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New Member
Canada
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So after seeing these posts I decided to go on coin roll hunting, here's the results: $400 Quarters: None except a lot of U.S coins. $450 Dimes: None expect a lot of U.S coins. $130 Nickels: 1 x 1950 (woohoo), 2 x 1963, 2 x 1964. Didn't get anything exceptional apart the 1950 nickel. Then I went to buy some groceries and I found my very first King George V nickels dating 1925 and 1926. I think I am hooked now. BTW are any of them special?
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New Member
Canada
22 Posts |
Just in case people post  .... Here they are!   Have them in coin folders already.
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Moderator
 United States
188770 Posts |
Very nice! 
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New Member
Canada
28 Posts |
Quote: Here they are! Nice finds! It's weird, you'll find nothing in boxes of coins and then in your change, out of nowhere, you'll find great coins. I'll go on little streaks. For instance when I was working at the gas station I'd go one month where I'll find great stuff, (ie. silver quarters, dimes) at least once a week, then I'd go two months not even finding a pre 1982 nickel. Them's the breaks I guess!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1747 Posts |
in change? that is the big money coin in the nickels, 1925. wow
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New Member
Canada
22 Posts |
Did some research and when I saw the 200,050 mintage figures I realized I got something special on my hands.
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Valued Member
Canada
115 Posts |
Also, King George V coinage is very rare and is extremely hard to find. Nice finds on those King George V nickels! I have one from 1929. I have been coin roll hunting for a few years now and I have never found a King George V nickel.
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Valued Member
Canada
98 Posts |
I'd like to try this "coin roll hunting" out, it sounds fun, I'm thinking with a few rolls of quarters. What should I be looking for? Silver is the obvious thing everyone wants, but it seems rare so I don't think I'll be too successful with this. Is there anything else that I should be looking for? I'm thinking US coins, but I really don't know what I'd do with them... any advice here?
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Quote: Is there anything else that I should be looking for? With the non-silver quarters, look out for the ones dated 1991; with such a low mintage, they can be extremely hard to find. There is also a variety on the 1973 quarters to look out for: the large bust. I am not interested in varieties, so the only thing I can tell you about that type is that they are expensive.
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New Member
Canada
28 Posts |
I haven't been on the forum for a few months, but I haven't stopped hunting. I just had a great find. I managed to score $40 in pennies. 14 of the rolls were different. The wrappers were kind of tattered, not falling apart but still well used. Every single coin was copper, old copper!  Here's what I found: Canadian; 1972 - 1 1967 - 79 1953-1964 - 412 1942-1952 - 81 1937-1941 - 22 USA; 1959 - 5 1950-1958 - 31 1940-1949 - 35 1939 - 1 1938 - 1 1935 - 4 1935S - 1 1934 - 2 1928 - 1 1926 - 1 1925 - 1 1919D - 1 1917S - 1 1916 - 1 UK; 1p 1989 - 1 I was pretty stoked about finding that much copper & that many LWCs I've still got the rest of the rolls to go through, but I don't think I'll get the same yield as I did with those rolls.
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New Member
Canada
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Almost forgot! Here's a couple pictures of the finds  
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Moderator
 United States
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Nice finds, angemon_1980! 
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Valued Member
Canada
202 Posts |
late reply to this post, but.. to Jazzy.. about what to do with any US coins you find.. consider if you might make a driving trip to the US anytime (holiday, work).. If you think you will, just keep saving them, rolling them up (make absolutely certain that you aren't short in any rolls!), and when you have enough, get the proper storage box for any denomination you need from a bank and box them up nicely. Then when you go on your trip, once you are over the border, take them to a bank and get them changed into bills - voila, American bills at Canadian prices - saving your 30% extra in exchange values. (However, I've read that some banks are really sticky about taking these rolls, just because they don't want to open up all of them to verify that they aren't washers or short rolls - this is where your care about full rolls comes in... The last time I did this and I was asked by the teller if the rolls were good, I asked the teller to pick any three rolls at random and check. I said with a laugh that if any roll wasn't good, they didn't have to take anything, but if the rolls were good, they would have to take the lot.. Since I could never know which rolls the teller would take, it kind of shows that all of the rolls would HAVE to be good, right?)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Quote:about what to do with any US coins you find.. consider if you might make a driving trip to the US anytime (holiday, work) For those of us on the US side, we have the analogous problem. I have about $30 in Canadian cents and nickels, all from CRH in the USA. And, I don't live near the Canadian border!
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Valued Member
Canada
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Oh yes, I have that problem myself - the PLAN is to take a trip myself to the US, but that hasn't been in the plans. But my parents have gone, some friends have, and a couple of my coin collecting clients have gone as well - and THEY were each willing to exchange some amount of rolls, so now I have a stash of US banknotes building up for any kind of trip, driving or flying! Just keep your eyes and ears open, you might find someone who is heading up north who is willing to help you out and get them changed into bills. You could use them in the future, but if not, you can go to some exchange bureau who will change the CAD bills back into USD and get your money back - you definitely can't do that with coins!
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