to enjoy listening to me. I then stroked his back as he went to sleep right next to me. A couple of hours later he was completely freaking out, giving his mom something to talk about in her group today ... such is life with a newborn. Meg's sure earning any Mothers' Day gifts she'll be getting. No doubt about that!

It was also a great night for silver. I searched 10,000 halves (10 boxes) and found thirty-two 90% silver halves (1944, 1946, 22 x 1964, 1964D, 2005S), one hundred sixty-three 40% silver halves (4 x 1965, 12 x 1966, 56 x 1967, 60 x 1968D, 31 x 1969D, 1976S), seven proof halves (1973S, 1976S-Silver, 1978S, 3 x 1979S, 2005S-Silver), one mint set half (2002P) and one Bermuda 50¢. It was great to find a new Walker and those silver proof halves are great.



The 1976S-Silver is from a special collector proof set. The set came with an Ike dollar and a quarter in a little case. All three coins were 40% silver. They made them as proof and circulation strikes. I'm not sure which my coin is, but my best guess is proof and if so it was originally sold for $15-20. About 4 million sets were sold. Here's a story about them.



Likewise the 2005S-Silver is from a special annual proof set. The set comes with all the coins made that year. The coins that are normally clad (dime, quarter, half, etc.) are 90% silver. I couldn't find the original price of the set, but the 2008 set is being sold for $45. About 1.1 million sets were minted and sold.

Lastly, this morning I searched 2,200 hand rolled quarters In them I found one silver Washington (1951D), three US nickels, and one Dominican Republic 25 Centavos. As always it was good to find silver quarter, but I was bummed that it wasn't one I needed for my album.

850 hand rolled dimes produced nothing.

Found: 2 pennies (at work), 1 dime (at Sovereign Bank)