After searching through many rolls yesterday and this morning, the count is now finished. 35 Wheat Cents. The best is a G-4 1919-S 8 Indian Cents. The best is a VG-8 1903-P 1 Mercury Dime. VG-8 1941-P 1 Barber Dime AG-3 1895-P 1 Washington Quarter AG-3 1932-P 1 Barber Quarter Poor-2 No date. No legends. 2 40% Kennedy Halves 1967, 1968. EF-40 Amount of coins searched: $50 in cents $200 in dimes $1000 in quarters $100 in half dollars
It was more like, Darn that boss of ours. Strike!, Mutiny! Make him do it his darn self. Lousy, good for nothing, worthless boss. I did have to change some of the language, but I am sure you all get the point. I left the searching for my employees.
The employees all get paid by the hour. I have suggested by the find, but no one wants to go for that. The good finds are few and far in between. If you discount the Barber, the totals on this weekends finds add up to about $6. Who would go through so many thousands of coins for that? Now before I get a hundred questions about why I pay some of the employees to do this...... One is cherry picking varieties. Two is the nice find. Three is for teaching grading skills. Four is for use in our educational department. Five is good tip material. Finally, is that each trip to the bank gets the employee familiar with the tellers, and vise versa. When these tellers or other bank employees find an interesting note or coin, we are the first to be called. When some other customer needs a "coin guy" we are called. We have found some good coins over the years, but more importantly, we receive many referred customers each year.
I nabbed a 41-S Jefferson Nickel in a roll today. Nothing like what ND found, but I was excited anyway.
A 41-S Jeff is a great find!! I find Jeffs in the 40s and 50s on occasion, but rarely ones with mintmarks.
In AG this coin will be offered in the $20 to $25 range. Full good and above, it starts to reach a little.
Though it's not as much a financial gain as winning the lottery, I just think that the odds of coming up with an 1895 Barber dime in a bank roll can't be much more favorable than the odds of winning the lottery. Any Barber dime would be a very unusual find, I'd think (never having found one in a roll personally), let alone an 1895, which was one of the smaller mintages of the series.
