To the person who turned in their old coins(bank)
Tunis
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Thank you! My daughter and I have been trying to complete Whitman folders through searching rolls that we buy from our local credit union. We focus on the Lincoln, Jefferson, and Roosevelt albums. We typically buy 3 dime rolls, 2 nickel rolls and 2 penny rolls when we go. This is how I got started as a YN. She is 11 and nothing is more exciting for her to find a coin that "fits" her folders. She has found a few silver dimes and even found a Mercury dime that had her talking about it for weeks. Today she found 11 nickels, older than 1961 plus a Buffalo nickel!!! Talk about an 11 year old girl screaming. Her first Buffalo, to go with her first Mercury! Anyways, just wanted to let others know about our experience.
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Imagine the late 1950s when it remained possible to assemble a complete set of Lincoln cents or buffalo nickels or Mercury dimes and WL halves from circulation.
Congrats on your finds
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That's why often times I'll throw some dateless buffs into a roll because i know it will make somebody's day. Be it a kid or somebody searching or an older person reminiscing about the past.
For the few additional cents cents I'll get wholesale it ain't worth it! Besides throw out some good karma and it may just come back to ya!
The only one I didn't get from circulation was the S VDB. I still have my 1914 D.
That's how I started!!!! Pulling interesting coins out of circulation!! I remember going through a bag of nickels from the bank and discovering some had big letters over the Monticello. Buffalo nickels and Mercury dimes and wheat pennies were ALWAYS exciting. Especially if you could read the date!
That's great!
I had a paper route and had an ENORMOUS amount of money floating (at least for me) between collection from the customers and payment to the newspaper. I could reach about 7 +/- banks by bike, and a lot more if my mom would let me stop at one during her errands.
At first, it was cents, but then the price of silver took off. I would buy $50 - $100 in dimes quarters halves, pop them out, pull out the 90% reroll, and head to the next bank.
At that time, we lived in the suburbs of NYC, and my dad rode the train to Grand Central Station. There was a coin dealer in Grand Central Station paying X amount over face (listed in the NY Times each Sunday), and my dad would drop off my "loot" and bring me back the profits. Sometimes most of the roll would be silver, sometimes just a few.
On cents, one time I got 2 rolls all steel. We went back to the bank, got a lot more cents, and I got 4 - 5 rolls of steels.
Those were exciting times on roll searching.
Wow - refreshing story for sure! Gone are the days......
Haven't seen a buff in the wild in at least 12 years, nice.
Posted this on another thread but I will repost it here
Got a 1911 liberty head nickel in change at Dunkin Donuts this PM.
Interestingly, about 3 years ago I found an IKE dollar at this DD in the parking lot and about 1 year ago found a $20 dollar bill in the same lot.
I need to visit this location more often
Which one of you cashed this in for me to find ????
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Bad transactions with : nobody to date
Coin roll hunting is fun. I should get back into doing more of it. Congras on the finds.
This is also how I started back in the '60's. But our source was bags of coins from the parking meters in Racine Wisconsin. A few of us kids would gather around a kitchen table and have a blast - especially if we found something to fill a hole in our Whitman folders (made down the street at Whitman). At that time I could only afford the cents, nickels, and dimes. At least the dimes were silver......
I also searched my father's pocket change. Although he never admitted it, I suspected that he salted his change with the occasional "keeper".
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson
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Good to hear about YN still searching rolls and fillin' holes in thier folders/albums.
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I smell a future Laura Sperber in the making
That is great... really enjoyable activity with one's child. Roll searching is still interesting, but finds are much more rare. Out of the last twenty rolls of halves I searched, I found one WLH... no silver Kennedy's.... ah for the days of my childhood when all dimes, quarters and halves were silver - and plentiful. Cheers, RickO
Many of the above stories mirror my old coin-collecting habits & successes as a kid, and remain the reason why I continue collecting in my blue Whitman folders to this day!!
Chase Bank doesn't accept loose coins ....only coins in rolls..... good finds,in past 4 months ..picked up 6 silver Washingtons , 10 Rosie silver dimes .. 10 pennies from the 20's.. getting better than coinstar
What could more fun than searching rolls with a YN ?
I'm happy for your daughter !
That is awesome!!!
There is nothing better than bonding with your child and finding something old while doing it.
Simply priceless.
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PM sent.... be prepared to hear a lot more screaming from her!
Awesome!
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Finally took a pic
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Bad transactions with : nobody to date
Congratulations to your daughter!!!
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It's fun finding an old coin in circulation. We should all be spending low value stuff for others to find.