Roll-searchers, post your results!

I think I can make it work. There's a TD Bank I can use to dump my change about 3 minutes from my work, and a PNC about 200 yards away, as well as a WF not too far away as well. There's also several other banks within a very tight radius... I may not be dead after all! Could theoretically dump and pick up during my lunch, and still have plenty of time to get some food. Gonna try it tomorrow.

Today, I did a mini-loop, hitting up Alliance, Citizens in a grocery store, citizens across the parking lot, WF across the road, some no-name bank that wouldn't even let me in without an ID, a PNC, a TD, and then back to work. Found about $15 in halves, all clad, and informed each branch I'll be by at least once a week. Tomorrow, I'm gonna let WF know they need to up their order volume substantially, and talk to the teller supe at PNC about ordering me some halves, probably 2 boxes a week, starting in 2-3 weeks.


I have issues.

 

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Just finished a box of cents, found the following...

7 Wheats:
1935
1950
1951
1955 D
1956
1957D
1958


10 'S' mint coins
1969S X2
1970S X3 (I can never tell these apart for large/small variety)
1971S
1972S X2
1973S
1974S

Also a 1968 Canadian Cent...not a very exciting box. Also picked up the 1 half my bank had...was a bicentennial...bummer. Better luck next time!

 

I picked up $220 in Customer rolled halves today and about another $4.50 in loose from tellers. Seems Dr. Dump has been hitting some of my banks in the area. Same wrapper, same garbage result - Skunk. Kind of sick of having to work off someone else's dumps. Especially when there are 1000's of banks in our area with coin counters. It is really annoying.

Also picked up a box of dimes at TD Bank. Skunk!

The upside of the day...I picked up $100 in dimes from Wells Fargo and it gave up 3 Silver Rosies!

So at least I got some silver today. I got another bank to order me a box of halves next week. So, next week I'll have 5 coming in and can probably keep it up weekly going forward. The only draw back is I'll be on vacation down in OCMD the week of July 4th. So, I won't get nearly as much coin hunting done that week. I can canvas that area again, but it was not good over Memorial Day weekend at all.

 

Skunked on a box of dimes.

 

$125 CWR Dimes

Skunk - Dimes have not been treating me well this week. It seems to make the days drag on finding no silver. Can't wait to go on lunch and dump this clad and pick up a box from a different bank here in town. Just one tiny silver dime would make my day, more would be even sweeter!

I need to find some silver!
I need to find some silver!
I need to find some silver!
I need to find some silver!
I need to find some silver!
I need to find some silver!

 

Inquisitive,

Have you been having bad luck with your dime boxes the past couple weeks or is it just me?

HOTN

 

I did about $50 of my box of dimes and already pulled 1 64. And in average I'm getting between 1 and 2 dimes per box.

 

On and off. This was my first skunk for a couple of days; the past few had been good, but I've been getting more skunks than usual.

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My grandpa is payin me my pay for doing chores in rolls of pennyis so I will look through then dump them in a coinstar to get amazon gift card to buy a cherrypickers guide...yay

 

box of halves @ lunch produced 2 40% halves.

 

Don't use coinstar, their fees are outrageous.

 

Coinstar doesn't charge if you get a gift card

 

Dime streak broken

Well I did my chant "I need to find some silver" this morning and it worked. Picked up a box of dimes on my lunch break from Webster, Strings & Son. Never bought a box from them before. The first roll I choose to open had a 1953 Roosie to end my skunky box streak. A little silver in my pocket. Opened a up like $35 worth but nothing else in those. Hopefully it's not one and done!
HTN

 

Box of dimes, nothing but 2011s. Talked to head teller, gonna get two boxes of halves a week starting next Friday.

 

Box 1: 1 40%
Box 2: 4 40% and 1 1950 Franklin :yes:

 

Decided to stop in at a new bank today to see if they had any halves I could pick up, they didn't have any, but on my out there was a guy dumping coins in the counting machine. He had a big bowl full of coins, and was picking through it getting rid of rocks and beads and junk like that. I noticed he had some halves and asked if I could take them off of his hands. He said sure, and started grabbing all the big coins. I ended up getting $20 in halves, 9 ike's, and a 1900-O morgan dollar for $40. SWEET!

 

Right place at the right time, all the way.

If I were retired, I'd be tempted to camp out by a CoinStar during the day and just intercept the folks like this. (Or like the little old lady who was dumping change, and couldn't get the CoinStar to accept her silver dimes.)

 

That's great. If they offered some other gift cards (gasoline or groceries in my area) I would become a roll searcher for sure.

 

Today's box managed a single 1952

 

Nice!!! I've yet to find a Franklin which is dissapointing seeing how we share the same last name!!!