Decided to try Coin Roll Hunting

I have tried coin roll hunting for the first time and have found it very enjoyable.
I used $40 to get:
1 roll of halves (all they had )
2 rolls of dimes
2 rolls of quarters

Within these, the only coins I found worth keeping were the bicentennials.

Is there any key dates or errors that I could look for before returning the coins? Thanks in advance!

 

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1974-d DDO

A production error occurred on the obverse die in 1974 that makes the letters look they are doubled.


1971-d and 1977-d 40% silver

Although rare some of the 40% silver planchets made it into regular production lines at the denver mint

 

Werty why are you keeping the bicentennials?

 

I think they're pretty neat since they only made them for a year. That's just me though...

 

You will find millions of those bicentennial halves

 

They actually made them in 75 and 76.

But I actually like them too and keep them lol.

 

I hate the bicentennials they are like finding 1964 nickels

 

God '64 nickels irritate me... You think you have found an older coin, and then it says 1964. Very deflating.

 

I have almost thought they should be darkened so further collectors won't get that momentary rush of thinking they found something good and turning over. What I really hate is when I find nickels that have somehow turned that same colour of green that the war nickels turn and you look for the ubiquitous mintmark on the reverse and zilch.

 

I saw too many of those today scottishmoney...a lot were from the 80's I was ****ed. Not a single war in the box but a bunch of mini-heart attacks. And God-knows how many 64's. I hate that year.

 

I am chaffed because Monday and Tuesday I found 4 silver coins each day, today zilch. I need to bring my "Silver Girl" with me tomorrow when I go on my errands in the afternoon. She is my good luck charm.

 

Much of the '76 quarters are in junk drawers in non-collector houses.
However, to the OP, if you keep saving the bicentennial halves, you'll end up with a ton of them. You'll run out of space.
The '76 dollars are also very common if you're looking through Ikes.

 

I've seen circulated bicentennial quarter rolls selling above face value on ebay, so they may be worth keeping.

Circulated D quarter rolls are at like 16 a pop from what I was seeing.

 

71 d and 77 d are 40% silver??

 

You looking at current listings or completed listings?

Sure, some listings are selling for over face, but not by much. After ebay fees, I don't really see many of them making money on them.
Link: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_nkw=bicentennial%20roll%20quarter&rt=nc&_pppn=r1&LH_Complete=1

 

They must have struck the 64 nickel a bit different than other years, there is just something about them that makes them stand out from the rest. I can pick out a 64 out of a pile of 40 coins from ten feet away

 

If you click the link, about 30% of them are completed at profits at or over 50% + shipping. That sounds pretty good.

 

For 30 years (coincidently) both me and my spouse segregated our pocket change every day, dimes in this jar, pennies in that one and nickels in that one, etc. A week ago I decided to go through the potato flake and 30 caliber MG ammo cans and see what we had in terms of 2013 Redbook value. Many disappointing hours resulted in the conclusion I am basically done with US nickels. I set a keep date of 1946 and earlier and dumped over $300 of nickels into the Coinstar (I think I filled it). In 1964 the US Mint went a little funny in the head and minted over 3 Billion nickels. I am still getting them in change today. In truth, I find even the Buffalo nickels to be not generally worth the time to hoard them, if they are in less than mint state.
Similar with pennies. I have several fruit cake cans full of pennies, all Memorial coins. I was going to sort them by copper vs. non-copper, but I don't see a real collector market for the copper ones on Ebay, so they will probably go Coinstar too.
Truth be told I have had homemade rolls of wheat pennies sitting on Ebay with no takers, so I think I may Coinstar them too. Waste of years to hoard something no one wants.

 

NO DON'T DO IT!! Try selling them on here before dumping them! There are many collecters on here that would quickly buy them up from you!

 

Do you mean the copper 1960-80 pennies, the wheat pennies, or the post WW2 Jefferson nickels?