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Poll Question
A lot of us here do a large volume of coins - I'm doing about 5,000 per day at the moment... of course there are great moments when you find that AU 1939-D nickel, or a collection dump of wheaties or pre-60 nickels as has happened to me this past several months...
But there are also moments that are annoying such as buying a box worth of cents only to have it be a complete skunk... Or buying an unopened box of coins only to find they are all shiny brand new coins from the current or previous year...
Now while those two things are annoying (though I don't experience the second one since I don't buy unopened boxes), there are two others which annoy me more:
1) Finding a nice shiny NIFC half dollar, only to have it marked with a sharpie or gauged on the other side. Quite honestly, I don't understand why someone would mark a NIFC when there are about 300 million 1971-D coins which would be a lot more worthy of being marked... I'm not a fan of marking at all, but if you're going to do it, at least display some common courtesy and don't damage coins which are low mintage, and/or worth some money to someone else. There are plenty of people out there who will pay 60-70 cents each even for circulated examples of NIFC coins in bulk.
2) Customer wrapped rolls of coins which are taped shut. I don't really know why people tape their rolls of coins shut. If you properly use the bank wrappers, you'll never have to tape them. The ONLY reasons for tape to be used on a roll are if it's damaged or has split. It is an absolute PAIN to opened taped shut rolls... I'll normally get one of my car keys, and after a few tries it will usually do the trick...
OK, so that's my soap box... what about yours? Am curious to hear your CRH Pet Peeves!
CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
Edited by John77
12/22/2016 2:10 pm
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Great post. A few quick thoughts:
-In my experience, taped rolls are often short. When I see taped ends, I am already suspicious before I open any of them.
-I have come to like foreign coins, and with my kids we have a map where we color each country for which we have found a coin. We've made great progress on our cent and nickel Canadian folders.
-I got over my aversion to dirty coins by using pair of rubber gardening gloves. Also, I find the rubber help in picking up the coins.
-In my judgment, the absolute worse downside, hands down, of CRH is returning coins to the dump bank. The coins are heavy and the tellers generally despise dealing with heavy boxes of coins.
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I voted other. inaccurate counting/rolling machines at the bank are what I don't like. This worked both ways with me. one time they said I was 20.00 short - which was impossible as I only pulled a couple from the box. Another time they said I gave them an extra roll - which was impossible since I had no extra loose halves at my place at the time!
This forced me to start counting every coin as soon as the wrapper was off, and then also when I put them on the discard pile. I kept a running total of the exact amount I was returning, and told them they were counted twice. When they saw I would go to this extreme (and after I had refused to take the extra roll of halves back they swore I gave them), they admitted to me that the counting machines frequently are off so they have a "petty cash" drawer to make up the differences.
I continued to count them!
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Hard. I've found silver foreign before. I do hate that Wells Fargo is taking coin counting machines out of all CO banks. Right now, my pet peeve is 1971, 1976, and 1999 halves.
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The hardest part for me is to find coin counter machine in my area, which I cannot find one. I reroll everything back up and return it. I try not to dump more than about $2-300 worth at one time to my local banks. If I'm going out of town or out of my immediate area for a weekend trip or such I will make a much larger dump often 1K or more, Then I won't have to go face to face with the teller again. Often they will ask where did you get all of this coin and I always tell them the truth. As far as getting taped rolls I have found usually they are short a coin or two but when I get a few taped rolls in the mix of cwr I usually think of it as a good sign that it's not somebody else's coin dump, and more often than not I usually find a keeper or two in taped rolls, I think most higher volume searchers would not tape up their end of there rolls. Also I like to see a mix of different kind of wrappers cause chances are most people would roll with the stack of wrappers they have at their house which for the most part should be all the same kind. The second annoying thing is find really dirty, hairy, smelly coins in a roll. After searching some rolls it requires a good hand washing.
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"Other" = Silver sniping tellers...
You can see the silver coin in their drawer and ask to "buy them all", but they sell you only the Cu-Ni clad and leave the silver in their drawer.
