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Hey Eare can you explain this sentence to me.
If it was indeed another coin roll hunter who deposited the coins, they very much need to learn that any silver they find in bank boxes is not completely "free" for the taking.
Does that mean that if someone else finds a silver dime they should put it back in a roll for someone else to find? They paid for the box how is it not completely free for them to take the dime
No, not at all. Face-value circulation finds are what makes this hobby fun for all of us.
What happened was as follows.
I purchased $300 in customer-wrapped dimes that were nearly all rolled in the same wrappers. Notably, these were not ones that my bank gives out, which means they brought in from elsewhere.
A number of the rolls (I've since forgotten what the exact total was) ended up being short by exactly 1 dime. By the time I finished searching them, I essentially had to pay out a good portion of the cost of a silver dime just to balance the rolls.
At the time, I thought there were three possibilities to explain all the short rolls.
First, whomever rolled them may have systematically made every 1 out of X rolls a 49-dime one. I thought this was unlikely, since who would go out of their way to do this?
Second, the rolls may have been simple miscounts. This is a somewhat common occurrence with dimes in particular. Again, though, if the rolls were indeed miscounted, why were they always short by 1 dime- and not over by 1 dime, short by 2 dimes, etc?
Finally--and this is what I personally leaned towards--the rolls may have been the searched-through "dump" of a dime roll hunter.
What may have happened was that they hit upon a nice scattering of silver dimes in a batch of rolls they purchased, and consequently removed the silver (as we all would!). This would explain why the various rolls were always short by 1 dime: it is easy to imagine that a small handful of silver dimes got mixed into everything else.
However, for whatever reason, the searcher did not replace the dimes they removed with clad ones. This is what I meant with the "free" part of my statement; it's common coin roll hunting etiquette to re-balance coins rolls before they are dropped off at the bank.
Obviously, I'll never know what really happened, but I constantly see and hear signs of prolific coin roll hunting activity in my area. Unfortunately, it has not seemed like the "proper" slip-under-the-radar kind.
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Posted 02/09/2017 7:40 pm
