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Finding Collectable Coins

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 Posted 08/31/2022  9:03 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinseller88 to your friends list
I've always wondered about that who puts the coins in the rolls
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 Posted 08/31/2022  9:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list
Agree, chances are very close to zero.
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 Posted 08/31/2022  10:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add silviosi to your friends list
The chances to find a rare variety coin which referee at pre 1990 coins is less then the chance to win a lottery. I lottery is 1 to 10 mill and for coins is 1 hundreds or also billion
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 Posted 08/31/2022  10:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ijn1944 to your friends list
Yes, depends on what is meant by 'valuable'--often a very personal variable. If value just means mega-bucks, then one's chances are very, very, very slim. Very...
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 Posted 08/31/2022  11:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add hokiefan_82 to your friends list
I rarely find a silver dime or quarter in change anymore. It's been a while since I even found a wartime (35% silver) Jefferson nickel, which until 20 years or so ago I still found in change quite regularly. Of course, virtually all of these types of finds are just worth silver melt, but still nice when it happens.
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 Posted 09/01/2022  02:15 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SoundBeing to your friends list
I find post-1990s Cud coins all the time. They're not rare, but it is neat to see a 6-claw Alaska bear or a Roosevelt hat, neck, and holster Cud Quarter.
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 Posted 09/01/2022  02:40 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Chopped Triumphs to your friends list
I think where you live increases your chances of finding interesting coins, I stop for coffee and gas at a store in Champions Gate (an exit or 2 from Disney World on 1-4) and have gotten a few European coins in change. They're not lottery winners but interesting none the less.
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 Posted 09/01/2022  08:34 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinseller88 to your friends list
I've gotten really Into finding dollar coins of all sorts
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 Posted 09/01/2022  09:30 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list

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Some of us hunt for the fun, not to get rich. Some have assembled complete sets from loose change and roll hunting.
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 Posted 09/01/2022  10:13 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinseller88 to your friends list
I'm really looking for dollar coins
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 Posted 09/01/2022  11:55 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nick10 to your friends list
probably the best chance of finding a coin worth a few dollars over face is with new coinage, sometimes you'll get a roll all of one date and all uncirculated, among which you might find an MS-65 or higher grading coin, or an error like a clip or Cud since you might be the first human to examine them closely
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Ok thank you
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 Posted 09/01/2022  3:10 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Joshu - a to your friends list
I once got a 1947 canadian penny in pocket change. I also found a 1963 Roosevelt dime in a coin change container of mine a couple years ago.
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Awesome
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I have been coin roll hunting to varying degrees of intensity since about Spring 2020. During the pandemic it was much easier to find current coin rolls in uncirculated condition and even from prior years as business activity was greatly reduced. Furthermore as there was a campaign for people to turn in their loose change you had a slightly higher chance than average of getting a coin worth more than $5. Post-pandemic I see it is much harder to get rolls of mostly uncirculated new coins from banks and, to a slightly lesser extent, change from commercial transactions. Below is what I have found from the period Spring 2020 till now:

a) Only one to two of the following:
A 1929 Standing Liberty quarter with date showing but the grade at best would be Fine
A 1917D Lincoln Cent left in the return drawer of a supermarket Coinstar like machine (which they have since removed). Condition though was Good
A 1950 Franklin half dollar in very worn/damaged condition from a half dollar $500 bank box (I have searched one only) and from a bank teller a VG Franklin 1963D Half Dollar
Two 1936 Lincoln Cents - but it is considered one of the more common dates of the 1930's and is reported to be found once in awhile but usually in VG or poorer condition.
A 2013S ATB Quarter - circulation strike one (not proof). Very hard to find these. Condition was about XF
ONe 1962 Proof Lincoln Cent

b) Found 3 - 10
W ATB Quarters from 2019 and 2020 -- about 4 - 5
2009 Lincoln Cents - mainly the first three issues of the year with the fourth less.
1964 Kennedy halves
War Nickels (3)
American Innovation Dollar coins (3 - VG to AU but nothing in the past year)

c) Found 10 or more
40% Kennedy halves
Current year's as well as those from the past 5 - 7 years cents. dimes. nickels and quarters in uncirculated or very high AU. Cents mainly. Note in 2022 I have not seen any of the new quarters since Sally Ride, this may be common that people hoard the initiation of a new series.
Pre-1965 Quarters (but so far about 3 - 4), tons of nickels from 1939 to present, dimes, quarters after 1964, cents after about 1942 (most in worn or G to XF condition)
Sac and Presidential dollars - occasionally you find some nice high AU's or even an Unc more so the Presidential dollar coins

This is an outline of what I have found and I just started coin roll hunting and again not to the intensity quite a few do. You TUbe has a few channels which provides episodes of coin roll hunting and it is worth checking --try and find those done by non-dealers to get a more realistic idea of what you may find.

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