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Erin, how do you talk these tellers into just handing you hundreds of dollars worth in silver for face value? I mean, what do you say to them to broach the subject initially?

 

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Today I went to TD bank to get a roll of nickels to fill out a book I just got. To my suprise there was a 1942-D in the roll in good shape.I also picked up 3 roll's of cents and there was 6 wheat's and two 2010's. Heh, $4.50 can go a long way!

 

Halfway thru with my box of pennies.
1 canadian
1956 wheat
195? wheat
plenty of all types of the 2009 lincoln series all philly.
couple of pre 1984 AU keepers from the 70,s@80,s
and a whole lotta YUCKK. What do people do with these coins?

 

I stopped getting rolled coins from the bank customers just because they are so gross and nothing good from them. had to move to pre-rolled coins by a company.

 

I know what you meen my wife wont touch them and wont let me put them on her good table sigh....

 

Good table, lol. You guys must have rough wheat penny areas. I seem to average one a dollar, minimum, around here, when sorting coppers. Another $500 from TD yielded jack, that was the remainder of what I ordered early last week. Gonna pass them up for now and try local banks for a bit.

 

Found my first silver yesterday! Got $360 in bank rolled halves. First half had nothing, then I found a 1967, then 3 1964s and one 1942 walking liberty! I was so excited to find all those. Also found a 2006 that I need for my album. Definitely gets me back into roll searching.

 

I got a machine roll that had a nickel with like a chunk of oily dirt/ sludge stuck to it, so it doesn't matter how you get them. Now I gotta figure out what to do with it cuz i dont want to touch it either!

 

You guys , even the bank rolled cents from the $25.00 boxes have some REALLY scary coins in them.

I think there are some people in this world that have personal vendettas on Lincoln , the way some cents are intentionally gouged and mutilated.

Then there are so many cents that have green and black stuff just eating them alive. ( it might be because of the moist climate here in the Pacific North West )

Then there are those coins that have what looks like dried blood all over them YUCK !!!

I think the idea of wearing cotton gloves ( or even surgical gloves ) is a good idea for more than just handling uncirculated coins.

 

I usually roll search only halves and cents. However, I'm out of cents at the moment so I went through a half of a box of nickels that I had stashed away (I've got about 2k worth of nickels in sealed boxes....just in case!)

I found a 1937 Buffalo Nickel in F, two war nix and 4 pre-1981 canadian! (99.9% nickel)

Not too shabby! Beats getting skunked on another box of halves...

 

Well, I'm back after a long hiatus. I was finishing my Master's Thesis. Anyhow, I worked 27 rolls of pennies the last couple of days. I found four wheats from the 1940s, one 1980 Canadian, and an 1883 Indian Head Cent in G. My first IHC from a roll! I was pretty surprised.

I've got a box of halves on order at the credit union, but it wont arrive until a week from Wednesday, so until then I'll keep working pennies and nickels.

-Sodbuster

 

Got another box of halves yesterday that I opened today. Nothin.

 

bobbeth87,

Do you ever do boxes of quarters ?
If so , what have you found the silver success ratio to be ?

Thanks

 

Quarters

Hey Kanga,
I have never found a single silver quarter from rolls. I'm sure there are a few, but they circulate a lot and are easy to pick out. I think you'd have better luck in just about any other denomination finding silver (except maybe pennies)

 

Never done quarter rolls because they circulate so much. However, I did look through several hundred dollars of quarters from a friend's coin wash business and found one silver quarter.

Dime boxes I find about 1 per box, and bags of dimes, 5-8.

bob

 

no banks in my town will order halves for me and there are 6!! i am going to hit up downtown pittsburgh and try some of the banks there. i was even willing to open an account. i live right outside the "downtown" area, i could basically walk, but i am to lazy, i will take the bus.

i did open a roll of lincolns and found a 1957 wheat, that looks at least au. i never found one that still had all of its shine! it is weird looking at the reverse and seeing that red shinny wheat.. i will get some pictures of that along with ihc that is toned green/blue that i found in a roll.

 

Kanga, im down here in walla walla and I find those from time to time.

these bags of coins I hear people talking about, getting them from banks or what?

 

Well I guess there are a couple of folks here that have connections with Coinstar & I think they get bank bags ( not sure I understood that part correctly ).

But most of the Half Dollar searchers are buying bank boxes at face value from banks & credit unions.

Then there are those of us who spend way too much money and buy the 10 , 17 or 34 pound bags of Wheat Cents off of eBay. I have been through a few of them and from my experience they were the biggest waste of money. Personally it feels much better paying $25.00 for 2500 pennies from a bank and actually finding about a few dozen keepers.

 

just 2 rolls nickles yday. 1- 1951 D

 

A nice find at work this morning I picked up a small collection of proofs that were found in the self checkout register. I got 3 proof halves and 7 proof golden dollars
Halves:
2000-S
2 2002 - S
Golden Dollars
2000-S Sacagawea
2 2002-S Sacagaweas
A proof Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison
I was happy to get them