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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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That story about 6000 half dollars, and the guy takes one silver coin and dumps them? Painful. That's what makes banks dislike coin roll hunters. Not to mention if he has to pay even the slightest coin machine fee, that one silver half of profit is vaporized. Same deal if he has to drive more than a few miles out of the way. Just so pointless!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I think anyone who hunts half dollars is sick of seeing so many 1971s and Bicentennial halves in their rolls and boxes.
The other early 70s dates are a nuisance as well but at least there are varieties that can be found (1972-D no FG, 1973-D and 1974-D DDOs, etc.)
Edited by CalzoneManiac
08/13/2023 4:14 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's just the population of coins remaining, right? Trying to CRH halves just seems like  given that most of the silver is filtered out, and there don't seem to be any major draws to modern halves. Especially if you have to pay above face for boxes, and banks might resist customer wrapped rolls. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Much depends on how long a roll hunter stays in the game. A few years ago I approached a teller and requested 10 rolls of cents. As she placed the rolls in front of me, I noticed some silver halves in her coin tray. I respectfully asked to buy all the halves she had in the tray--something like $12 worth. Eleven halves were silver--a mix of Franklins and '64 Kennedys. Lesson--if teller trays are visible, give 'em a glance. Don't limit yourself to just rolls. Picked up a '63 quarter that way week before last.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Apparently, some miscreant oriented USA folks have contributed regularly toward my giant bowl of canadian one cents from Lincoln roll searching lol... Less so now as I now at least know something about world error coins as many world mints have nowhere near the level of quality control as the USA and these can be quite cool. Perhaps its because the 2020 Standard Catalog of World Coins 1901-2000 alone is around 2,300 pages! and there are other editions for earlier coins, however as I was learning especially, finding a world coin that looked cool and in good condition going over to numista to see... 3cents or such value  A quick look on aliexpress shows the current selling price for a 1943-s copy is only US $1.70, so those are plentiful as well as other similar in roll hunting actually more than I would have thought. Some sellers out there dont even mention they are copies and try to pass as originals. Copies really should have been banned except for a few legit examples out there that otherwise would have been impossible to find so you know they are copies. 1941 cents for some reason come up most times I find wheaties, thankfully there are varieties and its a wheatie or I'd hate em. When the coins are covered with stuff like tar, green verdigris or syrup and it gets on other coins that may have been worthwhile. Weird stuff like acid coins or plated coins although cool to find they really all end up just wasting time in the end. How bout this beauty I found   Edited by datadragon
08/13/2023 5:26 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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(1) Returning coins to the bank
(2) getting a box of all new coins (e.g., a $25 box of cents all 2017-P)
(3) coins that are stuck together or unclean
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The uniform box of new coins wouldn't be all that bad. Odds are that they are all from the same run or adjacent runs. If there were some kind of known error variety, you could have a chance at finding a ton of them in that box.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The only problem is if you live in an area where Denver-minted coins predominate as pretty much every major variety is on the Philadelphia minted coins.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I had noticed that recently, and I am going to start a thread about it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4333 Posts |
My order 'poached' by another CRH'er, or tellers have already sold part of my box.
Parking lot hunters that return repeatedly to search and return for new rolls, multiple times in a day.
"I just sold 3 solid silver rolls of quarters to my last customer" I thought I was your favorite customer! Lolz.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Posted 08/13/2023 4:09 pm
