Roll Hunting 2016

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



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

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.

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.

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.

cool...but we need photos!

It's sniping or cherry picking!