Roll-searchers, post your results!

I had to go without my weekly halves today because the two tellers that can hook me up are both on vacation. So I left work early yesterday and hit some banks up. I'll post all the results at once I think. Got:
3 boxes cents.
2 boxes nickels.
$650 in halves ($500 are dumps, boo)

 

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Speaking of dumps, some gonad is dumping all over the north side here at Chase branches. Almost every branch has halves, that are rewrapped dumps. I've found 3 that aren't dump spots (including my order bank). And maybe 10-15 that Are dump city. It's getting annoying.

 

$50 CWR dimes - 1964 from Philly

$90 CWR/BWR nickels - skunk for silver; 22 average circulated dated before 1960.

 

I almost never have a reason to go my bank these days...when I do, it is a 30 mile round trip, which it cost me (at .57 cents per mile), $17.10 ... do the economics of roll searching make sense if you are making a separate trip?

 

Not if you have to drive that far. Fortunately, for me, there are many bank close to home.

 

Yeah that's alot of time too. I have a dozen banks within 5 miles.

 

Bman, you can use a solution of white vinegar with a bit of salt and then drop in a small piece of aluminum foil to clean your junk coins instead of acetone. I don't keep acetone at home, but I always have the ingredients I listed.

 

we have a lot of banks here but only one will let me get any coins but they have been out of halves for a couple months most want me to have a business account to get coins

 

Not the best idea. Acetone will not damage the coin, at all, and may remove some contaminants. The above idea can damage the coin.

 

So got through 3 more bags of Ikes. 2 were skunks, not eve a 76p v1, but several in 60 to 63 grade, so not all loss
Then the last bag, found all of these


too bad only the 4 Ikes were real; 3 s mint unc's and one s mint proof . the rest were all fakes. one was actually silver though, the silver round that looks like the mercury dime is actually silver.

 

That is to bad...

 

I started a thread about cleaning silver rounds and the consensus was acetone wouldn't hurt. I'm going to run with that and see how it goes. I'll post pictures in the coin roll hunting forum if anyone is interested.

 

This topic comes to mind for me a lot. Most of my banks that I go to are on my commute from home to work so I am not burning gas money. On the weekends though I do drive around to dump searched coins and that adds up a little. I figure it's part of my hobby that I enjoy so it's a nonfactor.

 

found these in the back yard....neighbor bought a new metal detector and wanted to show me. this is what he found in my back yard.

 

I frequently get boxes where the rolls have shifted around inside and they look short. After straightening them out they've always come right, but I can see how another roll could fit, hope it happens to me sometime

 

2 boxes of Loomis halves today, more than half full of 1998-D's

 

I hate when that happens but it's all part of the game, we all gotta dump somewhere right? I dump everything at one bank only and I think I'm wearing them out. Maybe it's time for another bank company?

 

Turns out those 2 71s Ikes were fakes too. sigh. sad that there were so many in there, 12 fakes in all.
so, after $12,000 in Ikes the final total is
about $2k in AU58 or better high grade common Ikes.
1 1999 silver eagle
1 1883 Morgan
1 1880-O Morgan
1 1926 Peace
3 1973-D clad
2 1973-S silver
5 1976-P v.1
3 1976-S v.2 clad
2 1976-S v.1 clad
2 1976-S silver
7 curiosities (light strikes and such)
5 gold plated
4 silver plated
1 silver round half oz
12 fakes of which 4 were outright counterfeit and will need to be destroyed at the bank and 8 were "fantasy" hobby fakes.

 

Note I wrote "junk silver" in my above response.

 

I don't know if you should destroy the fakes/counterfeits. I understand there is a collector market for such so maybe there is someone out there that would like to buy them off you for at least $1 each (your cost). Just mark them "copy" and see if you get any offers.