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My latest penny roll swap with my local bank proved successful. One roll produced six wheaties and the remaining three from another three rolls. It was a fun search!

 

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Went to my safe deposit box today so stopped at a teller, no lines. Only 8 rolls of dimes. Two rolls of nickels

 

Took advantage of a cashflow situation that allowed me to get a box of quarters, and boy did I find a good one!

Quarter box #1:
Silver: 1941, 1942, 1951, 1957-D, 1960-D x2, 1964 x5, 1964-D x5

Bicentennial: 1976-D x11

2025-P Althea Gibson, the first one I ever found (and strangely still not found one of these from Denver, even though that mint's a lot closer)

Other notable finds:
Really nice 2003-D Illinois, 2006-D Nebraska, and 2025-D Ida B. Wells. Felt worth saving.

Now I got a lot of coin rolling to do lol but it was worth it.

 

Wow, that's quite a box!

 

16 silver quarters? That's incredible, congratulations!

 

1 box isn't enough to establish a pattern, but I'm pretty amazed, as that's more silver than I found in 10 boxes of dimes. (And yet the single quarter I was most excited to find was the Althea Gibson lol.) I'm still not sure how I got a box with that much silver in it, because that can't possibly be typical. It was all Loomis wrapped, btw. Kind of debating if I want to start a 1932-1998 quarter album as I got a good start on the silver years. Maybe eventually. Quarters are fun to go through and not nearly as much of a strain on the eyes as dimes are, the only downside is it's harder to scrape together enough to get a whole box all at once.

I'm not really complaining, much, as this was an amazing box, but the one disappointment was not finding any semiquincentennial stuff lol. It's weird I've just not seen any yet.

P.S. I decided to put the Illinois quarter in my 7070 type set as the example for a state quarter. I previously had a 2007-S Utah clad proof there but it felt weirdly random to have that one (it was a leftover from a proof set I broke open for an anniversary gift for my parents, that I needed the Washington State quarter from). I was born in Illinois so a nice quarter from that state felt more personal. Still keeping the Utah proof in my book of "random US stuff I don't have albums for or is otherwise worth saving (plus medals and tokens)."

Keeping at least 1 of every date/mintmark of silver Washington quarters I find in case I ever want to do an album for them, and the rest of the spare silver quarters I found putting in a roll and saving (may cash them in if I get a significant number of them).

 

A few rolls of nickels today. All separated by year. First one opened had three silvers. Kept hoping for some Wartime. Found them! 24 silvers one roll for 27 total! Gotta go through them all later. Maybe a Henning or some DD. One can only dream

 

To me it started with covid, with the mint shutting down for a while then producing heavily after. Along with more people using Coin Star reclamation machines there is a high volume of older coinage being put back into circulation. When Loomis collects and rolls up these coins they don't use as much "new" money, so the stuff from the mint sits until needed. You used to get new coins as soon as they were minted but today you have to wait for them to work their way into circulation.

As far as purchasing a full box, I will accumulate rolls through several months or years, buying a few at a time, keeps me from having to dole out a large sum at one time.

I'm still impressed with finding that many silver quarters. I went through more than 150 rolls last year, mixed between Loomis and customer wrapped, and only found 1. And since I live on the front range the same as you, you give me hope!

 

I weirdly feel like the quarter boxes are trying to draw me in by giving me so many with the first box. Well it worked! I know I can't expect that every time but it does give me hope that the silver is out there. As are other things worth finding. I didn't save any of the clad 1965-1998 quarters (other than bicentennials; always been a guilty pleasure of mine) this time but I think it would be fun, eventually, to see how long it would take me to find them all. I still feel the satisfaction for filling an album of Jefferson nickels almost purely from roll hunting (OK mostly, do admit I bought the last two, but close enough to count in my book). Dimes just don't want to cooperate in that regard, though I have finished 1965-present with the only one I bought being the 1996-W. The silvers I do want to finish eventually but I'm keeping my expectations realistic in that regard.

I'm sure I've said this before, but it's kind of a good thing/bad thing with Loomis/other machine-wrapped rolls: good that it means there's more older stuff to find, bad that it takes longer to find newer stuff (I hate paying the scalpers online or having to wait years to see it, but what can you do). I miss just hoping I'll see the new thing in my change, or in the cash drawers where I work, but I think those days are just mostly over. I'll never stop looking but I'm being more realistic in my expectations.

I think it's a question of when, not if, I'll do it again and I do think I'll eventually get an album for 1932-1998 Washington quarters. From 1999 to the present I have no desire to get every date, mintmark, and type, because it would drive me insane; it would be expensive to get albums to do all that and I don't know where I'd put them all lol (that and how many quarters I'd have to look at to fill all that would make me crazy). So 1999-present quarters I only collect by type. One per design, that's it, unless they ever go back to no more than one design per year.

I haven't given up hope on trying to fill my Roosevelt dime album but reward per time is clearly better with quarters than dimes (yeah I know this result is far from typical, but still), precisely because there's just so much more to find. Not saying I'll never do dimes again, but I'll definitely do them less often. Maybe I'll alternate or something. The next box will be quarters though!

 

Me and the boys finally finished a Jefferson Nickel folder through CRH. Last two we needed were 2009-d and 2024-d. Took forever to find them. But now we have all from 1962-2025!