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found a 1916 cent last week in my weekend roll search , oldest penny so far. I seem to do much better if I request to take smaller ammounts that the tellers have with them. the 25 dollar boxes they have stashed in the safe seem to contain more new cents.

pS. NICE FIND SANDLER

 

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What he said! - Sweet :smile

 

i searched five cases from brinks andfive cases from ne string and son the only suppliers here in town . brinks had the most nickels that i keep. before 1960 and 1968-70 s.
BRINKS

11 buffalo 3 witd dates
1 1938 d
9 1939p
4 silver nickels
41 1940s
102 1950s
57 68-70s20 canadian

STRING AND SON
4 1939p
34 1940s
51 1950s
7 canadaians
45 68s-70s
4 silver nickels

so here in wv brinks has more older nickels i did find another bank that wrapped their own coins it came about the same as the other wrappers.

 

In the past week, I got two boxes of pennies, looked through one and traded it in for another. I looked through the first two, and I'm still looking through the last one. So far, I found 10 wheat cents (oldest 1919, in pretty nice shape, but common date, so in the jar it goes), and my favorite, a 2002 Lincoln with reverse rotation at about 45 degrees. I asked Alan Herbert, and he said the value is up to $5. Not worth much financially (well, 500 times face value!), but still a cool looking coin.

 

Found my first Half Dollar Blank Planchet Yesterday. Type II (I think, the edge had already been upset)

 

gatzon:
Was that in a roll?
Very Nice!!!

 

Yes it was. I've been getting alot of uncirculated 97P, 98D and 2000D lately. Been asking the teller if she would find out if I can get the bags as I imagine the only way they are getting the quantity of those in UNC that I'm seeing is if the mint sewn bags are still be cut open and rolled. Either she can't get them, or she won't. I can't read her well enough yet to know which it is and I don't want to push too hard as she has ordered me large quantities of boxes regularly for quite some time.

 

That's a really cool find Gatzon....but that stinks that you can't get bags...Bank of America has been awesome to me here...They get me as many bags as I want. Just this week actually, I exhausted their supply of halves from their Armored company, Brinks, and they got Brinks to order me a ton more from the FED. In addition, they MIGHT be able to get me bags of large dollars, like Ikes, and hopefully some Peace and Morgans might be mixed in their too =)

 

That's awesome. If that's the case, I need a new bank to deposit my coin to -- otherwise I'd just keep getting my own coins back!

 

I do have a dump bank...it has a free coin counting service....all I do is carry the bags to the back of the vault where the machine is and the teller does the rest=)

 

Strange. I'm not sure I've ever been to a bank that has a free coin counter.. The one at the credit union charges 10%. Even more than Coinstar...

 

5/3 has free coin counters for all customers. If you want to be really stingy, there is no minimum, no fees for a custodial account for a minor and it still gets you access to the free coin counter.

Getting bags is not an issue for me. I've gotten bags all I want, but they are bags of coins returned to the feds. I wanted to be able to selectivelly get unopened mint sewn bags. I'm guessing they are still there, but I just can't get to them.

 

There may be bags for older years, but (I forget the year) the mint converted to 'super bags' that have to be lifted by forklift.

Now only the armored car companies will be able to get the errors.

 

While there is a specification for the halves, the mint has never shipped halves in the superbags. The halves I'm referring to are the ones I mentioned above. I'm getting so many many 1997P, 1998D, and 2000D in UNC that I'm speculating that the Federal Reserve still has mint sewn bags from those years.

Unfortunately, the more elaborate the request, the less likely the cash handling service is to work with you. Change is a money loser for the cash handling companies, but they do it to keep the more profitable business (afterall, nobody wants a cash handling service that only deals in paper).

 

Arg. Just went through another box of halves. Found no silver or other keepers except for a 1993-D. Finally found one in "good enough" condition to go in my dansco album. Now all I need to find is a 70-D, 06 P&D, and 07 P&D to finish my album. The search continues.... :goofer:

 

Some of you think you have bad results searching halves, just be glad you're not finding stuff like this in your rolls.

Found this oddball in a roll of halves today.

 

And I thought I was the only roll searcher who'd ever find a guitar pick in a roll of halves!

 

Don't remember if I mentioned this, I found my first 1938 Jefferson this past week. I originally mistook it for a 1958 until I went to put my pre-1959 nickels in tubes (for some strange reason, I sort them by date/mintmark). Well, that's when I noticed it was a 1938. Nice since I didn't have that one yet in my book.

 

I know someone who has found two, and not in the same box. One of his only had nineteen halves in the roll, so essentially he paid 50¢ for a used guitar pick.

 

I keep getting dimes with my pennies, usually about one or two dimes per box. Nothing out of the ordinary like washers or such yet...

And then there're the trick halves. One was a magic half that popped open, another was a double-headed 1964 Kennedy (still can't figure out if they fused to real coins together or not...), and one 1995 coin that doesn't have seams to pop open, looks fine, but feels really light (and doesn't ring when dropped)...