Bank Rolls

Hitting "general" banks is one way to get rolls (most often doing that, they'll be customer wrapped IMO)
But, if you want "Federal Reserve - String & Sons" wrapped rolls (boxes), then all you have to do is go to "your" bank. The one where you have an account. Go there, and tell them that you would like to order a box of Cents (they're $25.00)....these will be from the Fed. Reserv. or Brinks or wherever they happen to get them from.
Might take a week or so for them to come in.

Now, it seems like to me, that "finding the occasional Wheat cent or Canadian" is all you can expect no matter WHAT route you take......they're not THAT common ! ....

And Ratman is right .....some have luck with customer wrapped .....some don't....and vise-versa as well......true with all denominations. And you might get skunked and find nothing for quite a spell.....the thing is, you just have to stay persistant and don't quit.....( a break is fine....but don't quit)
The ONLY thing for sure in "roll searching" ......is that if you DON'T LOOK.... YOU'RE GUARANTEED NOT TO FIND ANYTHING !

Customer rolls are definately the best. 99% of the population doesn't know anything about the coins they roll up and take to the bank. You are bound to score with customer rolls.

I don't know. I mainly search halves and nickels. If I go to the bank and ask for nickels (unless I get a box) they tend to want to push the customer wrapped at me. I guess they want to unload them just in case the customer shorted the rolls. I find generally that there are fewer pre 1960's and alot less War Nickels and Buffalo in the customer wrapped than in the Brinks. To be honest with you I usually dread going through the customer wrapped and can't wait to be done with them so I can break into the Brinks box.

I have had a 50/50 level of success in going through customer rolled and bank rolled coins. Sometimes I get really lucky with the bank rolled ones and pull out more than the usual number of wheat cents. I suspect that alot of these are comming from the coin star machines. Lately I have been searching nickels and located a fair number of 2009 which I was unable to find any throughout last year.

We always get customer-wrapped rolls, except when we get a box. The best nickel roll we ever found was customer-wrapped, with seven wartime nickels. Right now, we're going through a Brinks box of pennies. 15 of the 16 rolls have had at least one Wheat cent, including some S-mintmarks, and I've found some old Canadian ('41 and '51) and a 2009 non-magnetic.

I haven't noticed that the customer-wrapped are generally any better or worse than the ones in the boxes.

when I asked for $100 in nickles I specifically asked to bring out the "older looking rolls" and all but 10 were customer wrapped... but I think I actually did better with the security bank rolls..

I did the same thing. I went to MY bank and asked if they could order a box of the new cents and was told that they could not get them. No reason given. Almost sort of "matter of factly". Makes you kind of wonder.

I will start by saying I have made some GREAT finds in both customer wrapped pennies AND brinks rolled boxes. I have a tendency to get a few more wheat and S mintmarks from the Brinks rolls but some of the better older bu memorial cents come from the customer wrapped rolls.

I will also add that I think more and more people are using coinstar machines rather than taking the time to wrap coins up. As a whole we Americans are generally lazy and paying 9 cents per dollar seems reasonable to a lot of people who are just getting rid of all of that "spare" change. This is what has allowed us to find some of these really great items in bank rolls. If the customer had been rolling the coins individually they would catch that something was "different" in a lot of the coins they are turning in. Sincerely, John Leckrone