Got some quarters at my bank today, got pretty close to silver but not quite, a 66 and 2 67's nothing else worthwhile in the rolls, just a few clean moderns
."It's a dangerous business... going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to" -JRR Tolkien_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Outstanding BST transactions as a seller, buyer and trader with: ----- mustanggt, Kliao, claudewill87, MWallace, paesan, mpbuck82, moursund, basetsb, lordmarcovan, JWP, Coin hunter 4, COINS MAKE CENTS, PerryHall, Aspie_Rocco, Braddick, DBSTrader2, SanctionII, Histman, The_Dinosaur_Man, jesbroken, CentSearcher ------ANA Member #3214817
He took a proper acetone dip
Not in the greatest condition but really shows what this stuff can do.
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
My latest finds. This is a result of 4 boxes. I decided to take some time off from half dollars to give my bank tellers a break until about Sep. So, this will be my last post for half dollar finds for a while.
10 proofs
5 90% including a 1941 Walker!
3 40%
A really nice 1987-D NIFC
A stainless steel coin from Ecuador dated 2000 and a 2 cents copper coin dated 1962 from British Caribbean Territories Eastern Group
20 NIFC's dated 2002-2020 (not shown)
Oh, YEAH, I forgot about this 1971 strike through? At first, I thought this was PMD (By the date), but I really think that it is a strike through now. What do you think PMD? or Strike through?
@Coinscratch said: @rec78 looks like a strike thru to me that has been smoothed over through years of circulation.
What will you be searching in the meanwhile?
Quarters and pennies, pennies, pennies. I can get 1 quarter box a week at my one bank and 2 penny boxes per week. Also whenever I go to any bank I ask them if I can get some penny rolls, these add up quick. $5 here, $10 there. and not enough time to search!
My customer rolls were NOT from a coin collector
My teller told me that the customer quarter rolls and small dollars were from the same person, and she described him as very very old lol!
Then I opened a couple random Loomis and that went well too!
Clearly someone enjoyed chips and a sandwich while rolling, that was my first clue
First roll had a W
Another roll, a nice cud
Another roll, only 1 million minted
Another roll, crazy toner. Someone probably took a lighter to it, but it works so well with the design lol!
Only 4.7 million. Looks like it saw some action! It already went in the acetone and the xylenes, no luck.
I did not expect to see a newer Innovation Dollar! It's a 2021 D.
Only 3 million minted.
Only 2.5 million minted.
Opened the 2 dime rolls...this is about a once or twice a year occurrence for me!
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
@Coinscratch said:
The struggle is real
At the airport waiting to board to get home I’m having roll searcher withdrawals.
Can't say I've ever seen anyone searching rolls on a flight. And I've been on A LOT of flights lol!
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
Me: Yes, can I get a box of customer wrapped penny rolls? Uhh, and any large silver coins you may have under the counter.
Flight Attendant: Excuse me! You can have a box of shut the h*** up and put your D*** seatbelt on!
I would love to half dollar and dollar roll hunting very very much but finding them at my local banks/credit unions for face value is next to impossible...and the one time last week I DID find a couple of dollar rolls over half were all black and yucky looking...like Suzie was working in a coal mine or something YES I'm well aware they still spent the same but that's not really the point.
Found this guy roll hunting this morning. Sorry about the pics-not sure how you all take such nice pics of coins-I was using my phone. Feel free to PM me with tips to take better pics-would be much appreciated.
I’m still trying to figure that out myself. Seems like there would be a resolution adjustment on a cell. I just got the new iPhone 13 pro and the pictures look just as pixelated as my old phone.
New to the forum. Been coin hunting for 2 1/2 years. Used to have a lot of luck with loomis half dollar boxes, but those have really dried up lately. Last 90 boxes yielded 6 total silvers!! Anyone else hear that loomis is pulling silver now? I have heard this from numerous bank tellers. I used to do 7 boxes per week and at one point last year, all of my loomis orders were replaced by nf string and sons boxes for a month or so and then back to loomis. Since then, almost nothing. Been doing better with customer wrapped or coin machine bags when I can get them.
Merchants (some) have signs posted "coin shortage - please use exact change or credit card" or worded to that effect. I now know where all the coins are!!!!!!
