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<p>[QUOTE="NovembersDoom6, post: 3665118, member: 105392"]I only just started coin roll hunting, but enjoy it and plan to do more in the future. My first time doing it, I bought one box of pennies, two rolls of nickels, two rolls of quarters, and one roll of halves, for a total of $60. The bank teller had an attitude and was all like "what are these for? Why do you need them?" So hopefully next time I can find a better branch with more helpful tellers. The pennies were mostly new and uncirculated, but luckily a few rolls had some older stuff. Here is what I kept:</p><p><br /></p><p>Pennies: one decent-grade 1953 WP, two well-worn 1959's, several other mostly well-circulated copper pennies from the '60s-'80s that I needed for my Lincoln cent collection, including I believe some '60s and '70s S mints. In the future, I'll keep the wheaties, steelies, and possibly some other interesting pennies, but I'm close to having most of the Lincoln Memorial dates and mints so I won't need to keep so many of them next time. Probably I'll keep some '59s and higher-grade '60s pennies as well. Don't know much about error pennies and not experienced in identifying them, so unless it's pretty obvious I could easily overlook it, but if noticed I'll probably keep it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nickels: Nothing. Was hoping to find lower mintage years, war nickels, or buffalos, but in two rolls, I knew the odds were slim. Those are what I plan to keep in the future, plus obviously anything older than buffalos if found.</p><p><br /></p><p>Quarters: No silver but I did keep a few good-condition National Park quarters I need for my collection of those (plus the Guam territory quarter that I needed), nothing special. In the future I will probably only keep silver, W mints, and the few remaining national parks and territories I need.</p><p><br /></p><p>Halves: Found and kept two 40%ers, a '67 and '69, both tarnished and worn so into the "junk" bag they go. Not bad for one roll. Also got two bicentennials, neither was an S mint so I didn't keep them. I plan on keeping all silver and S bicentennials, rare years, and probably any proofs and possibly BU halves especially if a good year.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No great finds, but good practice for the next time and helped me decide what to look for and keep in the future. The reason I got so many different denominations was just as sort of practice and to see what it was like.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="NovembersDoom6, post: 3665118, member: 105392"]I only just started coin roll hunting, but enjoy it and plan to do more in the future. My first time doing it, I bought one box of pennies, two rolls of nickels, two rolls of quarters, and one roll of halves, for a total of $60. The bank teller had an attitude and was all like "what are these for? Why do you need them?" So hopefully next time I can find a better branch with more helpful tellers. The pennies were mostly new and uncirculated, but luckily a few rolls had some older stuff. Here is what I kept: Pennies: one decent-grade 1953 WP, two well-worn 1959's, several other mostly well-circulated copper pennies from the '60s-'80s that I needed for my Lincoln cent collection, including I believe some '60s and '70s S mints. In the future, I'll keep the wheaties, steelies, and possibly some other interesting pennies, but I'm close to having most of the Lincoln Memorial dates and mints so I won't need to keep so many of them next time. Probably I'll keep some '59s and higher-grade '60s pennies as well. Don't know much about error pennies and not experienced in identifying them, so unless it's pretty obvious I could easily overlook it, but if noticed I'll probably keep it. Nickels: Nothing. Was hoping to find lower mintage years, war nickels, or buffalos, but in two rolls, I knew the odds were slim. Those are what I plan to keep in the future, plus obviously anything older than buffalos if found. Quarters: No silver but I did keep a few good-condition National Park quarters I need for my collection of those (plus the Guam territory quarter that I needed), nothing special. In the future I will probably only keep silver, W mints, and the few remaining national parks and territories I need. Halves: Found and kept two 40%ers, a '67 and '69, both tarnished and worn so into the "junk" bag they go. Not bad for one roll. Also got two bicentennials, neither was an S mint so I didn't keep them. I plan on keeping all silver and S bicentennials, rare years, and probably any proofs and possibly BU halves especially if a good year. No great finds, but good practice for the next time and helped me decide what to look for and keep in the future. The reason I got so many different denominations was just as sort of practice and to see what it was like.[/QUOTE]
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