Roll-searchers, post your results!

I went through a roll and 1/2 of Jeffersons I bought along with a 1938 S. The 38 completede an album thru 1964. 30 of the nickles were war year 42-45. Junk coins as advertised, but I will use them in roll "assortments" with no duplicates. Also have 10 partially completed books to fill.

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

LOL, You are jealous of my box? Dude, you've got the sweetest deal going. The tellers I'm friendly with do not give me hundreds of dollars worth of silver. They work at banks that just don't get half dollars. Remember, I started a little before you and used to be way ahead of you in count. Well, I'm at 765 total now, and you are well over 1000. AND, you are getting a bunch of 90%ers from your tellers. Man, keep it up as long as you can. It seems like all the banks I check for loose halves don't have any.....perhaps its because the tellers all save them for you. lol

bob

 

Too greedy I guess lol

Bob,

Yeah you are getting boxes with silver but there may be something to what you said. I run around washing $1500 a week in boxes so percentage wise I feel I should be doing better (like you) but in truth, I may be just catching the silver before they get into the boxes and so my boxes are duds. Up until the last month or so I really had not found near as many 90%'ers as you but they seem to be showing up more and more. I was below 100 90%ers for my frist 9 months but in the last 2 months I have found over a 100 so I am about to cross 200 which is somthing I never thought would happen.


Erin

 

Well, I know some people dig the WAM varieties, etc., and if I think about it sometimes I take a look. But for some reason, I get a lot more excited about finding older coins and filling my and my kids' albums than looking that close to see if two letters on the back are a zillimeter further apart than usual. If I can't see it with my naked eye in a few seconds, I generally throw it in the dump can.

I have been dumping copper in a separate bin to keep. I'm really not too sure why, though... other than the fact that they're easy to identify quickly.

 

I think a line towards the front part of the Cherrypicker's Guide pretty much sums it up for me:

"Finding these varieties can help finance the collection of a numismatist with modest funds."

This is really the only means I can see of being able to eventually start collecting the beautiful foreign coins I am really interested in.

 

bad night of rolls, 25 dollars of pennies, 26 dollars of nickels got me



Pennies:
38s
50d
52d
53d
57d
58d times 3, one nasty green
eleven canadians, oldest 63



NIckels:
47s
48d

 

Very Nice! :high5:

 

All the boxes I search are the yellow SFSon wrapped rolls and come inside a yellow/brown box no clue if they are Loomis or Brinks or something else. I searched 3 of them they were pretty much garbage 1 40%er found a 1987 and a 2002 thats it one possible error coin though check out his face.
Im picking up 2 more boxes tomorrow

 

All the boxes I search are the yellow NF String & Son wrapped rolls and come inside a yellow/brown box no clue if they are Loomis or Brinks or something else. I searched 3 of them they were pretty much garbage 1 40%er found a 1987 and a 2002 thats it one possible error coin though check out his face.
Im picking up 2 more boxes tomorrow

 

Hello

I just went through half a box of pennies and so far, besides the 1959-1974's I toss in the copper bag I have found a 1951 canadian, a 1960 D Small Date and a 1973 P in B/A/U condition that has doubling four or five wheats ( one 1938 ). And , this beaut I am posting some pictures of... LOL it's a 1983 P , dare me to clean it off? Believe me, it's not gum.

 

Went threw 2 boxes of pennies today and ended up finding 24 wheat pennies and 33 Canadian pennies which the oldest Canadian penny was a 1929. As for the wheat pennies:

1912
1934
1939
1940
1941
1941 D
1944
1944 S
(2)1945
1946
1947 S
1948
1950 D
1951
1951 S
(3) 1952 D
1956
1956 D
1957
1957 D
1958 D looks to be VF-AU

 

Halves

Went through 1 box today and got the following:

8-40%
1-90% (64)


Going to pick up $490 in CWRs tomorrow which smells of someones dump but this has been a good bank to me for CWRs so if nothing else I figure I'll clean the palate. Going to start with 2 boxes next week.

 

CWRs = Country Western Roosevelts ?

So if nothing else you figure you'll brush your teeth ?

 

Maybe they bite down on them like Under-Dog does?

 

4 boxes of halves yielded 11 40%ers and 2 90%ers. I'm happy with that

 

8 boxes for me yielded 16 40%'s, 0 90%. I am not happy with that. Huuuuuuge waste of time.

 

Went through 2 boxes of halves today. Pretty poor results:

Box 1:
1- 1971 D Off center strike (photo posted---is this a gradable error coin with any value?), nothing else



Box 2:
1- 2008 P, nothing else

Two more boxes tomorrow---will post results

 

I hate to rain on your parade, G-man, but I just picked up one Strong & Sons box today. Know what I found?
Exactly... 11 40% and 2 '64s; also one '87D

I additionally went through $10 in pennies. Found six wheats:
25d
42
44
50d
52d
57d

 

Hey, only blue skies here. That's one heck of a box you got there

 

Even if there is not enough of an off-center to bring a premium, it is still a cool coin & I would keep it if it were mine.