Does anyone that regularly reads the error posts buy quarters or half dollars in bags or rolls from the mint? And if so, do you ever find any mis-struck coins in the bags or rolls? Just curious if they make it into the mint sold bags and rolls. I know Homestead errors did but I am talking about generally.
I don't think the Government bags are available any longer though you can get rolls from the government. Varieties will of course fit into a roll so are possible to find . Errors that will fit into a roll are certainly possible to get too.
Even errors that will not fit onto a roll can be found in bags. That's because the coins were transported from the mint in bags before they ever got rolled.
I know they are still available in the marketplace. I just don't know if you can buy them from the government any longer.
Definitely, I am eyeing a few from a dealer I know. The Op asked about bags and rolls from the mint. I may have misunderstood that he wanted to purchase them from the government
If you go to the mint website and search for rolls and bags, you can still order some of the more recent quarters and Kennedy half dollars, dollars, etc in bags and rolls by mint mark. I was told once by an error dealer at one of the shows that a lot of the stuff they find is from the huge bin bags, I will call them, that hold tons of coins that go to the Federal Reserve for rolling, I guess. But I was just curious if anyone who has ordered bags or rolls from the mint had a few good errors, mis-strikes, etc in them.
The law of averages indicates you're as likely to find "errors" in a bag of a given size as readily as you might in a randomly-collected lot of the same size and year/MM configuration as the bag.
I ordered a coupla bags of quarters some time ago along with rolls of the same thing. I noticed that the ones in the bags were greasier and, of course, banging around in the bag. Since then I have stuck to rolls.
I have found them in bags as well as rolls but I usually only order Philly bags as they are more likely than not to have errors.
It has been about 8 years since I ordered bags from the Mint. Until that time, I would order SQ's, halves and Sac dollars because I've found more errors in bags than from any other Mint source. My best find was the Kennedy missing the reverse clad layer, but there have also been coins struck through a foreign object such as wire, fabric & thread. The nice thing about these finds is that, unlike those found in circulation, they are all uncirculated specimens. The best thing about searching the bags is that you stand a greater chance of finding error progressions that confirm a particular die state. For example, it's one thing to find a bunch of coins with similar die cracks, but when you can tie all of them together with a particular marker (PUP), you can actually see how the crack can grow during the minting process. I have found numerous progressions in the 1999-P GA SQ, the 2005-D CA SQ, the 2001-P Kennedy half and the 2004-P Sac dollar. Searching Mint bags of one date/mintmark is, by far, much cheaper than buying rolls and Mint sets. Furthermore, when it comes to searching for high-grade MS coins to submit for grading, I've found more in bags than Mint sets. When you factor in the values for business strikes in MS68 or better, you come out way ahead in the game. Chris
I ordered hundreds of bags from the Mint over a 10-year period, and I've never found them to be greasy. Also, they are packed very tightly to restrict movement. As a matter of fact, I still have two $50 bags of 2006 nickels that are packed so tight that they look like bricks. Chris
I've posted it quite a few times. It came from one of the $100 2001 Mixed P&D bags the Mint released in 2004. The bag was $135 which means that the coin was 68c. Chris
