dziowi

Had a little free time today and I went through two boxes of Pennies packed by Brinks. (Thats $50 of pennies)

In the first box, I found 1952D, 1956D AU still shinning, 1920, 1955, 1944, 1945, 1955, 1942, 1948, 1952D, 1956D, 1952D, 1945, 1945, 1957D, 1945, 1950S, 1956 and about ten candian. So thats 18/2500 or 0.72%

In the Second Box I found, 1941S, 1940, 1955, 1953D, 1958, 1956D, 1941, 1956D, 1926, 1956, 1944, 1946., and three candian. so 12/2500 or .48%

In total I found 30 wheat pennies in two boxes. Total % of population that was wheat pennies was 0.6%... just above a half a percent.
Over the summer I went through ten boxes($250 of pennies) and I actually found a 1897 indian cent. Figure that you will get about a half a percent for wheaties and few and far between for other specials.

Bill

bruce 1947

Hi All
Went through 10 rools of nickels friday. Found 27 coins from 2004 & 2005 all denver mint coins. I find find bison & keel boat circulated nickels all the time. Not many ocean in view coins are showing up here in bank rolls. I live in masa az I get all denver mint coins here hard to find p-mints coins.

eddiespin

I was going through the archives in this thread when I noticed this interesting question that didn’t get any replies:

So, here’s my buck three-eighty on it...

Hypothetically-speaking, in 1964, I pick up a fresh roll of Kennedy Halfs from my local bank, then go to a gas station and buy a pack of cigarettes with one of the coins. The owner socks the shiny new coin away for safekeeping, then, 42 years later, offers it for sale at some coin auction. While the coin was in my hands, it was a strictly uncirculated coin, per my 17th Edition 1964 Red Book; but, now that it’s in this gas station owner’s hands, it’s a circulated coin. What’s the difference between the two? A pack of Winstons.

So now, my grandfather leaves us some Morgans and Peace Dollars he and my grandmother had accumulated over the years from casinos. These coins, understand, were bouncing around in hoppers in slot machines. My cousin has one of them--a common date 1880 Philly Mint issue--graded 65 by ANACS (an upper echelon rating on this particular coin). There wasn’t even any question as to whether the coin was circulated or uncirculated, the only question was, was there wear that couldn’t be passed off as a “weak strike?” There wasn’t, as the prevailing wisdom, today, is, these coins were typically weakly struck. Thus, it’s MS, and the rest depends on the luster in the fields, the nicks, especially in the focal areas, and the strength of the strike, on this typically weakly struck coin. That’s it. And, how good it looks.

Thus, forget about uncirculated and circulated, and keep on looking. And, you find one that looks like it makes the grade, and nobody cares whether it was bouncing around in some slot machine hopper, anymore than if somebody bought a pack of cigarettes with it at some gas station. And, you get past all the guff, and, isn’t that how it should be? And, thus, there’s this 1964 25C MS 67 on the Heritage website, right now, the obverse of which is so heavily toned and/or tarnished you’d need a CT-Scan to tell any detail on the thing. Going for 870 clams. Go figger...

bob000555

I serched $175 in halfs and found 4 pre 1970s and $8.50 in bicenteniuls are thes worth much?

NathansCoin

i just went threw 10 rolls of 1921 MS grade morgans and only found 1 die crack. 200 of the dam things ..ERG.. Was hopping for a Double lips. of maybe some DD mint marks NOTHING.

I did how ever find 6 MS grabe 1947.five MS grade 1949, a 1939 AU55+ and a 1935 AU50 and a few uncecs from the 50s. It only took 5 pounds of whetties to. I got my hand of a SUPER SUPER nice tomes MS63 br rd. Penny the other day in a random roll. sending that bad boy to pcgs.


I found a bunch of teen weaties i will probally just drop those in the grab bags on ebay. People love getting those.

Arizona Jack

Hey gang, no roll search today, but I got a 1943-P nickel in change !!!!

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jazzcoins

Anybody ever buy mint bags from the mint ,they charge you over face value I forget how much over face. I was thinking about doing that. and searching, you may find some real good errors.
Good luck in you search.

Jazzcoins Joe

Moen1305

Got back into searching those $500 boxes of Kennedy halves and this week pulled 14-1964's out of one box all from the same collector's stash. How do I know they were from the same collector? They were all heavily tarnished and instead of seeing silver when I opened the rolls, I saw black edges. I don't know how they were stored but they all tarnished pretty badly. Fortunately, they still have the same melt value. Cha-ching! At about 7x face value they are worth about 50 bucks right now depending on silver prices. Cost me $7. Also found 3-40% silver coins in the same box, one 1972 proof, an Irish 1 pound "PUNT", and a 2003 D.

Anybody else still searching Kennedy halves?

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lincolnhoardr

The lady at work was taking the bucket out of the coinstar and I noticed 2 silver quarters (1954 and 1949) I wish I could of spend more time looking through the mass of coins but these are my first silver quarters I have ever found!

JoseRZ

In a a ten dollar roll(halves). 5.50 in clad( five bicentennial). The real kicker 9 silver. Four 40%, Three 1964's, and two franklin's(1963D, and 1952). I had almost given up in asking for rolls. My bank apparently has another roll searcher(looks everyday apparently).

lincolnhoardr

searched 2 bags of dimes found 8 silver dimes 1993 - S and a 1965 from special mint set
bag of nickels - 1 undated buffalo

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Found one '64 Kennedy, 4 40%ers and one very ugly 1972-S proof.

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blue_oxen

just opened my first box of dimes ever ... it was an entire box of 2008d oh just one year off lol. think im off to a dif bank to swap out for a dif box or some customer rolls.

vancoin

Where do you get rolls in canada? or at which bank?

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).