New To Coin Roll Searching...need Some Help

First of all .


Depends on your intent and interests. If you are trying to put together sets or find upgrades, I would say either pennies or nickels for starters. Lately I have been having better luck with nickels. If you are mining for silver , I wish you wouldn't. I can already picture Lady Liberty being melted into silverware. I don't do it and don't condone it so I can't give you advice on that.


If your bank has employees searching coins, they are more than likely just mining for silver. And if the bank itself is not having them do it, I don't think they would be touching rolls much, but perhaps just what is in their trays. I think the bank manager might get a little upset if his employees started cracking open all the rolls. I'd buy a box and see what I got. If nothing try the credit unions. If still nothing, make the two hour drive, buy a million boxes of pennies, search them, then return them unrolled to your big bank. That will keep the tellers busy and they won't be able to search.


Not without paying more than face value.


I have my own for nickels and pennies and will share here if you like.

I would go for pennies...but I am biased towards those. I have an obsession

Cents :..... $25.00 per box
Nickels :... $100.00 per box
Dimes :.... $250.00 per box
Quarters :. $500.00 per box
Halves :... $500.00 per box

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•Cent rolls have 50 coins; $0.50 per roll
•Nickel rolls have 40 coins; $2.00 per roll
•Dime rolls have 50 coins; $5.00 per roll
•Quarter rolls have 40 coins; $10.00 per roll
•Half Dollar rolls have 20 coins; $10.00 per roll
•Dollar rolls have 25 coins; $25.00 per roll

"Some" banks will let you have a small batch of rolls without ordering a whole box. Especially banks that you "don't" belong to. I do this all the time......I'll just pick a bank and go through the drive through and say, "Can I have 10 rolls of quarters please ?" (or whatever denomination). This usually works, but you will occasionally get asked if you have an account there.....then you have to "move on" to another one...

You can certainly get "cheat sheet" lists from the forum here.

But, until somebody posts that for you, I'd just say:

With "Cents", look for ANY Wheats, BU Memorials, varieties, Indian Heads, or foreign coins.

With "Nickels", look for any Silver War Nickels ('42-'45), also the 1939 D, the 1950 D....and a few other semi-keys, and/or any in BU condition, Buffalo nickels, V nickels, 2009 P or D mints (low mintage).

With "Dimes"....look for any BU's....and 1964 and earlier are Silver, Mercury dimes.

With "Quarters"......look for any BU's.....and anything 1964 and older is silver, (there are of course "Keys" and "Semi-keys" with most everything too, some more than others)

With "Halves".....look for any BU's..(2001 P mints and really starting in 2002, both P&D, and newer are classified as "Not intended For Circulation - N.I.F.C.)..and anything 1970 and older is silver. ('65-'70 is 40% silver, and '1964 and older is 90% silver)
Franklins of course......and Walkers.

Some denominations are easier to put a P & D Set together from circulation, than others are, obviously. And like the Lincoln Cents....you'll NEVER put that one together from circulation. The Lincoln Memorial, yeah, but not the Lincoln Wheats !

But really......aside from the "cheat sheets" you'll have, I'd suggest picking up the latest " RedBook". It will list all of the coins, keys & semi-keys, mintage numbers, apprx. values.....basically "what to look for" in EVERY DENOMINATION !
It's kind of like the coin collectors Bible in a way......very popular.....affordable at $10.00 - $14.00 dollars.
It's a spiral bound book that's solid RED.....hence......"The RedBook". Most every bookstore will sell them.

On another note, the 2009 dimes were low mintage also.

But with a cheat sheet with the more common varieties to look for, you won't be spending days examining each and every coin. Unless that is what you want to do. I personally, don't have the patience or microscope required for that.

I just search the rolls to fill my dansco. I compare each coin to the one I have in the album and upgrade as necessary. Nothing beats cracking open a roll and finding a hole filler for me :)

Also wanted to know if I am just looking for 1964 and older plus the 2009 dimes? Is there key dates on other Roosevelt's?

I really appreciate all the help you guys have already given a newbie!

Finished up my boxes tonight.
Got skunked on silver with the Quarters. Did find a lot of nice clean coins for my collection. I found quite a few 2011 ATB coins.
Nickels: Found a 1945 P War Nickel and 43 1982 P&D, 1951 D
Dimes: Found 2 1957 and 2 1964
Also found these foreign:
2001 $1 Mexican coin
1980 Five cent Bermuda coin
1996 Canadian 5 cents
1974 Canadian quarter
2009 Canadian dime
1996 Republic of Panama De Balboa

Don't know anything about the foreign currency.