The Attic Pt. 1

Today my father and I got done about half the attic insulation project done! It's one of my green tasks for 2008. On Sunday I'll do a bit more up there and then hopefully sometime this week we'll devote another day to it and finish the job. My Dad gets a cheap and green credit for suggesting that we reuse the insulation I took down last weekend. This saved us about $150, I think, and meant we have a lot less to dispose of.

Last night and this morning I did some coin searching.

I first hunted through 500 small dollars, all hand rolled. They were roughly separated by type. In them I found five mint set dollars (2002P, 3 x 2002D, 2003P) and one Canadian Loonie. It had been 340 something days since my last small dollar find!

I searched 10,000 halves (10 boxes) and found six 90% silver halves (1936?, 1954, 1946 Booker T. Washington, 3 x 1964), eighteen 40% silver halves (2 x 1965, 1966, 6 x 1967, 5 x 1968D, 4 x 1969D), and twenty-three mint set halves (4 x 2002P, 2 x 2002D, 2003P, 3 x 2003D, 5 x 2004P, 5 x 2004D, 2 x 2005P, 2006D). The Booker T. Washington half is only the second commemorative coin I've found and it's the first 90% silver one. Only about a million were minted. The Walker I found is almost dateless, 1936 is my best guess. It is now on my "for jewelry" pile. Someday I hope to have some jewelry made out of the 90% silver coins I have that are too worn to have any numismatic value or be easily sold for melt.





880 quarters, 2300 dimes, and 1080 nickels, all hand rolled, produced just three Canadian dimes and five Canadian nickels (1 Ni).

I also searched 4,100 pennies. In them I found sixteen Wheats, thirty-one Canadians, and one US dime. The Wheats were:

1938, 1940, 1941(2), 1944, 1945(3), 1946, 1949, 1950, 1952D, 1955D, 1957D, 1958D(2)

Here's a funny video of Henry in his Bumbo. You can hear his daddy coin searching in the background.



Found: 3 pennies (2 at Auto Zone, 1 at Stop & Shop)