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I have only one bank that saves them for me. the rest seem afraid to let them go.
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Well where are they getting their pennies from? They certainly don't get them from the Royal Canadian Mint anymore. Edited by mehguy
11/14/2015 9:58 pm
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Mehguy, banks do not get pennies from the government since they are melting them. Customers (mainly individuals) would deposit pennies. It's hard to get banks to give them up if they have any, though. I've never had the nerve to ask.
About silver, I've only gotten silver from a roll once - a 1968 quarter. The more you search the better the odds, but it really varies. I don't roll hunt much but I have had luck with cash register finds in the last few years.
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I'm doing CRHing in Edmonton, and I have found so few quarters that I don't even expect them, I'm mostly mining US quarters out of the rolls for a road trip that "may" happen soon.. But I love it when it happens! In fact, maybe 3 or 4 pages back, you'll see a post for a modest find. I'll find a silver dime every 30 or 40 rolls, better avg. but not by much. Don't even think of finding silver 5 cent pieces anywhere in rolls. As for pennies, I have one bank where a teller keeps me supplied if I wish. It helped that she was a customer at my business so she recognized me and helps me. Otherwise I think she doesn't give them out, as she tells me how (since I hadn't been there in a while) she had to send out three or four boxes.
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Actually Darcy, my very first silver coin I found was a silver nickel, about 2 years ago before I started roll hunting hard for silver. I could not believe it when it came out of the roll. I was dancing and screaming. (well maybe not really screaming)
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well, it was not a Canadian silver nickel, but a US War Nickel |
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yes, I can see the US War Nickel finding its way into the nickel roll, at least they are roughly the same size.. with the silver 5 cent piece being close if not smaller to a dime, I would be very surprised to see a dime-like coin mixed in with the nickels. Not shocked mind you, as it actually did happen once to me, but surprised that it would happen again... |
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I have found tons of dimes in rolls of nickels.
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at the bank today exchanging searched rolls for new ones - as the teller has his drawer open pulling out the rolls, I saw a big coin at the end of his loose coins rack, a big coin with a very young QEII portrait.. I tell the fellow I'll also buy that coin on the spot, and I was right - a 1953 NSF FWL silver dollar.. ok shape, the 5 is very worn off compared to the other numbers.. As surprised as I was that he had the coin there, more surprising was his story that it had been sitting in his tray for three months as he didn't know what to do with it..  so I offered to take any others he found like that.. you know, since he didn't know what to do with them..  |
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Stopped to pick up my wife from work, but was a few minutes early so she let me look through four rolls of dimes and I was surprised to find this guy.  |
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Today I found a 1924 nickel in a roll along with this.  Is hairy bellied bald beaver a type?  |
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Picked up 2 boxes and 30 rolls of pennies at the banks. Older Canadian finds included: 1932, 1940(2), 1943(3), 1944, 1945(2), 1946, 1952, 1957(7), 1958, and 1959(2). Also found 4 wheat cents and a number of other foreign finds: UK One Pennies 1986 and 2001, Bahamas One Cents from 1992 and 1995, Bermuda One Cents from 1996 and 1997, 2004 2 Euro Cent, 2005 5 Bani from Romania and a 2004 10 Centavos from Brazil.
Edit: 290 050 small cents searched to date.
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12/18/2015 9:42 pm
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Wow, nice George V finds, o-train and wolfman-11!   |
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Finished the remaining 10 rolls of quarters rather quickly but took a while to check for upgrades, and I was also delayed since my computer is not working well. One roll was very nice with 5 2001P and the rest older. The other rolls stopped at either 2012 or 2013, and I only got one 2014. I was surprised by the amount of American quarters; there was enough to make more than a full roll! 105 1968-1996, 2001 nickel quarters (26.25%) 20 1992, 1999 and 2000 commemoratives (5%) 55 American - 2012P Hawaii Volcanoes, 16 Statehood, 38 Eagle (13.75%) World - Thailand 5 Baht (Unsure of year, but 2008 or later) Upgrades - 1969, 1978 large beads, 1984, 1990, 2001, a few modern commemoratives   |
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