question about ordering bags from mint

if you order the $25 bags are there errors that you can find that would not normally "fit" or be found in rolls? thanks

 

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I don't see why not! There could be some errors that could "fit" in those bags. Blanks, DD's, Struck Scraps, Elliptical Coins, Die Breaks, Die Chips, Missing Clad Layers such as your avatar, Etc.

 

My 2001-D Kennedy missing the clad layer came from one of the $100 Mixed P&D half dollar bags the Mint released in 2004. There are only two known for this date/mintmark, and the other one was also found in one of these bags.

I found 228 Clashed "Y" Lincoln cents in a 1980 Philly $50 Mint Bag.

Chris

 

so they don't have people that watch to see what is going into these various bags?

 

what is a clashed "Y"?

 

is the correct place to order them at usmint.gov?

 

The "Y" of LIBERTY appears inverted between the 2nd & 3rd left-hand columns of the Memorial on the reverse.

Chris

 

There are employees who make random checks, but it is impossible for them to catch every possible error on the conveyor. For example, if my Kennedy had been laying "reverse up", it might have been spotted.

Chris

 

ok thank you for your responses

 

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It's my understanding that the mint contracts out the rolling of coins and the contractors catch most of the mint errors. At one time those contractors were caught selling the errors and were told to stop or lose their contracts. If you buy the bags it would stand to reason that you would have a better chance at finding something. I do know that the mint does or did bag quarters in 1000 bags for circulation to banks, so a $25 bag would be special for collectors. Whether they were contracted out or just scooped from a pile, I don't know.

 

I don't know if they use canvas bags any more for bulk deliveries. Except for the smaller bags that the Mint uses for customer purchases, I'm guessing they "have gone completely BALLISTIC".

Here are some of the bags the Mint used at one time...

 

I've got around 10 or so. Some have writing on them, some dont. When I would get change for a retail business, the bank would sometimes put it in one of those bags. That was as soon as 2011 ago. Don't know if they do that now or not. I know in the last few years they had gone to cardboard boxes for the dimes and cents. Never needed that many nickels.

 

Correct, they no longer use the smaller $1000 bags dimes and quarters, the $200 bags for nickels, or the $50 bags for cents. All coins are now shipped out in Ballistic bags that hold about one ton of coins. (It IS possible to get Ballistic bags directly from the mint, which would be your best chance of finding errors. But it isn't cheap or easy.)

 

When I would get paper bills from the bank. I always hated to see the teller break the bands on new bills and run them through the counter. That machine would sometimes kick out any errors, like fold overs and such. Sometimes the teller would just count the ones that kicked out and add them back, but most would replace them with other bills. I'm sure there was a collector working somewhere in the bank that got those, if not the teller.

 

I always thought that my chances of getting some type of error was in purchasing the bags of coins offered by the current US Mint.

However, out of the many State Quarter bags I'd purchased, I didn't get a single error.

The ONLY error I ever received was the convex cracked 2001 Kennedy out of a $100 Kennedy bag.

Sure, you can get errors in these bags but, IMO, it's highly unlikely due to bagging techniques and quality control.

 

So the mint does not roll coins at all? Does that mean they are only rolled by independent conteactors?

 

I have a question ? Strange as it is : Are these bags ( older ones ) worth anything ?

 

Yes, there’s a market for them.