So I go to the bank and pick up 10 rolls of cents. I typically expect to find a couple of wheats, a few Canadians in that many rolls. Not today. The rolls I got were machine wrapped, tight, unopened and fresh from the armored car company... Not sure which for this bank. I know it's not Brinks or Dunbar based on the rolls, and the name isn't printed on them. Anyway the rolls were all mixed dates with the typical amount of dirt on the coins. What was interesting though is that 1 roll had 1 1964 copper in it and ALL of the other rolls had only "Zincolns". 1 copper out of 500 coins... That seems odd to me.
I know I'm not the only person, but I know that those rolls had not been opened by anyone after they were wrapped and shipped to the bank. I typically go through 10 rolls of cents every day, and I would easily say that the average roll is 20% pre-1982, and never before have I seen a roll that didn't have any at all in it... unless they were a full roll of new uncirculated coins of course. I just found it odd. Going to go back on Monday and grab 10 more to see if I get the same results.
That was strange to only find one copper piece. Normally I'll find at lease a couple of wheaties in a $25 box of cents. Silver has been v-e-r-y scarce.
There are people who are collecting every pre-1982 cent they can get (e.g. http://realcent.forumco.com/), and maybe these are some of theirs that were turned in and re-rolled.
15 rolls from a different bank just yielded an average of 10 per roll... not counting several wheats, and a very cool 1970 Canadian with a pig on the reverse... Haven't seen one of those before.
Ah... I didn't look closely enough. It's actually Bermuda. I have found Bahamas before. They have a Starfish on them. Thanks, I would have missed that. The coin is very dark and difficult to read, and I know that at one time Canada changed some of the reverses on there coins to commemorate something or other... need to brush up... so I assumed it was one of those.
That was my first thought, but don't the armored car companies get the coins they roll and deliver from the Fed?
sometimes the Fed gets circulated coins from banks when a bank as too many i always thought so...might be wrong thou
Yeah, I know that the banks send circulated coins back to the Fed, I just thought that they would all end up dumped into some huge counting machine and mixed up with coins from other places also. It'll be interesting to see if it becomes a trend and how quickly these coins may disappear if there really are many people out there snapping them up.
Just as a note here: Many larger banks now machine wrap their own coins. I know the one in my area does.... So maybe somebody in your area picked out the copper cents and when he/she cashed in your bank rolled the cents only for you to buy up again...
Nearly all the cent rolls I get are plastic machine wrapped. But in comparing results, they hardly differ from paper wrapped rolls in the percentage of wheaties or pre-1982 memorials.
The 15 rolls I picked up from a different bank were plastic wrapped. Brinks uses the plastic tubing. They had the typical number of wheats and pre-82s. The other 10 were paper wrapped, and I know that this small little bank branch does not have their own wrapping machine. They won't take coins unless they are wrapped by the customer as well. I get my uncirculated rolls from them in the same wraps as the cents came in today. Definitely from their supplier. Had they been hand wrapped I wouldn't really question it and would assume that it was just another roll searcher. So far as I know, I'm the only collector/searcher customer at that branch. I've asked before. Small towns, you know. It's not a great big deal, just something I found very curious and was wondering if anyone else had ever gotten that before.
