How Many Are Into Coin Roll Hunting?

Arthene--actually I think Pastor gets more of the dots than me. I had a couple of boxes that contained a bunch of halves that looked like someone took a sharpie and outlined the inside edge of the paper on the end of the roll. The coin had a thick black mark all the way around it about 1/8" in from the edge. It seems like the silver is becoming more and more scarce around here.

I've been searching penny boxes for a while now and I started keeping track of all of the bits that I find for the last 10 boxes. I keep track of any canadian pennies, any other foreign cents, any non-pennies ( in my case dimes ), 1960 pennies, wheat pennies and s-mint pennies. Those are the things I chose to look for. So out of the last ten boxes I have averaged per box:
3.9 canadian
0.8 other foreign cents
0.7 non-pennies
9.4 wheats
3.9 1960 pennies (doesn't matter if p or d)
4.6 s-mint

Doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things, I was just wanting to know what my finding rate is. Overall, I keep just less than 1 percent of the total pennies. The rest go back into circulation. BTW, the oldest wheat I found was a 1910s. It was pretty worn, but I like it anyway.

-- Tony

You know you've searched a lot of rolls when your 8 year old daughter spots a half dollar proof on the end of the roll

Charlie, I was born in 1960 so I like all 1960 coins, nothing more important than that. The s-mint pennies are pretty uncommon here in Florida so I keep them as well. If they were more common, I'd probably ignore them. That is all.

- Tony

I went to pick up 3 boxes of halves yesterday. I asked the teller if he had any other loose halves. He went around and picked up 7 of them. They included a 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005 proofs!

The three boxes weren't so great. I got two more proofs, 3 - 40%, 2003P, and 2005D. Not much silver, but the most NCLT's I've every had!

I think I'm going to call the set done when I get all 1964 - 2001 (including proofs) out of circulation. I've found 26 proofs in the last two/three years.

I just recently started looking through rolls myself and started with pennies and nickels. I found a few wheat's and 3-1941 nickels and 1 1942 nickel. After reading about the silver finds in the halves I started to pick up a few rolls when I had time. I would pick up 2 rolls look through them and then cash them in at another bank. At one of the first banks they did not have any rolls but I was able to get $20 loose coins. When the teller came back with them she says, look here is a silver one, it was a 1968-D. Later that day I cleaned out another bank of $12.50 worth and found a 1967 half. It gets better when I get home that night.

I tell my wife about what I am doing and she mentions that she has some old coins that her Dad gave her. Now I remember her saying once that she had some silver quarters so that is what I expect to see. Well she had the 2 silver quarters, a 1945 and a 1953, but than she pulls out a 1942 Standing Liberty half dollar. A real nice looking coin, boy was I surprised.

I found my first 50¢ blank planchet this week. I also found my first 1938 Jefferson (still looking for that 1950D). Other than that, it's been a pretty dry few weeks for me.

$1000 in halves yielded 5 40% and a 2006-D. :-|

Since June 2007
halves searched = $9470
Walkers = 20
Franklins = 29
90% Kennedy = 25
40% Kennedy = 64
Proof = 14 (72, 73, 76, 81x2, 82, 85, 87x2, 91, 95, 02x2, 04)
Commemorative = 1