Home rolled are the best...
Coinscratch
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...rolls bar none. I've been seen on so many cameras at numerous banks around town that I'm starting to get a little paranoid. By now, I can fly through a $25 box of fed wrapped zinc junk fast. But, walk into a corner-store shack selling tacos and grab a couple rolls (top left) like these and I might be here all night.
I can only imagine what goodies some of ya'll found doing this 20 or 30 years ago.
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My mom worked for our small town credit union. She was the ONLY employee.
My job as a 5/6/7/8 year old, every business day....count the change! If I had only know what to REALLY look for!!
Yes, I saved all of the wheat cents.
It’s been awhile since I went through a box of halves and actually found silver. When I opened this box there was a Ben Franklin ender staring at me. That box luckily produced two Ben Franklins, six 90% 64 JFK’s and six 40% 65-69 JFK’s and two gold platers.
It's amazing that silver is still out there.
It's certainly not here.......
I was expecting something else.
“Home rolled are the best...”
No-matter what... it's work and fun.
This comment and the previous one about the "clip" can only be talking about coins.
Right?
Pete
Yep... Home rolled are the best for finding good stuff.... and big silver is the best to find....Cheers, RickO
Yes and when you take them back to the bank make SURE to write things like “1933” or “1921 S” in sharpie on the rolls. ;-)
The generation that saved/hoarded the last of the US silver coins back in the late 1960s are now passing from the scene. Heirs find the coins in the estate and , knowing nothing about US silver coins, just roll them up and cash them in at the bank.
Coin knowledge of today's general public is very low so interesting circulation finds are still possible though not plentiful.
I would think that a lot of mint state wheaties and the like were common place not too long ago. Silver is nice but, it doesn't jazz me up like anything MS67 or higher. I'll be headed back this morning with some rolls to exchange with him. He said he only had one more and could not sell it so, I'm gonna hook'em up
. Then search every store, taco stand, and gas station in the immediate area to hopefully find more from the same source. Yes, those home-rolled fatties get me high 
Very humbling is the coin game...
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The more I learn the more I understand why anyone could ask such a price for such a small excelling piece of metal.
Okay history!
Scrambling around this morning trying to find the same place/store/taco stand as before, then realizing it wasn't the one I thought it was. True, he only had one roll left but, not the type I thought. After finding the original place and managing two more rolls I basically got a crunchy as hell nothing burger. (munchies:)
A few close gem calls but, all came with their own set of problems; Hits, Carbon Spots, weakness, and whatever.
Yesterday's haul looks much better than today's and I have feeling this person has more to give.
On a positive note; The mint made upteen billion of these and so the hunt carries on
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The thrill of the hunt is alive and well.
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Amen to that brother! I was getting ready to edit for: TMI - But you saved the day
Happy Hunting!
@Meltdown . Bought two rolls while at the grocery store, hoping for a W and got a '64 instead.
Nice roll finds! I would be amazed to see solid rolls of 90% copper anymore. My non scientific observation in receiving coin change is about 1 in 20 cents are pre-82'.
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We're at about 10-12% copper here (southern Illinois).
And I agree, it would be a rare event to see a solid roll of copper.
A while back I picked these rolls up at FV. Shop owner didn't want to deal with the plastic tubes at the bank.
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Dont you just love the milky white gleam of silver?
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All 60-P?
@mannie gray The same here in SO. TX. and its about 1 in 20 trips to the bank that I find the home rolled cents that apparently were in someones ozarka bottle/piggy bank. You have to be at the right place at the right time - Translation - Go to a lot of banks and buy rolls at every store you visit - Luck never hurts.
Enter, The Sun Bong. But, then what would we do on rainy daze
Yes. All 1960P Large Date
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"I can only imagine what goodies some of ya'll found doing this 20 or 30 years ago."
I was a kid coin roll searching in the late 70's early 80's, basically could only afford to do the pennies, with an occasional nickel roll. I had saved up $10 for this adventure from my $5 a week allowance that I had to spend. Let me say the finds were alot slimmer than they are today. I think because of the silver price run up in 1980 it was basically 1964 all over again- adults were snapping up everything- you seldom saw a wheat penny or older than 1960 nickel. I didn't realize this then- just seemed the norm for the day as I wasn't even alive in '64.
My brother started working at a gas station in the early 80's and with high gas prices a few better finds could be made from the till there- better wheats, the occasional war nickel , and once in a while a silver certificate. There was no silver- not even dimes circulating , unless every once in a while a 40% half would come along when someone raided a piggy bank.
Never saw a buffalo nickle in change either. Since I have become an adult I have received 2 buffalo nickels, 1 smooth liberty nickel in change - most since 2010 . Even get an occasional silver dime and quarter from the automatic checkouts now or coinstar reject bin.
Back in the day my best finds were a 1909 VDB wheat going through the till at the gas station in VF+ and one time the teller at the bank gave some rolls she had saved because she thought I would like them- They turned out to be mostly all Canadian, since we lived right on the border. Almost all were 1940 and before - going right back to 1920! Sadly no 1922-1925 coins, I saved quite a few, but couldn't afford to save them all- my $10 budget money wouldn't allow for that!
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@kevinstang . Wow, that is surprising but makes sense. I found a 1920 and a 1924 D just the other day. I don't have any experience yet in the lower grades but I would guess the '20 in the VG 10 range and the '24 D in the XF 40 range.
Now, reduce by two points because their mine