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What is your "Latest or Greatest" Found in a Roll Coin ?
Rich49
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Other than a few Wheaties ,sometimes you find something cool 
Here's what I just found. A 1983 1988-S Proof Cent.Why would anyone spend it ? Post a picture if you found something cool in a roll hunt. Got in change is OK too ! 
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That looks like an 88 to me!
Your Right !Thanks (Cleaning Eyeglasses)LOL
I found four of these in a roll back in 2000. in 1996 my wife received an 1857 Flying Eagle Cent in change at the local Penny's store.
Great Find ! Got some of these to check now.
In 2014 I found two 1858 FE cents in one month. I found an 1865 IHC in the reject slot of a coin machine just last year. Over the past decade I have found three dozen IHC cents from 1873-1908 in roll searches.
Those are some incredible finds.
Donato
Donato's Complete US Type Set ---- Donato's Dansco 7070 Modified Type Set ---- Donato's Basic U.S. Coin Design Set
Successful transactions: Shrub68 (Jim), MWallace (Mike)
Found these roll searching for Wheaties
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
Those are quite amazing finds!!!!
I found a 1914d wheatie back in the 1950's.....nothing since, think I'm due again, 'eh?
bob
Great finds, thanks for sharing !!!
Best I ever did was finding a dime in a roll of cents back when I worked at Walgreens. (In a previous life, like 40 years ago...)
A broadstrike?
BHNC #203
I've found a few '09 VDB's but none that nice.
@mannie gray , @SaorAlba
I went through thousand of rolls to find those, and saved all of the copper cents..................alas I just finished cashing in all of the copper cents as I decided it was not worth keeping them.
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
In junk silver rolls
Nice find @Bigbuck1975
Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb
Bad transactions with : nobody to date
Early this year, while going through a roll of halves (hoping for silver Kennedy's) I found a 1941 WLH... about XF40....Cheers, RickO
Found this one at Walgreen .
1968-D Kennedy FS-101 .
neat
BHNC #203
2016 nickel struck over a 2015 nickel, found in a roll of new (2016) nickels,
Those are still great finds...the oldest Lincoln I have found is a 1910. I have yet to find a 1909.
I think I have only found 2 or 3 Indians in 45+ years of looking, and one of them was dateless and corroded (looked like a dug coin.)
As to @SaorAlba...wow is all I can say. I will have to be kept alive for several more lifetimes cryogenic-ally (sp.?) in order to equal that! And a Flying Eagle..make that 2....amazing!
Nice one StashMan!
I have cherried that variety but never found one in change!
Cool.
Thanks for sharing !!!
I've lived in my neighborhood for 22 years and Walgreen always lets me go through their cash register ...
That's a definite bonus.
Have you trained them to put aside "oddities"?
Although I guess the staff turnover must be fairly high....and unless a coin is "old" or very different-looking, most people don't know what guys like you and me are even looking for.
I didn't take a photo at the time, but I found one of the old original Hobo nickels in a roll of junk mixed date buffs.
I traded it at a FUN show towards a 26D buff in XF that I needed for my set.
They do put stuff to the side for me .
I live in a neighborhood with a lot of older people .
I'm good friends with the managers and the other morning, 2 of the workers call in .
Since I was there that morning when they were opening, I had to help open the place .
It is nice to be trusted .......
My local Walgreens won’t give out half dollars anymore. They told me that all halves have to go to Corporate.
Latest, and greatest, would be this I guess. Found this while searching Kennedy Half rolls. The date is two years before my Dad was born, and he put coins like this in his collection that were found out of circulation. Dad told me when he passed on his collection; that, he was more focused on filling holes in his book than condition of coin...when I found this one searching rolls I thought about what Dad found, and wish I could of whispered in his ear, back in the day........, "it's about condition baby."
I have Coin Roll Hunted for quite a while and had some great finds, but I doubt I will ever top this find from a few years back. As crazy as it sounds I once stopped in a local bank during my lunch break and asked for halves. I got about $300 which was all they had in the vault. I got to my car and opened the first roll that had the oldest looking roll, skunk and figured that was what was coming but I opened up the next one and it was solid silver and all Walkers. This continued for every roll with mostly all Walkers and Franklins with a few Kennedys thrown in. I think in the end there were 29 rolls of 90% silver along with a couple rolls of 40%. Just an amazing find that day.
Jim
Opened a roll of coins to put in my cash register and the entire roll was Mercs.
This was one of them.
I've got a roll of quarters in one of those clear plastic rolls so you can see the edges of all the coins...one in the center has no reeding. I haven't opened it yet, but it's either a blank planchet, or a slug.
Open that sucker up! I can think of a few other things it might be. An old coin that has worn off the reeding perhaps? Maybe a foreign coin?
Jim
Okay Jim, I'll open it and let you know what I find. I never thought of finding an old coin. I guess I should find some gloves...
Found a 1983 doubled die reverse 1c in a bank roll a couple years ago, my best find. Graded MS64RD by our host!
Would post a picture, but Photobucket is holding my old photos for ransom.
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
wow!
amazing
BHNC #203
It wasn't in a roll............but in a jar of Cents given to me by my spouse's uncle. It was an AU-58 1971-P DDO Lincoln (Class VI, Distorted Hub Doubled Cent).
I coudn't believe my eyes.
Pete
Mainejim: That is fantastic! You need to play the Loto.
No way can beat that.
I did get a $20 roll of half's at a local bank few years back. It was a solid roll 1959D of Gem Franklins. Sent in a handful of them and came back MS65 and MS65 FBL.
100% Positive BST transactions
Finally opened that roll of quarters in the clear plastic roll...the quarter in the center without reeding was indeed a blank planchet! The quarters were all from 2003. So now I wonder, how much is a blank planchet worth? The roll of quarters were in superb condition, uncirculated, full of luster, the blank planchet had also been uncirculated but had some light scratches on it like it had somehow gotten stuck somewhere in a minting machine. At any rate, it's pretty cool.
That is better than a slug - post a photo if you get a chance. You won't get rich off it but it is a nice find. I'd just put it in a 2x2 and add it to the collection. I have a 3-ring binder full of all my strange CRH finds including the odd foreign coin. Makes it more interesting than just searching for silver.
Jim
I had this same privilege for a couple of years when a friend from our local darts league managed a Speedway gas station here in the neighborhood. I always got to look through the three automatic change machines for silver whenever I stopped in. After a while he started doing it for me. Was able to get quite a few silver dimes from this source, I'm guessing two rolls or more in that time. And perhaps around ten silver quarters, including a 1930 SLQ. Occasionally a 40% Kennedy would turn up and I also scored two freshly spent proof Franklin halves. Nice to have a little setup like this!
I take it back. I'm cashing in rolls of coins that are basically face. (I just dumped $200 worth of bicentennial quarters and halves into a coinstar...) I opened a roll of bicentennial quarters and found this:
Yeah, it's corroded, damaged and worth a cent, but it's still more intersting than a dime in a roll of cents...
Holy @#**!
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You were in the right place at the right time and asked the right question.
A numismatic/precious metal syzygy of sorts.
That is amazing.
I keep finding stuff in my mailbox, reminding me to keep looking. I’ll find something in this mess , one of these days.
Great Stories Keep it coming
Older find, as not have been 'active' in my roll searching lately ..... I have never seen another one of these.
I found a 1952 sans serif dime in a roll of 90%. It was 1 of 3 known at the time. The best part was the cherry picker guide said if you found one, it was exceedingly rare.
I sold it after getting it graded and used the $ to buy a boat, trailer, and outboard. My son and family have used it often to fish and crab.