Are CWR coin rolls that customers brought in and the bank didn't go through them or anything like that, or are they coins that customers brought in that the bank re-rolled?
Cwr means the customer wrapped them and brought them in. A lot of banks make customers write their account numbers on the outside of the rolls just in case it's full of washers. If you see a number written on them you know for sure the customers rolled them. That doesn't prevent the customer from being a roll hunter. They could have been searched and then returned to the bank. I just went through $100.00 in CWR unboxed from the bank and found nothing.
The very reason why I don't like to buy mass quantities of CWR at one time... I like to sample some rolls first, quickly get home and search them. If they seem promising, I'll immediately go back and get more... if not, I won't. This happens to me with cents a lot... though I've found several rolls of them with the wheats obviously removed and the rest of the coins being dated 1959-1982.
If my abc doesn't see my xyz then ill be PODed somewhere in the middle. (Ya like it? Just made it up,lol)
I guess you could call any roll that is rolled besides solid date mint rolls as customer wrapped. The Armored Truck, Constar, and coin sorters/rollers at the bank coins get re rolled, and they are all customers of the banks, and mint. I was in Maui for a week and the day before yesterday I went to 2 local Hawaiian banks. I got $25.00 worth of rolls from each (not boxed but loose rolls) and mailed them to myself. I noticed the rolls are all folded over the tops and hand twisted. A lot of them have account numbers. Most of them had dark brown, and red brown coins on the ends. I'm hopeful about these. We will see.
Ah, the joys of flat-rate Priority Mail. (Although I don't know how that works from Hawaii!) I'll be very interested to hear what you find. I never really thought about how Hawaii's degree of isolation would affect its circulating coinage.
I medium flat rate box, Priority Mail, $16.75 to Marin County, CA It's supposed to arrive tomorrow. That is why I got sucked in to the idea. There are a lot of isolated areas. and individuals who may have just had these lying around. There is no mint office here. There are no US national banks like B of A. Wells Fargo. or Chase. There are only Credit Unions, and Island banks. I thought maybe there is not as much churning, and dilution with shield cents. Everything is moving to Credit Cards so there really isn't a need to import new pennies. I was very soft spoken, humble, and greateful with the tellers. They were more than willing to help me (they weren't very busy), When I asked they shot each other glances like "we got a live one here". That made me think they don't get many roll searchers buying boxes. We will see
Unless the rolls break, I re-roll the coins I get back in those same rolls... once you get used to using your fingernails to open the MWRs, it becomes very easy to do this. I usually put the weight of the roll or a number on them as my markers to show I've gone through them...
Same here... one of my friends and their family just moved there. I wonder what you would find in a typical roll there. And are there half dollars around?
