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What Are Your Biggest CRH Pet Peeves?

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 Posted 08/12/2023  11:32 pm  Show Profile   Check John77's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add John77 to your friends list
#1: getting someone else's dumps - I assume most here also hate this one... Of course, if you're heavily into searching halves, getting them is to be expected most of the time.
#2: nasty tellers and/or managers (thankfully, those have been few and far between)...
#3: shorted rolls - though I've limited that damage by bringing a little scale to me to banks where it has proven to be a recurrent event.
#4: one which has only occurred with me with one teller and one branch - a teller who would insist on putting a magnet over every nickel roll I turn into him... I always pull foreign coins and told him so on more than one occasion... really felt like bringing a couple of full rolls of magnetic Canadian nickels as a gag and turn them into him just to make a point. Now I just avoid said teller and let someone else service me when I go to that branch.
#5: heavily taped-up rolls. It's fine if someone puts one piece of tape on the end of rolls to keep the coins in place, but it's quite another when there are four or five pieces of tape on both ends... For example, yesterday (and a few other times), I purchased rolls of coins with so much tape on them that I had to destroy the wrappers to get the coins out - very time-consuming and wasteful as I always recycle the rolls I buy (unless they're in bad shape to begin with).

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 Posted 08/13/2023  01:08 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list
One of my pet peeves is heavily damaged, zinc rotted and dirty, sticky coins.
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 Posted 08/13/2023  07:48 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ijn1944 to your friends list

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The one type that we all despised of, including myself, are the guys searching just for silver. We had one guy who ordered $3,000 in halfs, which was fine. However, when the Brink's boxes were wrapped in clear plastic he just went to the lobby, looked through the sides, pulled one silver, then promptly wanted to return them. He was a bit arrogant about it and I flat out denied it. Never saw him again.


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 Posted 08/13/2023  11:27 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pound_foolish to your friends list
Local competition.

I had my turf invaded a few months ago and now have to drive a bit farther to escape the interloper's reach.
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 Posted 08/13/2023  3:59 pm  Show Profile   Check Brandmeister's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add Brandmeister to your friends list
That story about 6000 half dollars, and the guy takes one silver coin and dumps them? Painful. That's what makes banks dislike coin roll hunters. Not to mention if he has to pay even the slightest coin machine fee, that one silver half of profit is vaporized. Same deal if he has to drive more than a few miles out of the way. Just so pointless!
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 Posted 08/13/2023  4:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CalzoneManiac to your friends list
I think anyone who hunts half dollars is sick of seeing so many 1971s and Bicentennial halves in their rolls and boxes.

The other early 70s dates are a nuisance as well but at least there are varieties that can be found (1972-D no FG, 1973-D and 1974-D DDOs, etc.)
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 Posted 08/13/2023  4:23 pm  Show Profile   Check Brandmeister's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add Brandmeister to your friends list
That's just the population of coins remaining, right? Trying to CRH halves just seems like given that most of the silver is filtered out, and there don't seem to be any major draws to modern halves. Especially if you have to pay above face for boxes, and banks might resist customer wrapped rolls.
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 Posted 08/13/2023  5:02 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ijn1944 to your friends list
Much depends on how long a roll hunter stays in the game. A few years ago I approached a teller and requested 10 rolls of cents. As she placed the rolls in front of me, I noticed some silver halves in her coin tray. I respectfully asked to buy all the halves she had in the tray--something like $12 worth. Eleven halves were silver--a mix of Franklins and '64 Kennedys. Lesson--if teller trays are visible, give 'em a glance. Don't limit yourself to just rolls. Picked up a '63 quarter that way week before last.
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 Posted 08/13/2023  5:23 pm  Show Profile   Check datadragon's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add datadragon to your friends list
Apparently, some miscreant oriented USA folks have contributed regularly toward my giant bowl of canadian one cents from Lincoln roll searching lol... Less so now as I now at least know something about world error coins as many world mints have nowhere near the level of quality control as the USA and these can be quite cool.

Perhaps its because the 2020 Standard Catalog of World Coins 1901-2000 alone is around 2,300 pages! and there are other editions for earlier coins, however as I was learning especially, finding a world coin that looked cool and in good condition going over to numista to see... 3cents or such value

A quick look on aliexpress shows the current selling price for a 1943-s copy is only US $1.70, so those are plentiful as well as other similar in roll hunting actually more than I would have thought. Some sellers out there dont even mention they are copies and try to pass as originals. Copies really should have been banned except for a few legit examples out there that otherwise would have been impossible to find so you know they are copies.

1941 cents for some reason come up most times I find wheaties, thankfully there are varieties and its a wheatie or I'd hate em.

When the coins are covered with stuff like tar, green verdigris or syrup and it gets on other coins that may have been worthwhile.

Weird stuff like acid coins or plated coins although cool to find they really all end up just wasting time in the end. How bout this beauty I found

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 Posted 08/19/2023  6:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add aristarchus123 to your friends list
(1) Returning coins to the bank
(2) getting a box of all new coins (e.g., a $25 box of cents all 2017-P)
(3) coins that are stuck together or unclean
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 Posted 08/19/2023  8:42 pm  Show Profile   Check Brandmeister's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add Brandmeister to your friends list
The uniform box of new coins wouldn't be all that bad. Odds are that they are all from the same run or adjacent runs. If there were some kind of known error variety, you could have a chance at finding a ton of them in that box.
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 Posted 08/20/2023  09:40 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CalzoneManiac to your friends list
The only problem is if you live in an area where Denver-minted coins predominate as pretty much every major variety is on the Philadelphia minted coins.
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 Posted 08/20/2023  10:29 am  Show Profile   Check Brandmeister's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add Brandmeister to your friends list
I had noticed that recently, and I am going to start a thread about it.
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 Posted 09/24/2023  07:22 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add fistfulladirt to your friends list
My order 'poached' by another CRH'er, or tellers have already sold part of my box.
Parking lot hunters that return repeatedly to search and return for new rolls, multiple times in a day.
"I just sold 3 solid silver rolls of quarters to my last customer" I thought I was your favorite customer! Lolz.

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 Posted 09/25/2023  10:32 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list

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"I just sold 3 solid silver rolls of quarters to my last customer" I thought I was your favorite customer! Lolz.
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