I may be getting my hopes up for nothing but I guess we'll see tonight when I get off work. Went by the bank today and the teller told me she had $400 in customer wrapped dime rolls and $300 in quarters that were partially customer wrapped. She said an older customer brought them in. I asked if the older customer was a collector and teller didn't know. I had a choice of buying two dime boxes from Loomis or the $400 in cw rolls. I took the chance hoping the customer hasn't already gone through them. We shall see. I just took a few out for the pic. If I have good results I will post in the coin roll results thread.
I've juggled the thought of coin roll hunting. Getting old silvers for face value is definitely intriguing, but I'm not sure if I want to invest the time only to end up getting skunked! Please post your results though if you find anything neat!
It definitely is time consuming and can definitely be a skunk but it's the thrill of the hunt. I'd rather be sitting in a chair after work and after supper looking over coins than I would be wasting time on Facebook or any of that junk. Same with deer hunting, I have sat in a tree stand hoping for Mr. Big Buck more hours than I care to think about and not see anything. But when Mr. Big shows up the excitement is through the roof! Same with metal detecting, I have found plenty of pop cans but about two weeks ago I pulled out of the ground a 1898 Barber dime. It's just all personal preference. I definitely understand that's it's not for everyone.
I did this back when silver first sky-rocketed and people had just started "silver hunting" - I was lucky to find some silver halves (a franklin one), some silver quarters, rarely silver dimes. But now, I don't bother. I talk to a lot of bank tellers and they all tell me they have a lot of customers who look for silver in the rolls. Even the tellers tell me they put silver coins aside when they see them. I've gone through hundreds of rolls lately looking for book fillers and I NEVER see silver anymore. IF you're lucky enough to get coins turned in, wrapped from an older customer, you may get lucky that he/she has had these coins forever and are finally getting around to turning them in. The pandemic was also a likely good time to hunt - basically, any time when the economy is hurting and people need money. That's when they are desperate and turning in their loose change. when money is good, they don't have to bother taking coins in. So, bottom line - I don't bother silver hunting anymore. Not at All worth the time imo.
I wish you the best. 10+ years ago, I would occasionally find rolls of silver halves, but I was never very lucky in anything else. I hunt now just for the sheer fun of seeing what is still out there. You never know until you look!
It’s time consuming and hard work but it can be fun. You will need to reroll them to dispose of them. Good luck and have fun.
You may not always find silver, but there are lots of other neat things to find. With the ATB quarters there are the W and S MMs to look for. Every once in a while you'll find a proof. Sometimes I find coins that are 40 or 50 years old or more that look pristine, like they were just minted yesterday. I keep those as well.
Every once in a while you get a dump of collectible coins. And that's why I love customer rolls. I am in the middle of $150 in Halfs, no silver, just some nice looking collectible coins. Way better than the last $1000 dollars I have looked at.
There's always the Not Intended for Circulation (NIFC) coins with the halves. I don't recall the beginning year for those, but would definitely be keepers, at least for me.
When asked by the bank tellers how I would like my money during a large cash withdrawal, I've been tempted to (jokingly) reply "500's, binary, radars, fancy, or star notes" just to see their reaction. Now, I wouldn't turn those bills down, but I also wouldn't expect to actually receive them at my request. I just like to have some fun with people sometimes LOL!
What is binary? What is radar? I know what a star note looks like but I don't know if they hold value or not. And by fancy I suppose you mean fancy serial numbers? Please inform me, I know nothing about paper money and what to look for.
I recently spent a day sorting and rolling a stash of change. I separated out the zincers from the copper but I have not rolled them. I did roll up all the nickels, dimes, quarters, and Kennedy half dollars. I did look for silver but didn't spend time looking for varieties. I turned in $485.
A radar reads the same both ways. Like 12344321. A binary has only two numbers in it like 54554454. A true binary only contains 1 and 2 like computer binary code. Search fancy serial numbers. Lots of info out there.
Binary is all 0's and 1's, radar is palindrome (but with numbers) or repeaters (I think), and fancy is lots of leading 0's (I think 5 is the minimum). Some star notes hold value, some don't. If you Google star note lookup it should give a few sites where you enter the serial number and date, then it tells you if it's rare or common.
