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dateless buffalo found in a roll yesterday

This one has seen better days...

 

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Yay wheats!

I found today... some wheaters!

1952 D Nice XF chocolate.
1918 S VG/G
1910 Plain VG/G

Not bad finding teens coins from a bank!

 

Went through another box of nickels today. Not great, but I ended up with 2 1939 Ps, 20 other pre-1960s (mostly from the forties), and no silver. The 1939 Ps are VG and F.

 

I don't know about the rest of you, but roll searches in my part of the country have been a bit disappointing. Except for the occasion wheaties that pop up every now and then (about 1 wheatie in every 9 to 10 rolls) there has been nothing until yesterday.

Yesterday I stop by the bank and only pick up $10 of cent rolls and $8 in nickels. The nickels did not have much of anything but the cent rolls did get me excided and then made me sick all in one roll. It was about the fourth roll I found and VG 1956 D/D RPM 16. The second D was very faint but it still a RPM 16. What made me sick came about 6 to 7 coins later, at first I was very excided but as I started to take a good look at the coin I found that it was pitted and a white cakie substance in the pits. The coin a 2000 wide AM. Although it is the least rarest of the AM's it is still a shame.:crying:

 

Boy you put the John Dillinger to them! :thumb:

 

I think they are if you live in Uzbekistan.

 

Why don't you try to "nick" that date with little white vinegar soak?

 

how long?

 

Wait... does that actually work?

 

I was wondering the same thing. I doubt that it would . . . but I've been wrong before.

 

I thought you might have been familiar as there are tons of threads on this. Basically you'll get a quarter and up for an average dateless buffalo. When you soak it in vinegar (and that usually takes anywhere from a day to a week to see results; depends on how hidden that date is), it's going to look it (it will look lighter and smoother), and you're basically damaging the surface of the coin. That's the bad news. The good news is you're going to see a date or partial most of the time and if it has one, a mint mark. If you're unsure, apprehensive, whatever, search the archives. There are many threads on this. You'll get the lay of it. Good luck.

 

Question, when you buy boxes of halves of $500, do you return the same box to the same bank branch?

 

not if you want to get any more.

 

I have 14 dump bank locations in my area with 1 or 2 free coin counting machines in each location.

I am picking up halves, about 1-3 boxes a week from 3 other banks.

I just started doing this a month ago.

My first box had 2 90% and 7 40%

Second had 4 coins with silver.

This past week and three boxes and only 4 coins. Yesterday the sole 1964 Kennedy was stunning. It's what keeps me going.

I am still looking for coins for my album and have been having a hell of a time finding anything since 2000. What I do find looks like it went thru the grinder with few exceptions. Where are all the 2000+ dated coins?

Oh, and it takes me an hour to go thru $500

0CD

 

I've often wondered what happens precisely when the coin leaves the bank. I'd think knowing the answer to that would be relevant in forming a strategy. The way I have it the armored car companies buy the coin, audit and count it, roll it and box it, individually. I wonder if anybody "in the know" could shed some light on that, the system/procedure.

 

Here is a link to the Brinks site on there coin services. Loomis is just about the same. http://us.brinksinc.com/services/coin_processing_services.aspx

Bill

 

Thanks. I had it soaking all of yesterday and overnight, and it's starting to look like a 1929 or a 1923.

 

So my local branch called another branch that has $120 in halves. Apparently they are "shiny in rolls".... um, if they are new bank rolls, is it worth taking them?

Also, they said they have some "big" dollars.... worth taking ike rolls?

 

I think so. You can probably sell them for more than face on eBay.

 

Very hard to find Eisenhowers and new halves now.

I do try to put some in my albums but don't keep excess.

The Eisenhowers are gonna be gone for good if you collect from rolls or change.