Errors And Varieties Found Pocket Change

as a noob myself, I would rather buy from the bank. I get hand rolled and machine rolled. I don't think there is someone at brinks or wells fargo watching the coins go into wrappers for a certain date. And in these times of economic downturn, people are turning in their change jars to pay for rent etc.

Convienence stores have to buy from the same banks we do, unless they get someone using rolled to purchase.

Good luck, I do the two nickels, Two Cent and one dime roll every friday. Last week I got a bunch of AU cents from 1974 to 1990 in different mint marks. They sure made my books look brighter.

Timbryant - I don't know why anyone would suggest convenience stores over banks unless they are trying to tell you that it's sometimes easier to get solid BU rolls from the convenience stores...bcause that much is sometimes true. For me it doesn't matter in the least. As long as it's 50 cents I haven't ever been through, I'm happy.

Something else you will find to be of help if you really want to go through some coins and find something of value...do not sort the coins by decade first. You end up sorting too many different times and into too many piles. Sort them like this:

Get ten containers, each one at least large enough to hold one-tenth of your pile. Guess at it if you can't do the math to get it exact (that was a joke). mark each container with the digits zero through nine...for the math challenged, that's '0','1','2','3', and so on...

Now sort the coins into your ten containers by the LAST digit in the date ONLY. So if you're sorting memorial cents, your zero container will have 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000. Your ones container will have 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, and 2001. You get the idea.

One completed, you have all your coins in ten easy to store containers that need one more sort in a maximum of five piles.

So, why sort them by date? Because once you get into this, you will notice that there were a bunch of small design changes on the Lincoln Cent (or any denomination for that matter). If you are looking through a hodge podge mix of coins, you might not notice that one 1985D cent has unusual letters, because you might have seen a 1992 next to it, which naturally has fatter letters. If you are looking through a pile of cents that all have the same design, you are more likely to pick out the ones that are odd. See what I mean? It helps, really.

more lesson later.

I think the reasoning behind convience stores or local markets is that the coins which are spent or turned in there came from a non collectors pocket or even from grandpa's closet or jar or even his collection high graded from him by a broke or less than honest family member .

I know I have been handed a 15-S Lincoln in change at a local market as well as several silver dimes and a few War Nickels .

I even ended up with a roll of Merc's several years ago when my wife worked at a local JJ market for face value , that has never happened to me at a bank .

at any rate , coppercoins adivice is sound and coin rolls whereever they are obtained are a good place to look , and with the economy as it is I have noticed that I get more home rolled rolls than I used to when I buy them at the bank .

(oh, and my apologies for calling him an idiot, didn't really mean to be harsh. I know everyone has to learn (including me) so sorry if that came out kinda wrong.

Some people think that you can only find NEWLY MINTED coins at the bank, and that Convenient stores roll their own change. This is probably why they told you that.

Silver Nebraska proof quarter, wheat cents, a Mercury dime, etc...

Thanks bill,
great idea, and there just happins to be a branch inside the Walmart down from my house, I get my check on friday, and i'l0l probably invest in quite a few rolls to hold me over for a while. Can you get 50 cent or silver dollar rolls ?

I can get half and dollar rolls but that is after cultivating a good relationship with the bank. I recently got several hundred dollars worth of Ikes to look through and there were some older silver dollars in the rolls.

The rolls were not ordered by the bank but were brought in by a customer to get cash.

The best thing to do is ask.

Have Fun,
Bill