So I got $100 in halves from the bank today and...

ProofModerns · September 7, 2007 1:29PM

So I got $100 in halves from the bank today and... of the 200 coins, I found 1 1967 40% silver coin. Oh well... better than nothing.

TennesseeDave · September 7, 2007 1:32PM

I was able to get $80.00 worth today and found no silver or any uncirculated coins.1st time i've been able to find a bank that had any.

ProofModerns · September 7, 2007 1:35PM

Sometimes I wonder if it's just a bunch of us transferring rolls of halves amongst ourselves...

Cgb · September 7, 2007 1:38PM

Win some lose some I guess.

Try a different bank, maybe they already have been gone through.

pendragon1998 · September 7, 2007 1:38PM

You'll know if you got my searched rolls - I initial and date them in case I buy them again. I don't want to double count rolls. Maybe we should all put a symbol on searched rolls to help each other save time. lol

On a similar vein...here's a post I made ATS:

I went to the bank this afternoon and picked up 50 in loose rolls of nickels (the teller didn't have a box). 20 rolls are in hand-rolled wrappers and the other 30 are in rolls from the armored truck service. I wonder what's in there? I'll report after I'm done looking through the rolls - wish me luck (I'd love to find a buffalo or a silver jefferson)!

My main goal is to fill some slots in my Jefferson busines strike dansco (7113).

EDIT:
I was feelin' frisky this evening and went though all 2000 nickels in my $100 load. Overall, I was a little disappointed, although I collected several decent finds out of the batch.

I didn't find a buffalo nickel in the batch, but I hadn't really expected to. I did end up silvering twice - both of which were 1943-S. The second was worn way down to AG/G, but the first one I found was actually in fairly attractive VG and will fill a hole in my album.

The majority of the nickels ended up being from the 90s and 00s - no surprise there - but I was still a little surprised at how few 60s were still lingering, and coins from the 40s and 50s were downright scarce in this batch.

My approach to my Jefferson collection at present is to search rolls mainly for coins from the 1960s and earlier. I'm planning on being particularly picky with the 70s on up, so for now, I'm mainly ignoring them in my roll searching, unless a particularly nice one or an error catches my eye. In this batch, I found a few eye appealing coins from the 70s and a sorta cool 85-P misaligned die which I at first hoped was a broadstrike, but nothing major. A fair proportion of the coins were damaged by counter wheels, making me wonder about the shape that future populations of circulated moderns will be in for our decendants to collect out of our change. Those counter wheels are really trashing the circulating coinage. I ended up adding 14 coins to my album and one (the extra silver) to my silver stash.

As I said, the coins from the 30s, 40s and 50s were scarce - here are my numbers out of 2000 coins (40% hand-wrapped rolls, 60% machine-wrapped rolls). Numbers in parentheses are how many I found. Both the silvers came out of machine-wrapped rolls, which surprised me a little - I thought they'd be ejected from coin counting machines.

1938-1939 (2)
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39 (2)

1940-1949 (9)
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40 (2)
41 (1)
43-S (2)
46 (2)
47 (1)
49-D (1)

1950-1959 (9)
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53-D (4)
54 (1)
54-D (1)
57-D (1)
58 (1)
58-D (1)

By the way - 50 rolls of nickels (1 box / $100) weighs somewhere around 25 pounds!

pendragon1998 · September 7, 2007 1:47PM

<< So I got $100 in halves from the bank today and... of the 200 coins, I found 1 1967 40% silver coin. Oh well... better than nothing. >>

By the way, I searched $400 in halves last year and put together a nice, nearly complete (I completed it later) set of business strikes.

ProofModerns · September 7, 2007 1:51PM

Maybe we could just initial the rolls "NS" for "No Silver"

GritsMan · September 7, 2007 1:57PM

It's always fun to hear what people find. Thanks for sharing. I got skunked on $100 halves a couple weeks ago from a smaller MT town. Usually, those small towns do alright, but I've still never done better than 1-2% silver in rolls. Nickel searching seems worse these days, too. Fewer 40s and 50s coins. I wonder if there's a whole legion of people looking these days? I've searched maybe $250 worth of nickels in the last 8 months and have about 22 holes left in my Jeff album, including all the Wartime nickels. Never found a single one! On the other hand, I've found some really nice S mint marks, and in pretty good shape. I wonder if they are more common here in the West (I'm in Montana).

raguse8706 · September 7, 2007 2:08PM

pendragon are you in wisconsin? I have been getting a few rolls here and there that have been hand crimped, initialed, and dated

pendragon1998 · September 7, 2007 2:24PM

No, I'm down south in Georgia. Initialed, dated rolls might also be put out by businesses that roll their daily change, or (less likely) by families that let their kids roll the parents' change and keep what they roll. Could always be a collector, though.

WarNickelHoarder · September 8, 2007 3:13AM

I went through my weekly 10,000 on Thursday evening. I found $141.50 face of 90% and $216.00 face of 40%. This is far better than normal for me as I average about 100 total silvers per week. Good Luck!

Tom

holeinone1972 · September 8, 2007 3:16AM

Tom,

You da man.

I am picking up a case of $1000 this Friday. I was not going to order it since they will be fed wrapped, but since I saw your threads about them, I am gonna give it ago.

I am hoping for a fun day, and hopefully a nice score.

Rob

pendragon1998 · September 8, 2007 3:54AM

<< I went through my weekly 10,000 on Thursday evening. I found $141.50 face of 90% and $216.00 face of 40%. This is far better than normal for me as I average about 100 total silvers per week. Good Luck!

Tom >>

I think that merits a "You Suck!".

sumnom · September 8, 2007 4:17AM

Instead of signing the rolls maybe we could counterstamp the halves. We could each have our own chop and everything!

TwoSides2aCoin · September 8, 2007 4:28AM

<< I went through my weekly 10,000 on Thursday evening. I found $141.50 face of 90% and $216.00 face of 40%. This is far better than normal for me as I average about 100 total silvers per week. Good Luck!
Tom >>

Are ya only lookin' for silver ? A '74 D DDO will bring more than one 90% silver

~numismatic service announcement~

WarNickelHoarder · September 8, 2007 4:33AM

<< 

<< I went through my weekly 10,000 on Thursday evening. I found $141.50 face of 90% and $216.00 face of 40%. This is far better than normal for me as I average about 100 total silvers per week. Good Luck!
Tom >>

Are ya only lookin' for silver ? A '74 D DDO will bring more than one 90% silver

~numismatic service announcement~ >>

I check for and keep all of the following:

Silver
Proofs
74 DDO's
1987 P&D
2002-Present

Over the last 3 years I have only found 4 74 DDO's, and three of them were pretty beat up from slot machine usage, but the fourth was a nice UNC.

SlangNRox · September 8, 2007 5:01AM

Do you bring a handtruck in with you to pick up your 10,000 halves?

holeinone1972 · September 8, 2007 5:18AM

Can someone supply a pic of the 74 DDO?

Rob

Mercury10c · September 8, 2007 10:38AM

I got $178 worth last week. Every single one was either 2005P or 2005D.

WarNickelHoarder · September 8, 2007 11:33AM

<< I got $178 worth last week. Every single one was either 2005P or 2005D. >>

If they were UNC's, and I'm guessing they were, you should be able to get a premium over face for them.

cladking · September 8, 2007 11:44AM

<< Can someone supply a pic of the 74 DDO?

Rob >>

The PUP is the UST of TRUST. The bottom of the S is usually the easiest doubling to see.

There are lots of desirable clads.

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