Yet another bank roll search...
evilclay
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Went to the bank and got $100 in mixed change, here are the results
4 rolls of halves- 1 BU 1971 D, 2 1995 Kennedy's that look like there is a gash in his neck. Is this a variety? A cutthrought (sp?) Kennedy? RUSS?
2 rolls of quarters- 61 state quarters, 1 bicentennial
2 rolls of dimes- 1 1966
4 rolls of nickels- 20 westward journey, 1 1946
4 rolls of cents- 1 1909 (oldest date coin I have found in bank rolls, also extremely excited to find it!!!) in pretty darn good condition. and 1 1968 S cent.
Not too bad, especially with the 1909. Wish it was the 1909 S VDB but happy anyway.- Clay
4 rolls of halves- 1 BU 1971 D, 2 1995 Kennedy's that look like there is a gash in his neck. Is this a variety? A cutthrought (sp?) Kennedy? RUSS?
2 rolls of quarters- 61 state quarters, 1 bicentennial
2 rolls of dimes- 1 1966
4 rolls of nickels- 20 westward journey, 1 1946
4 rolls of cents- 1 1909 (oldest date coin I have found in bank rolls, also extremely excited to find it!!!) in pretty darn good condition. and 1 1968 S cent.
Not too bad, especially with the 1909. Wish it was the 1909 S VDB but happy anyway.- Clay
Hey, Im new at this so cut me some slack!!
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I've done far better with nickels, finding quite a few from the 1930s and '40s, including war nickels. I even got a hoard of several rolls of very dirty war nickels at my local convenience store, once. When I got two warnicks in my change I asked the clerk to check the till and then the safe, and there were four or five rolls of mostly warnicks with a few nonsilver 1940s coins mixed in. They were all blackish and slightly oily, though, like they'd been in the bilge of somebody's boat. Still, I was tickled to get war nickels at face value. Nickels are about all I play the bank roll game on anymore.
I haven't played with quarters or dimes much and while I've heard some nice stories about half dollar rolls, I can seldom get them from the bank here. The one time I did (thanks to a sharp-eyed clerk who'd been looking out for me), I got four or five rolls of 40% halves.
I was gonna try the State quarters from circulation but just ran out of steam and couldn't keep up. Nor do I see many recent issues- I get plenty of 1999-2001 coins but not too many after that.
My best circ find was a 1937-D Buffalo nickel from a Pepsi machine, which graded around Fine (the coin, not the Pepsi machine). And a BU, MS65, nearly Full-Steps 1940 Jeff mixed in with a roll of mostly-new nickels (don't ask me how that happened). And some clipped-planchet nickels including a double clip. My wife got two or three blank planchets from a new roll of cents two or three years ago.
The best I have seen personally was a friend of mine who got a pretty sharp (Fine-ish) 1900-S Barber dime in change. That was a trip.
I only find silver when I search halves and nickels. The nickels, I have found '38-present. A good share of 40's and 50's actually (mostly 70's-present, but when they are older I do get a lot of 40's and 50's).
Pennies give me squat. Dimes and quarters never give me any '64 or earlier.
I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment
I have found plenty of Buffalo nickels (one roll had half buff's and half war nickels), and many, many nickels from 1938-1959. I set them all aside and have about 20 rolls of those older nickels from about 5 years of searching.
Usually get 1 per roll of pre 1960 nickels.
As for the half dollars, well, I usually find a silver or 40% silver Kennedy every couple of months, but this week, I found these!
I've been thinking of looking through cent rolls for wheaties, but I get them in change and at the bank so often, it doesn't pay to look through rolls yet.
Keep looking through those rolls. There's plenty out there.
"Bongo hurtles along the rain soaked highway of life on underinflated bald retread tires."
~Wayne
while pawing thru yet another batch of rolls.
Pleased with any wheatie, I didn't think much more
of the 1910 until I realized it came out just one
year after Lincolns began, almost 100 years ago!
Sitting in a roll from the bank!
I started wasting tons of free time on the rolls
out of curiosity last month at how many coppers
there might be among pennies in circulation in my neck
of the woods. Answer, after 10,700 cents, is almost 20%.
Alas, it's not wheaties that keep me digging thru the metal:
it takes almost 10 rolls to uncover 1 wheatie!
No, what surprised me in my search for 1981 mintages
and earlier was how bright the old Lincolns could be.
Golden, golden-red, orange-ish gold, satiny pale gold -
such a range of bright hues, these circulated pennies
sometimes look like they were minted yesterday.
1959, 1964, 1981, it doesn't matter -- I've got one in almost
every mintage that looks brand-new and gorgeous.
So, while I can, I'm just gonna
keep swimming thru the cents to see
what will the top-pops of this copper crop look like.
For Zincolns, too!
tychojoe wrote, in part
> "...after 10,700 cents..."
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Getting your eyes uncrossed, after looking
at that many pennies, may require surgery!!
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"America suffers today from too much pluribus and not enough unum.".....Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
"Bongo hurtles along the rain soaked highway of life on underinflated bald retread tires."
~Wayne
Getting your eyes uncrossed, after looking
at that many pennies, may require surgery!!
That must be why I keep thinking I need a new prescription
<<How long did it take you to look through 10,700 cents?>>
What does time matter for such a labor of luster?
About 30 hours, I guess.