Roll Hunting 2016

pocketpiececommems

Stopped by a local bank last week and asked if they had a $500 box of halves. They said no they only had $400. Of course I said I'd take them. They are all machine wrapped. I finished them today and these are the results. A 62 & 63 Franklin, a 67 Kennedy, a holed 72 Kennedy, a gold platted 77 Kennedy and a 92-S Proof. There were lots of 2006 P & D's in this batch. I felt this was an ok box.

lordmarcovan

Wow, I've never been able to get halves in that quantity.



What do you do with the castoffs? Redeposit them in another bank?

CuKevin

I have terrible luck with getting banks to give me rolls of ANYTHING. And then it is rare to impossible to find a bank on the west coast with the machines capable of taking unrolled change.



If anyone knows of a SoCal bank with one of these machines, please let me know. I would open an account in a heartbeat.

SaorAlba

Back in December I found a '62 Frankie proof in a box that only had one more find, a '67 Kennedy. The next box had a 1960 Frankie. All the boxes since have been duds.

ricko

I stopped roll hunting about two years ago... had no luck at all.... maybe time to give it another

try....Cheers, RickO

deefree49

Not too long ago, somebody had one of those books about "making it rich" and one chapter was devoted to "Finding Silver at Banks". That wasn't the exact chapter title but the point is, this person was doing this aggressively every day and spreading the idea. He claimed to be finding lots of goodies. (probably exaggerated but surely, better than now). Anyway supposedly, banks got wind of this and began presorting stuff at some point before packing it. The coin machine owners probably are hip to doing some searching too. If I worked at one of those places, it sure would be my first suggestion to the boss. I'm afraid for the most part, finding goodies this way is no longer going to yield much, if anything. Maybe there are areas of the country where you still can find stuff but because coin collecting is generally still very popular, most of the valuable boxes probably have been searched either by collectors or preemptively at some point. Nice that the OP found a couple of things though...against the odds so to speak!



When I first began collecting circa 1958, you could find a lot of good stuff everywhere. There was a boom in the early 60's in coin collecting and it got harder around 1963-65 and stayed that way. Silver in bank boxes was kind of the last refuge. In my early days, you could find all kinds of low mintage coins in bank rolls. Sure there were duds but once in a batch of pennies, I found 3 or 4 rolls where someone either gave up on their collection, or a mean family member raided their Whitman folder. Every roll was packed with early Lincolns, from all the mint locations. 1911-D, 1910-S, 1912-D, 1913-S and so on. There wasn't a 1914-D. 1909-S of any type or 1924-D, but just about everything else! I was flabbergasted. For a 9 year old, it was like winning the lottery. I actually felt guilty but my Mom told me there was no way to find out who they came from and I should just keep them and be happy. Later the whole collection, 1C, 5C (buffalo, Jefferson) 10C (Mercury - didn't even bother with Roosevelt in those days!), 25C (Standing Liberty and Washington) and 50C (Walkers, didn't bother with Franklins in those days) was stolen by my "partner", a kid a few doors down claimed his brother spent them. (maybe true) Even though this happened 50 years ago, I still get mad about it. I know, need to let it go. The point is, bank rolls was THE way to collect back then. It sure is different today.

mr1931S

My bank wouldn't even sell me some pennies so I could try to find an '83 copper,among other things.

Banks seem to be getting kind of stinky about selling rolls of coins to collectors these days.

I was told that the local businesses might need some pennies to make change so they didn't want to give them up to me.

I'm guessing that the teller at the bank is clueless about the "take a penny-give a penny" program that is in place at most convenience stores.

mustangmanbob

Quasi On Topic: Coin Finds.



My son is deploying again, this time to Korea. He got back from Estonia 7 months ago. He saves "strange" "old" coins he gets around Ft. Hood Texas.



I helped him pack up yesterday, and he gave me 1 war nickel, 2 common date wheats, and a bunch of pre 1970 (oldest 1940) nickels and pennys (1963 and up) . When coins are 10 or more years older than you, they MUST be valuable, in some sense, right?



So these are "finds" from the wild, in the last 7 months.

johnny9434

silver is always good to get. fwiw

steveben

cool...but we need photos!

asheland

I love finding silver at the bank!

ctf_error_coins

Casinos will take your change for cash ...... just leave with the cash or play poker if you know how ..... any other type "gambling" will take your cash ....

Overdate

Originally posted by: deefree49
The coin machine owners probably are hip to doing some searching too.

Some of the coin machines will not accept silver coins. A few years ago I found a 1964 dime in the reject slot of a supermarket coin machine, along with a few foreign coins.

oih82w8

Originally posted by: asheland

I love finding silver at the bank!

It's sniping or cherry picking!

claychaser

A few years a California bank called Pacific Western Bank had a machine that took coins for deposit or cash-out for no fee. It got lots of action, and I talked the branch manager into letting me buy the bags of half dollars. They came in a heavy duty plastic bag, and you got 1000 "some-things", as the coins were machine counted. So, we got bend quarters, foreign coins, but also got Canadian Loonies ($1 coins) and Toonies ($2 coins), Mexican 100 Pesos (worth about 80 cents), and many times scored 40% and 90%. At the time my young son, TrainNut, would paw through the bag in about 30-40 minutes, and he even did it if we had a longer drive in the car. Some good scores for a kid for sure.



The good stuff tended to get sparser as time went on, and then the bank took out the machine, ending the run. TrainNut then went to buying boxes of candy bars at Smart and Final, and selling them at school for 3x cost. The school finally put a stop to that - the PTA did not like the fact that he sold the products the kids wanted at a lower price!



Tough for a kid to be an entreprenuer these days . . .

ctf_error_coins

Originally posted by: claychaser
Tough for a kid to be an entreprenuer these days . . .

Actually they have this thing called the internet ....






Your son sounds like he would do really well there ......