Roll-searchers, post your results!

If you are looking for any old coins, go to a estate or a garage sales. You will be surprised at what you may end up with. As for the 1943's. From a garage sale, I was able to find several, but all are in bad shape,last week. -O)

 

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I got my first 43 from a coin store that just recently opened in my area, they were just giving them away. Consequently, I'm now friends with some of the staff there.

 

I have a few 1943 , since it's my birth year. -O)

 

I'm around $2k searched, maybe more.

A teller gave me a customer roll full of steelies a while back so I have all three mints in AU. . As for everything else;

http://www.cointalk.com/t156634/

 

Weekend report:

Friday and Saturday I picked up 3 boxes total:
Box 1: Skunk
Box 2: 2 40%ers
Box 3: 9 40%ers


And, I finished tiling my bathroom. Just in case you wanted to know.

 

9 thats a good box. What kind of shape are the 40% ers usually in ???

 

For me, XF to AU.

 

AU my thats good.

 

Why are you searching 2010 Sacs? Is there an error or something on those you're looking for?

 

My week report:

Only 1 box for the week. Skunk with 3 NIFC and 1 proof
Stopped at two banks and found a couple including the 1995S I needed.

But I did have a cool garage sale find. I picked up a 2004 ASE proof in the box and a thick binder of coins that the guy found in a storage locker. Yeah, like the show he buys storage units every week and now he has my number so I am hoping we do future business.

The binder contained:

pennies 1909-1975 including 2 very nice VDB
nickels 1907 - 1960 bunch of war nickels
dimes 1937 - 1964
quarters 1898 - 1964
halves 1964-1970
dollars 1976-1979

Over 400 coins total. A bunch of silver and scores of hole fillers.

Fun for the kids (and me lol)

Plus oddly enough, while we were discussing the coins in Starbucks, a police officer walks in. After he got his drink, he stops to talk to us and says he found some coins cleaning out an old house and wondered if we could help identify them. We exchange info, he leaves, comes back 10 minutes later and hands us 6 tarnished but AU-BU Morgans pre 1890. He says, let me know if they are worth anything and walks out... Felt like I was being punked lol.

Erin

 

I agree. Thats how I got two key cents added to my collection. a 1914-D and a 1909-s Indian.

 

No Lon. Its just that the mint was sending out 500 circulated 2010 Sac's with free shipping. I took up the challange and was able to pull 8 nice ones out of the batch, but no perfect ones. So for $500, I got $500 out of that 8 keepers.

 

I recently ordered $250 in 2001 Sacagaweas via the Direct Ship program; I'm planning on keeping one of the ten rolls and spending the rest. I don't know if they'll all be Philadelphia or Denver-minted or how high a mint state they will be (if any), I just want to keep an roll of uncirculated Sacagaweas in my collection (I also have an unopened 2010-P nickel roll and a bank-wrapped roll of 2011-P Gettysburg quarters).

 

My Coin Hunting Story

Hey everybody. I have been trolling this great thread for a month or two now. I normally don't post much on the web but I'd thought I share my story and recent awesome find. Thanks for all the posts. I really enjoy reading them.

I caught silver fever last November and have been trying to stack up ever since. Both because I think the price will continue to go up a lot and for a SHTF insurance situation. I started with a couple peace dollars that were my grandma's and then asked for an Eagle for Christmas. I've always been generally interested in coins/currency but never delved into the world of numismatics (I have a big sack of foreign coins and pull it out once in awhile and look at ones I think are "cool looking" etc.). I told myself I wouldn't get caught up with the nuance of grades/states/errors and the like but once you start hunting/accumulating you can't help yourself to some extent. I got a red book and I learn most everything from sites like Coin Talk. I'm not a real numismatist but I have a lot respect for you guys and the hobby/profession and I'm learning a bit as I go along.


Once I read about the silver content of US coinage I decided to stop by some of my local banks here in Miami Beach. This is before I was aware of CRH or this forum. On my first attempt, at the first two banks across the street from each other, I got two CWR of dimes, and asked if they had halves. In about 5 minutes I had a silver Roosevelt, a 67 Kennedy, and a 64 Kennedy. I thought I had stumbled onto some great form of arbitrage and was basically hooked. Over the next couple weeks I went through about $200 in dime rolls and whatever loose haves the banks had and got squat. Then I started taking mini trips to ask for halves. Miami Beach is pretty dense and urban so you can hit a lot of banks quickly. I probably went through about $300-400 in CWR and loose halves, only finding 4-5 dirty 40%'s.

After reading this thread and seeing some of the great success I decided to up my game. I opened a savings account at a bank here with free coin counting and ordered some boxes from my BOA. After going through 4 or 5 boxes of halves I haven't found any silver. That bank ended free coin counting last month so I'm probably done with boxes for now. There is a TD bank nearby but some of you have said that their bags only hold like $100 worth so I don't want to deal with the additional hassle.

In the beginning of February I asked the convenient store I frequent to be on the look out for old dimes/quarters and that I would buy them if he had them. To my surprise the dude pulls out a cigar box full of silver mercs, roosies, washingtons, kennedys, dollars and the like that he has been collecting from customers for 10 years or so. He was willing to sell and in my excitement I unfortunately threw out prices that were close to spot (at the time). I've gotten a bunch of his stuff including a couple morgans and MS washingtons. Its been fun but I've almost bought everything he has. I paid $2/dime, $5/quarter, $4/40% half, $10/90% half, and $20/dollar so basically I got a great discount over spot.

This brings me to my latest and greatest find. I just got back from Williamsburg VA visiting my folks who recently moved there (people in Williamsburg are super nice BTW). I spent about 1.5 hours on Thursday going to banks and hit about 10 of them. At the second bank they only had $2.50 in halves. They were all 40% so I was happy at that point. At the last bank I went to I asked the young teller if he had any halves. He said yes and put two rolls on the counter. They were in plastic containers. He said he was going to count them to make sure, I said that wasn't necessary but he did it anyway. I knew right away what they were, shiny as can be. I tried to mask my excitement while he was counting, then gave him the $20 and walked out. One roll had "1960-D unc" written on it and the other "1964-P". Totally made my day

Thanks for reading. Happy hunting.
-Dan

PS I meant to make my username SFLsilver (for south florida) but made a typo.

 

Two solid rolls of 90% silver is a nice find.

 

All over the board for me. I get many that are AU, but some that are F with all kinds of toning and dirt on them. But, at today's prices, I make a 5 dollar profit (or so) on each so I'm happy.


And, SLFSilver: GREAT finds and welcome to both the forum and the addiction/obsession.

 

25 dollars in pennies gives me 7 wheats (common dates), 5 canadian's, a mason jar full of coppers, and a handful of spots in my coin album. Not sure whether it's "good" or not, but I'm happy with it.

 

Gosh, I did that last year, but the coins were all 2001 circulated from the mint. You got UNC ??? that's super, how did you do that ??

 

Okay, I'm confused. How do you get circulated coins from the mint? I don't think the mint is in the business of rounding up coins and re-distributing them...?

 

Coin counting bank had one half yesterday.

1965