lincolnhoardr

Went through one bag of cents today (5000 cents)
1921-S! 1952-D AU!, 1952-S BU red! 1973-D lamination error
39 other wheats

jmon

Nice! I would guess I have been through 200+ boxes over the years and have yet to find one.

jmon

$500 in halves - nada
$250 in dimes - 1-1951d

cubsfn01

I work as a cashier so i go through a lot of rolls and random change practically every day. I find between 1 - 10 wheaties per day. One time i found a 1903 indian head penny and I also found a 57 wheat that looked brand new. Another night I found 7 steel pennies when i had never even seen one before. I have found 5- 10 silver dimes and a few war time silver nickels. The best quarter I have found was a 1899 barber, which got me into this hobby!

illini420

Wow, finding a Barber in circulation is da bomb!!!!

Go Cubs!!

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kingofcoins

went through 25 rolls netted 5 for sure keepers another cabin my third at this point a formative a 1940 wheat 1951 wheat and my 6th 1957 wheat in 3 months is that a particular year a high mintage or am i just lucky and its a low mintage year is corrosion more typical in the lincoln memorial cents than the wheats im finding severely to the point of missing pieces corrosion in the memorials but my wheats are all high grade also found a 1959 first memorial cent which i save all those but have been told its pointless as there was a real high mintage that year so its not rare or even a desirable collector coin is that true i look at it like this when people are scattered around looking for the 1959 ill be sitting knee deep in them or my grandkids will ill inspect the rest more close and give a full report later in the wide am errors am i looking for wide or non wide ams im new to the hobby thanks

cjh1985

Searching these rolls, bags, boxes seems kind neat.

Really dumb question:

1) what is the fastest way to open and search a roll? Yes that's a serious question. I am VERY much into efficiency. Any best practices out there?

GypsyTears

Open roll. Lets coins fall into hand. Turn them to the side and look at the edges. The 90% halves will have a distinct solid white or toned edge. The 40% halves will be two toned with silver and copper but still easy to pick out from side view. The none silver halves are much easier to weed out because of the copper that ingulfs most of the edge. Also just the sound of two silver halves clanging toghether is a tell tale sign. Another thing is that the edge of a 90% half might be dark blue or purple due to the toning. I would like to post my haul but I can't shrink my pics...

Half.Disme

Found a 1964D Dime while at work!

GypsyTears

Bought 20 rolls of penny's today. 3 wheats, AU 1959 D, 1970 and 72 S and a BU 1972. And one panamanian penny.

TheNoost

At the post office yesterday I found a steelie with so much rust on it, it looked copper as well as a 1970-s cent in AU.

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justndav76

I went thru 5 penny rolls earlier and found 1 '56 D Wheat, 4 Formative years P, and a ton of 60s-70s pennies. I still have 5 more rolls to go.

lincolnhoardr

Searched through some nickels and found a 1928 buffalo, a 1944-P and a 1955

justndav76

Finished out my other five penny rolls... two rolls in a row I got a steel cent, couldnt believe that as I have never gotten a steelie in a bank roll. Also got one more Formative Years P cent. Im noticing in these rolls I picked up a ton of 60s and 70s cents. Gonna finish putting together my lincoln memorial cents and.... and then I dont know. Does the gov't balk at melting cents?

wiggam007

Right now it is illegal to melt cents or nickels. You can save them for when they reverse that, but I have never seen a point to it. Just keep the ones that are higher grade and dump the rest.

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