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<p>[QUOTE="Slu, post: 218454, member: 8338"]Well I ordered an entire box ($500) of half dollars a few days ago from Colonial Bank. After about 3 rolls, i realized these have been searched already. Turns out all 1,000 coins were clad, and almost all in pretty bad shape. Its as if someone searched 20 boxes, and put all the worste ones in this one box. Mold, dirt, glue, chemicals, all sorts of nasty stuff convered a lot of the coins. Whats worse, is that each roll, without fail, contained at least one Kennedy with a huge "S" written in permanent marker across the face. I guess someone did this to mark which coins he had already searched. In my opinion, that was a horrible thing to do.</p><p><br /></p><p>I ended up with a couple "No FG" errors, and a few rare 80s dates. As I rewrapped the rolls, I was sure to put all the ones marked with an "S" aside, to put into a coin counter later. Maybe one day that same guy will come across these rolls, and re-search them all due to his marked coins be removed.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm going to go ahead and order another box tomorrow. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Hopefully I will have better luck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Slu, post: 218454, member: 8338"]Well I ordered an entire box ($500) of half dollars a few days ago from Colonial Bank. After about 3 rolls, i realized these have been searched already. Turns out all 1,000 coins were clad, and almost all in pretty bad shape. Its as if someone searched 20 boxes, and put all the worste ones in this one box. Mold, dirt, glue, chemicals, all sorts of nasty stuff convered a lot of the coins. Whats worse, is that each roll, without fail, contained at least one Kennedy with a huge "S" written in permanent marker across the face. I guess someone did this to mark which coins he had already searched. In my opinion, that was a horrible thing to do. I ended up with a couple "No FG" errors, and a few rare 80s dates. As I rewrapped the rolls, I was sure to put all the ones marked with an "S" aside, to put into a coin counter later. Maybe one day that same guy will come across these rolls, and re-search them all due to his marked coins be removed. I'm going to go ahead and order another box tomorrow. :( Hopefully I will have better luck.[/QUOTE]
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