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<p>[QUOTE="Ferdyboy, post: 919486, member: 25361"]For my pennies, nickels and dimes, I buy them from one of my banks and return them to another one of my banks that has a coin counting machine. They give me plastic super tough bank bags that you just fill in your name and account number on the outside of the bag, and stick a deposit ticket with the bank bag's serial number written on it---and they do everything else. You can fit about two boxes of whatever coins you're searching into one bag---and the coin can be mixed pennies, dimes, nickels or quarters.</p><p> </p><p>For my halves, it's not quite so easy for a couple of reasons. First, the bank with coin counting machine is the bank that I order the boxes from---again, don't return coins to the same bank that you get them from. For one, they don't appreciate it----and secondly, you run the risk of re-searching the same coins. So, I get wrappers for halves and rewrap each roll as I search it and put it back into the same box that it came from. They don't get mixed up because the rolls in the boxes are machine rolled in yellow paper and the hand rolled searched ones are usually brown paper. Then I return the boxes to an obscure bank that I know sends them far away from where I am---so I'm sure that I'm not researching the same coins!</p><p> </p><p>That's my plan and I'm stickin to it![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ferdyboy, post: 919486, member: 25361"]For my pennies, nickels and dimes, I buy them from one of my banks and return them to another one of my banks that has a coin counting machine. They give me plastic super tough bank bags that you just fill in your name and account number on the outside of the bag, and stick a deposit ticket with the bank bag's serial number written on it---and they do everything else. You can fit about two boxes of whatever coins you're searching into one bag---and the coin can be mixed pennies, dimes, nickels or quarters. For my halves, it's not quite so easy for a couple of reasons. First, the bank with coin counting machine is the bank that I order the boxes from---again, don't return coins to the same bank that you get them from. For one, they don't appreciate it----and secondly, you run the risk of re-searching the same coins. So, I get wrappers for halves and rewrap each roll as I search it and put it back into the same box that it came from. They don't get mixed up because the rolls in the boxes are machine rolled in yellow paper and the hand rolled searched ones are usually brown paper. Then I return the boxes to an obscure bank that I know sends them far away from where I am---so I'm sure that I'm not researching the same coins! That's my plan and I'm stickin to it![/QUOTE]
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