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Just got a call from my bank, my halves are in! Of course I forgot my wallet today at home so I won't be able to get them until tomorrow.
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Went out in search of the Rutherford B. Hayes and James A. Garfield presidential dollars. Asked the bank for 2 rolls of dollar coins. To my amazement the teller handed me one roll of uncirculated Hayes and a roll of uncirculated Garfield's. I was very very happy. I kept two out of each roll, one each to put in my folder and the others just to have.

Now if only I could find those damn Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan coins. GRRRRRRRRR!

Oh ya, with the coins I cashed back in I bought 4 rolls of quarters and STILL havent found the American Somoa quarter, Olympic, Vicksburg, and Chickasaw Park quarters.

 

How many silvers do you think you have missed just by edge checking...I would like to think none, but I wonder what I really may have missed. Anyone care to respond?
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Box of halves - 3 proofs (none of them pretty) and 1 40%er

 

Today was an adventure. First I opened a free checking account at the bank closest to my house, as a convenient dump spot. When I tried asked for a bag of nickels though, they said they cannot sell me bags, only boxes. Ok... I was able to order a box of halfs (halves?) but they said they can only order $1000 boxes.. Weird, I thought they came in $500 boxes. But whatever. They will arrive next thursday. Next I tried a bank across the street to get a bag of nickels, but THEY wouldn't sell me anything at all unless I was a customer. Bastiges.. Lol.. I finally tried one more bank, one I know will sell me stuff. But they had no bags, having just sent them all off. Dag nabbit! I broke down and bought a box of nickels after all. A very, very disappointing box - when I opened it, all the end nickels were shiny new 2010, except 2. Question - do I even want to bother searching them?

 

Open up a few and see what's inside

 

A point I should mention - I cannot drive, so I walk back and forth to the banks. The first 2 are 1 mile from home, and the 3rd is 2 miles from home. I am recovering from a debilitating illness, and trying to recover stamina and muscle mass. Roll searching is my personal physical therapy program... Lol! Once per day, returning 1 box of coins and picking up another. I figure it's a pretty good plan, with better incentives than most exercise regimens

 

I also can not find Vicksberg or Chickasaw. They will no doubt show up next year. What I keep finding is a bunch of Puerto Rico's.

 

Can't say I have ever missed silver by edge checking but I allways give em more than a double check.

 

I've finally saved up some money to get some rolls, I've got a hundred dollars what should I get?a box of nickels? all dimes? pennies?

 

4 boxes of cents should keep you busy for awhile! If you have a dump bank that's close you can keep cycling through $100 in dimes and pull silver and mercs. You could then at some point sell off the silver and end up with more money to play with. I stopped doing nickels for awhile since I wasn't finding much and it takes more time than I have to go through them.

 

I have a situation I must deal with tomorrow. There is a local bank that I have an account with that I've been buying the dime bags from their coin counter. I just started doing it about a month or so ago and have bought around 5 bags. The machine counts halves and the bag holds $1000. I am friendly with the head teller and she knows that I want to buy the halves bag when it's full. She said it rarely fills up so I know it's not someone's dumps. It's been sitting at about $700 full for the last 2-3 weeks.

Last week she said I could fill the bag with halves then buy it from them. I figured I'd let it "simmer" until around Christmas then fill it and buy it. I went today to see if they had a bag of dimes and spoke to another woman that I've seen there before (not sure if she's a teller). She said they can no longer sell me bags due to "bookkeeping issues."

I am going to call tomorrow and make sure the head teller is there. My plan is to go with the searched box of halves I picked up today and fill the bag. Hopefully I can sweet talk her into letting me buy "one last bag." I guess I need to stop at the store and pick up some candies\chocolates etc.

At another bank I picked up a box of Brinks dimes with plastic wrappers. The teller knows that I look for silver and said I could return the rolls I didn't open. Yielded 5 Roosies and a '39 Merc. :thumb:

The box of halves yielded 1 40%er.

 

After I edge check I then look at each of them individual for the year. I look at the edges first to build up anticipation. However, that does cause me to ask ... Are there an additional ways I should use to check to see if a coin is silver? I have not been doing this for long and want to make sure I am not getting rid of non-skunks.

 

So I started a thread requesting a subforum for roll searching here: http://www.cointalk.com/t196202/#post1319891

If you agree, it would be great if you could chime in and agree. Thanks.

 

I'm new at this coin collecting thing and I never would've thought about "roll searching" before I signed up on this site. Today I went to the bank and asked for a box of pennies, after getting some weird looks from the tellers she went in the back and got me a box. I spent the night looking through all 50 rolls and found 16 wheaties, 11 Canadian cents, and 1 panama cent. Not bad for my first time huh?

1-1926
1-1935
1-1940
5-1944
1-1945
1-1948
1-1949
1-1950
1-1953 S
1-1956
1-1956 D
1-1957 D

 

2 boxes of dimes - 2 Roosies (both from the same box, other box was a skunk)

 

$40 cwr Halves-Skunk
$50 cwr Dimes-Skunk
$10 bwr/cwr Cents- 1949-D

I think I am eating where somebody else is dumping

 

I set a new high for silver in a box of halves!

Box of dimes = skunk
1st box of halves = 1 '68
2nd box of halves = skunk
3rd box of halves = a '51 franklin, '59 franklin clean and nicely toned on the obverse and nearly perfect on the reverse, two '64's, two '66's, four '67's, a '68, two '69's and a very clean 2005 proof.

Anyone have any idea what a 2005 proof is worth?

Great day and these halves were from the Wells Fargo that has produced some very nice boxes for me on a consistent basis. Unfortunately they didn't have room for more so they didn't make their normal order for Friday. Now I have to wait until next Wednesday. I will call around tomorrow and see if I can find half boxes at other banks. I still have a box of dimes to search but that will have to wait until tomorrow.

 

Box of dimes - 3 Roosies.

 

I did another $30 of nickels BWR/CWR yesterday and in the about a dozen pre-1960s I found was this:

Uncirculated (imo) 1950-D, which is easily a $10-15 dollar coin.