My theory was that the coin shortage was caused by someone pulling silver due to current demand for it. Only quarters and dimes are hard to get from the banks I use. I can get pennies and nickels all day. Just a theory
@SHAWNK4368 said:
My theory was that the coin shortage was caused by someone pulling silver due to current demand for it. Only quarters and dimes are hard to get from the banks I use. I can get pennies and nickels all day. Just a theory
I think the shortage was due to the pandemic and all of the people sitting at home when they could have been driving their armored trucks and other affiliated jobs etc. etc. etc.
@Fairfaxthunder said:
Found this guy roll hunting this morning. Sorry about the pics-not sure how you all take such nice pics of coins-I was using my phone. Feel free to PM me with tips to take better pics-would be much appreciated.
2 very simple techniques for better coin shots...
1.
Hand hold the coin and figure out how close your phone will focus. Natural window daylight is best, not direct sunlight. Daylight sets a much higher shutter speed compared to even most bright room lights, fast shutter speed means sharper images.
Figure out a comfortable way to hold the coin and put your camera holding arm kind of against your body...
Take 10 or 20 photos.
Go through the photos (take a moment to zoom in on each one and check for sharpness) and find the sharpest one. Delete the obviously blurry ones first is a good technique to do this quickly.
Open that final winning image right in your phone's/camera's image editing tool (it probably looks like a pencil type icon) and crop the image so that it's pretty much all coin.
2.
Set your phone on something like a soda can or stack of books with the camera over the edge...
Set the coin under there and center it (your phone's camera has sharpest focus dead center in the screen) with some decent lighting and take a photo.
Your camera is completely stabilized by the stack of stuff it's sitting on which makes the shutter speed matter much less.
Zoom in and check the image for sharpness...crop the image...post it for us
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
@SHAWNK4368 said:
My theory was that the coin shortage was caused by someone pulling silver due to current demand for it. Only quarters and dimes are hard to get from the banks I use. I can get pennies and nickels all day. Just a theory
No, most silver coins are long gone from circulation. the few that we find are collection dumps. There are plenty of clad coins to go around. The so-called coin shortage, is not a real coin shortage, per se. The banks got shorted on coin delivery's due to the pandemic. Banks don't really want to be bothered with coins. The coins are there, it is getting them to the bank branches that is messed up.
I agree that the coins are there and that there are delivery and staffing issues. I just personally noticed a big decline in my finds shortly after hearing rumors of new coin machines being used to sort any remaining silver out. I understand that it all comes from collection dumps usually by relatives or someone inheriting the collection and not being aware of what they have. I have had some good finds over the last few years and did especially well with Loomis boxes. Possibly just dried up in my area at this time. I had a very rare and lucky find of 183 silver quarters from a bank bag just last week from someone depositing them for face value. Got a nice profit from selling them to my LCS.
@SHAWNK4368 said:
I agree that the coins are there and that there are delivery and staffing issues. I just personally noticed a big decline in my finds shortly after hearing rumors of new coin machines being used to sort any remaining silver out. I understand that it all comes from collection dumps usually by relatives or someone inheriting the collection and not being aware of what they have. I have had some good finds over the last few years and did especially well with Loomis boxes. Possibly just dried up in my area at this time. I had a very rare and lucky find of 183 silver quarters from a bank bag just last week from someone depositing them for face value. Got a nice profit from selling them to my LCS.
I should be so lucky!!! And by the way, don't forget to declare on your 2022 income tax return.
I also think silver coins come from kids "borrowing" coins from their parents coin collection.
@SHAWNK4368 said:
I agree that the coins are there and that there are delivery and staffing issues. I just personally noticed a big decline in my finds shortly after hearing rumors of new coin machines being used to sort any remaining silver out. I understand that it all comes from collection dumps usually by relatives or someone inheriting the collection and not being aware of what they have. I have had some good finds over the last few years and did especially well with Loomis boxes. Possibly just dried up in my area at this time. I had a very rare and lucky find of 183 silver quarters from a bank bag just last week from someone depositing them for face value. Got a nice profit from selling them to my LCS.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.
@SHAWNK4368 said:
I agree that the coins are there and that there are delivery and staffing issues. I just personally noticed a big decline in my finds shortly after hearing rumors of new coin machines being used to sort any remaining silver out. I understand that it all comes from collection dumps usually by relatives or someone inheriting the collection and not being aware of what they have. I have had some good finds over the last few years and did especially well with Loomis boxes. Possibly just dried up in my area at this time. I had a very rare and lucky find of 183 silver quarters from a bank bag just last week from someone depositing them for face value. Got a nice profit from selling them to my LCS.
