Thread: Roll-searchers, post your results!

So i bought my first dime box today. In my first roll I got a 47 Roosie! But I have a question for all of you- The rolls are in plastic so I can see all of them. I have looked ahead and see no silvers, so I am wondering if it's still worth opening all of them. What is my chance I will find anything worth while?

Probably not. But I'm not all that experienced yet

Are you planning on dumping rolls? I wonder if that's easier than dumping loose change.

Ya, I'll probably dump the rolls if there's no real reason to open them.

Hey all - haven't posted in a couple of days.

Another box of Halves today...Skunk.

Skunked on 8 out of last 9 boxes of Halves and 27 out of last 31.

On the other hand...I grabbed $200 in machine wrapped dimes from 2 different banks:

7 x Silver Roosies!!!

I tried the same yesterday on about $340 in dimes and got ZIPPO!. However, that's 7 Roosies and 7 Mercs in 2 days with this technique. Starting to think I'll do this instead of doing boxes.

Which banks let you buy bags?

3 boxes of cents
38 wheats, a 1998 WAM and a 2000 WAM!

Originally Posted by Merc Crazy

Happy birthday!

Thanks! Last night was great, and thankfully my luck held up for my actual bday. Out of $140 in various rolls I got a Washington, 2 Roosies, 2 war nickels, and 3 wheaties.

Also opened a box of halves that was marked up like crazy, but they missed 1 40%er. Haha, suckers! Also opened a box of dimes and got 1 Roosie, meh but at least it's better than my dime boxes last week.

So all in all a pretty great birthday. Still have about $250 in various rolls between tomorrow and saturday, and I still have 2 nickel boxes and (probably) another box of dimes and halves. I'll post my full results on saturday, as usual.

I was sorting the last of the copper from my previous cent box and came on a nice 77d CUD in the center of Lincoln's hair. That's 2 errors from that box so far ! With the other die crack. I am finishing the 70's decade working backward, so there is hope for more.

gary

And so come the 2012's... almost a full box of the dimes and 14 rolls of nickels out of three boxes of dimes and two boxes of nickels.

Did pull 6 roosies, 1 merc, 1 war, and 1 dateless buff, though.

Not the most productive day in terms of silver, but it was interesting for sure:

$80 BWR dimes: nothing, mostly fresh '11 D rolls
$355 CWR dimes: '72 Canadian, '71 UK half penny, '80 Swedish 25 öre, two US zinc pennies, a '59 Roosie, and a '41 Merc!

$100 BWR nickels: '93, '94, and '09 Canadian, '09 Mexican peso, and a '45 D war nickel!

Nice finds everyone. Didnt find anything here this week.

$250 box of dimes - skunk
$50 in cwr halves - skunk

Originally Posted by mammoth29

So i bought my first dime box today. In my first roll I got a 47 Roosie! But I have a question for all of you- The rolls are in plastic so I can see all of them. I have looked ahead and see no silvers, so I am wondering if it's still worth opening all of them. What is my chance I will find anything worth while?

I do not open the clear rolls. I pull anything that is dark, dirty, or in anyway suspicious though just to make sure it is not silver. My banks do not have coin machines so I have to turn them in rolled. I wonder if your bank will require that they go through the counter?

I don't remember if I told this story already or not but I coin hunting road trip a couple weeks ago and ran out of cash so I searched some in the car so I could dump it and keep going. It ended up that that town did have a penny machine behind their counter and they made me open all the rolls so they could run it through the machine. I turned in $300 in halves. they got all confused trying to change bags etc. and ended up trying to tell me I turned in $150 according to the machine!!!! I made them count the papers rolls that they had torn open and pay me $300. they didn't fight it to much as they new they had been screwing up.

In summery: You guys can keep your penny arcades! I'm happy turning in rolls.

Luckily, I have not gotten any 2012 coins yet. They are coming ALOT earlier than last year. They started showing up in my area around June and stuck around for a long time, couple solid months. Then they came back at the end of the year.
HOTN

Originally Posted by pballer225

I only have $2,000 more in my coin budget lol. I'm trying to sell some ikes I have now to make more money back

Well, If I had that option, I'd buy them all, and if you can't afford to keep 'em, just save certain Ikes you want and take the rest back to a different bank. At least you were able to go through them, and were able to keep the keepers. Not really too big of a deal that you couldn't make a dime off each on ebay or whatever.