Roll-searchers, post your results!

Finished a 25.00 box of cents last night and nothing great. I did find a worn 1918 wheat in very bad shape. I also found 1969-S that I thought be a DDO but turned out to be extreme machine doubling. The only good coin out of the whole box was this 1946-D Wheat that still has a lot of its mint luster.

 

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Two years ago I was giving change back to a customer and had to break a roll of pennies to make the correct change.

In this roll there were four wheats and a steelie. Needless to say the customer never got them and the job got a fair exchange with a new nickel.

The dates/mints:

1909 - NOT S or VDB
1914
1919
1943 D
1958

They weren't in any great condition - the '58 being the highest at EF-40 but they helped make a meh day into a "cool" day.

 

I've been searching sporadically since Dec 2009, after 124k pennies I've gotten a bit over 400, the best of which were only worth about a dollar each. But I'm not deterred!

It's a fun way to collect and make some money (usually not a lot) but it's the chance of finding that really rare thing that drives me!

 

I know what you mean !
When I saw that 1969-S yesterday , I thought I had hit the big 1 , but alas the search continues.

 

Congrats Krispy, I think I should get back in the roll searching business if you are starting to find stuff...

Nonetheless it is a cool looking coin! :thumb:

 

Yeah, give it a try. It's never going to really produce much. You might even find Canadian nickels and other world coins. Most of the stuff I pull are common and well worn pre '64 Jeffersons. I have found a fair share per roll when I search, even 38 and 39 nickels. Again, nothing special, but I set them aside. I don't buy a whole box to search because I live in the city and walk everywhere, no car. It's too heavy to carry many rolls home at once, so when I stop in a bank, I typically take home about $10 worth of nickels and spend s short time searching. I pull a lot of this common stuff from this few number of rolls each time I do this. I can even say that the new nickels are scant: 2005 bisons still seem to be getting hoarded. I find the 2004 series nickels a little more frequently. 2006-2008 are everywhere and I have yet to find any 2009. Just got to be patient and keep trying.

 

went through my loose change last week..90 dollars worth..only thing of significance was a 1926 wheatie..pretty nice one..but that was it..;(((((

 

Are there banks that actually re-roll coins from their own coin machines??? Sometimes, the coins seem familiar in the cent boxes I receive on a weekly basis, but I've convinced myself I'm imagining things.

I assume the armoured car guys take the credit union's coin machine coin bags to a central location where the coins are rerolled and later redistributed. Is this what normally happens?

 

That is my understanding. Someone who follows this thread is doing an experiment to see where returned coins end up. He is marking half dollars with an olive green marker across the face of the coin to see how many end up back in boxes locally, or end up being sent out all over the place to end up in boxes far away, and has asked if one turns up, to report it to the thread. I haven't seen one yet----

 

In an attempt to avoid this issue of potentially re-searching coins, I have a 'dump' bank. I buy my pennies and nickels from any banks, and when I'm done, I bring them all back to one bank.

I suspect that when a bank gets more coins than they need, they probably assist other banks by giving them some in exchange for paper money. It therefore seems rather difficult to completely avoid re-searching your own coins, but I still think having a 'dump' bank is a useful way to sell back your coins

 

Dumps banks are an interesting beast themselves. I've intentionally been buying form a Dunbar bank and dumping at a Loomis bank. The problem is, just last week I watched the teller pull out some bags and place the rolled halves inside them. I questioned her because the envelopes said 'Bank of America' on them and this is not a BoA bank. The teller informed me that they send their halves to BoA.....so......I might be getting the same coins shortly or have been for some time now. It prompted me to call around to different brances of the same bank however, and now I have a branch that will let me bring them in loose and will send them to their central office who will count them and send them to Loomis. I'm hoping she's right.

 

haha that's interesting


i should probably do more research lol

 

No luck

i never had any luck with roll searching exept a wheatie

 

I put a mark on each wrapper. That way I know if I am getting rolls I already searched. It has happened a couple of times that I would have gotten back the same rolls I dumped except I saw the mark on the roll.

 

I only buy machine rolled, because I figure the majority of people who take the time to roll their change are coin collectors anyway.

a sorting machine doesn't care if its putting a rare penny into a roll

 

You couldn't be more mistaken. I would say most of the people on here have found their biggest hauls with CWR's. I know I have.

 

What's a CWR? consumer wrapped roll?

Also every time I go through 'old' rolls that have been hand-rolled, i always find nothing

 

I have a question. Has anyone ever been able to order boxes of rolls from Brinks or Wells Fargo? I live in a small town, and there are 3 banks that I use to search rolls, but it's hard to find halves that I haven't already been through. Any thoughts? Any help will be appreciated.

 

not brinks, they aren't a bank. wells fargo should, if you are a customer. all you can do is ask and the worst they can say is "no."

 

I found a 1947 Canadian quarter. Not in a roll, but in a sink in a public lavatory in Toronto. (I was there to cover the summit). How weird is THAT?