bank coin caches

I got $10 in pennies and I could not find anything older than a 1962. Are there any older ones in there or are they all pulled?
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well, most people (including noncollectors) tend to notice a wheat cent in their change. Most, if not all, of these people set aside these coins because they are simply old and different. That applies to all pennies made prior to 1959. This makes these coins rarer (in a sense) in modern circulation, although most of them are not valueable. Despite this, I have found two wheaties in circulation. I found a 1909 while vacationing in Florida (lots of nice coins in circulation there) which I lost somewhere in Orlando the very next day and a 1941 which I found in a tiny jar of pennies in my house (who would have known) As for the 1959 to 1961 pennies, you should be able to find them. Keep looking.

 

i hope it wasnt an s vdb!!!!!!!!!!

 

A few years ago when the ANA and pre ANA shows were in Orlando the ANA put a 14-d and 09-s vdb lincoln into circulation in different parts of town, then advertised in the local rag that passes for a newspaper that they would buy the coins back at the show.
Neither of the coins were presented at the show and to my knowledge have never been found. There's a small number of coin dealers in this area and of course we all know each other and nobody has bought a "circulation" find like that from anyone.
Chevy don't you wish you had looked closer at that 1909 you found in Orlando?

 

omg I just realized it wasn't just a few years ago...it was in 1993. WOW how time flies!

 

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was that the ANA Convention in New York City that put coins from the subway hoard into circulation? I read about it in one of Mr. Scott Travers books, One (or was it ten) Minute Coin Expert.

 

My bank doesn't order rolls either, they say they get enough coins from the public and they roll their own. So I could get those but what I wanted was unc rolls. I tried to find armored car companies, but in the Yellow Pages they don't list addresses and very few companies for that matter. It must be a big secret as to their whereabouts. Do Federal Reserve Banks have rolls? I could easily go to the one in Chicago.

 

It's tough to find uncirculated rolls of coins at a bank. The armored car companies take circulated coins and uncirculated coins, and dump them in their coin counting machines. You never know what will be in a roll.

 

Oh yeah, the Fed. Res. banks don't provide banking services to the general public.

 

yeah, i think national dealer is right. i know someone who has a gas station and they give me rare and new coins all the time.

 

over at a large amusement park yesterday, I noticed there were lots of rolls in the cash register when I was paying for lunch. I was about to ask if I could swap dollars for the rolls, but the lady didnt seem to be very patient.

 

i know some people that would do anything to find a rare coin. at a hotel i stayed at these kids put coins in vending machines, everytime they hit the button to get their money back, a new coin would come out.

 

lol. that's a good idea.

 

i tried that once and found a nickel from 1960

 

hey mercury,

have you ever tried looking through rolls of coins?

 

i have. i don't find much.

 

what do you personally look for in the rolls?

 

i look for dimes and quarters from the 1950s

 

I think you can use the machines at the post office to purchase SBA and Sac dollars. Just insert yer cash and there should be a cash out button. Or maybe you could put in a $20 and buy one stamp then get change back. I think pretty much all post office machines give $ coins as change these days.

 

the problem I have with finding those is the number of people who hoarded them in the 1960s. After the coinage act of 1964 was passed, taking all silver out of U.S. coins, people began putting them aside. I find it nearly impossible to find them in rolls or in change.