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Went through one bag of cents today (5000 cents)
1921-S! 1952-D AU!, 1952-S BU red! 1973-D lamination error
39 other wheats :goofer:

 

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$500 in halves - nada
$250 in dimes - 1-1951d

 

Nice! I would guess I have been through 200+ boxes over the years and have yet to find one.

 

Pay Dirt

picked up 4 rolls of halves from BOA and 10 rolls from Wachovia. The four from BOA had the word good written on the side of the wrappers. At the first stop light I opened the first roll with good written. They fell out with the magical ring of SILVER!!!!! All 64's WOW,WOW,WOW!!!!!!!!!! The next Frankies. The next 2 rolls Walkers and to finish it off with a roll of 68's BU Kennedys. I got a BU 63 Frankie. The 64's are AU/BU. I got a Walker with no date and it was not worn off???? error mabey? Total haul: 39 Walkers, 20 Frankies, 20 64 Kennedys, 19 40% Kennedys. I about shat my self over the luck I had. I went to the supermarket and bought a lotto ticket hopefully the luck would keep going.....

 

I work as a cashier so i go through a lot of rolls and random change practically every day. I find between 1 - 10 wheaties per day. One time i found a 1903 indian head penny and I also found a 57 wheat that looked brand new. Another night I found 7 steel pennies when i had never even seen one before. I have found 5- 10 silver dimes and a few war time silver nickels. The best quarter I have found was a 1899 barber, which got me into this hobby!

 

Found a 1964D Dime while at work!

 

Thanks. Wish it were in better condition, of course. Your '18, too. But we take 'em as we find 'em.

 

Wow, finding a Barber in circulation is da bomb!!!!

Go Cubs!!

 

went through 25 rolls netted 5 for sure keepers another cabin my third at this point a formative a 1940 wheat 1951 wheat and my 6th 1957 wheat in 3 months is that a particular year a high mintage or am i just lucky and its a low mintage year is corrosion more typical in the lincoln memorial cents than the wheats im finding severely to the point of missing pieces corrosion in the memorials but my wheats are all high grade also found a 1959 first memorial cent which i save all those but have been told its pointless as there was a real high mintage that year so its not rare or even a desirable collector coin is that true i look at it like this when people are scattered around looking for the 1959 ill be sitting knee deep in them or my grandkids will ill inspect the rest more close and give a full report later in the wide am errors am i looking for wide or non wide ams im new to the hobby thanks

 

Searching these rolls, bags, boxes seems kind neat.

Really dumb question:

1) what is the fastest way to open and search a roll? Yes that's a serious question. I am VERY much into efficiency. Any best practices out there?

 

Open roll. Lets coins fall into hand. Turn them to the side and look at the edges. The 90% halves will have a distinct solid white or toned edge. The 40% halves will be two toned with silver and copper but still easy to pick out from side view. The none silver halves are much easier to weed out because of the copper that ingulfs most of the edge. Also just the sound of two silver halves clanging toghether is a tell tale sign. Another thing is that the edge of a 90% half might be dark blue or purple due to the toning. I would like to post my haul but I can't shrink my pics...

 

At the post office yesterday I found a steelie with so much rust on it, it looked copper as well as a 1970-s cent in AU.

 

I went thru 5 penny rolls earlier and found 1 '56 D Wheat, 4 Formative years P, and a ton of 60s-70s pennies. I still have 5 more rolls to go.

 

Searched through some nickels and found a 1928 buffalo, a 1944-P and a 1955 :smile

 

Finished out my other five penny rolls... two rolls in a row I got a steel cent, couldnt believe that as I have never gotten a steelie in a bank roll. Also got one more Formative Years P cent. Im noticing in these rolls I picked up a ton of 60s and 70s cents. Gonna finish putting together my lincoln memorial cents and.... and then I dont know. Does the gov't balk at melting cents?

 

Right now it is illegal to melt cents or nickels. You can save them for when they reverse that, but I have never seen a point to it. Just keep the ones that are higher grade and dump the rest.

 

Here's something that I don't understand......if it is illegal to melt them, how come you can smash them into a souvenier at amusement parks and tourist locations? Why is that not illegal?

 

A box of cents + 1 roll

The 1 roll was all wheaties that the teller saved for me!All total wasn't too impressive.Only 8 others.
1940-1 1926-3
41-3 37-1
42-1 30-1
44-4 36-2
44d-1
45-2
46-5
46d-2
47-1
48-2
48d-1
49-1
50d-1
52d-4
52-1
53d-1
54d-2
55-3
56-2
56d-5
57-3
57d-3
58d-2
Also 10 Canadians and 2 Rosevelt Dimes

 

saturday

bought the following rolls

5 kennedy
4 washinginton
5 roosevelt
10 jefferson

most of the halves were sorted in rolls by year. did manage to fill a few whitman spots and only need a few newer statehoods D mint mark. wish me luck..oops also found a DC and PR quarter..woohoo

 

Found from bank

Ok while i usually just get boxes of pennies (cents) lol... yesterday and today i decided to see if anyone turned in any pennies which i figured doubtful because bank has a penny arcade. but to my surprise someone had just brought in $100.00 worth of wrapped pennies each roll was labeled like 1960 p ex fine ..
I FIGURED well lets take some home so i got $50.00 worth and since i turned in some from previous search the teller had to give me like 14.29 back and she gave me 4 brand new log splitters so we get to talkin and i ask her if she would sell me what she had in her drawer ( she was new there ) i had never delt with her so i had to go with this long discussion how i was a coin collector and was looking for wheats, any old silver , nice dueces (red or regular) and also the new pennies .... She said one sec let me look in vault and she comes back with 10 rolls of beautiful brinks wrapped (shrink) of the log splitters TODAY WAS DEF A GOOD DAY FOR ME....

$50.00 IN DATED ROLLS DIFFERENT GRADES
$5.00 IN LOG SPLITTER P's

Awesome day
Jim