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My last four boxes for this week all Skunks!!! Not much else to state about that, Wishing you all a wonderful weekend and look forward to all your post.

 

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2 boxes of halves:

Box 1 was a skunk
Box 2 had a 64 and two 67's

 

$60 nickels
1940, 42, 46 (2), 47, 48s, 49, 49d, 51, 53, 54d, 57d (2),58d (3), 59d. Scan is of the 42, 49, 49d, 51 - don't find many of them.

 

I'm surprised that those banks let you exchange rolls for as long as they did. I kind of suspected that they know you and were giving you special treatment, hoping that you'd fill your collection and move on to another hobby. You reported having several rolls of pennies or nickels that were all pre-1980 (or older) dates. I have yet to find even 1 roll like that this year. I posted once a while back in response to you that you should have saved those rolls.

Sometimes it's difficult to practice a hobby because of where you live. I actually collect non-USA coins as my main hobby. It requires that I drive 45 -120 miles to go to the nearest coin show several times a year. Can't buy them at a bank. Worse of all, there have been times when I drove the 120 miles (one way!) and didn't find any new non-USA coins that I needed. 240 miles round trip to get skunked at a coin show!

You might need a new strategy. Save up... drive to another city and buy your coins at new banks... and then "dump" your purchases at a different new bank in yet another city. No more daily or weekly "trades". I don't know anyone who does what you do - trade rolls at banks - because the banks want you to take money out or put it in, not trade one roll for another. I did do that back in the 1960s and 70s. Those days are over.

Good luck. Maybe you need a new hobby?

 

I'm going to try and trade out at the stand alone bank today.
Then I'm going to think long and hard about the whole mess.

 

I have found so little this year that I have (nearly) stopped looking. Strange because last year was my best in 5 years. But I did get a box of dimes yesterday. It had this surprise inside:

 

Sweet!

 

Thanks!

Here're the 45 40% JFKs and the 88-S proof:

45 x 40% JFK and 1988-S proof by JonJ posted Oct 27, 2017 at 12:06 PM

I searched through another $240 from WF today and four of the rolls were US Mint rolls: 2001-P & D and 2013 P & D

US Mint rolls from WF by JonJ posted Oct 27, 2017 at 12:11 PM

US Mint rolls from WF by JonJ posted Oct 27, 2017 at 12:11 PM

 

I came across several rolls of 1990 pennies and many of them have this odd coloring, and just wondering if it's a alloy mixup. Thank you for any help

 

first box of halves ever today....NO silver and 3 NIFC...kind of a let down...oh well

 

The stand alone bank had a tough time coming up with 20 rolls i didn't turn in. I got two rolls of 80D, one 79D, one 79P and a 73D. Haven't looked at 73 yet but the 80s and 79s didn't have anything better than what I had.

I'm going to create a copper roll of the best of the coins.
And probably one of the ugly ones. And let the rest back out into the world. And not visit that bank for a while.

 

Had the saddest day of my CRH so far....I was dumping cents and halves. I filled up the half bag after about $500 and the teller changed it out. As I helped her move it, I noticed that the bottom half of the bag was almost all silver. I asked her what the deal was with that and she said that someone had come in and asked if they took silver halves and was told to dump them in the machine. I asked to buy the bag and there were a few employees who said it could be done and a few who said it couldn't. They finally called to the main branch admin and got the word that "no" it couldn't be sold to me
It hurt my heart to watch all that silver go away.

 

Ugh, that sucks man. You were so close!

 

That would have been the score of a lifetime. I just hope that it makes its way to the Fed, back to Loomis, and into rolls in my boxes.

 

Ouch FF, I feel for you! Sometimes you get to "stick it to the man", sometimes you don't. Hope they come back around for you......

 

ff, sorry to hear it.

$10 in loose halves from 2 banks today yielded nothing of note...Been slim pickings around here too long! Oh well, I’ll keep plugging away.

 

$168 CWR Nickels: 44-P (x2), 44-D, 45-S (x2), dateless buffalo, and the usual assortment of pre-1960 circulated "stuff"

$200 CWR Dimes: 46, 57-D, 64

I've got two boxes of cents I haven't had a chance to look through yet. Fingers crossed they'll have something interesting too. Today I'll dump the tailings and pick up a new batch to mine.

 

They lied to you, I have bought bags after seeing silver after they pulled it. There is no justification not to sell the bag, believe me the individuals picking up those bags would love to have customers purchase them so they don’t have to haul them. Plus a $1000 is a $1000 why would they care?

 

I’ve also experienced banks that will not sell bags off their counting machines. The claim I’ve heard most by the banks is the bag(s) must be sent to the Fed to be rolled so the dollar amount inside the bag is confirmed.

In reality, bags are weighed at a coin courier business (aka the Fed contractor) to confirm the dollar amount, and then the coins are rolled.

Either way, ff missed one heckuva score and likely lost sleep over it.

 

Yeah I've had places sell me bags before and also not sell me bags. I think it is luck of the draw with who is working that day. I've bought bags from a different CU branch years ago but then was told that their policy was to not sell bags. I've asked this particular branch in the past about buying bags and got a firm no. I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask since it has been several years and the staff had changed out. Oh well...