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Found a 1912 S penny in one of the rolls... Nice find!  |
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Canada
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It's funny you mention your best finds have been in small quantities, as have mine. In one day I went to one of my local banks and asked if they had any customer wrapped rolls of dimes, the teller said she only had three rolls today but they had broken open as they were wrapped in newspaper and she had to re roll them, she said there were silver ones in there, I looked at the little hole in the side of the roll and saw a few silvers, and thought to myself, oh, there's probably like five in there, which I was thrilled about. Got home and opened the roll and there was a Mercury dime on the end... my heart started racing, opened the whole roll and it was solid Canadian silver, Rosevelts, and Mercury dimes! then I opened the second roll and it was the same thing!! 100 silver dimes in $10.00 face! Then, I felt lucky and thought I should go and try some nickels... which was the first time I had Roll Hunted Nickels, I don't remember how much I got but it was around $20.00 face. Turned out to be someones collection they cashed in. Almost put together an entire date set of 1937 to 1962 nickels in two rolls. I find it strange that small quantities have turned out to work very well for me, I can't figure out a scientific reason as to why. Other than I know it's totally random. |
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United States
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A nice score. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Quote:Nice find! yeah I was stunned to find it... My mom joked was it only good in San Francisco... I went looked and based its value to be around $25 on its condition which wasn't too bad at all because everything was readable... I will inherit that coin one day... |
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United States
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Well, hopefully that day is long, long away.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
626 Posts |
My wife works at a restaurant, so I have her exchange my searched rolls for the unsearched rolls in her register drawer. Usually get a roll of quarters, a roll of dimes, two rolls of nickels and two rolls of cents every day. Always pull something of interest, today I pulled a '42 and '51-D nickels, and a strong VF '21-S wheatie.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Other than one or 2 teller tray scores I have never found anything in a few rolls I needed for some other cause VS. a whole box.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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bought a single roll of halves one time - 10 walkers, 5 franklins, a 64 and the rest were 40% halves. that was when silver was in the 35-40$/range.
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Valued Member
United States
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Does ten rolls of halves qualify as small quantity? My best haul to date was from ten rolls of CRW halves that yielded 10 40%, 3 90% and 10 clad proofs in excellent condition. By the way, welcome to the forum Cedric!
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United States
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I think that qualifies. Very nice! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My best scores have always been from small amounts. I very rarely get whole rolls of halves, much less boxes. I usually get whatever is in teller trays. Years ago, I got seven rolls with 51 40%, and 12 90%, including a Walker! I came close yesterday. A teller had $28 in halves, with 40 40% and 3 90%. It'll be years before I see that again.
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05/27/2015 08:32 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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4 rolls of halves, CWR, 2 rolls were all 40%
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United States
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a while back, I asked the bank teller if she had half dollars... she only had 1 roll so I took it. it was a CWR and I could tell it was an old roll. when I was looking at it, I noticed written on the side it said "64' Kennedy halves" sure enough, the whole roll was 64 halves. I was excited as a kid on christmas. still to date my best find and may forever be |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Years ago, before I got deep into roll hunting, I got just one roll of nickels from my CU. There was a silver wartime nickel in that roll!
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I once got a 1948 wheat in $1.50 in cents. That was a pretty good day. I've searched so much I barly remember getting anything less than a box, although in the early days I used to only get $5 of cents at a time.
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