Hello, it's my turn to share my experience on roll hunting. I have been using Whitman folders to filling with circulated coins. So far, I have gathered about 40 rolls of Nickels. I was pleased and puzzled. Out of 40 rolls, I did pulled one war nickel and Buffalo 1936-D. Of course, I have to check on 3 1/2 legs and it wasn't 3 1/2 legs, but nice F-VF with clear full date. On puzzled side, it's seems that I am lacking to find 2004-P Keelboat, 2009-P, 2011-P, 2012-P and 2013-P. I know 2013 is new, but I have about 15-20 2013-D. It's like they didn't released those dates in west coast. Nonetheless, I will continue searching them. From 40 rolls, I was able to completed 1962-1995 Whitman folder. 1938-1961 is partly filled and 1996 to present is almost filled except dates that I mentioned above. I did bought one $25 bag of Westward Journey Nickel Series. It's 2006-D and I did look through without magnify. No obvious error and the highest grade coin found in the bag is MS65 6FS. Not worth to submit them. However, I wonder if there any known error that require magnify to detect them? As I am IKE and Kennedy collector, I never have success to have IKE or Kennedy rolls from bank, but I decide to asked three rolls of modern dollar. Overall, I was able to pull some nice BU qualities, but to my surprise that I pulled one full roll of James Polk business strike. It was rolled in regular bank dollar wrap. It looks like someone didn't know that it's a collectible coins and deposit it in the bank. That roll already doubled valued at $2-$3 per coin.
For what it's worth, I'm on my fourth box of pennies this year and still don't have a 2013 D. It's all where you live - I bet it takes a few months for coinage to mix and spread.
I agree that it will take time for 2013 coins to spread around in USA. 2009-P to 2013-P is missing in action bring a question of why did it happen? Did I have another hoarder in my home town that loves those specific dates?
D and S mint coins take time to move east, and P mint coins take time to move west. That's just how it usually is.
When I lived in NY, I used to see a lot of D and P coins, but the only time in that 20+ year timeframe I saw an S mark was when I visited SF at age 10. Likewise living in VA, I simply don't get S marked coins back as change in normal commerce. The only reason I have any S marked anything, is because I sometimes buy 'unsearched' rolls of this or that denomination off Ebay. Even then, the S marked coins aren't that common.
the james polk is worth over FV??? thats one of the most common ones i find when buying rolls to spend
I've been thru 2 boxes of Halves in the last 2 weeks. Pulled all the Bicentennials and separated by mint. I ended up with 11 rolls of Ps and only 6 rolls of Ds. I'm in Ohio.
Pi man, superc, and Rassi: Thank you for sharing your experience. I didn't realized that they actually distributed near where they were minted. I guess I will need to hook up with you guys on trading coins that we pulled from roll searching. jlogan: As I stated that it was a business strike. It's not normal circulated coins, but they come from US Mint. All James Polk coins are in MS quality and in range of 63-66. Maybe not 66, but some of them are really appealing. That's why I think it was deposited by mistake.
the bicentennials are very very common. I mean annoyingly common. After you search long enough you'll grow to hate them.
Agreed, but bidiots love them! http://www.ebay.com/itm/1976-D-BICE...63?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item257ecc811b
that's what I was hoping to do with mine...maybe I need to pick out just the "better" ones and list them as a BU Roll. Think they'd do better as just one mint mark BU Roll, or should I make them a P & D BU roll?
I live in New york and i've only seen 2 San Fran coins so far. One was Friday, one was yesterday. Lol. Found them while CRHing dimes and both are proofs.
