Coin Roll Hunters Post Your Finds...

[Scottishmoney]

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12 March 2014 institution 1:

$44 CWR 5c

1 1939

1 BU 1940 - not a bad find for 74 years old!

4 40s

$10 CWR 1c

1 1944 wheat

2 Canada YH

12 March 2014 Institution 2

$150 CWR 10c - zilch zip nada

$40 CWR 5 c

3 40s

1 Canada YH, 12 sided

1 Canada YH round

1 Canada 65-81

$30 CWR 1c

9 40s and 50s wheats including a 1943 steel cent

8 68-74 S

3 Canada GVI, 1945, 6 and 1951

4 Canada YH

1 Canada 1967

5 Dimes - always nice

2 Nickels - literally crammed into the cent rolls. Kind of funny the teller would have taken rolls with bulges from the nickels on them.

Then after cashing out at my credit union the teller told me to wait a minute while she went back to the vault and brought out a large plastic storage bag stuffed with 130 Ikes including a 1976-S proof.

Might do one more bank today then take a break from roll searching. Too much other stuff I have to do.

[Scottishmoney]

This afternoon after all my appointments were done I decided to go to the only large commercial bank I visit to give them their candy reward for my find of the 1905 IHC a couple of weeks ago. So slithered in through the back entrance and asked for the vault teller. It was kind of funny, she said she had nothing new for me - she says this often. So I lift up the box of candy and place it on the counter and she says she does have $10 worth of customer wrapped cents and I say I will take them. I tell her why she is getting the box of candy for the branch, you know the whole found a 1905 Indian cent in the last box of cents etc and she goes back to get the $10 tray of customer wrapped cents.

 

She was gone a bit of time, then she comes out with the tray and two other tellers following her - each with a box - one of fed wrapped cents and one of fed wrapped nickels and she says they look "not new" so saying I might want them. Kind of funny, it was like she wasn't too eager to sell them because she didn't mention them before - and then the candy somehow had some magical effect of making errant boxes appear in the vault. She is a teller I have known for a while, but she is new to this branch and being a vault teller - the previous vault teller was promoted and I had her well trained - she would order a couple of extra boxes of cents and nickels every week for me - this is a larger branch that has a lot of commercial customers and she could "pad" the orders and did. The new teller is trying to follow the "rules", but I will have her corrupted hopefully soon.

 

$10 CWR 1 cent

1 solitary 1957 wheat

1 dime

2 Canada YH

 

Whoopy.

 

So the box of fed wrapped cents:

5 pre 1941 including a 1924 and 4 1940 dated coins

13 40s and 50s dated wheats

1 1969-S in bright red BU - nice sweet find.

1 Canada GVI 1943

7 Canada YH

2 Canada 1967

 

All and all pretty decent for a fed wrapped box, liked finding all those pre-1941s.

 

Then I crack open the nickel box. And something isn't right. There is too much space so I line it up like the rolls are supposed to go in there, ie 10 rows of 5 rolls for a total of 50 rolls of nickels and I see a problem right away - it is short two rolls so I only got $96 worth of nickels for the $100 I spent to buy this box. Had I caught this at the bank I might have not bought it - because it was short and I am losing $4 by taking it. So there is nothing I can do, because I only discovered this after getting home. $4 down the tubes.

 

So I started peeling open the rolls.

 

A 1941-S was one of my first decent finds. But...

 

Here is what else I found:

1 1888 Liberty nickel

1 1917 Buffalo nickel

1 1939-S - gosh I love finding those early Jeffersons from the City by the Bay

3 other 40s and 50s dated S mint nickels

12 40s dated coins

3 Silver nickels, 1943-P(x2) and 1944-P

 

But the proof is the picture:

 

The 1888 Lib is an AG-3, but still a very decent find - my oldest nickel ever, beating out the 1890 I found over a year ago and the first one I have found since last summer.

 

Gosh I am darned glad I didn't figure out the box was short a couple of rolls at the bank and passed over buying it

[Burks]

Impressive finds! I'm going to try Monday at my bank for some nickel and half dollar rolls. Shouldn't be an issue but who knows. Wouldn't mind a box of halves!

[Art1.2]

Nice finds.

[Scottishmoney]

One of my credit unions a bit out of town called me last night - had $120 in halves come in and they wanted to know if I wanted them. So I drove out and got them today.