@SHAWNK4368 said:
I agree that the coins are there and that there are delivery and staffing issues. I just personally noticed a big decline in my finds shortly after hearing rumors of new coin machines being used to sort any remaining silver out. I understand that it all comes from collection dumps usually by relatives or someone inheriting the collection and not being aware of what they have. I have had some good finds over the last few years and did especially well with Loomis boxes. Possibly just dried up in my area at this time. I had a very rare and lucky find of 183 silver quarters from a bank bag just last week from someone depositing them for face value. Got a nice profit from selling them to my LCS.
I should be so lucky!!! And by the way, don't forget to declare on your 2022 income tax return.
I also think silver coins come from kids "borrowing" coins from their parents coin collection.
Declare? Are you some kind of IRS agent
Borrowing? Yea, with the full intent to repay the piggy bank C'Mon Man - Score 1 for the little guy Mr. Rogers
@SHAWNK4368 said:
I agree that the coins are there and that there are delivery and staffing issues. I just personally noticed a big decline in my finds shortly after hearing rumors of new coin machines being used to sort any remaining silver out. I understand that it all comes from collection dumps usually by relatives or someone inheriting the collection and not being aware of what they have. I have had some good finds over the last few years and did especially well with Loomis boxes. Possibly just dried up in my area at this time. I had a very rare and lucky find of 183 silver quarters from a bank bag just last week from someone depositing them for face value. Got a nice profit from selling them to my LCS.
😯
Yeah, it was a lucky score!! Did 3 half dollar boxes today from String and Sons and got 2 90% and 4 40%. 6 total for the day. Not bad considering my last 90+ boxes also produced 6 silvers total. Definitely have to put in the time and effort to get the occasional big score. Still enjoy the hunt though.
@SHAWNK4368 .... WOW!!! What a phenomenal find.... Sure is a great haul. Probably never hit that big a trove again. But you did it that time....Glad you got pictures. Cheers, RickO
Comments
New Quarter Bank Box
Can't remember when I went through one last?
Let's GO...
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.Been along time since I seen one of those... Good luck Joey!!
Thank You!
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.Yep, haven't seen one of these in awhile too.
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.Let's Try Again!
127 W ?
Silver?
Variety?
Error?
Or Something else?
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.Got some quarters at my bank today, got pretty close to silver but not quite, a 66 and 2 67's nothing else worthwhile in the rolls, just a few clean moderns
."It's a dangerous business... going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to" -JRR Tolkien_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Outstanding BST transactions as a seller, buyer and trader with: ----- mustanggt, Kliao, claudewill87, MWallace, paesan, mpbuck82, moursund, basetsb, lordmarcovan, JWP, Coin hunter 4, COINS MAKE CENTS, PerryHall, Aspie_Rocco, Braddick, DBSTrader2, SanctionII, Histman, The_Dinosaur_Man, jesbroken, CentSearcher ------ANA Member #3214817
It's 106 miles to Chicago, I've got 50 rolls of quarters, 12 rolls of pennies, 6 cans of PBR, it's dark, I'm wearing sunglasse...
"Hit it"
He took a proper acetone dip
Not in the greatest condition but really shows what this stuff can do.
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
> #127 W ?
Yes! #127 W found.
After 30 rolls
2020 W Rockefeller V75
Maybe, more down my list?
20 Rolls left
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.My latest finds. This is a result of 4 boxes. I decided to take some time off from half dollars to give my bank tellers a break until about Sep. So, this will be my last post for half dollar finds for a while.
10 proofs
5 90% including a 1941 Walker!
3 40%
A really nice 1987-D NIFC
A stainless steel coin from Ecuador dated 2000 and a 2 cents copper coin dated 1962 from British Caribbean Territories Eastern Group
20 NIFC's dated 2002-2020 (not shown)
Oh, YEAH, I forgot about this 1971 strike through? At first, I thought this was PMD (By the date), but I really think that it is a strike through now. What do you think PMD? or Strike through?
@rec78 looks like a strike thru to me that has been smoothed over through years of circulation.
What will you be searching in the meanwhile?
