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I did a litmus test with nickels today. I got $60 in bank-wrapped rolls and $40 in customer-wrapped rolls. For the first time in a while, I found no Buffalo or War nickels, but I did find over twice as many early Jeffersons in the bank-wrapped rolls (25) vs the CWR (10).

I think for cents, dimes, and quarters, I will do CWR and nickels will be boxes only.

 

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Asking a cashier about their change is a good idea haha. I may have to know them to do that. I know when I was a cashier I kept all the wheats I saw, but wasn't into coin collecting at the time.

 

4 rolls of pennies, first time ever searching rolls (why not more!!!)

1995-D Uncirculated (but with a few grime marks)
2 Woodies- 1980 and 1981-d
A completely black penny
A Canadian Penny
A 2009 Fromative Years Penny

 

Did 1 box of pennies, nothing special, 13 wheats, and 8 candaians. Oldest wheat was a 1936.

 

I was just reading a bit farther back on this thread and I see people talking about getting Ikes. I'm just wondering what the purpose to this is.

 

Some people hope to find proofs, 40% silver Ikes or, if they're lucky, an old silver dollar will be mixed in (usually a Morgan or Peace dollar).

 

Then it's also just putting together a set. Which I like to do.

 

Not so much here in Las Vegas. Most casinos have coinless multidenominational slots. Change girls are a thing of the past. Although nearly ever slot repairman wears a change apron, they only carry currency.

Halves are still used in some table games. I just got a "toke roll" (tips given to a dealer they cashed in) and it was just another awful 20 coins. lol I only took them because my bank teller saved them for me. lol

 

People mark them with permanent marker. There were so many different marks, that I knew right away that there wouldn't be any silver. I do about 8-12 boxes of halves a week, and just looking at the top of the rolls will give me a good idea if you have a shot at any silver.

Boxes in this area are getting very difficult to find silver.

 

Did $200 of nickes BWR and was not pretty. All I got was 5 canadian, 31 2005 buffalos, my very first 2009 nickels both D, one 1997 singapura 20 cent piece, my very first 2011-D, a MS 1963-D, MS 1997-D and 54 that are 1961 or older.

No war and no buffalo

 

I have yet to find boxes of coin at a bank. All I ever find are bags, CWR, BWR. Only one bank I go to will sell me bags. The rest just have single rolls and I have to bring my own method to carry them out.

What type of banks are you guys/gals havin better luck with getting boxes?

 

Finally finished - went through roughly 380-400 value of rolls and lose coins. This is my first time so I have no idea if I did decent or not. I got one full roll of 1776-1976 bicentennial coins - I am not sure if they are just super 'new' and shiny or if they are actually proof coins (I am still learning, sorry). I was also able to find 18 coins from 1967 to 1969 (I believe they are 40%) all jfk's. Hopefully this is a good start!

 

I opened the 2nd box......what a nice day for silver for me.

Between the first box and one bank stop I had found 6 40%ers and 5 90%ers including a Frankie. On Box 2 I found 14 more silver halves and some other keepers:
1 1997 100 Colones coin from Costa Rica
1 2002 S Proof
1 1994 S Proof
1 1976 S Proof Silver
9 40%ers
2 1964s
1 1963 Franklin
1 1941 Walker



Now that was a good day!!!!

 

I are green with envy, Bobbeth.

 

What part of jersey? I'm in Jersey City and I called so many banks in Hudson County and have not found any CWR i think being in an urban area is not a good thing for this hobby.

BTW i notice a lot of people posting saying the tellers can't buy from their own tray which I find odd because I was a teller around 10 years ago and i had done it. I just called over the head teller and she watched me replace the coins. Only thing was I wasn't informed about the silver content of coins but if it was old I took it. My only findings at the bank were a 1942 Booker T Washington Com, around 14 mercury dimes, and one 1926 Federal Reserve of New York $100 bill. I do remember we had $1000 of half dollars in the vault and it kills me that I'll never know what was in it, some guy came in and bought them and i remember thinking wtf is this guy going to do with all those half dollars. Now i know........

 

Finished two bags of cents got about 10 1940's 9 1950's a 1909 vdb 6 red cents 11 canadian cents one british half pence and for some odd reason 15 dimes(no silver or special dates just 15 random dimes)

 

Box of halves... nothing.

 

LOL ! Look, this is the urban legand that ALWAYS happens. It's like a sign in a bar that says "Free Beer Tomorrow". Really old to most bank tellers means "beat up and ugly looking" or in old wrappers. I picked up a few rolls a while back and someone had written "Walkers" on the paper. I couldn't believe my luck. But, alas, they were beat up Kennedys 71-2001. So I wouldn't dwell on it too much. More likely they get a kick out of saying that to every "rube" from out of town who comes in and asks for halves. Be a good joke at coffee break.

"Man, did you see the look on that guys face ?" lol Sort of thing. Locals always seem to find a way to liven things up a but when an "out of towner" is around. They were just messin with ya. IMHO

gary.

 

OK, i finished up 10 Boxes of Half Dollars, and the result was pretty gloomy.

1 1965 Half 40%
2 1968 Half's 40%

Kind of a waste of time, but i guess that happens sometimes. We like to get lots of boxes, as it seems every time we just get a few they end up being good boxes and we wished we would have gotten more.

This time however we searched 10,000 half dollars and only scored 3 40%'s

Oh well, im still not giving up. Next time will most likely be better.

Good luck to everyone else.

 

You do 10 boxes at a time, a guy previously did 15........many others do 10-15 at a time. How long before you figure the banks and suppliers just keep rotating this many halves?