Roll-searchers, post your results!

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-would-you-do-if.328961/

Will share results after enough time has passed. That is a picture of 20,000 nickels.

 

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Finished searching 2 boxes of halves. The first was sold to me as “a sealed box from the Fed” - Teller speak for “a sealed box from their coin processor / courier”. Had my doubts when I saw packing tape along the bottom of the Loomis box. Sure enough, it was full of CWRs in brown generic wrappers and obviously searched by a CRHer as I did not find a single coin worth keeping. Good news is the 2nd Loomis box from a different bank was MWRs and yielded:
(1) Slick Walker (dateless)
(1) 1964
(1) 1965
(1) 1966
(1) 1968-D
(1) 1974-D DDO
(1) 1978-S Impaired Proof
(1) 1986-S Impaired Proof
(10) 2002+ NIFCs

 

Got a box of my favorite rolls. A couple wheats, 46d 41p.

 

Another $50.00 bag from a Bank Coin Counter. $8.54 face in Wheaties. I'm getting them before Brinks and Loomus and for roll searchers to find once rolled.

 

Congrats on your haul @SchwaVB57 ! The total number of wheaties is great, but even better is your steel to copper ratio!

 

How in the world did steel cents make it through an automated coin counter?

 

There was also 2 Trinidad & Tobago coins and 3 dimes in the bag. It is an old counter broke down more than it is in service per the tellers at my bank.

 

I can believe that, but I thought one of the most robust steps in any coin counter was a big honking magnet to weed out washers and slugs. I'd feel a certain temptation to bring in a bag of random foreign stuff and hardware widgets, and experiment.

 

The mystery is solved. You got me thinking on how steel cents went through the Coin Counter Machine that sorts and counts multiple denominations of coins.
I went to the bank and talked to my contact.
She said that two of the (5) $50.00 bags of cents I picked up Monday were counted on the old coin counter that is set for 1 denomination at a time. After unclogging the counter in the lobby twice, she realized the issue. The steel cents were clogging the machine.
She told me a family brought in (10) 2 pound coffee cans full of cents only to be cashed. So she decided, since the coins were all cents, to count them on the rarely used machine in the basement to keep from unclogging the lobby machine again. She put them in the same plastic bags used in the counter machine, since those are all she has.
Good question, and I never considered the steel coins causing issues in a coin counter.

 

After searching 20,000 dimes and 17,000 quarters.

 

I think it would be easier for us to tell how much you searched if you just said 8.5 boxes of quarters or $4250 in quarters.

 

Thanks for the thought, but I don’t search boxes (and have no idea how many of each is in what box), and I like to give total numbers to show the ratio of silver to non. Besides, if people can’t divide by four, they need more than my help

 

1956D in my change today.

 

Nice find! Looks like it has not been in circulation for awhile. Maybe dug up somewhere?

 

I got a real nice 56p today. As well as 65 to 82 nice copper.

 

1917 wheat from a CWR.

 

TDC-1c-1971D-01, die clash. From a bank box.
http://www.maddieclashes.com/tdc-1c-1971d-01/

 

1989 P Nickel with cud.

 

Great find!

 

You’re on a roll! (Pun intended). Very cool finds.