Roll-searchers, post your results!

Well I got 65 Denver Log Pennies in my last box...
4 Wheaties...
And two Canadian pennies

 

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Wow You lucked out with the 65 Log pennies....

 

And working on a deal right now, to sell them at 10 cents a piece..

 

Box of Halves . . . doing the math

Well . . . we could do a little math, no?

$500 of halves = 1000 halves
The newer Kennedy's are 11.5 grams
so, a box is 11.5 kilograms -- a kg is about 2.2 pounds, so, that's 25.3 pounds, no?

(plus the weight of the box)

 

if you had one of the small rolling back-pack or small rolling suitcase you could move it real easy

 

Yes, I did do the math...I might not get a box after all ...doesn't sound like something I can carry for 3 flights of stairs without hurting my back.

 

That's why I got a mule

 

Was planning to rent one myself...Enterprise Rent-a-Mule is out of them currently

 

FWIW, last time I asked the folks at my bank, they were happy to sell me half a box.

 

Sholom, I had tried asking for that before, but the thing is that they will specifically order (if at all) an entire box just on my request because apparently no one else has "ever" asked them for halves. So, i have to take it all or nothing.

 

Bummer . . . well, then you just need a strong (and good) friend!

 

or what you might try doing is asking the bank if you can make two or three trips to carry all of the coins; so that you don't throw your back out. as far as i know, if you pay for the coins, they would be willing to do this small favor for you ... maybe not, but if that's the case, then the teller(s) are a little on the mean side, imo.

 

A lot of banks store halves in vaults in $500 increments. Hence the policy.

A box weighs 25 lbs, which is manageable.

I use a dolly style cart nowadays. A lot easier on the back. I go through $300 pennies per week, which is not a problem getting out of the bank with a decent foldable cart.

 

your finds are abnormally high, but not unheard of. I've been routinely pulling $500 bags with similar numbers. However, 1-2 silver finds per $500 is the norm for I'm guessing 99% of roll-searchers. Meaning the average payout is probably less than what you would earn at a minimum wage job (hence not worth doing unless strictly as a hobby). Congrats!

 

Brand new is $500 - $600. I currently use a different model ryedale that I picked up for 200 something.

The people that sort with machine sorters are a different "breed". Melting pennies is prohibited, but there is still a market for them undert the premise that the ban will eventually be lifted, and the pennies do have value greater than face. Even at the low $2/lb copper price, they're still being sold on ebay & online dealers for greater than face. When copper prices were higher, they also sold for much more.

So people focus on volume rather than inspecting every copper & zinc that comes their way. I can take $1000 of pennies, shred it through the machine to eliminate $800 of zinc. Then I look at the $200 remaining to find 1969 - 1972 DDO errors, wheats, and indians. The rest can be stored away or sold off for 1.4 - 1.8x face value.

There are people, both individuals & commercially that have pulled TONS of copper pennies from circulation for the reasons mentioned above.

 

Just went through $900 of quarters from a coin opperated self serve car wash business that a friend owns. I found a Chinese coin, and one silver quarter (1963D). It was my first silver quarter found in years. I was very excited. I posted the picks in a new thread, and remembered that I'm subscribed to this one as well. So, I won't repost, but here is the link. I'm going to try my hand at half dollars from my bank and see what happens...

http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t54341/

 

Yowza! A single silver quarter out of 2800 . . . . that's sure discouraging for quarter roll searchers!!!

 

Yes. Though I was excited at the find, It was too many to roll for them for such a low reward. I told them that wouldn't be repeating rolling all of their quarters for free......but they may offer to pay, who knows.

 

Well, they make sorter-machines for pennies -- sorting the copper from the zinc -- based on weight. Perhaps there is one for quarters, too. Silver Quarter are 6.25 grams, and clad are 5.67 grams.

OTOH, the cent-sorting machine is hundreds of dollars . . . . !

 

Been through 12 rolls of pennies today...got 1 log cabin-P, 2 wheats (both 1950-D) and a 1958 canadian penny.

38 more rolls to go in this box...