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Found a 1943 S steely in a penny roll today. How could the person rolling not catch this one. It's obviously a completely different color from regular pennies. They must have not cared because I also found a 1926, 1936, (2) 1940 S, 1952 S, and 1951...in different rolls of course but from the same batch.

 

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I gotta post this here, cause no one else would believe this. Today I was at my bank, and asked for half dollar coins. Typically they don't have any, but today she said she had two rolls. (They were not machine rolled.) When I got home, I busted them open. To my astonishment, between the two rolls, I found 18 clad kennedys. (All from 1968 except for one from 1969.)
-Mambo!- I've never had such luck before.

 

Musta been some one had to get some gas with the halves. Lucky you. Gonna half (hehehe) to get a box of those now.
Been doing some cleaning up of some stuff (often called my coin mess all over the house)I had set aside. Found a 2000 wide AM, a 1984 double ear and also a 1946 wheat my gf mom had in her purse. Still have about $10 more of 1984 to 1989 to go through. 2 1/2 boxes going back to the bank after that.
Oh yeah,been finding some weird ones lately with periods. 1980 something d mint with a period after the d (don't think its a bubble, looks like the dots between epluribusunum on the rev). Period under e in america, period after pluribus. All are perfectly round and flat on top. Will have to post some pics when I get a better cam.

 

Two weeks ago today, 8/10, I went to the bank and as usual bought six rolls of Lincolns to go through when I'm bored. I looked through these a couple days later and found 11 Wheats, earliest 30D and amazingly a 1900 Indian Head in Fine. Not a big buck deal, but I had never seen one in circulation in 52 years. That tied my oldest coin ever found at 108 years as I had found an 1898O Barber Half , two years ago. Only in Vegas!
Vegas Vic

 

So what do you guys do with roll searching? Do you go to the bank and buy rolls of coins or what?

 

banks, walmart, freinds, circle k.

 

I go in and ask for customer rolled rolls (the ones customers roll themselves and bring in to exchange for cash). It's all a treasure hunt after that. When I'm done I bring them back for more. I go to the same lady, so she knows me and she makes sure I don't get rolls I've already looked through and turned in.

 

I went to the bank yesterday and a man was turning in a paper bag of half dollars(126) and another paper bag of dollars(227) it turned out it was his collection. So i asked why he was doing this and he replied "Times are hard an you cant eat coins". Felling sorry for the man i offered him 350$ for it. but he would only accept face so i bought them. almost half the half dollars were Kennedys or franklins the rest were clad and the dollar were mixed ikes, sacagaweas, and susans. i still fell bad for that old guy

 

I picked up an unsearched rool of wheats from my local coin shop. Got 2 steels , a 1909 and a 1040 Merc dime.

 

I buy my boxes of coins at the bank, and if I am out and about i will ask for rolls from stores, etc.

 

Hi Randygeki,
Seriously, I was thinking about it. Problem is, we are in a very small town and I am likely the one who would get it back in change... just like many of the others that have returned to me like bad pennies.
jeankay

 

I'm luck to get a roll as there aren't to many sellers willing to send coins down under

 

Nugget,

I will send you some, along with something else I owe you from my board...

However I might have to search through the rolls first, lol

Regards,
S

 

Stange but true

I work as a manager for a major retailer. One evening I was called to the cash office by a clerk who thought he had some counterfiet quarters. I asked him why he thought they were bogus. He said some kid paid a bill with some quarters he took from a roll. The clerk said he dropped one on the counter and it had a funny ring to it. I quickly stopped what I was doing and ran to the office. I bought the 32 funny quarters from the cash office using 8 good American cash Dollar Bills. Here is a list of some of the "Funny Money" silver American Quarters I was able to remove from society.

1935
1939
1940
1941D
1942
1942S
1943S
1944
1946
1947
1951D
1952D
1953D
1954
1955
1956
1956D
1960D
1961
1962D
1963D
1964
1964D​

 

oooooh someone is going to be quite upset when they find that roll missing....

 

Thankfully, it wasn't a 'little old lady' who did it or we'd be off on another tangent.

 

LOL, let's not start that again.

 

Will your bank let you order rolls? I can get a box of $500 halves, so I dont see why they wouldnt let me do other denominations.

 

Customer wrapped rolls taped shut in brinks box

Box of cents

1 1950 wheatie in g (at least they left me 1 so I didn't get skunked)

1/3 box of pre 83 about 1/4 of them red
1/3 box already rerolled
1/3 box dates to loop 4 errors and check rotations

42 canadian
1940
57
63
4X64
68
69
1867-1967
72
77
2X78
80
2X81
3X82
2X83
5X84
2X85
2X93
2X94
2X95
2X96
97
2X98
99
2000

 

Buying Rolls

Two things. Do you think small town banks are a better source of getting old uninspected rolls?
Why do you buy in such large quantities like $500.00-$1500.00. Does that make the odds better for finding uncommon or rare coins?
I will try the small towns first but probably won't go over $100.00 a purchase. At least for now. What condition are the coins you guys/gals listed above? What I'm doing is completing folders and the looking for the best condition coins and replacing the ones I first started with. Does that make any sense to you? zg