Saturday, October 4, 2008

Apple Picking



Today Henry, Meg and I went apple picking. We met up with some friends of ours and later had dinner with them. I'm sure apple picking will be a yearly tradition for our family, but probably not at this place. There was little atmosphere. The orchard was entirely under massive power lines. :( It was a bit expensive too. The place did have fainting goats though!

I searched some coin before we left and afterwards in the evening.

235 small dollars didn't produce anything.

8,000 half dollars yielded quite a bit! In them I found thirty-nine 90% half dollars (1935S, 1937, 1941, 1942S, 1943D, 1944, 1945D, 1945S, 1949, 1954, 1958D, 1962D, 2 x 1963D, 21 x 1964, 3 x 1964D, 1964?), ninety-nine 40% half dollars (5 x 1965, 13 x 1966, 33 x 1967, 34 x 1968D, 14 x 1969D), one proof half (1979S), three mint set halves (2003D, 2004P, 2004D), and one Jamaican 50¢. I had a great feeling for these boxes based on the twenty silver ones showing, including two Walking Liberties and two Ben Franklins! The Jamaican coin is a first for me and one of the 1964 Kennedys has two heads, it's a trick coin someone made.

3 comments:

Thom said...

That's a great haul, congrats!

kestrelia said...

Thanks! It was my 2nd best haul ever, bested only by April 4th, 2008.

James (UK) said...

We have hundreds of native apple varieties here, but the supermarkets simply will not sell anything other than 3 or 4 "main stays". :-(