benk1234

About 5 years ago I went to the bank and got $50 in halfs and the teller said a man brought in a roll of halfs to cash in that she had not seen before and wondered if I wanted them. Needless to say I said yes and could not wait to see them. When she gave them to me on the outside of the roll was 2 tail Franklin halfs so I knew I had a great deal (at .50 cents apiece) what I did not know was the roll contained 4 Franklin halfs, 10 walkers, 5 Barbers and last but the best of all an 1878 Seated Half that was a VG-F. I thought right then I would never get a better buy and so far I have not even been Close!!! (nor do I expect to be).

chicken_little

DANG!

Daggarjon

DOUBLE DANG!!!

julzboi661

HOLY [insert favorite 4-letter expletive] !!!! What did you do? go change your pants afterward?

TOLS196024

I went through a box of nickels last night:
42 Pre 1960
1989-S Proof
1943-P Wartime
1945-P Wartime
1945-S Wartime
Last but not least, a 1913-S Type 1 Buffalo F-12. This is, so far, the oldest and most valuable nickel that I've pulled from a roll. Now if only I could find a 1916 DDO.....

karrlot

In a box of nickles I found 4 rolls of war nickles. I thought that was pretty neat. I put them back in rolls and set them aside. When I went to show my wife, I opened them up to find 4 rolls of modern nickels. I had gotten my rolls mixed up and sent the war nickels back to the bank. Easy come, easy go.

In the last two weeks I've gone through 100 rolls of halves - 16 - 40%, 3 - 90% and a 1954D.

Almost as much fun as searching halves is spending them. Most teenagers have never even seen them. I love buying things with a mix of Sacs, Ikes, SBAs, and halves.

GaryBurke

I pretty well completed my entire Jefferson set just by searching rolls.

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vision

tommorow i'm going to buy $100 worth of nickels from my bank. mostly i'll be looking for only 2004~2005 series of nickels (and of course the silver war time nickels and old buffalos). what else should i look for? i'll post results when i finish going through all of them

vision

well i just finished going through $100 worth of nickels from the bank. results:

61 keelboats
41 peace medals
46 (2005)buffalos
9(!) ocean view

10 nickels dated 1939~1959 (not counting the silver war times)
2 silver war time nickels

oldest nickel found was the one 1939

and, one more unusual find: 1994 canada 5 cent coin (haha!)

chicken_little

hm..vision, seems like you found 1/4 the average of pre-1960 per box. Atleast you collect the new ones. I don't and that wouldn't be very fun to only find 12 oldies.


Yesterday I went through 10 rolls of nickels. Found 7 oldies, one of them was a war-time.

tonylynch

Bought a roll of halves today and found a 1918 Walker, pretty worn, AG3.

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AvgCollector

Bought a roll of dollar coins. Nothing good IMO. Any good SBA's to look out for? I don't think that many or that rare.

Troodon

Out of 5 nickel rolls I got, 4 of them were nothing but 2005D bison nickels. Saved a roll... but really trying to fill my nickel book so getting sick of seeing the same one all the time, lol. Found a lot of 40's, 50's, 60's searching a few rolls. My half dollar searching finally turned up a silver today, 1967.

Troodon

None especially are. 81's are pretty rare in circualtion (not that rare on absolute basis, but were only issued in mint sets). S-minted SBAs are a little bit rarer than the P&D minted ones, but not by much. 2002 or later Sacagaweas were only issued in mint sets and are relatively rarer than 2000-2001. I had to go through a lot of dollar coins before I found any 2001 Sacagaweas, lol... the 2000's overwhelm them a lot.

smithrow1

Got 6 rolls of halfs last night 7-40% 1-64 Kennedy. Today 35 rolls of halfs
13-40%. Good weekend.