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If you don't find much in a roll, cant you just sell them (for instance Kennedy half's) for a dollar or two a piece?

 

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I actually have already seen people selling unsearched rolls of kennedy halves for several dollars. Pretty good profit to just go to a bank and pick some rolls up to put on ebay. And were wasting the time to actually go through them!

 

If Any of us could find someone to buy them...

 

I you look at completed listings, people are selling the rolls for around $15 each on ebay. 50% profit minus fees....


Erin

 

Hmm. There are a lot failing to sell with a starting bid of $9.99. The single-date BU rolls seem to be starting around $13, which nets you $10.25.

$15 minus fees gets you either $13 (if it was an auction) or $12 (if it was fixed-price).

I've decided that listing an auction, dealing with buyers, boxing and shipping stuff is a lot more than $2-3 worth of trouble for me. Maybe if I were boxing up 20 identical items at a time it would be better, but I still think I'd rather just spend them -- as long as I can find a place that (a) accepts them [which rules out vending machines and supermarket self-checkout lines], and (b) won't contaminate my search banks.

 

I got 1 roll of halves, 2 rolls of pennies, 2 rolls of nickels, and 1 roll of dimes:
2 slightly off center dimes
2 bicentennial halves
7 westward journey nickels
100 2011 D pennies :S

 

I found a 96D half today that is very off center on the obverse, but not the reverse..

Very cool find for me! My first! Anyone know the value?

 

Were the dimes from the Philadelphia mint?

 

It's called a misaligned die, and it only has added value if the misalignment cuts into the lettering/devices.

 

Last 2 boxes of 10 netted 14 40%ers and 1 nicely toned 52 Franklin. 48 silver total out of 10 boxes. Not too shabby.

 

Nice!! I got 9 40%, six boxes of BU 97P, and a few NIFC with some offset die coin.. total was 14 boxes, or 7K

 

Thanks!

 

Picked up 20 rolls of nickels between 2 banks while dumping my halves and found my first Buffalo. It's dateless but still a cool find. Found another one this AM in 10 rolls.

 

Box of dimes, 1 slv (61D), 1 1/2 Swiss Franc 1980

OK Box

 

I know it's not CRH hunting necessarily but, I may be on to a nice score in the next couple of days.

I was talking with a teller at one of my buy banks and she was telling me a story about someone who came in several years ago and had to pay for insurance and had no other money except for forty + dollars in Peace dollars. The teller new what they were and tried to talk the individual out of cashing them in but the guy had no choice. Naturally, the teller bought the dollars out of her tray and held on to them.

I made an offer of $20 each for them, she's suppose to bring them to me tomorrow

 

So that's what that was when I bought a half box of halves last year. I called around to different Wachovia locations asking for halves, finally someone said yes, I have half a box worth. I got them, got home, started going through and there was royal blue sharpie everywhere! I had a feeling that meant they'd been tampered with, I was pist, and I have never purchased halves since. I would love to find a cool, old community bank in my area.

 

They're not tampered with, they're just searched and dumped... coins that are dumped end back up at Brinks, Gaurda, etc. and are rewrapped and shipped back out to the next bank that orders them. The key is to get the boxes that had silver dumped into them by unknowing customers and tellers.

There's no need to be "pist" because it's just a part of the game. Either you can deal with it, or you can't. Roll hunting, as a hobby, is kind of a gamble. You invest time and effort, and you either get something, or you get nothing.

 

I went through 2 boxes of halves today. In my previous 6 boxes I only got 1 40%, so I figured that if these weren't great boxes, then I would probably stop for a while. Box 1 had 3 40%, box 2 had 2 40%. Even though that's not too bad I think I might stop the weekly boxes and try another bank. In my last 4 boxes of pennies I haven't really found anything that interesting, about 10 wheaties per box. I did find a 1972 S Proof, which is the first proof I've found. Do you guys often find proofs in penny boxes, I've found them in half dollar boxes, but not pennies?

 

I'm not trying to knock it off topic, but I can't believe how long this thread has survived.

 

Other than that...

Box of cents, pretty interesting one.

'12
'16
'38
'44 x3
'45
'45-S
'48 (Some red around the devices, nice '48 for a roll find.)
'50
'51
'53-D
'56
'56-D x2
'57
'58-D

BU's; '63-D

8 Canadians, 1 Bermuda.

My first cent with the Kennedy head counterstruck besides the one my Grandmother gave me when I was young, and also another first, a 1999 cent struck about 15% or so offcenter! It's definitely fairly circulated, shocks me one of these would circulate that long.