 

$120 CWR 50c

2 40% halves - 1965 and 1967

 

$40 CWR 5c

2 40s S mints

6 40s dated coins

1 1943-P Silver

1 Canada YH 12 sided

2 Canada 65-81

 

$30 CWR 1c

2 1940 dated coins

4 40s and 50s dated wheats

1 1959 c/s with Masonic symbol - first counterstamped cent I have found in several months

4 S mints 1968-74

6 Canada YH

 

For not doing a lot of searching this week had some pretty decent finds - especially all the silver and the 1888 Liberty nickel.

[ccg]

[Art1.2]

Nice finds. I've been searching through a coffee can of change that I just got but haven't really found anything worth mentioning.

[Scottishmoney]

$50 CWR halves - zilch, zip nada.

 

$150 CWR Dimes

1 1964-D Silver

 

$70 CWR Nickels

1 1952-S

6 40s

1 Canada GVI 1949

3 Canada 65-81

 

$125.00 in CWR Cents

This one is going to take at least a few more hours.

[Art1.2]

Nice finds. So far this last round -- zilch for me. 6 rolls cents, 4 rolls nickels, 4 rolls dimes.

[Scottishmoney]

Okay the results from searching $125 in CWR cents - 12,500 coins:

 

1 1916-D

2 1944-S, 1946-S

1 1946 with a lamination error on the reverse

22 Wheats from the 40s and 50s

13 68-74 S mints

2 BU cents 1960-D and 1964

4 Canada GVI 46(x2) 50(x2)

41 Canada YH

8 Canada '67

1 Dime

 

The funny part about the Canadian cents was they were largely concentrated in two rolls - which were solidly Canadian from GVI - on up through the 2012 QEII. I have searched rolls like that before, where you search a whole bunch of rolls and then find what you are looking for concentrated in one roll - as though whoever deposited them saved them separetly and stashed them in one roll - a few times I have found solid rolls of Wheat back cents that were all in one roll - but none in the rest of the rolls.

[Art1.2]

Decent finds. That's a lot of pennies to sort through. I admire your dedication (and your finds!)..

[Scottishmoney]

20 March - financial institutional facility

 

$40 CWR 50c - zilch, zip, nada

 

20 March a particular member owned credit union facility:

 

$210 CWR 10c

1 Canada YH 10c 1962 - .800 silver

 

$80 CWR 5c

1 40-S

11 40s

1 Canada 65-81

 

$10 CWR 1c - chaffed that the teller sold them to someone else, was supposed to hold for me.

2 57-D

1 70-S

1 dirty dime.

 

Except for the Canadian silver sort of a waste of my time.

[Scottishmoney]

21 March - a bit of a marathon today, lots of financial institutions to visit and coins to search:

 

1st bank:

$10 CWR 50c - zilch, zip nada

 

$15 CWR 1c

1 '58-D wheat

1 '70-S mint

1 Canada YH

 

2nd bank: - the bank where boxes of coins are not "officially" sold to non-commercial customers, but boxes of candy buy off the tellers:

$100 box of BWR 5c

1 '41-S

9 40s dated coins

1 Canada YH, 1963

1 Bermuda 5c 1983

 

$25 box of BWR 1c

1 1928

13 40s and 50s dated wheats

1 '70-S memorial

1 Canada GVI, 1943

5 Canada YH

1 Canada '67

 

3rd bank:

$250 Box of BWR 10c

2 1956-D, 1960 Silver - not bad to find two silver in a box of BWR - usually 1 is the norm.

 

$100 Box of BWR 5c

1 '41-S

7 40s - this box sort of stunk.

 

$25 Box of BWR 1c

2 1934-D, 1936

1 '50-S

12 40s and 50s dated wheats

1 1960 in BU - a very pretty 54 year old coin

3 68-74-S memorials

5 Canada YH

1 Canada '67

 

4th Bank - where I cash in the coins to deposit into my account, and they don't charge for coin counting -

 

A bit of a story here now - one of the younger tellers has a habit of saving stuff and showing me but won't sell to me because she is a bit of a collector. We have been bickering back and forth about her having to sell me the stuff that comes in. She found a Series 1957 SC $1 and a Series 1928-G $2 this week and showed them to me. So I conjured up a deal and sweetened it with crisp uncirculated Series 1957 SC star note and a Series 1953 $2 in EF that I sold her for face value - but she had to agree that she could keep all old bills that come in, but she will sell me all the good coins for face value. After paying me the $3 for the paper money she went on a hunt through the bank for stuff I might want and dug up a 1965 Kennedy half in EF that I bought for 50 cents.

 

5th bank, where I also cash in coins - had a long talk with the tellers there, about my reward programmes, you know, baseball tickets, hockey tickets, gift cards, candy etc. Hopefully this will convince them to sell to me instead of my competitors. They have my number.

