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Pillar of the Community
United States
1234 Posts |
I'm not having much luck myself either. I think I'm going to take a break for a while.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
837 Posts |
No dont !  Remember the first sentence of your signature ASLAN TVorlon ? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1234 Posts |
no silver in a while but I am finding some nice wheat cents, pre war and hole fillers  Besides you know I only meant I might slow down a bit  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1157 Posts |
this stuff is streaky, sometimes hot, sometimes cold. I loved the nickel box I just did, 2 wars, 2 buffs, and a 2nd 2003s proof. pennies were mostly new, like 95% 2014, but I squeaked out 2 wheats, which pleased me. I expected a wheat skunk.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
713 Posts |
Doesn't really feel like a streak. It feels like everything I'm getting in halves the last month is pure recycled.
Today the rolls were so loose in one box, obviously rolled by someone else than Loomis, etc..., that I could push them right out of the roll without lifting up the tucked in part.
Unbelievably, 3 40's in that box.
Haven't had a 90% in at least a month or 2 months.
Time to switch dump banks. It really feels like someone else is getting to them before me. Or, that Loomis and companies are just garbage in/garbage out. They're probably getting sick of it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4333 Posts |
I've been roll hunting since 1978. I just don't get the intensity of today's hunters, with PM prices slumping like they are.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I've been roll hunting since 1978. Wow , that` s awesome !  How did you get into it ? Have you been roll hunting at the same pace since then or did you take a break from hunting during some of the years ? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wow , that` s awesome ! How did you get into it ? Have you been roll hunting at the same pace since then or did you take a break from hunting during some of the years ? Grandma worked at the USPS small town USA. She gave me Mercury dimes from her finds at the counter. At 15, I thought, "hey - at the bank I can get as many rolls as I'd like!" Well, 1980 comes along and a silver price blast-off, cant find silver halves, let alone silver dimes, believe me I tried. I took a break from about '81 to 2007. Picked up again and rolls were loaded with silver. I found my first Barber half in a customer roll the first week back. $20 rolls of halves half-full of silver. Took road trips and spent thousands at random banks, no account needed. I noticed a slack in finds two years later and ever since. When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1234 Posts |
I finally found one, a 1943-P nickel my first silver find in almost TWO months  also came up with a 1939-S in the same box |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I finally found one, a 1943-P nickel my first silver find in almost TWO months Its been a long time coming  , Well done !   |
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Valued Member
United States
131 Posts |
My numbers from Loomis boxes have actually gotten a little bit better. One of the drivers told me that the local Loomis was now rolling their own coins instead of sending them off and that I may end up with a lot of coins I've already searched. That's true, but I could also get all of the silver that's dumped into the local pool. I order 4 boxes per week and since the change, I have found silver every time.
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Valued Member
United States
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1. use end crimped rolls to fill your searched coins with. Seal them with a roll crimper on the other end. Most people are impatient and will simply rip a roll open vice try to reuse a roll. This should scatter the coins you already searched. I'm not understanding that. I'm not seeing how having both ends of the roll you just searched crimped helps you. ? |
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New Member
United States
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Went to a gas station today got a roll of dimes, 3 dime rolls, and 4 penny rolls.
I have yet to buy a box of anything but I think I'm going to aim for a box nickels.
Found (2) 1940 jeffersons different mint marks. Nothing else out of the lot. A Canadian penny and nickel I thought it was nice to see foreign change I always hold onto it. Anything pre-60 nickels and copper Penny's. I don't even bother holding onto the 82s since I don't have a scale and can't tell the difference between the zinc and copper ones. But I got a good amount of them out of the four rolls. No wheats. -PK, NJ,USA
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Pillar of the Community
United States
964 Posts |
You have good boxes and bad boxes. Here are my averages where I live. Penny Box: 12-15 wheats like clock work with occasional 25-30 wheats in a box. Nickel Box: You either get a War Nickel or you get one buffalo. Good box you get both. Dime Box: 1-2 silver dimes a box Quarters: don't do enough to know the average Halves: Hit or miss... You may have nothing for 8 boxes, then the last two boxes have 34 different variations of silver I've only click clacked in the big city I live in now, I don't really know what the averages would be in a smaller town. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8137 Posts |
My finds have been pretty steady. Last box I did was halves and I got almost a whole roll of NIFCs
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