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<p>[QUOTE="Check_M_All, post: 166551, member: 6661"]I am sorry to hear that as it must be quite disappointing to go through 3000 coins and find nothing, but I do feel a little better about my own experience. 4 or 5 would be enough to make me happy.</p><p><br /></p><p>On another note... if you are a silver searcher and your bank uses Brinks, they have just made it much easier. At least in quarters and dimes so far. They have begun sending their coins in clear plastic shrink tubes. It only takes a second or two to look at the edges of the roll and see if there's anything in there. I was asked last weekend if I could make a change run for a store that I frequent. I said I'd do it happily, so long as I could search them first. They expect nothing less. Grabbed a few rolls from the bank and spotted a dime in the roll with a silver edge. The easiest search yet. The box of halves I got also came from Brinks, but was still wrapped in paper. I wish it had been plastic. Could have saved a lot of time in finding nothing at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another oddity from Brinks. I typically grab several rolls of cents every evening to give me something to do for a half an hour or so. The Brinks rolls seem to have a very high proportion of Canadians in them. I might find 2 wheats in 10 rolls, but I'm finding 3, 4, 5, sometimes more Canadians per roll.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Check_M_All, post: 166551, member: 6661"]I am sorry to hear that as it must be quite disappointing to go through 3000 coins and find nothing, but I do feel a little better about my own experience. 4 or 5 would be enough to make me happy. On another note... if you are a silver searcher and your bank uses Brinks, they have just made it much easier. At least in quarters and dimes so far. They have begun sending their coins in clear plastic shrink tubes. It only takes a second or two to look at the edges of the roll and see if there's anything in there. I was asked last weekend if I could make a change run for a store that I frequent. I said I'd do it happily, so long as I could search them first. They expect nothing less. Grabbed a few rolls from the bank and spotted a dime in the roll with a silver edge. The easiest search yet. The box of halves I got also came from Brinks, but was still wrapped in paper. I wish it had been plastic. Could have saved a lot of time in finding nothing at all. Another oddity from Brinks. I typically grab several rolls of cents every evening to give me something to do for a half an hour or so. The Brinks rolls seem to have a very high proportion of Canadians in them. I might find 2 wheats in 10 rolls, but I'm finding 3, 4, 5, sometimes more Canadians per roll.[/QUOTE]
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