How many roll searchers are there on the forum? Post your best find
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Roll searchers, identify yourselves!
Just wondering how many of you actively look through rolls for varieties, silver, missing dates for the Whitman folder, etc. I try and pick up a box of Lincoln Cents a week from the bank, and do between 5-10 rolls a day. I find it to be relaxing, and good family fun with my daughters. You never know what will turn up.
Here's one of my best finds from a couple of years ago, a 1983 DDR graded MS64RD by our hosts:
My buddy, searching for our next "good one."
Post your favorite change or roll find
Just wondering how many of you actively look through rolls for varieties, silver, missing dates for the Whitman folder, etc. I try and pick up a box of Lincoln Cents a week from the bank, and do between 5-10 rolls a day. I find it to be relaxing, and good family fun with my daughters. You never know what will turn up.
Here's one of my best finds from a couple of years ago, a 1983 DDR graded MS64RD by our hosts:
My buddy, searching for our next "good one."
Post your favorite change or roll find
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
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I was a Monkey
this is the Obverse that is Struck Thru
this is the graded version
this is the same DDR but not with the struck thru that graded very well MS67
I was a Monkey
My best finds were lots of melt and close to a dozen clad proofs.
The last couple of weeks I have thought about searching again. Hmmmmm
Looking for Top Pop Mercury Dime Varieties & High Grade Mercury Dime Toners.
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Other than silver coins I found an 1865 IHC thats probably my best find
In fact roll searching is a lot more fun for me these days than buying up 5-6 figure coins - maybe it is the thrill of the hunt or something.
In addition to the occasional silver coin, it would likely be a modern DDO memorial that might take the top spot. I think it was an 84 DDO though I'd have to go dig it out to be sure.
I find roll searching to be more relaxing than many other endeavors.
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David
Bumping an old thread since Photobucket is back. I haven't searched rolls with the kids in a long time. May be in for a bank run later today...
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
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This one was really good.
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Well, since I last posted in this thread - three years ago - I did find a '41 WLH in a roll of halves... and that is my only find of significance in all the rolls of halves that I have searched. Cheers, RickO
good idea!
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one of our members, I think it was seanq, was looking through a roll of unc. 1949-D Jefferson Nickels and found something like 20-D/S.
Jackpot!!
I quit roll searching ten or more years ago. But, here is the results of searching 190 rolls of Dollars:
Line Items Cert # PCGS # Description Grade Country
1 1 08573134 7286 1903-O $1 MS64 USA
2 1 08573135 7226 1893-S $1 VF20 USA
3 1 08573136 7228 1894 $1 AU58 USA
4 1 08573137 7232 1894-S $1 AU58 USA
5 1 08573138 7156 1884-S $1 XF45 USA
6 1 08573139 7148 1883-S $1 AU55 USA
7 1 08573140 7131 1881-S $1, PL MS63PL USA
8 1 08573141 7270 1900-S $1 MS62 USA
9 1 08573142 7186 1888-S $1 AU55 USA
10 1 08573143 7356 1921 $1 High Relief, Peace MS64 USA
Nothing to get too excited about but I came across a struck through wire pres dollar in a roll
I found this one searching cent rolls I bought.
Of course 'find' hardly applies. lol
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MS63 1999 Wide AM
Best would be around 500 Washington MEL from 3-4 $1,000 boxes
One bank stop netted around 400 40% halves.
Gave it up a couple weeks ago..after years of going through a lot of rolls. I never found anything major.. I did find a lot of minor Lincoln cent errors.
Was this you at that table?
Just funning with you that movie gave me nightmares.
Hoard the keys.
How far back can we go?
In 1999 I found a 40% off center P mint Connecticut quarter in a bag my favorite bank teller ordered for me.
When I was a kid in the 1950s every roll of cents I searched was full of wheat cents with an occasional IHC. Actually think I found every Lincoln except a 1914-D 1922 Plain and 1955 DDO in circulation. Dime rolls, when I could afford to buy them, were all 90% silver, found many 1921 and 1921-D but never the elusive 1916-D. If I only knew then what I know now and had the funds to do something about it!
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I must say I did a bad job.
i should have started by saying "Look What I found in this roll"
By the way it;s a Carmen Basilio Sausage sammich and it's really good. No mustard needed.
I get one ever year at the Boxing Hall Of Fame Induction Weekend.
For those not familiar with the Champ.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Basilio
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...well you get a pass..but only because Mr. Basilio had plenty of mustard behind his gloves, therefor his sausage doesn't require any extra
As a kid I found all of the War Nickels in circulation. Found t
his filling Whitman folders from junk silver. I think it is FB.
It's a lot of work to search rolls. Sometimes tedious, dirty work. But, there is nothing quite like pulling something special at face value! It really is the purest form of collecting, and I'll always look at that 1983 DDR and remember that "rush" I got when I found it.
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
I am a regular roll searcher, once in a while you can get lucky. Probably my best find was a large lot of silver from a bank visit. Asked for half dollars and took all they had, glad I did.
I'm an avid roll searcher.
My best find was likely a Civil War token in a p.....oops, in a cent roll.
Not a real common one either.
I may have posted it in another thread.
I've searched all the denominations since 1957 but concentrated on nickels until 1976 and quarters since. My treasures are too numerous to mention but the most valuable to other collectors was a VF+ 1950-D nickel I found in 1964 and sold for the equivalent of ~$200 in today's money.
I've found way scarcer coins than this though and, I guess, even those nice choice '83-P quarters are higher priced than the '50-D.
All the scarcities in circulation haven't been varieties and errors.
Probably many more then will admit to it. I think CRH'ers are probably viewed as the redheaded step children in the numismatic community. 🤣 👍
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Still occasionally do it but haven't ordered boxes from the banks in quite a while. I still ask my regular banks if they have any oddities. Last week I got a roll of 40% halves from a teller. So still participating just not a regular weekly thing.
Also - nothing I've found has ever topped the photo I posted here back in 2018. That was an epic find in total but no key dates, just stacks of Walkers and Bens.
Jim
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I use to do it professionally so I have so many top pops but here is a standout. I actually found 7 of these is a roll from Ebay of MS 1943 Jeffs.
MS66 Double Eye Jeff.
Back in the early 70's my roll hunting paid off with a VF 1969-S doubled die. John Devine authenticated it but it was still a coin being given scrutiny by the Secret Service due to a (now unfounded) counterfeiting scheme. Being a 15 year old kid and wanting to avoid any possible legal issues I quickly sold it (to Natalie Halperin) for $350. Moon money for me back then.
You found that in a roll? And it was an enderrrrrrr??
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Yes, also an 1861 but it wasn't an ender. This was about five years ago.
Nice!! 👍
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I've kept Gems of current dates since 1972. A few of these are scarce or valuable. I was able to secure very few of these in quantity because releases of Gems were very small and usually highly localized. By the time I got there the coins had been dispersed.