First Attempt At Roll Searching

It is like a small "box" with 4 small legs (like a table). You drop the coins into the tube area which I highlighted with the red arrow. It is actually a tube within a tube. Use the narrow tube for pennies and dimes, and remove it which leaves a wider tube for nickels and quarters.
When the coins are loaded, you pull that plastic tab/slide on the right and a coin will drop into the slot within this plastic slide. You then push the slide to the left so its under the magnifier. You then push it all of the way to the left and then pull back to the right. This flips the coin so you can see the other side. Look again, then continue pulling the plastic tab all the way to the right. The coin will then drop out of the machine, and a new one is loaded.
The device also has a small light inside in order to better see your coins. Slide left, look, slide left and flip, slide right, look, finish sliding right and load new coin. Once you get used to it, it's 3-5 seconds per coin.

I haven't found a IHC yet, or a WAM.

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I actually received a similar one yesterday that I got off ebay! It's pretty cool although the lens is giving me a migraine - trying to figure out a way to modify it for use with my Celestron USB microscope.

Nice finds SJH!

I did a search tonight of 1 nickel box and one penny box. The results:

Nickels:
- 1 War Nickel 1943P
- ~ 40+ pre-1959's.
- 1 1978 S proof which I'll put up a pic.
- 2 Canadians.

Cents:
First I would like to point out that my main bank source gives me boxes from N.F. String & Sons. For the first time today I got a Brinks box with those transparent plastic roll wraps (which makes your desk look like a post-porn movie shoot) and I was a bit anxious because my boxes were very predictable with String & Sons. I delved into the unknown and can report my observed differences between a string and Brinks box:

-Wheat cents about the same. 17-22 avg. per box/supplier. I had more RB wheat cents with Brinks box than usual. Date spread was about the same except better variety of mint marks and less numbers of the common 1940's dates.
-The Brinks box had older cents. This box was 60-65% pre-1982. It was more heavy in the 1970's dates than my String boxes. The Brinks box had far less new cents, especially 2011-2012. I have also pulled more RD & RB 1960's cents with the brinks box.
-The brinks box offered far less Canadian cents than my String boxes. With String, my Canadian finds were almost always the same as my wheats. With Brinks, it was about 20% of the wheats found.

Cent finds:
- Wheats 32,37,41x2,42,42D,45,46,49S,50D,51D,52,53d,55,56,56D,57,57DX2,58DX2.
- Canadians 59,71,74,81.

I will run the discarded through my Scan-o-matic for errors and other interesting cents.

Although it was my first Brinks cents box and hardly a basis for a serious comparison to String boxes, my first experience with the Brinks box was positive:

1. Good yield for wheat cents.
2. Good spread on the wheat cents, especially mint marks. String tends to give a lot of the common 1940's dates.
3. Older cents, and more older cents in RD.
4. Less Canadians.

Haven't had the time to roll search in quite a while. However, whenever I visit my local banks I check the reject tray because something is usually in them. Look what I found this morning:



... and yes, it does stick to a magnet. Found her along with a 1996 dime from Bermuda.

Perhaps, but it is a totally cool coin to find in circulation. Even more so since it was found in a reject tray of a coin machine. I always wanted one of these, although I preferred the real deal.

Those are some nice finds in the 1st box. If you haven't studied Canadian cents you should. You will find enough from CRH to start making a decent collection.