Roll searching...... 1959 .......Fun times....

AUandAG

Christmas must have been boring! I found in my old papers & notes from December 1959
regarding roll searching. I was at Grandma's and Grandpa's home in Carson City. I did
my roll searching from the rolls that they had in their bar downstairs. They lived above and
owned the Ship Bar on Carson Street. Calendar is Grandma's and it's her handwriting as
we sat at the kitchen table and tabulated the finds. Here's what was found:

Wednesday, Dec 23, 1959

1840 half dollar

1878-cc dollar
1885-cc dollar
1879-cc dollar
1921 dollar - Peace

1912-s Nickel
1912-d? Nickel

1856 dime
1891 dime

Total 11 rolls searched.

Thursday, December 24, 1959

1914-d dime
1902 "
1908-d "
1912-d
1910
101
1914-d "
1012
1908 "

1943-p nickel
1926 nickel

5 dime rolls searched
1 nickel roll

Christmas day, Friday

1863 cent
1901 "
1906
1906
1906
1903
1864 "
1883
1896
1883 "
1908
1887
1905
1899 "

10 rolls searched.

Saturday, December 26, 1959

1944-p Nickel
1944-p
1942-p
1943-p "
1945-p
1943-p "

4 rolls searched.

I was 13 at the time. Purple People Eater was a big hit. Life was good.

bob

cmerlo1

I was born too late.

AUandAG

I think we can all say we were born too late! Can you imagine what I would have
found 50 years earlier in 1909?
bob

keyman64

Wow how roll searching has changed....

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OperationButter

Thats awesome Bob!

LanceNewmanOCC

<< <i>Thats awesome Bob! >>




that would have been a blast to do with my parents/grandparents
.

Cameonut

Back in the early 60's we used to get a bag of pennies from the parking meters in Racine Wisconsin.
We'd then sit around the table and search for coins to fill our Whitman books that were made down the street.

Cheap entertainment - and once in a while we'd find an Indian or two. That's the nice thing about parking meters - once deposited, they couldn't be retrieved.

copperhunter

That must bring back some nice memories.

Meltdown

Great memories! I sure wish I would have had that type of opportunity when I was a kid.

RollSearcher

wow - that's so cool. I love reading this stuff. I always keep my eye out for old Numi. Scrapbooks and other mags where readers reported this stuff back in the good ol' days.

I wish my Dad would've kept a log of our finds. In the mid 1970's when I was maybe 7 or 8, we would go to the local bank every Saturday where the tellers had saved all the half dollars that came in for us. We'd go through and sort out all the silver. There were some weeks where we'd come back with several rolls of all silver. While Dad wasn't an avid coin collector, he knew enough to know when we found something good and kept it aside, along with all the silver. I still search rolls today, and I've found some cool stuff, but those days searching as a kid just seemed magical.

Sadly, he sold it all during the Hunt Bros. silver boom and by then it was much harder to get silver and he stopped searching for it. Actually, the money was reinvested and wound up funding a good chunk of my college education, so I guess it wasn't all that sad

Still, I would've loved to have had a log of everything we found.