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<p>[QUOTE="doug5353, post: 2189045, member: 73555"]I don't know the answer, but if I did this, which I don't, I would search rolls only, on the "theory" that bags were counted last week by a machine, and represent primarily coins in <u>current</u> circulation. Rolls, on the other hand, may be the contents of a 12# piggy bank laboriously hand-counted and wrapped by a cross-eyed guy in his 70s who's owned the bank for thirty years, until the Ms. said, "OK, it's ME or the PIGGY..."</p><p><br /></p><p>I doubt that anyone anywhere "empties out" already-rolled coins into a bag and takes them to the bank. Rolls have to be a better choice.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would further contend that to find the few-and-far-between silvers left in the wild, it's a monumental waste of time to "search" anything. For someone seeking mint errors, etc., maybe, provided you have a 20x "edge" over the average Joe...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]425044[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="2">The Twilight Zone</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="doug5353, post: 2189045, member: 73555"]I don't know the answer, but if I did this, which I don't, I would search rolls only, on the "theory" that bags were counted last week by a machine, and represent primarily coins in [U]current[/U] circulation. Rolls, on the other hand, may be the contents of a 12# piggy bank laboriously hand-counted and wrapped by a cross-eyed guy in his 70s who's owned the bank for thirty years, until the Ms. said, "OK, it's ME or the PIGGY..." I doubt that anyone anywhere "empties out" already-rolled coins into a bag and takes them to the bank. Rolls have to be a better choice. I would further contend that to find the few-and-far-between silvers left in the wild, it's a monumental waste of time to "search" anything. For someone seeking mint errors, etc., maybe, provided you have a 20x "edge" over the average Joe... [ATTACH=full]425044[/ATTACH] [SIZE=2]The Twilight Zone[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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