I have found these Ellis islands are just starting to come around in circulation. I've just found another one with another chip in the same place. It seems this is going to be a starting point for future chips. USMC60
I can't speak for others. Please post some of your fines. I have found over the years after purchasing mint rolls and a few bags, and paying the mint markup price for these items, at least the coinage that I'm looking for I can get directly from the bank without paying the markup prices. Because of what you're buying from the mint, is basically the same coins you get from the bank without the markup. And in some cases you can get better quality from the bank without paying the markup for the mint packaging. As you stated you buy a hundred coin sealed bag, once you open that bag it is no longer sealed. I guess you can get a little bit of money for the bag itself. But from what I've seen over the years, that's a lot of money to pay for a bag. But to each their own, I just happened to get in good with the teller manager at my bank, I let them know exactly what I'm looking for and I stopped paying the mint prices for coins. On several occasions, I can get a whole box of 2000 quarters, the armored car carrier that the bank gets its coinage from gets a bag of quarters from the Federal Reserve here in Miami. They have a tendency to roll the new coins and boxed them in a different kind of box. This way I pay a quarter for a quarter. USMC60
If my Bank could get P minted Coins it would be great. I live about 20 miles east of the Pacific Ocean in the Wine Country. I don't see a P minted coin that much. What I see are usually pretty beat up. Same goes with S Minted quarters and half dollars with out buying them from the Mint.The most common coins are D minted. Do not usually find many things wrong with those. I received two 100 coin bags of quarters from the Mint yesterday. One Ellis Island and one of the Fredrick Douglas minted Philadelphia. I found 48 Ellis island and 52 F. Douglas coins with either die chips or die gouges on them. I used the rest to fill in the spots in coin albums for my several grandkids. Roseland3
Know exactly what you mean, worked in Seattle for 18 years. Philadelphia mint coins were far and in between. Still I say get to know your bank teller, even when I was in Seattle, had one bank teller that used to put all the D Ment rolls she thought I would be interesting in aside for me when I came in. Ended up with a nice selection of the presidential dollars when they first came out, a course they were all from the Denver mint. Unfortunately due to the weight of coins, it's not cost-efficient even to mail one roll of coins to someone else. Check around to see if you have any friends going to the East Coast, and have them bring you back some coins. But I still say get rolls of coins from your bank, you would be surprised what you find in circulated rolls that you get from the bank. It's like a box of chocolates you never know what you're going to find. I will say 98% of the coins that you see on Wexler's and cuds on coins. That were submitted by myself usmc60 out of bankrolls. I personally would be interested to see some of your fines. USMC60
I have been getting a $25 box of Lincoln Cents from my bank about every week. I look through them and re roll what I do not keep and refill the box. I go in and they will trade mine for a new box without any problems. Best I have done is a 1995 DDO that I posted here a few months back. A lot of die distortion or MDs. I also go to the laundromat for my wife about once a week. I go through the quarters and have fun several errors. I usually take my little 10X magnifing glass with me. I must look wired looking through the quarters while doing a load of wash. I have found several silver quarters, two proofs and loads of errors, from a Homestead DDR to Alaska State Quarter with die chips on the bears claws.
I myself have a boxe of cents. 2017 that I haven't even opened yet. I know this must sound like a pain, but I have found I take all my examining coins that I put back in the box, I deposit them in a different branch bank. That way I'm sure not to get any of the coins that I may have already examined. Then I go over to my neighborhood branch, and pick up a box of coins. This little routine I go through about twice a month, I prefer to stick with the quarters. Last month I went through a whole box the presidential Dollars, I should say mixed it did have Sacajawea's, and prior to the presidential's I went through a whole box of haves. Needless to say I did not have much luck, a few minor arrors that was all, not worth the time involved. I basically do the same I open the bankrolls up then I refill them and reseal them, it takes longer but I have less hassle with the bank. USMC60
Here's another nice one I just came across.. Have to keep an eye on her right elbow, I am seeing signs for a future nice size chip. Nice cracks and chips on her face. I'm not sure I may send this in John possibly doubling on the right side of her nose.? And of course the cap Chip.
At first look under the microscope. This one looked like a nice chip. But it only shows you how looks can be deceiving. Under closer examination, I found that I have a nice piece of production debris. Occasionally only one other time I got lucky and found production debris on coinage right from the Mint.
