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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Everytime they give me a box it's a sealed Brinks box with plastic wrapped rolls. I have yet to get any customer wrapped rolls....which might be good or bad. I mark ALL my rolls with a big Sharpie X to make sure there's no way I'm getting those back. LOL
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Go on a road trip out to a bank in the middle of no-where. You should have better luck of finding customer wrapped rolls.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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neversuited1 said; "And people do make mistakes and overlook coins they may not like, but we do...anything red 1980 and below, errors, ect..good luck!"
I know this is true because I'll look thru rolls I've looked thru and find something interesting. Yep, I missed it the first time.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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this is an old picture; but it is just an example of what can be found (the coin is a 1912D)  |
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Valued Member
United States
300 Posts |
I've never found a Barber, some WL's and Franks though
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10284 Posts |
CND ... Hi, Are you ever going to go back to searching for that 50D nickel?
We missed you down there on that/those topic(s)
I don't blame you for searching halves instead but we are left hanging. :-)
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Moderator
 United States
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CND ... Hi, Are you ever going to go back to searching for that 50D nickel?
We missed you down there on that/those topic(s)
I don't blame you for searching halves instead but we are left hanging. :-)  Will your contest ever have a winner?   Just to be clear, it is just a little good fun between friends. I know you have had some difficult problems recently, so take your time!   Edited by jbuck
12/10/2008 10:39 am
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Valued Member
United States
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It depends really on the chain of custody. If you are buying boxes I think 99% of the coins you're looking at have been reviewed for collectability by someone somewhere. I would say it's at least five nines (99.999%), with a HOWEVER: boxes of machine-wrapped rolls from Brinks, etc., consist of bags of coins collected from various sources, dumped into a machine and rolled out at random. So while you are undoubtably looking through coins that have been seen by various people, possibly including yourself (!), it's always possible that they're being mixed in with somebody's old coin jar (or even collection) that got dumped into a counter somewhere. As an example, I recently pulled a very nice AU red-brown 1953-D cent out of a machine roll. Then the next roll had two of them. There were one or two more in that box, and then a couple more in the next box, and a couple more in a THIRD box, all bought at the same time... in the end, I had 9 '53-D and 2 '52-D all in high AU condition with some red remaining. (Of course it works both ways... right now I'm on my third box of cents that seems to include the results of somebody's can-we-dissolve-a-penny-with-THIS experiment... ugh) Quote:
If a teller has loose rolls that have recently been deposited by an elderly long-time customer who has written their name and telephone number in an unsteady hand in blue across the fraying soft brown paper wrapper, then you might have a better chance, but it's all the luck of the draw. Rule #1 of coin roll hunting- be nice to your cashiers :) |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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And the ones that arent nice back, they get the dumps.
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Valued Member
United States
462 Posts |
Rule #2: Keep large amounts of money in the bank.
Rule #3: Live out in the middle of no where.
Rule #4: Be patient!
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Valued Member
United States
205 Posts |
What about dumping your searched coins into a coinstar machine? Do they use a local bank?
ST~
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Rule #3: Live out in the middle of no where. The problem with rule 3 is that places like that have very slow turnover in coins. What is in the community tends to stay in the same community with very little inflow of new material or outflow of old. So very quickly you find yourself searching an ever increasing percentage of your own rejects, even if you dump them at a different bank. I live in such an area. Turnover of coins is so slow that since 2002 I have had 12 post 2002 nickels come through my hands (have never seen a 2005 buffalo from either mint), the State Quarters were released every ten weeks but often would not show up here for 8 to 18 months. I got my first AZ last night and my first OK last week. We still have not seen any of the president dollars since Washington. Edited by Conder101
12/12/2008 10:50 am
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Moderator
United States
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Rule #3: Live out in the middle of no where. Quote:
The problem with rule 3 is that places like that have very slow turnover in coins. Maybe the rule should be: drive to the middle of nowhere for your rolls and then dump them in the same place when you are done. There is often several different "nowheres" within easy driving distance of living somewhere!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The ultimate low turnoever place is Puerto Rico probably. Judging by the coins I've seen coming from there the velocity is very high and the coins wear quickly.
Don't complain abount searching rejects as it could be far worse. When I started collecting in '57 every single coin had been rejected several times and old coins even more. You could find a better coin or an older coin but they would always be heavily worn or cull.
Now days there are still lots of coins that haven't been looked at and lots of varieties that circulate freely (or nearly so).
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
858 Posts |
nice pic of the barber, I have gotton three in box searching over the years. My heart always skips a beat when I see a walker or barber on the outside of a roll when opening a box!
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