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$50 Pennies - 14 wheat's, 35P, 44Px3, 46D, 48D, 52D, 53D, 53S, 56D, 57Dx2, 58Dx2. 7 Canada, 61, 64, 67, 65, 87, 90, 09 and too much copper to count.

 

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Box #15 of Halves one chrome plated half
Box #16 of Halves Skunk
Box #17 of Halves one Panamanian and a gold plated
Box #18 of Halves 5-40% and a Franklin, and a very nice 1944 Walker!!
My cu has a coin counter, but since it's out of the way, I don't use them too much. I decided to drop in as the hours were getting late (wife drove) and decided to unwrap 2 boxes in prep. Well when I got there the machine was out of order. So I ended up going to my feed bank and they told me that I had to rewrap the lot. Ugg. Anyway the mgr was cool and helped me wrap them.

 

I don't have a problem with re-wrapped coins. There are no coin machines in my area, and none of my banks offer bag service, so if I didn't re-wrap I'd either be spending a lot of money on wrappers or spending most of my time driving around asking banks if they could spare any. Besides, if you get handed a bunch of re-wrapped halves then you know you won't have to spend the time looking through them! (Unless they're re-wrapped in a sealed box; that's just not cool.)

 

Box 1 dimes - '57, '64D
Box 2 dimes - skunk
$100 BWR dimes - skunk
Box 3 dimes - skunk

 

2012-11-24 Nickels

Found 5 war nickels and 5 Buffalos yesterday. 43-D was the best war nickel. Two Buffalos were dateless, they others were 1923, 1928 and 1937:

 

2012-11-24 Dimes

I was determined to find another Merc yesterday, and I finally did. Along with 10 Roosevelts.



The Merc is 1936. The others are 1948-S, 1952-D, 1953, 1961 (3), 1963-D, 1964 (2) , 1964-D.

The Merc was really hiding: it has a very dirty rim and I could have easily missed it!

 

2012-11-24 Canadian

Some fun Canadian finds yesterday! A 1940 nickel, 1960 silver dime, 1968 half silver quarter and 1928 penny!



The penny came in a penny box with a 1943, 1950, and 1951 Canadian pennies as well.

 

are people marking the coins themselves, or the coin rolls?

 

TimZim used to literally spray paint the coins with acrylic paint before bagging and dumping them. Most marks I know just use a sharpie on them... that's what I do with about 10% of my searched coin.

 

i just roll up coins and mark the rolls, not the actual coins

 

1 loose half - skunk

 

Most banks will just end up dumping them out of the rolls and bagging them up for the processors... marking the rolls is absolutely pointless.

Unless you pick up where you're dumping... but why would you do that?

 

did not know they dump out the rolls, i thought they handed the rolls over to the processors ... so then why does my dump bankmake me roll up the coins, if they are just going to dump the coins ... oh logic

 

Easier for them to dispense if someone comes in and only wants, say, $30 or something. But once they get a certain amount (Usually $500 or $1000) they dump them out and bag them for the processor. Go ahead, ask them exactly what they do with it. Some banks, but only a few, will send the rolls to the processor, who will dump the rolls out and count/process them to ensure the counts are accurate. Inquiring about the process might actually give you a road to bring up dumping in bags with them.

 

It sounds like this "TimZim is or at least has been in violation of 18 USC Section 331 which is the law against mutilating coins. Source: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/331. Unfortunately, the law is subject to poor enforcement. The law needs to be toughened so clowns like this will no longer destroy coins with impunity. I propose mandatory time in federal prison for repeat offenders and that such perpetrators be required to pay for the costs to replace, remove and process the coins which have been made unfit for circulation. I can now understand why Merc Crazy had such a big issue with this clown when he would find what this dubious individual didn't want to keep.

I have been marking my rolls for years. Not all banks dump out the rolls and bag them up. I rotate between buying and dumping at banks every couple of weeks when I have the time to search. Usually, after a couple of weeks the rolls I've dropped off have been bought by merchants or shipped out. There have, however, been a few instances where I've received a few of my rolls back but this is an exception. I recognize these when I get them so I know not to bother searching them again. Also, I don't go through massive amounts of coins like some searchers. I don't have the time for that so usually I'll have, at most, 40-50 rolls to drop off at any one bank.

This depends on the bank. Some banks ship out all of their customer rolls to be bagged and verified. I don't care for banks like these. It is much more fun and mysterious to get CWR rolls than filtered BWRs. For example, this week I went through $200 in CWR dimes and I found two five pence coins from Great Britain and two silver dimes (1960D and 1964). What made finding these coins super fun was that a lot of these rolls were over 1-2 dimes which made these coins free! This wouldn't happen with BWR rolls and there's nothing like finding silver dimes which don't even cost face value.

 

$100 brw halves ... skunk

 

The law is only directed at those who alter or mutilate coins with the intent to deceive or defraud others. IE trimming the reeding off a gold double eagle back when they circulated... that could net you about .033oz... do it 33 times and you have an oz of gold. There are stories (of questionable authenticity, granted) about coins being sliced in half or drilled out and filled with lead inserts to take up the weight/space of the removed gold. That's what the law pertains to, not some jackass that wants to paint coins to mark where they're going. What TimZim did was stupid, selfish, greedy, shortsighted, ignorant, and a million other things... but it was not illegal, not by a far cry.

At any rate, IIRC, he got told that if he didn't stop painting them, they were gonna cut him off. So it is no longer an issue.

 

I personally don't like cwr rolls for smaller denominations (dimes and nickels) around here because all my finds come from brinks clear wrapped rolls for some reason.

 

1913 Type I

I noticed that, too. But I don't really count it because there is no date. *Sigh* Still kind of fun to have found in circulation, though.

 

Haven't posted weekly results in a while, here's the past 2 weeks lumped together:

Quarters ($410 searched): Wash x2, Standing Liberty x1, and a RUST Kansas quarter
Dimes ($2255 searched): Roosie x11, Merc x4
Nickels ($572 searched): War x11, Buff x2, 1938S
Pennies ($26 searched): Wheat x72
Halves ($2050 searched): Franklin x1, 90% Ken x2, 40% Ken x2, 1998S Proof
and 27 Ikes, no rare varieties

Total silver found over the past 2 weeks was 3.6271 ozt. Finally found a Standing Liberty while roll hunting (although it was in the reject tube, not a roll) which is dateless... kinda wondering if I should use an acid on it and hope it's a 1916, lol. Last week was pretty slow but I did manage to find another roll of solid wheat cents (I find another with 48 the previous week). They're mostly no mintmark from the 40s and 50s so I wasn't able to fill any holes in my lincoln album, but it was nice to find so many.

I've been finding even more foreign than normal lately in rolls/boxes, as well as a few piles of coin left on the sorting machine by whoever used it last. Here's just from the past 2 weeks: $1 Kuwait, 22r Pakistan, 5s Somalia, $1 Jamaica, 1.27 UK, $1 Hong Kong, 50o Denmark, 50c Euro, 6c Trinidad, 700p Colombia, 1c Finland, 11kr Sweden, $1 Australia, $1 New Zealand, 60c Ecuador, 20c France, $1.10 Argentina, 77c Canada, 20r Switzerland, 10c Barbados, 36p Dominican Republic, 5c Bermuda, and 1c Liberia.

With the long break I took from CRH I don't know if I can still hit 150 ounces for the year (I'm around 130 now) but I'm going to cross my fingers and hope for the best!