Quarters and pennies, pennies, pennies. I can get 1 quarter box a week at my one bank and 2 penny boxes per week. Also whenever I go to any bank I ask them if I can get some penny rolls, these add up quick. $5 here, $10 there. and not enough time to search!
12 $ Rolls!
2000p Wounded Eagles
1979p Near Dates
Washington Missing Letters
Washington Elongated Ray's
Adams Missing Letters
Any strike throughs
Beautiful Toners
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.Is that your wish list?
Or what you found?
BHNC #203
Lol
Those are all the possibilities in these rolls.
Thanks
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.20 Quarter rolls completed.
Toner
12 Dollar Rolls completed.
John Quincy Adams
"Missing Letters"
However, rough though.
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.My customer rolls were NOT from a coin collector
My teller told me that the customer quarter rolls and small dollars were from the same person, and she described him as very very old lol!
Then I opened a couple random Loomis and that went well too!
Clearly someone enjoyed chips and a sandwich while rolling, that was my first clue
First roll had a W
Another roll, a nice cud
Another roll, only 1 million minted
Another roll, crazy toner. Someone probably took a lighter to it, but it works so well with the design lol!
Only 4.7 million. Looks like it saw some action! It already went in the acetone and the xylenes, no luck.
I did not expect to see a newer Innovation Dollar! It's a 2021 D.
Only 3 million minted.
Only 2.5 million minted.
Opened the 2 dime rolls...this is about a once or twice a year occurrence for me!
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
Holiday Hunt Weekend!
40 Rolls of Halves
Box of Cents
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.@Kurisu Those quarter rolls and
@joeykoins cent rolls look delicious let us know what you find.
🍒🍒🍒
The struggle is real
At the airport waiting to board to get home I’m having roll searcher withdrawals.
Can't say I've ever seen anyone searching rolls on a flight. And I've been on A LOT of flights lol!
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
Me: Yes, can I get a box of customer wrapped penny rolls? Uhh, and any large silver coins you may have under the counter.
Flight Attendant: Excuse me! You can have a box of shut the h*** up and put your D*** seatbelt on!
Found on roll 43 out of 50, none after...
The 40 Roll Half Dollar hunt results.
Nothing but these two 1987 NIFC's.
Both P & D
Both with mintages of only
2,800,000+
Philadelphia
Denver
On to the Cent Box!
Thanks guys
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.I would love to half dollar and dollar roll hunting very very much but finding them at my local banks/credit unions for face value is next to impossible...and the one time last week I DID find a couple of dollar rolls over half were all black and yucky looking...like Suzie was working in a coal mine or something
YES I'm well aware they still spent the same but that's not really the point. 
D's: 54S,53P,50P,49S,45D+S,44S,43D,41S,40D+S,39D+S,38D+S,37D+S,36S,35D+S,all 16-34's
Q's: 52S,47S,46S,40S,39S,38S,37D+S,36D+S,35D,34D,32D+S
74T: 37,38,47,151,193,241,435,570,610,654,655 97 Finest silver: 115,135,139,145,310
73T:31,55,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,80,152,165,189,213,235,237,257,341,344,377,379,390,422,433,453,480,497,545,554,563,580,606,613,630
95 Ultra GM Sets: Golden Prospects,HR Kings,On-Base Leaders,Power Plus,RBI Kings,Rising Stars
There's noooo place I'd rather coin roll hunt than right here...
With my rednecks...
White Sox...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CPz7pkYcgg
And Blue Ribbon beer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3iVHxP8FQ
D's: 54S,53P,50P,49S,45D+S,44S,43D,41S,40D+S,39D+S,38D+S,37D+S,36S,35D+S,all 16-34's
Q's: 52S,47S,46S,40S,39S,38S,37D+S,36D+S,35D,34D,32D+S
74T: 37,38,47,151,193,241,435,570,610,654,655 97 Finest silver: 115,135,139,145,310
73T:31,55,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,80,152,165,189,213,235,237,257,341,344,377,379,390,422,433,453,480,497,545,554,563,580,606,613,630
95 Ultra GM Sets: Golden Prospects,HR Kings,On-Base Leaders,Power Plus,RBI Kings,Rising Stars
Found this guy roll hunting this morning. Sorry about the pics-not sure how you all take such nice pics of coins-I was using my phone. Feel free to PM me with tips to take better pics-would be much appreciated.
