Well my bank just got rid of their coin counting machines in all branches they said they were getting to expensive to have and maintain so that puts a dent on my roll hunting. Guess it will be back to rolling coins and taking them to the bank. I went through 7 rolls of quarters and rolled them and took them back to the bank they did just take them and gave me cash back I was surprised.
Ever since the price of silver skyrocketed several years ago, nearly reaching $50 per ounce, more CRH'ers than ever before joined the ranks of this facet of coin-collecting. Unfortunately, many banks had to alter their collection policies as a result. It can be expected that many more will follow suit and either charge a fee for these services which used to be free or do away with the collection machines altogether. Chris
It takes less time to roll them than it does to examine each and every one for errors and varieties. Chris
A lot of banks have been getting rid of the counting machines for customers due to cost and some findings they they weren't always accurate. The last thing they want to do is pay for a machine that they have to go back and make manual deposit corrections for Coinstar still exists which doesn't charge a fee if you use it for one of the gift cards.
True. These I am rolling up to return now are ones I am sure I will not be examining. They are shield cents primarily. I still have to go through the ones I want to examine closely for errors, etc. But why sit on these coins I know I do not want to look at? Better to get them into an account. Then I can take my time with what remains. The only thing I do look for on the first pass are near and far AMs and conspicuous errors.
Never read it or even heard about it except on CT. It was not a bad thing to learn that things my eye thought might be interesting errors (learned that word here) were PMD. I looked at cents because of what I read about rare issues. I learned I am not a cent lover. But also I learned that I wanted to be sure I did not have a rare cent in one of these rolls I want to take and deposit but which I had become too bored with cents to search. Hence, a quickie review. I have come to the conclusion that I will not be keeping (and maybe not even examining) the 1983 cents and up to the shields, nor the post wheats until 83. (I could have said that more efficiently). I now see there is no reason to do that. Perhaps I might keep a roll of each year. One learns, and one becomes more sophisticated, hopefully.
I wasn't suggesting that you read that book. That is a private joke between @V. Kurt Bellman and myself. Chris
Just went through 10 rolls of cents not one pre 1982 cent and they were all the dirtiest cents I have ever seen. Think the bank knows I am a coin collector and purposely gave me the crappiest rolls of cents they new they had. Guess the days of getting pre 82 cents may be gone except for your change.
I've got several hundred rolls of solid BU rolls, many of which are years with significant varieties, and I still haven't looked through any but the 1969-S rolls and one 1970-S roll (2 - 1970-S small date NGC MS66RD finds).
