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United States
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Four times in the past 10 months I have been lucky enough to acquire customer-wrapped rolls that contained >80% silver coins. The first time was when I acquired three rolls of dimes at a local bank. One roll contained only Mercury dimes (including a 1921 key date); the other two rolls contained only silver Roosevelt dimes. Three months later I acquired a customer-wrapped roll of half dollars at a different bank that contained 19 silver coins (including four 1964 half dollars). The unusual thing is that whoever cashed that roll added one clad coin to the roll. Three months ago while visiting Cape Cod, I acquired two customer-wrapped rolls of half dollars at a bank that contained 32 40% silver Kennedy coins. Finally, two weeks ago I found a customer-wrapped roll that contained 20 silver coins -- including six Walking Liberty half dollars and one 1964 Kennedy half dollar. Furthermore, the 40% silver Kennedy half dollars in that roll were in uncirculated condition. All of these coins (except for the roll that contained 19 silver half dollars) were in old-fashioned wrappers -- indicating a coin collector had set them aside several decades ago. Now when tellers show me rolls before I acquire them, I try to determine if any of the wrappers look old. But no luck so far... Have you been this lucky? It is thrilling to open a roll, empty its contents, and see nothing but silver edges on the coins. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I would say that you are way above average with those finds most could go 5 to 10 years of coin roll hunting and not find that many let alone a key date coin . Congratulations
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Congratulations!  |
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I think my luck is explained by visiting banks in several small towns in northeastern Massachusetts with many elderly residents. "Blue-blood" New Englanders in these towns typically are interested in history -- and collecting coins aligns with their interests. Some of their heirs apparently take "grandpa's" coin collection to a bank when they inherit it.
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United States
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Yes, I have found solid silver rolls of dimes on two occasions. Once, in a box of accumulated CWR, I found a roll of solid silver Roosevelts and a roll of solid silver Mercuries. Then again last summer, I found two rolls of solid silver Roosevelts and Mercuries. In a different box from the same bank and same day, I found the contents of two Whitman folders, one each of Roosevelt and Mercury dimes. One of each date and mintmark were in the rolls; missing were a few key dates (obviously there was no 1916-D). But otherwise all early mintmarked dates were there, including a 1916-P in XF. Here's a link to that find in the Dime Roll Searching thread: http://goccf.com/t/60961&whichpage=435#3898432 |
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United States
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Last October found all 14 customer wrapped Half Dollar rolls all silver. All but one coin were 90%. 100 Benjie's, 90 Walkers, and the rest 1964 Kennedy's (1 1965). Total 280 silver coins.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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That's great luck, NorthShoreMA! Errers and Varietys.
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I have never been that lucky. John1  |
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Excellent! I had that kind of luck in the early 1990s. My girlfriend at the time was a teller. She would call me whenever CWRs were deposited, especially from older customers. |
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United States
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Not yet. Came across a nickel collection dump in CWR in which 31 entire rolls were pre-1960; and one full roll was 1949 S (weird so many of just one semi-key date...maybe the year was significant for someone at some point).
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Impressive! |
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Came across a nickel collection dump in CWR in which 31 entire rolls were pre-1960; and one full roll was 1949 S (weird so many of just one semi-key date...maybe the year was significant for someone at some point). Great score!   Errers and Varietys.
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CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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Yes... a few times... mostly with single rolls of 90% and 40% halves, and a couple of times with dimes, the latest being last May with a single roll of silver dimes. I remember that!  |
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One time I found 5 old style coin rolls of half dollars that contained nothing but Walking Liberty and Franklin coins, needless to say I felt like Charlie Bucket finding the golden ticket in that moment. I'm pretty sure it was similar to some of these other finds- elderly collector dies and their kids/grandkids don't appreciate the value of it and just cash it in for face value.
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Posted 09/02/2024 7:30 pm
