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A few dollars worth of halves... one 90%.

 

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Today I had to go out of town to an auto salvage yard to buy a few body parts for my car that was totaled earlier this week. I bought the car back from my insurance company for only $92. I’ll repair it enough to get a salvage title and then sell it cheap to a low-income family during the holidays. The car has new tires and runs well, so it should last several more years with only routine maintenance.

Anyhow, I stopped at 1 bank in the town I was in and a teller had $80 in MWR halves. She told me an older man sold them to her earlier today. He mentioned he had bills to pay. I bought all the rolls. Strangely, they are unopened Loomis rolls that appear to contain only BU ‘71Ds based on the end coins showing on 6 of the rolls. I’ve never seen anything like this.

2 of the rolls have double reverse enders that are clearly also BU coins. I’ll open these 2 rolls tomorrow in an attempt to gather more evidence the remaining rolls are solid BU ‘71Ds. If the 6 remaining rolls appear to contain BU ‘71Ds, then I’ll probably keep the 6 rolls and eventually try selling them as unsearched rolls on feebay.

HH everyone.

 

Evidence is in, and it’s conclusive (and remarkably odd)!

All BU, and MS in my opinion.

 

Bought 4 boxes yesterday and 2 more today, all halves. Just finished searching 1st box which had a reverse ender. I haven’t seen an ender in many months so this was a good sign. Box yielded a nice variety of good coins, including some AU 1990’s decade Philly coins which will be upgrades to my duplicate tubes to be saved for future Grandkids albums. Also had a couple of NIFCs. But the picture worthy are:
(1) 1965 - I think it’s an SMS, opinions please
(4) 1967
(1) 1968-D
(1) 1969-D
(1) 1974-D DDO
(1) 1987-D

Hoping my short little run on silver continues through the next 5 boxes!

 

That is a sweet '65! Don't get rid of that one!

 

2nd box had no silver, but did have:
(1) 1974-D DDO
(1) 1982-P “No FG”
(2) NIFCs
On to the next box!

 

@TexAg I am amazed at the number of ‘74D DDOs you find! If I correctly recall, then I have found only 3 in the approximately 200,000 halves I’ve searched.

 

Thanks Berto, I am up to around 95 of them in 208,000 halves searched. I suppose it's because I look at almost every coin's date (although if I am in a hurry, I primarily edge check). I'm culling through them and saving the better ones and starting to give the not so great ones to tellers and dog sitters with a printout of the markers so they can see what they are about. I've never sold any, do you know what an XF or AU would fetch? My find rate on the 1972-D & 1982-P "No FG" is about 3 in 200,000. Now those are tough to find down here!

 

3rd box had 1 lone silver (68-D) and, would you believe, another 74-D DDO. Plus 6 more NIFCs.

 

Well I paid the CRH tax on Box #4. Even though it was sealed, the NF String box (with holes in the bottom to verify all the rolls are there ) was short 1 roll. I usually don't bother to look at the holes, guess I should have - oh well. Also, 5 rolls were short one coin and 1 roll had an extra coin. Poor QA/QC. It was also devoid of silver, did find 4 NIFCs. I don't get as excited about the NIFCs (unless they are proofs) as I have 1/2 - 1 full roll of each of the 2002+ Kennedys except maybe the last couple of years. On to Box #5!

 

Bummer about the short roll. I had that happen once. Weird thing was that two weeks later I got 51 rolls in a box! The Universe paid me back!

 

So I've had big week in coin roll hunting. One of my go-to tellers mentioned that classic line that someone had come in just wanted to get rid of all her deceased husband's wrapped coins, but had a "family friend sort through and keep the good ones." I know what other people think are "good ones" and what I look through could be different, so I offer to buy up whatever she has.

$69.5 in cent rolls included 24 mint rolls of 2009s and 2 mint rolls of 2010s. This batch also included eight rolls that "looked old" when I loaded them at the bank. I didn't realize how old they were until I got home and realized the phone number on them was "KI 4-1999." The youngest coin in that batch of rolls was from 1967 and had 124 wheats, with the oldest being a neat slick 1917. Most of the others were in really nice, but circulated condition. Some rolls were marked and contained year sets of zincolns others were marked "pre-82" and were solid rolls of coppers. All in, it left me with 1948 copper cents.

$114 CWR - Two solid rolls of Buffalos plus 12 war nickels. The oldest buff was 1920.

$505 CWR Dimes - 2 Roosies

$470 CWR Quarters - 1964. The teller had another 400 dollars of Mint wrapped state quarters that I left behind.

There was also about $2000 in mint wrapped presidential dollars that mostly left behind. By this point time to search and cash limitations were coming into play. I've never searched small dollars but I guess this would have been a awfully good opportunity to start.

 

That is AWESOME! Curious minds want to know what you will be doing with those old cent wrappers?

 

Well, it seemed fitting to fill then up with wheats and keep them in the stash. Who knows, maybe many years from now if the family has ignored everything I've ever told them they'll get released into the wild again.

 

Does finding 2 1972 DDO#3's in a OBW roll I bought for cheap on ebay count? Got them 2 months ago.
With one post I can tell all my roll searching stories.
A friend and I bought about 20 rolls from a dealer at our coin club that his dad saved from 1963 they were Denver mints. We found enough 1963-d fs-101 DDO's to make a roll. Most were EDS. My buddy sent his half to ANACS and all came back 63's except 2 64's.

Last one, don't know if it counts either but in the early 2000's the same friend and I were buying a LOT of 90%. We both kept our dimes by dates. After he bought the Cherrypicker's guide we decided to go through our dimes. he had about 15 1942-d's of those 15, 2 were 42/1-D!! both of which I found. He must have gotten them from some dealer in junk rolls as that's where everything came from. One had a bad nick in the date so he sold it to me cheap.
Happy Hunting!!!

 

@AllCoExpat Great find!

I know the presidential dollar roll cost quickly adds up, but you may want to visit the bank to buy several more rolls of presidential dollars. Check ebay before you go to determine which rolls sell for the highest premium, and then cherry pick.

 

I knew Box #5 (Loomis) was going to be good when I picked it up last Friday. A customer had bought a handful of rolls leaving me $450. I’m surprised that customer did not come back and buy the rest of the box! I saw 6 enders including one that was a reverse Bi-Centennial. Well, I finally got around to searching it last night, and even though it was a partial box, it surpassed my previous best box by 1 silver with a total of 56! For the first picture, I put all the enders together. Results:
(1) 1939-S
(30) 1967
(5) 1968-D
(18) 1969-D
(1) 1967 SMS? It sure is shiny!
(1) 1976-D Silver Impaired Proof
(1) 1980-S Impaired Proof
(10) NIFCs Not Pictured
I also have the companion box (full). It has no enders, but I’m hoping it has some carryover silver.

 

@TexAg CONGRATS!

 

Thanks @berto !

 

3 banks tonight had $50 in cwr halves and $3 loose...nothing.