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2 clads from a box of halves. Both were in the first ten rolls. FML.

 

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Quick logistics question for the roll hunters out there. For those that re-roll their coins to bring to a bank for deposit, how do you do it? Do you re-roll each one as you go through them? Do you just throw all the coins in a pile and knock it all out at the end? And more specifically, do you use a machine to roll them? If so, is it something like you can buy at walmart, or have you gone more heavy duty?

Sorry for all the questions. I picked up a box of nickels and box of pennies this weekend mostly because I want to put together circulation sets of the basics. I'm about 3/4 of the way through the nickels and staring at a giant pile of them in a bag on the floor.

Found nothing interesting by the way. No war nickels, no buffalos, not even solid examples of pre-60s stuff. Did fill most of the post-50 holes in a basic dansco folder though....

 

For my pennies, nickels and dimes, I buy them from one of my banks and return them to another one of my banks that has a coin counting machine. They give me plastic super tough bank bags that you just fill in your name and account number on the outside of the bag, and stick a deposit ticket with the bank bag's serial number written on it---and they do everything else. You can fit about two boxes of whatever coins you're searching into one bag---and the coin can be mixed pennies, dimes, nickels or quarters.

For my halves, it's not quite so easy for a couple of reasons. First, the bank with coin counting machine is the bank that I order the boxes from---again, don't return coins to the same bank that you get them from. For one, they don't appreciate it----and secondly, you run the risk of re-searching the same coins. So, I get wrappers for halves and rewrap each roll as I search it and put it back into the same box that it came from. They don't get mixed up because the rolls in the boxes are machine rolled in yellow paper and the hand rolled searched ones are usually brown paper. Then I return the boxes to an obscure bank that I know sends them far away from where I am---so I'm sure that I'm not researching the same coins!

That's my plan and I'm stickin to it!

 

I order from TD bank and return to a different TD bank... hasn't caused me any problems yet. Gonna stop ordering from TD, though, cause Brinks rolls SUCK. Local credit union orders me Strings & Sons, which I've had way better (4+ more silvers per box on average) luck with.

 

I wanted to let the group know that I have done some research concerning exactly where my bank orders its boxes from. They order from Loomis, so I asked why the the boxes were marked String & Sons---

The answer from the district bank manager was---it turns out that String & Sons doesn't handle or supply coins at all---they just manufacture the boxes and wrapping supplies and sell them to the money handling companies. True coin handling companies just buy the boxes and coin handling equipment from String and THEY do the actual wrapping, boxing and delivery of the coins to the banks (i.e. Loomis, Dunbar, Brinks, etc.)

I found the conversation with him very informative----because I wanted to know the life cycle of CWR's and MWR's----

Here is the link to String & Sons: http://www.nfstring.com/

 

I set up 8 paper cups on my desk. I toss all the 2000-2009 in one, the 90-99 in another, etc the 1909 -40 go in one cup and anything that looks like it needs to be rechecked goes in another. I go anywhere from 10-20 rolls at a time.

My next step is a muffin tin like the kind used to bake 12 muffins at a time. Of course I take a cupful of cents from a decade and sort them by year. The extra 2 cups are for unique and uncirculated or red ones. Now I grab my Fivaz-Stanton list and go through each year. All 1981 and later cents go into a tupperware dish for re-rolling. The other years get separated and rolled by year & mint. Full rolls are placed in a box. I made dividers for a gift box that make-up comes in and partial rolls are standing in it.

I do the nickles the same way, but I only keep 1960 and earlier. I guess that's because I ended my album in 1970. Since it is filled, I only look for varieties and errors. However, if I see a really nice coin, I always check it against the ones in the book. I upgrade if I find something nicer.

Dimes & quarters are ditto, but the cutoff is 1964 when the silver ended. But I cannot find silver at all, so that's just the stuff I already have.

It's really quick to go through a huge lot of coins this way because you don't waste too much time on the wrong stuff. One look can spot most errors that are noteworthy, and you have the dates you can check against known varieties by putting several identical coins in the tray all at once. I use a large tupperware lid for a sorting tray. So anything that seems different really pops out at you.

 

I was well-aware of this, however... Different companies use different suppliers, and Sun East, my credit union, uses a good supplier that doesn't appear to have their halves used very often, if at all. I'm not saying the boxes bring the luck, but rather, the company that wraps them and uses them as their supplier.

In summation, I'm staying away from Brinks.

 

I've heard the same thing about Brinks---luckily, my bank uses Loomis---and I've had a few monster boxes for sure:hail:!!

 

What bank is that?

 

It's a small local bank called Community First Bank---

What's your location, Train?

 

Arkansas. Too far.

 

Hey, just send me a few large and I'll order some up fer ya! Heck, were practically neighbors!:hug:

 

LOL shipping on those would mean you'd have to yield like, $20 face of 90% to break even.

 

Yeah, I know. But a couple of those boxes that had over 30 40%ers may pay the shipping!

 

2 Rolls of Pennies Yesterday:

1941
1944
1945
1953-D

And they were all in the same roll. Probably nothing exciting for you experienced numismatists, but I thought it was cool.

 

Where in Arkansas? I live in Siloam Springs.

 

Ask Ferdy. I live in the Philly suburbs.

 

I've seen several people post that they stay away from Brinks......well, I have had terrific luck with Brinks. Many of my best boxes were Brings.....

 

$85 in cwr dimes, near the end one roll had 12 silver dimes, one being a 37 mercury, sad part is they all looked like they were cleaned, but it is still silver! Another roll had a 46 Roosevelt in it, so $85 in dimes left me with 12 silver Roosevelts and a merc (i think i've pulled 13 mercs so far)!

 

Wow, that's a bunch. Congrats! I've searched 5 boxes of dimes and have found only 1 silver.