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Hi All
Today I went through 5-rolls of nickels this is what I found.
14 2005-d bison
4 2005-d ocean in view
2 2004-d kellboat
5 2004-d peace
1 1941
1 1946-s
1 1959-d
1 1970-s e.x.f.

 

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Hello fellow AZ'er.
I know what you mean, most of the coins are D mint. - in fact, im not sure ive seen a P in a loooong time.

anyways, to add to the thread: my grandpa still has a 5$ roll of quarters from a casino from the early '70s.
I keep wanting to open it, then decide not to...

 

6 more boxes last weekend:
38 40% Kennedys
14 1964 Kennedys
1 1962-D Franklin
I've done better, but I've also done far worse.

 

roll-searchers

Hi MAG
You can always get good coins this time of year when the snow birds are in town. There will be a winter coin show in mesa soon ,not sure what date.

 

ah, very true.

oh yes, please tell me when you find out when it is

 

I will let you know

 

coin show

HI MAGMAN
Go to www.coinshows.com for all the coin shows in our az area. Everyone on cointalk can find shows for there state also.

 

roll-searchers

Hi All
Today I went through 20 rolls of nickels this is what I found.
57 westward journey nickels
a 1940 1947 1954-d 1954-s 1958-d
Will try again monday with another 20 rolls

 

Found in 8 rolls of cents- 2 wheaties a 1948p and a 1926p both G-VG.

 

I went to a bank on thurs day and got $70 in halfs and I got40% and 1 roll of 90% 6 were Franklins. The silver roll had one of the old wrappers. I love seeing the old wrappers

 

Roll Searching

Hi All
Today I Went Through 5 Rolls Of Nickels Found
7- Bison New Nickel
5- Kellboat
8- Peace
1957-d
1954
1941
1987 Canadian Nickel

 

I was going through the archives in this thread when I noticed this interesting question that didn’t get any replies:

So, here’s my buck three-eighty on it...

Hypothetically-speaking, in 1964, I pick up a fresh roll of Kennedy Halfs from my local bank, then go to a gas station and buy a pack of cigarettes with one of the coins. The owner socks the shiny new coin away for safekeeping, then, 42 years later, offers it for sale at some coin auction. While the coin was in my hands, it was a strictly uncirculated coin, per my 17th Edition 1964 Red Book; but, now that it’s in this gas station owner’s hands, it’s a circulated coin. What’s the difference between the two? A pack of Winstons.

So now, my grandfather leaves us some Morgans and Peace Dollars he and my grandmother had accumulated over the years from casinos. These coins, understand, were bouncing around in hoppers in slot machines. My cousin has one of them--a common date 1880 Philly Mint issue--graded 65 by ANACS (an upper echelon rating on this particular coin). There wasn’t even any question as to whether the coin was circulated or uncirculated, the only question was, was there wear that couldn’t be passed off as a “weak strike?” There wasn’t, as the prevailing wisdom, today, is, these coins were typically weakly struck. Thus, it’s MS, and the rest depends on the luster in the fields, the nicks, especially in the focal areas, and the strength of the strike, on this typically weakly struck coin. That’s it. And, how good it looks.

Thus, forget about uncirculated and circulated, and keep on looking. And, you find one that looks like it makes the grade, and nobody cares whether it was bouncing around in some slot machine hopper, anymore than if somebody bought a pack of cigarettes with it at some gas station. And, you get past all the guff, and, isn’t that how it should be? And, thus, there’s this 1964 25C MS 67 on the Heritage website, right now, the obverse of which is so heavily toned and/or tarnished you’d need a CT-Scan to tell any detail on the thing. Going for 870 clams. Go figger...

 

Hey All,

I had not paid much attention to this thread but due to some recent finds of mine, I thought I would share them with you (not literally, sorry!)!

I recently purchased a BU roll of 1955-P Lincoln Cents for $15 which was a deal in itself! However, when I checked out the coins, I found three 1955-P Doubled Die - Die #2 Cents and around 42 Poor Man's Doubled Die Cents. All of the coins are BU and range from MS-60 to at least MS-65 and when I break them out to sell, I think the entire lot should bring from $1500 to $2500 or more. I plan on having the Doubled Die - Die #2 Cents slabbed and graded and any of the other coins that are above MS-65.

Good luck on your roll searching and I hope that you make some nice finds as well!


Frank

 

Why not just ask the "experts"...

Uncirculated
Term to indicate a coin or numismatic item that has NEVER been in circulation, a coin WITHOUT WEAR. See “Brilliant Uncirculated,” “Mint State,” and “new.”

Brilliant Uncirculated
A generic term applied to any coin that has NOT been in circulation. It often is applied to coins with little "brilliance" left, which properly should be described as simply Uncirculated.

Mint State
The term corresponding to the numerical grades MS-60 through MS-70, used to denote a business strike coin that NEVER has been in circulation. A Mint State coin can range from one that is covered with marks (MS-60) to a flawless example (MS-70).

new
A term for a coin that NEVER has been in circulation.

About Uncirculated
The grades AU50, 53, 55, and 58. A coin that on first glance appears Uncirculated but upon closer inspection has slight FRICTION OR RUB.

And, not to say PCGS doesn't know what they're talking about, just that circulated and uncirculated are considered "terms of art," thesedays, rather than literal expressions, meaning, as a practical matter, the absence of wear that can't be attributed to an absence of detail in a so-called weak strike. And they're the experts and as such presumably they know the high points to examine to determine that. So, again, happy hunting...

 

I got 2 rolls of halves last week and pulled a 1966 in XF with a hint of green in JFK's hair.

Bone

 

Silver Half Dollar and Wheats.

I love searching through rolls of coins. I generally search through about $10.00 in pennies every other day for wheaties and also to upgrade my circulated set of pennies. Pretty fun. I usually find 4 wheats for every $10.00. Today I went to the bank and asked for $9.00 in halfs. I got a 1966 in ok condition (but silver nonetheless) and some pretty good later date halfs to upgrade my circulated set. I am new to the forum and to coin collecting in general. I have always casually socked away coins since I was a boy but over the past two years it has become my "hobby." I collect for fun mainly and investment secondary. Hope everyone is having a great day. Still no sign of 2006 coinage in Maryland.

 

Put this in Kennedy halfs too...but I'm just bustin at the seams smiling about today's haul. Search $150 in halfs...found the following
Kennedy
40%
1968D x 2
90%
1964D x 2
1964 X 3
Franklin
1960D x 1
1959D x 1
1958D x 2
1957D x 1
1948 x 1
Walker
1945 x 1
1945S x 1
1940S x 1
1918S x 1

 

From this latest box:

1998 Wide AM
1973 D (S OMM?)
1947 D
1951 D (Poss D/S)
1951 D
1952 D
1953 S

 

1905 Barber Half Worn but after 101 years of circulation....