How Many Are Into Coin Roll Hunting?

I posted this above, but it more properly belongs in this thread


Hi All,

Like a lot of others here, I have a lot of fun in getting rolls of coins and hunting through them. I have found a few nice errors and have plugged some holes in the little whitman books - just having fun in general. I have been doing a lot of pennies lately because I have had better luck finding errors in them than other denominations, although dimes have been a close second , so I went to a local credit union yesterday and in a $25.00 box of pennies I found 15 solid rolls of wheat cents! They ranged from 1916 on up and many of them are pretty well circulated, but just finding that many at once was a thrill. Just had to share with folks who would understand.

- Tony

Now that's a lot of wheat tcekolin! What type of bread you plan on making?


ba dum - ching

Where does everyone have luck in finding rolls of 1/2 dollars? I can pick up 1 or 2 coins only at a time. And of late I've had a few bank tellers say sorry, not going to sell those to you. Had that happen to me yesterday. The lady gives me 2 of the 3 half dollar coins. The third I'm sure was an older silver coin and she laughed saying that isn't for sale. I got a little ticked since it is in plain sight in her drawer.

I did buy $70 in quarters. Didn't really find anything other than a colorado D quarter for a friends father who was missing that for his collection. I have found 5 quarters that look to have been part of a proof or silver proof type set. Really high gloss on them.

I'll keep calling around. Going to be heading to Florida in the morning. Maybe I can stop at some of the small banks own way down.

I got 2 rolls of dimes today. Got nothing in the first one. But the second turned out to be a roll of Philly uncirculated 2007 dimes. I put that into a plastic holder.

I too have been getting Kennedy rolls...trying to finish up my set! Seems like they are harder and harder to come by.

Today, I went to a local bank, bought $230 in halves, and got 32 40%'s.
Then, I went to work, and bought my $200 worth of halves - and boy was it good. Percentage wise it was a tad lower, but I got 59 40%'s, 1 90% JFK, and my first Ben - a 61-d! Plus, I got a 2006-d in pretty decent shape. So, all told, I got 94 keepers today. Like I said - definatly a great day!

I do the change orders at work (or sometimes I have the underlings do it, lol) because I am the customer service manager - I always slip a few halves into the order. Being a manager has its perks. I am sure, theoretically, I could order anywhere from 10-10000 really, but I don't like to tie up that much of my income (plus work might get a bit suspicious) - 100-600 a week, at most.

Some interesting finds he had there.