i went to the bank very early today and got 5 penny rolls, 2 nickel rolls, and 5 for quarters and the best thing i got was a 59 nickel, and a couple UNC pennies here and there, gonna try again tomorrow
Hehe sorry to hear that. The trick to finding several good coins is volume. I'd imagine you'd have to go through many rolls of quarters to find an old uncirculated one as people don't save them in jars like penny's. Probably because they are worth 25x a penny...anyways and with pennies I recommend getting atleast 10-20 rolls a time. An old nickel sounds about right as I noticed I will typically find one from the 50s per 2 rolls.
Guess what? I went through 6 rolls of quarters, 17 rolls of nickels, and 10 rolls of pennies and didn't mind anything really that great. Some days are good and others are not so good. Keep Trying!!!! SM
Cool! What's funny is I have been to 4 banks, and at 3 of them, on my first visit I have gotten a Candian penny. Kinda cool. SM
I would be quite impressed and surprised if you got a wheat cent in only 5 rolls of pennies. Typically I will find 1 per ten rolls of pennies which I found one recently but a while back I found 3 in 10. I remember the time a year ago where I went to 2-3 banks for a total of 25 rolls and I did not find one wheat cent at all! It just depends on the source I reckon. Like I say volume is key and if you get enough rolls in one lot, like 50 at a time you will even find a few uncirculated grade pennies from the 1960s.
Must be more wheaties floating around NYC, I usually come across a couple a week, and that's just in change recieved. I can usually pull at least 10 in five rolls from the bank. Pulled a 1940, and a 1962 (being the lower mintage of the two) I've also been pulling as many keelboat and peace nickels as I can...got 4 of each. All out of 3 rolls.
