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Proof Quarter Found in Cash Drawer

Found this 2003-S Missouri Statehood quarter in our cash drawer at work: a copper-nickel proof coin. It amazes me how these get into circulation, I seem to run across one about once a year or so.

Daryl Conley
Truth or Consequences, N.M.

I have written in previously on my coin findsmint quarters, two Washington Crossing the Delaware quarters with the full crown die chip on the hat, 92 silver Roosevelt dimes, eight Mercury dimes, four silver Canadian dimes, six Buffalo nickels, 15 silver war nickels,one 1903 Liberty V nickel, 42 wheat pennies, 2 1957 $1 Silver Certificates, six 1935 $1 Silver Certificates. The two best finds for the year were a 1950-D Jefferson nickel, the first I have found, and four 40 percent silver Ike dollars, two from 1972 and two from 1973. I regularly search probably $1,000 worth of rolls every week. Overall, I would have to say it was a productive year coin-roll hunting.

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