Roll Searching Can Be Strange...

You must be in some strange area where you could find all those rare coins even back then. I remember many of those types being in change back then but not common and never anything rare. Sure are lucky.
I even had problems finding rare coins in the 1950's.

Great finds, even for back then. I tell you, every time I watch back to the future I wonder why they aren't in 1916 buying rolls of Mercury dimes.

I like story about those 1950 and 1960 roll hunts. I wish I was alive back then but I was born in 1971. My uncle found an 1909 s.v.d.b in 1950 something in coin roll from bank in those days.

Its strange in coin roll hunting in 2007 . Last year I found 1907 penny and 1890 penny . I thought they would be gone 40 or 50 years ago. On wheats all I ever found was 1919d, 1920s, 1921s , 1926 cent on old coins. These are not rare coins but just plain old coins. I did find serval rolls of 1940 thru 1950 stuff in wheats. Not anything special. Wheats are rare these days my last box got an 1949 and 1944d coin and thats all out 2500 coins or 25 dollar face.

Most 2007 boxs you find less 10 wheats on pennys. On dimes I never found an pre 1964 dime or pre 1964 quarter in bank boxs last year. On nickels after going thru thousands of them my finds were maybe less than 5 dateless pre 1938 nickels . Very few low mints in the 1938 thru 1961 coins ever found. Maybe if you luckey will find an semi key like 1954s ,1958 , 1955 , 1951s, or whats rare is wartime silver in those boxes. I found less than 3 of them last year on wartime silvers. Those nickel boxs are flooded with tons 1964 philly or denver nickels still after 40 years. Reason us goverment made 2.8 billion of them. I saved like 60 bucks face on 1964 nickels but I dumped them into cash machices later. Why save them? They are easy to get and find.

The boxs to search and I love so much are Half dollar boxs I find proof coins, silver coins, Bens in there. I have heard of guys finding walkers in there and serval Barbers were found in there after reading about on net. Serval guys built an ben set in 2007 from those boxs. I wish dime and quarter boxs were fun but they are all 1965 thru 2007 clad stuff. Those were picked clean years ago.

All I say you older coin collectors must had blast when you can still find silver coins all day long and build the great sets the easy way from roll hunting. You were luckey building those sets at face value compared to the very expensive coins in 2007. These days you will go broke trying build those sets since prices are so expensive on all old coins . I wish I had time machice to go back before 1964 to buy pallets of coins from the old days.

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