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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RomaniGypsy, post: 7846130, member: 49234&quot;]I searched a nearly full box of halves today (48 machine-wrapped rolls) and got only one really good coin - a 2003D (NIFC). No silver at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>Making friends with tellers is one thing but I would imagine that another is finding a teller who doesn&#039;t care about numismatics. I guarandamntee ya that if I were a teller or any other bank employee who was privy to types of deposits, I&#039;d be swapping for anything good. I did it constantly as a cashier.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I class no <i>work</i> as menial work. Menial <i>jobs</i> exist, but there is a difference. I&#039;ll happily shovel poop on my own land, and I do. (I&#039;m a wannabe farmer who farms more and more every year.) But if I were shoveling poop for wages, that&#039;s a menial job, if for no other reason than because it ain&#039;t being well-compensated. (I&#039;d shovel poop for <i>good</i> wages and benefits.)</p><p><br /></p><p>And as for contributing to a working society, I do agree with you there. I firmly believe everyone wants that. We just don&#039;t all want the kind of society we have. That&#039;s why so many people refuse to work. This society doesn&#039;t work for all people, and we can do better.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve never had any luck with dimes except for the one time I cherry-picked a silver one from the tan tray in front of the teller, and except for getting 51 in a roll a bunch of times. This last time, 3 rolls, didn&#039;t find one I felt like keeping. I&#039;m on 63 rolls of halves without one single silver.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Is there really that much money in flipping coin shop finds? Pardon my ignorance if that&#039;s what this is, but don&#039;t coin shop owners have a vested interest in knowing the most that their offerings will sell for, and selling them for that amount?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not intending to make CRH a career, but if I&#039;m going to do it, I may as well maximize my chances of finding good stuff. It&#039;s a dopamine hit when I find something uncommonly valuable, even if I never sell the stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think that stuff is a bunch of crap, myself. &quot;Forty-three rolls in and I found a 1909-S VDB! And it&#039;s AU! OHMYGOD!&quot; Yeah, sure you did. And even if some of the videos are accurate, they&#039;re like movies - they don&#039;t show the slog through all of the unproductive batches to get the good hit. I imagine the people record the unproductive batches, but don&#039;t post the videos.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Then maybe my question ought to be what is most fun and enjoyable. I like hitting wheaties and older in penny rolls, as well as old MS Memorials. Nickels - I like hitting 2009&#039;s and anything before 1960. Dimes - I guess I was never into them much, but silver raises my heart rate. Quarters - Silver, AU/MS &lt;1990, W, 2009-2012. Halves - there are so many low mintage dates, but of course I&#039;d love to find silver, NIFCs, and recent circulation dates. (Unfortunately, rolls of halves are mostly common 1970&#039;s dates in somewhat worn condition. I haven&#039;t even hit a single MS from prior to the 1990&#039;s.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Historically I always did pennies. They&#039;re certainly the cheapest. I just wondered if anyone ever did any figuring. It seems that the answer is no, so maybe that job will fall to me. I&#039;ll post my results if/when I do it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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