Rolls of coins

Coinerww

I am getting rolls of coins out of the bank, I have found nickels back to 1941, and Quarters to 1964. Are the circulated Quarters worth collecting? I have found some wheats also. Any reccomendations on what to look for?
Warner

JrGMan2004

I'll occasionally get some rolls to search through... I'll keep anything interesting... wheaties, silver coins - That's Quarters and dimes from before 1965, Franklin Halves, 90% Kennedies (1964) and 40% kennedies (1965-1970)

100proof1957

exactly how often would you expect to find a 70 Kennedy in a circ roll ?

Coinerww

I right now only get pennies, nickels, and Quarter rolls. I am making a circulated set of Quarters and nickels. I have yet to find anything rare.

ddbird

Any sivler quarter is good...Get a roll together of silvers and sell for quite a good deal of money!

Coinerww

I got 4 rolls of quarters out of the bank and the earliest date I found was a 1965. I got six rolls of nickels out and I found 30 or more nickels from before 1958. Of the 5 rolls of pennies, I found a 1910 penny.

cladking

<< <i>I am getting rolls of coins out of the bank, I have found nickels back to 1941, and Quarters to 1964. Are the circulated Quarters worth collecting? I have found some wheats also. Any reccomendations on what to look for?
Warner >>



The odds of finding a clad quarter that will bring a big premium at the current time is very low.
There are many possible rarities which were released to circulation and have very substantial
premiums even in low grades, but the odds of finding these are remote. There are numerous
scarce and grade rare coins in circulation and these are actually fairly easy to find since there
are so many different ones. There is one fairly common coin that is worth a premium; it's the AU
'83-P quarter. These got a lot of attention when it was discovered that this date and a few ot-
hers were tough in unc. Many people removed them from circulation in the mid to late '80's. Many
have been trickling back into circulation at a time that hundreds of thousands of people are as-
sembling sets and looking for good coins. AU-58's will sell for as much as $30 and they wholesale
as high as $15. Coins must be well struck and have light even wear.

The best way to learn which coins are scarcer is to start a collection. Lists of varieties have ap-
peared in some threads which should be findable in the archives.

Coinerww

I have 3 1983-P but they look in about Fine to VF condition, Are these worth storing?

coinguy89

<< <i>I right now only get pennies, nickels, and Quarter rolls. I am making a circulated set of Quarters and nickels. I have yet to find anything rare. >>



Why make a circulated set when you can for just alittle money make a beautiful uncirculated set of pennies, nickels, and probably quarters.

cladking

Coinerww; No. This coin is normally found in such grades and was made in very large numbers.
There is a variety with a different reverse which might be worth saving in a nice VF. It has a diff-
erent reverse with the right side of the N further from the eagle's head. (It's not rare)

Coinguy89. The unc quarter sets generally go for about $250 now days and more with the proofs.
While I'd never advise someone not to buy one of these, they can be assembled cheaper if you buy
the coins individually and the final set will look far better. Look in mint sets and dealers' stock.

cdwegner

Don't forget silver war nickels...

Is the 70 Kennedy the one that was only in mint sets?

Coinerww

I am keeping all the war nickels.

coinguy89

<< <i>Coinerww; No. This coin is normally found in such grades and was made in very large numbers.
There is a variety with a different reverse which might be worth saving in a nice VF. It has a diff-
erent reverse with the right side of the N further from the eagle's head. (It's not rare)

Coinguy89. The unc quarter sets generally go for about $250 now days and more with the proofs.
While I'd never advise someone not to buy one of these, they can be assembled cheaper if you buy
the coins individually and the final set will look far better. Look in mint sets and dealers' stock. >>



Yeah, sorry, I didn't say that totally right, I meant what you meant cladking, don't buy them as sets, they can be found in junk boxs at very cheap prices, probably half off too.

ksteelheader

<< <i>exactly how often would you expect to find a 70 Kennedy in a circ roll ? >>

The same way people occasionally find proof coins in rolls and/or circulation. I occasionally give my grandkids proof coins to spend!!!

richbeat

Ditto what ksteelheader said. I have both a '70D and '70S proof that I found in half rolls.

Cladiator

What do you do to get these rolls? Do you just walk into any bank and say I want "X" amount of quarter rolls? Do you specify that you'd like the oldest looking rolls they can find or anything like that? Are the bank tellers annoyed? Do you have to have an account there?

cladking

A lot of banks are happy to supply coins to customers. I usually just ask for part
of my cash to be in quarter rolls and try not to do it too often. It's nice to use a
bank that takes the coins back loose too so you save the trouble of rolling. On the
rare occassion they ask I just tell them I'm looking for scarce or unusual coins and
they've often told me that have lots of people doing it with the half dollars and dollars
but have never seen someone looking at the quarters.

It might not be a good idea to get more coins on the same day you cash you old ones.
Don't let your accumultion get over about 25 pounds as some of the girls will struggle
with them.

Coinerww

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buffnut

I'm sort of lucky in this area. I work as an operations manager for OfficeMax, and as such I have the task of making change orders for the store and storing them in the safe. Our armored car service delivers quarters and dimes in clear shrink wrap- so it is quite easy to scan several rolls of these coins for silver all at once. So far after scanning what must be hundreds of rolls by looking for the silver edge, I have only scored two or three silver dimes. Funny thing is, I scan the register tills too, and in 3+ years at OM I have found four proof coins in the tills (three dimes and one statehood clad quarter)! I think it is a case of junior pilfering dad's coin stash and spending them, but who knows. I mostly find wheaties and common silver roosies, but I have also pulled one merc, and one silver washington from the tills. (Of course I pay them back with my change!)

cdwegner

I asked my wife to pick me up a roll of $1 Sacs at the bank yesterday. They gave her 25.... loose... and 5 or so of them turned out to be SBAs.. doh...

But, she did get me 10 $2 bills.

c

cladking

<< <i>I'm sort of lucky in this area. I work as an operations manager for OfficeMax, and as such I have the task of making change orders for the store and storing them in the safe. Our armored car service delivers quarters and dimes in clear shrink wrap- so it is quite easy to scan several rolls of these coins for silver all at once. So far after scanning what must be hundreds of rolls by looking for the silver edge, I have only scored two or three silver dimes. Funny thing is, I scan the register tills too, and in 3+ years at OM I have found four proof coins in the tills (three dimes and one statehood clad quarter)! I think it is a case of junior pilfering dad's coin stash and spending them, but who knows. I mostly find wheaties and common silver roosies, but I have also pulled one merc, and one silver washington from the tills. (Of course I pay them back with my change!) >>




More likely it is caused by collectors cutting a set for just the one coin
they need for their collection or for a spectacular gem. Also wholesalers
can't sell culls which will account for up to ten or fifteen percent ao a proof
set coin. These are just placed into circulation in some cases.

Dealers will often advise those disposing of estates to simply spend very
low value coins such as broken, damaged, or corroded proof sets. When
dealers are forced to buy such coins they will put them into circulation rat-
her than waiting for a buyer. There are significant numbers of proofs in circ-
ulation and many of them are of the hard to open dates. Many of the ones
I've seen are obvious culls. I got a '68-S quarter worn down to VG a few
years back but for the main part these don't stay in circulation long.