I’m still trying to figure that out myself. Seems like there would be a resolution adjustment on a cell. I just got the new iPhone 13 pro and the pictures look just as pixelated as my old phone.
New to the forum. Been coin hunting for 2 1/2 years. Used to have a lot of luck with loomis half dollar boxes, but those have really dried up lately. Last 90 boxes yielded 6 total silvers!! Anyone else hear that loomis is pulling silver now? I have heard this from numerous bank tellers. I used to do 7 boxes per week and at one point last year, all of my loomis orders were replaced by nf string and sons boxes for a month or so and then back to loomis. Since then, almost nothing. Been doing better with customer wrapped or coin machine bags when I can get them.
Merchants (some) have signs posted "coin shortage - please use exact change or credit card" or worded to that effect. I now know where all the coins are!!!!!!
My theory was that the coin shortage was caused by someone pulling silver due to current demand for it. Only quarters and dimes are hard to get from the banks I use. I can get pennies and nickels all day. Just a theory
I think the shortage was due to the pandemic and all of the people sitting at home when they could have been driving their armored trucks and other affiliated jobs etc. etc. etc.
2 very simple techniques for better coin shots...
1.
Hand hold the coin and figure out how close your phone will focus. Natural window daylight is best, not direct sunlight. Daylight sets a much higher shutter speed compared to even most bright room lights, fast shutter speed means sharper images.
Figure out a comfortable way to hold the coin and put your camera holding arm kind of against your body...
Take 10 or 20 photos.
Go through the photos (take a moment to zoom in on each one and check for sharpness) and find the sharpest one. Delete the obviously blurry ones first is a good technique to do this quickly.
Open that final winning image right in your phone's/camera's image editing tool (it probably looks like a pencil type icon) and crop the image so that it's pretty much all coin.
2.
Set your phone on something like a soda can or stack of books with the camera over the edge...
Set the coin under there and center it (your phone's camera has sharpest focus dead center in the screen) with some decent lighting and take a photo.
Your camera is completely stabilized by the stack of stuff it's sitting on which makes the shutter speed matter much less.
Zoom in and check the image for sharpness...crop the image...post it for us
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
"If at first you don't succeed, try try again."
Another Quarter box.
Persistence
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.No, most silver coins are long gone from circulation. the few that we find are collection dumps. There are plenty of clad coins to go around. The so-called coin shortage, is not a real coin shortage, per se. The banks got shorted on coin delivery's due to the pandemic. Banks don't really want to be bothered with coins. The coins are there, it is getting them to the bank branches that is messed up.
I agree that the coins are there and that there are delivery and staffing issues. I just personally noticed a big decline in my finds shortly after hearing rumors of new coin machines being used to sort any remaining silver out. I understand that it all comes from collection dumps usually by relatives or someone inheriting the collection and not being aware of what they have. I have had some good finds over the last few years and did especially well with Loomis boxes. Possibly just dried up in my area at this time. I had a very rare and lucky find of 183 silver quarters from a bank bag just last week from someone depositing them for face value. Got a nice profit from selling them to my LCS.
Nice haul! Did you check them for any varieties?
Yes, no varieties unfortunately, but still one of my best finds to date!!
I should be so lucky!!! And by the way, don't forget to declare on your 2022 income tax return.
I also think silver coins come from kids "borrowing" coins from their parents coin collection.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.Wow!
Today's value= $638.40 melt.
nice profit
BHNC #203
Declare? Are you some kind of IRS agent
Borrowing? Yea, with the full intent to repay the piggy bank C'Mon Man - Score 1 for the little guy Mr. Rogers
WOWEE! I'm jealous!
I figure $638 melt value and $700 for gas to go and pick them up, lol!! The IRS owes me a write off for my losses!!!!!
A great haul.
My silver finds are stuck in single digits.
Wayne
Kennedys are my quest...
Yeah, it was a lucky score!! Did 3 half dollar boxes today from String and Sons and got 2 90% and 4 40%. 6 total for the day. Not bad considering my last 90+ boxes also produced 6 silvers total. Definitely have to put in the time and effort to get the occasional big score. Still enjoy the hunt though.
Finally something!
After roll 27
#128 W
San Antonio
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.@SHAWNK4368 .... WOW!!! What a phenomenal find.... Sure is a great haul. Probably never hit that big a trove again. But you did it that time....Glad you got pictures. Cheers, RickO