Or they show you the coins in their hand, remove the silver, and sell you the CU-Ni clad.
It's okay with me if they supplement their limited income with the silver they find while working as a teller, but it's not okay with me if they bait me and then jerk the bait away! Thankfully, this has happened to me only a few times, but once was enough.
HH
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some of my biggest pet peeves is coin roll hunters abusing the system by going through box after box after box just looking the obvious things that stick out like Canadian, Wheaties pennies and silver and not looking for bigger prizes like varities, errors and rotated coins, mules like 1999 Wide AM Lincolns and 1984 double ear Lincolns,,, coins in the CherryPickers Guide etc which in turn would slow down searching to a snails pace but everyone is difference in looking...had one penny that made the cherrypickers list 1988 RDV-006 that if I was looking for obvious stuff..it would of pasted me by and the no would know it exists today |
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CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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"Other" = Silver sniping tellers...
You can see the silver coin in their drawer and ask to "buy them all", but they sell you only the Cu-Ni clad and leave the silver in their drawer.
Or they show you the coins in their hand, remove the silver, and sell you the CU-Ni clad.
It's okay with me if they supplement their limited income with the silver they find while working as a teller, but it's not okay with me if they bait me and then jerk the bait away! Thankfully, this has happened to me only a few times, but once was enough. This one doesn't bother me at all. As the teller may not be allowed to remove it from the drawer until the end of their shift or a lunch hour. I actually have gotten VERY friendly with most of my "silver sniper" tellers. The way I see it, it's a way of sharing the hobby, and some have saved old rolls of nickels or cents for me, even one saved me a dateless Buffalo (turned out to be a 1916). CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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Great post. A few quick thoughts:
-In my experience, taped rolls are often short. When I see taped ends, I am already suspicious before I open any of them.
-I have come to like foreign coins, and with my kids we have a map where we color each country for which we have found a coin. We've made great progress on our cent and nickel Canadian folders.
-I got over my aversion to dirty coins by using pair of rubber gardening gloves. Also, I find the rubber help in picking up the coins.
-In my judgment, the absolute worse downside, hands down, of CRH is returning coins to the dump bank. The coins are heavy and the tellers generally despise dealing with heavy boxes of coins. Thanks! I thought about it a couple of days before posting it actually. I for one don't mind finding foreign coins in rolls as long as there's not a ton of them. I just wish I would find more "good" foreign coins. I've only found 3 pre-1959 Canadian cents, and a lone 50% silver 1950 Australian 6 pence coin. As for my taped rolls, they're usually more accurate than other customer rolls, and there are usually fewer foreign coins in them... I guess this varies depending on geography. LOL. As for dumping, I have two main dump banks now, and I hand roll everything... most of the tellers at those two banks like me and don't mind me dumping. I have a good little system now! CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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I like to see a mix of different kind of wrappers cause chances are most people would roll with the stack of wrappers they have at their house which for the most part should be all the same kind. The second annoying thing is find really dirty, hairy, smelly coins in a roll. After searching some rolls it requires a good hand washing. Same here on these, CoinRumbles... A variety of coin wrappers generally brings good results as indeed it means you're usually getting more than one person's rolls... And I have found more than my share of dirty, smelly coins... had a couple of rolls of nickels the other day that all were very dirty... I mixed one or two each in the rest my rolls, so no one would get stuck with them... CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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Here are examples of how I like to handle marked "non keeper" coins...   CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
Edited by John77
12/22/2016 9:20 pm
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1100" written on the reverse! Acetone will take sharpie right off |
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I'll answer "other". I don't like finding rolls of cents that are full of zinc rotted scuzzy cents.
Marks on half dollars don't bother me if they're not NIFC.
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Pillar of the Community
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other for me.i buy a lot of cwr,s of dimes and the other day got 24 pennies in it.several rolls of dimes with 5 or 6 short.i showed the teller one roll and she said other rolls will have extra in them to make up the difference. just part of the game. took some halves back friday and got 1.50 extra that hardly ever happens. later greg
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