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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RomaniGypsy, post: 7795499, member: 49234&quot;]Okay, so, hello CoinTalk after about eight years. I got back into CRH last year, figuring I&#039;d hit some good collection dumps, and thus far I haven&#039;t (though I did have a couple of rolls that obviously hadn&#039;t been touched since the 70&#039;s and 80&#039;s).</p><p><br /></p><p>My dad said that when he did it as a kid (50&#039;s-60&#039;s), he was able to establish relationships with bank tellers who&#039;d call him if they thought someone just brought in a collection. Every time I ask bank tellers about that these days, they say that they&#039;re not allowed to call people.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes I walk into a bank asking for pennies and come out with only a roll or two. (&quot;COIN SHORTAGE&quot;, they say.) Sometimes I can get $40+. Two questions here: 1) Why in the world is there still a coin shortage when the Mint put out almost the same number of coins last year as they did in previous years? 2) Are there any places where any of y&#039;all have had constant good luck finding coin supply? The banks have said they won&#039;t call me when they have good supply either, so it&#039;s like I have to visit and hope.</p><p><br /></p><p>What rolls provide the best return on investment? I like pennies because any wheatie is 5x face value minimum and I&#039;ve always been into pennies. Nickels used to be okay but these days they&#039;re a bore-fest, or so it seems. I haven&#039;t done much with dimes and quarters, though I&#039;d bet I could find the occasional silver dime. Halves seem like fun, though I only got into those by accident last week when a teller said that they had 43 rolls of them that they&#039;d been sitting on for months. (I took 15 rolls, all I could afford at the moment, and went back the next morning for the rest. The very same teller said that someone else had come in earlier that morning and bought them all - and she actually thought I had tipped the guy off!) I found some circulated proofs and a couple of 1987 NIFCs, so that was cool, though most of what I saw were common 1970&#039;s dates.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe there&#039;s something to be said about what&#039;s the easiest coinage to buy these days. One would think halves would be - after all, who actually spends halves anymore?</p><p><br /></p><p>Another thing I wonder - will Memorial cents ever be valuable en masse? I have to imagine that wheaties used to be all over the place, and when they were, nobody thought much about them. Then Memorials came out, and I doubt that everyone suddenly hoarded wheaties because of it. Yet, by the time I started collecting in the early 1980&#039;s, wheaties were very rare in circulation and coin rolls. So, with the most recent year for Memorials being 13 years ago, do any of y&#039;all think that within a couple of decades, Memorials will become rare in circulation like wheaties did, and see value appreciation as such?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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