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Never heard of that before. Gary how are you able to order and get a box of Customer Rolled Wrappers?
zeke

 

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No. I bought 58 rolls that the teller transferred from a metal tray to a box xo I could carry them. New boxes have always had machine wrapped coins. Sorry about the confusion

 

So i go to dump my dimes at the coin counting machine, and I see (after I'm done) there are some quarters in the reject slot. Picked them up, and they sounded funny, then I took a look:

'64
'63D
'58D
'52D

Talk about unexpected!

 

My favorite kind of score.

 

NICE!!!!

I found 3 $20 rolls of halves yesterday afternoon. I don't see these that often, so I imagined that they would be good. I noticed on one of them in hand written ink "1968." Wow, I'm thinking 40 40%ers in one roll, that would be awesome. All three rolls had nothing but common clad.

 

Bet the tellers pulled the silver.

 

I'm sure there are lots of veteran tellers who snag silver, but in my experience - at least around here - most tellers are young whippersnappers who have no idea that any one coin could possibly be worth more than another of the same face value. When I ask for large dollar coins, the majority don't know what I'm talking about. Nearly all puzzle at why anyone would want coins at all.

 

Head tellers almost always know. With silver prices as high as they are now, silver is getting more and more publicity.

 

I am a station attendant, and received one as payment about 6 years ago. He knew it was silver, but really needed his Marlboro Lights, and it was graveyard shift, so no coin shops open...

I've also received Walkers, Franklins, silver Kennedys, and one Barber half, a Barber quarter and dime, Buffalos, Mercs, a couple of IHCs, a few Standing Liberty quarters, and a couple of V nickels, over the course of 10 years or so.

Joe

 

Gas stations are where it's at.

 

You may be right. I'd say for the banks I go to, at least 1/3 and maybe up to 1/2 know about silver coins, because they tell me how they took home some silver dimes, or they wish me luck on searching for silver. Some, of course, have no idea that coins could be worth more than face (I LOVE those tellers). But, with an old $20 roll like that with "1968" written on it, it very well could have been snatched by the tellers. Come to think of it, I've gotten halves at that bank before, but I've never found silver there......hmmmmmmmmm

 

I hate cherrypicking tellers. OTOH, if you can't beat 'em... Time to look for a PT job on the weekends? haha.

 

How fun would that be? I've GOT to do that when I retire.....either that or work for coinstar...

 

Scored one 40%er from my dump bank today. Hope this is a good omen for my ten boxes I'm about to pick up.

The tellers at my dump bank admitted to pulling silver. I happened to get the 40%er from a roll a customer just dropped off.

I'm on the fence about offering to buy the silver from them. On the one hand I could probably get some silver below melt, on the other hand, I don't want to create any more competition in my area

 

Finally!

$50 in dimes yielded this;

 

So did you take the ASE for it's face value of one dollar?

 

Sweet!

I can't remember, is that your first Merc role searching? I found one in a parking lot of all places last year. Someone must of thought it was foreign and tossed it.

 

Congrats on breaking your dry spell Merc! And you find so many Mercury dimes, it amazes me. I'm no longer jealous because, as you know, I finally found one a couple weeks back.

 

did 2 boxes of 2 boxes of dimes skunk :\
2 boxes of nickels got me 2 silver nickels 44S 45P filled my whole folder 1955-1999
and found 3 1939's

1 box of halves got me 3 40%

Also found coins painted with blue/red/yellow from the 60s can anyone tell me what it ment? i remember someone made a post about it and if i remember it mean't of parking prices rising? i believe?

 

Shazam!!! I have to redo my top 5 all time finds lol. I go to dump coins. The machine stops as the bag is full. While I wait for them to change the bag, a lady comes in with a bag of rolled coins she can barely carry. She goes back to her car for more. I am watching her to see if she turns in any halves. I realize she does not have any and I notice the teller changing out the bag is having trouble. I bend down to help and see the first picture... 5 Franklins staring at me through the bag she is changing!!!! I stutter to ask if I can buy the bag. She says she does not think customers can buy the bag but I ask her to please go ask the manager. She returns as says I can buy the bag and bring the coins back I don't want. ) )

I get home and my family sits down to go through them. (I had found about 80 Franklins in a year and a half of roll searching. Anyway, the second picture is what we found:

They are in stacks of 5:

1 1935 Walker
85 Franklins WAHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
26 1964's
20 40%'ers
1 Sacagewea (sp?)
1 house key

Total 112 90%'ers
20 40%'ers
If you notice the 4 piles in the upper left are very shiney. Someone dumped a full roll of 1964 mirrored BU proofs. Exactly 20 beauties found in the bag. Out of pocket expense $66 for a pile of silver worth almost $1,300. The best part is I was not even looking for halves today, I was just trying to turn some in.

By the way, this is the first "bag" I have ever bought. If the walk in lady had halves, I probably would not have even noticed the bag...Good to miss sometimes.

Erin - tis a great day!!!!