Anyone remember the "found in change" guy?

Klif50

Back in the olden days when RCC (rec.collecting.coins newsgroup) still ruled the internet there was a guy and I can't remember his name but he searched tons of change and came up with some really fantastic finds. He even had a regular column in Numismatic News. He always had great stories and pictures of amazing finds. He had a website for a while too but now I've lost track of him.

I just wonder what he's up to these days and if he's still searching rolls and finding good stuff. What brought it to mind was that on Friday I cashed a check at my bank and as I always do I asked if they had any halves. My teller had two and she sold them both to me for a dollar. One was one of those highly collectible bicentennial half dollars which I shall treasure forever and the other was a 1968 half. I saw it was silver as soon as she passed it across. So that got me to thinking about the "found in change" guy.

If you don't remember him from RCC or from Numismatic News then you have missed out on a character and a heck of a nice guy.

jokingjoker

Not sure if it's the same guy but there was a guy on another forum I post at that went by "found in rolls" , had his own website and everything. Not sure if he still posts though.

Klif50

Yep, you are right, it was "found in rolls", I'm old and that's my story. Just wonder what ever became of him.

CoinCrazyPA

This is the new website:LINK, the articles written on this site are by Bill O'Rourke. Not sure if he was the original guy or not?

cladking

<< <i>This is the new website:LINK, the articles written on this site are by Bill O'Rourke. Not sure if he was the original guy or not? >>



Thanks. The bad news is that I didn't know he was still writing. The goods news is he has archives.

Initially it was a husband/ wife team. (Bill and Debbie?)

Jcarney

I was a long-time regular on RCC from about 1999 to 2004...2006 or so. I stopped hanging out there after the ACG lawsuit (I was one of those named). I don't remember that guy. Maybe before my time.

Klif50

That's his name. I was on RCC until it shut down, even through the unpleasantness. We had a fund raising for legal assistance. People that I remember from there are Ira Stein, Eric (I lose his last name as braincells die) and J Carnes. So many others came and went. I'm so glad he's still got a website and I'm going now to visit and say hey.
Thanks for the help.
Klif (was Klif then too)

DorkGirl

He used to post in Coin Community all the time. I don't know if he still does.

jokingjoker

<< <i>He used to post in Coin Community all the time. I don't know if he still does. >>



No, just checked and he hasn't logged in over a month.

johnny9434

i remember it but dont for the life of me remember who it was tis aint good

seanq

Bill is a great guy, he and I corresponded all the time back during the heyday of rec.collecting.coins. I even gave him his first copy of The Cherrypickers Guide, and he gave me a great deal on a couple of modern Lincoln cent varieties.

FYI, I bailed on RCC when I found this place, sometime in mid 2002, right before the "unpleasantness" with ACG. I was very lucky, as I easily could have been one of the named defendants in that suit.


Sean Reynolds

cladking

<< <i>Bill is a great guy, he and I corresponded all the time back during the heyday of rec.collecting.coins. I even gave him his first copy of The Cherrypickers Guide, and he gave me a great deal on a couple of modern Lincoln cent varieties.

FYI, I bailed on RCC when I found this place, sometime in mid 2002, right before the "unpleasantness" with ACG. I was very lucky, as I easily could have been one of the named defendants in that suit.
>>



We corresponded by snail mail but lost touch when I got a computer in Sept, '01.

I've search a lot of coins as well but not such great numbers.

RCC was a nice place but it seemed to be more a software problem that killed it than anything else; you couldn't retrieve a password toward the end.

19Lyds

Bill has a regular column in Coin World titled "Found in Rolls".

Klif50

Well, I guess the RCC old time reunion email is not to be. I tried to contact Bill through the web page and then through several other email addresses I found and they all bounced back. I'll keep looking for him and if anyone happens to run into him, please let him know I was looking (Klif on the old RCC). I won't search on facebook though.