[thedeadpoint]

Way cool with the old bank notes!

[Scottishmoney]

24 March A credit union that I last visited on the 14th.

 

$140 CWR 50c

1 1966 Silver 40%

 

$300 CWR 10c

1 1960-D Silver

1 2002 UK 5p

 

$40 CWR 5c

1 1939

2 S Mints - '47 and '53

4 40s dated coins

1 1942 S Silver War Nickel

 

$30 CWR 1c

2 47 and '54-S mints

7 40s and 50s wheats

5 68-74 S mints

1 dime

4 Canada GVI, '42 '45 '47-ML '51

5 Canada YH

 

The halves were ones they have had previously and I passed on even last time - they said they believed they had been searched by the depositor that brought them to the bank. Well they must have missed the '66.

[Art1.2]

You're making me jealous. I think it's time for me to open a new bank account or two and find a collector friendlier bank/credit union.

[Scottishmoney]

25 March Credit Union

 

$30 CWR 50c - no silver, but solid BU bicentennial halves that I won't keep

 

$100 CWR 10c zilch

 

$18 CWR 5c

1 '48-S

1 40s dated coin

2 Canada 65-81

 

$50 CWR 1c

16 40s and 50s wheats

5 68-74 S

2 dimes

4 Canada GVI - 42, 44, 47, and 47ML

7 Canada YH

3 Canada '67

 

25 March - another credit union:

 

$330 CWR 10c - zilch, zip and nada

 

$70 CWR 5c

2 S mints, '47 and '54

7 40s dated coins

1 '45-P Silver

2 Canada YH, 12 sided

1 Canada 65-81

 

$10 in CWR 1c

2 40s and 50s wheats

2 YH

 

All in all a blah blah day at least I got the war nickel.

[thedeadpoint]

I haven't seen a wheat in years. Watch, now I'll get a few in the next month

[Scottishmoney]

I haven't seen a wheat in years. Watch, now I'll get a few in the next month

 

 

It took me three years of heavy searching of cents to find an IHC. In the past three months I have gotten four of the little darlings - even from customer wrapped rolls. It is sort of like playing a slot machine - you cannot predict what is going to happen really, but unlike a slot machine it is a gamble that is a lot cheaper and has lasting thrills. I have all my significant finds in little coin books - need to count how many 100+ year old Lincolns and IHC's I have sometime.

[Scottishmoney]

A ridiculously large search when one of my supplying credit unions got dumped on apparently yesterday.

 

26 March

 

$300 CWR 10c

1 1962-D

1 1998-P struck with two misaligned dies, so both reverse and obverse are out of alignment - first error I have ever found in dimes.

 

$200 bank bag of 5c

27 40s dates

5 40s and 50s S mints

1 1945-D Silver - Denver minted coins are always nice to find, I would estimate I find one of them for every 35-40 S and P mints.

3 cents masquerading as nickels.

 

$150 - in three bank bags of $50 each in cents - 15,000 coins!

 

5 pre-41 wheats, 18, 25-D, 27, 34, 39

39 40s and 50s dated wheats

5 S mint wheats, 42, 44, 47(x2) and '49 - the latter one is MS-60 - dark red example.

2 BU 50+ year old coins, 59-D, and 64-D

2 Canada GVI, 42, 43

1 Canada YH, 1964 - bright red BU

25 Canada YH

1 Dime masquerading as a cent.

 

22,000 coins examined in one day! This search actually created a backlog for searching - have a couple of more places to visit later today but not really that ambitious to search again so soon.

[Art1.2]

Those are some really nice finds.

[Scottishmoney]

Credit unions filling up my voicemail like nobodies business. Just don't feel like searching coins until Monday or so. Maybe.

[Art1.2]

Credit unions filling up my voicemail like nobodies business. Just don't feel like searching coins until Monday or so. Maybe.

 

I guess you can always stockpile them until you're in the mood.

[thedeadpoint]

Why are they so keen on you getting their rolls?

[Scottishmoney]

Why are they so keen on you getting their rolls?

 

Otherwise when they get accumulations of coins they have to break up the rolls and bag them and send them off to Brinks - time consuming, not to mention that it cost the credit union to send the coins to Brinks. They take in more rolls from commercial customers than they give out - resulting in an overage. Some of the credit unions I am a member of do NOT have coin machines - so the tellers have to deal with the rolls. If they can get rid of them without having to break them open and bag them they are just pleased as punch.