Oldest Roll Find?

You didn't give a time frame, so maybe my response isn't appropriate. Just retired and have time to waste. Here are items I've found in bank rolls back in the mid 60s when coins were still silver: several Seated Liberty halves, bunches of Barber coins, Indian cents every now and then, tons of Buffalo nickels, Standing Liberty quarters, etc. I had a thing about silver war nickels and accumulated over 40 rolls of them by 1970. Nothing of great value, all the silver stuff was essentially sold for melt. The last Indian Cent I found in circulation (not from bank rolls) was a 1903 cent in 1959. As a kid in the 50s I used to head down to the bank and get $5 worth of cents each week--put together several complete sets of Lincoln cents minus the big keys, like the 09-s vdb. I'm convinced that most of these were never put in circulation, they were still available in BU rolls in the mid-50s. My story isn't any different than other kids collecting coins in the 50s and 60s. I am amazed by what one of my uncles found when he was a kid--he passed in 2000 at the age of 95. An avid collector, everthing was available in circulation as you can imagine. He even picked up some territorial gold when he got paid by the lumber camp he worked at. Nobody was really interested in that stuff back then. I'll shut up now.

 

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