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Valued Member
Canada
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I opened my first box of Nickels recently to discover that not one single nickel searched was older than 2001! None of them came even close to looking uncirculated either. A mixed mash from 2001-2010. I got the box from a BMo and the rolls had come from a Gards (armored services) shipment. Do they filter out all Nickels that are older than ten years or did I just have bad luck with this box?
I was really hoping for some older finds
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Pillar of the Community
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I think that what you have found was a box of coins that a "Lomis" type coin processing facility has processed for Royal Canadian Mint. It's the "Alloy Recovery Program". Alloy Recovery Program. It draws in truckloads of 'white' coins (25-cent pieces mainly, and 10-cent and five-cent coins) through coin-processing partners in key Canadian cities. The Mint has the coins melted, recovers the valuable nickel content, produces plated-steel replacement coins at a lesser cost and puts them back into circulation. |
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Valued Member
Canada
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Oh well that's really unfortunate. Where am I supposed to get my nickels then? Should I just ask the bank for a box that hasn't been processed by Lomis/Brinks/Garda?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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all you need are hand rolled boxes....and the rest is patience and time
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Valued Member
Canada
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I've got patience. time on the other hand... well that depends.  I'm so new to this but there's just something incredibly relaxing and exciting at the same time when it comes to going through rolls. So I suppose my next step is to specifically ask the bank for a box of hand rolled nickels? I'd hate to get under their skin or put them through too much trouble. I suppose if others have been able to ask for it then it's not unlikely that I will also be able to. In the mean time I always have my penny rolls!  |
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New Member
Canada
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You have inspired me I sorted $200 in canadian Quarters today. I found 2 1968 .500 silver and one 50 lire stainless peice. Hitting another bank tomorrow.
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Valued Member
Canada
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You have inspired me I sorted $200 in canadian Quarters today. I found 2 1968 .500 silver and one 50 lire stainless peice. Hitting another bank tomorrow. I've been searching quarter rolls for about 2 months ($100 to $300 worth daily), and I'm averaging about 1 silver quarter per 10000 coins ($2500). For you to score 2 in 800 is very very lucky. Keep that in mind if your next few thousand coins produce nothing. |
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Canada
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For the last 2 months I have searched BU 5 cent rolls bought from someone at the coin club. I've found 3 beaver tusks on the 1965,small,medium and overlaying clash on large,incomplete polished die with reducing machine lines on 5 coins found in 1 roll and a few nice frosted relief. On the 1964's there are more frosted examples than I knew existed. No large beads or extra water line.
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I am in the process of buying a "grandmother hoard" from a local person here in my city, who answered my Kijiji advertisement. 6 boxes of hand-rolled nickels, nothing newer than 1970 - I am shivering with anticipation to open those rolls!
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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SPP: You have a decent chance at finding a 65 LB! Good luck! (I'm jealous though)
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United States
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I opened my first box of Nickels recently to discover that not one single nickel searched was older than 2001! None of them came even close to looking uncirculated either. A mixed mash from 2001-2010. I got the box from a BMo and the rolls had come from a Gards (armored services) shipment. Do they filter out all Nickels that are older than ten years or did I just have bad luck with this box?
I was really hoping for some older finds
I wonder if the "alloy recovery program" that Wild Bill mentioned also includes recovering the 75%cu/25% ni nickels? It sure seems like it from looking at those dates in your box. The steel clad ones started in 2001. The nickels between 1982 and 2000 are 75cu/25ni, I think. |
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Canada
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A bit off-topic here... but regarding the silver quarter hunters, I have a concern/question. Do you ever get short rolls? I've roll-searched dimes and find about at least 1 silver per thousand searched. Dimes are probably better for finding silver... but be careful. I've had entire blocks with (systematically) 49 dimes each. Short rolls hugely cut into any silver I find. I basically quit searching dimes because of this.
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Valued Member
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A bit off-topic here... but regarding the silver quarter hunters, I have a concern/question. Do you ever get short rolls? I've roll-searched dimes and find about at least 1 silver per thousand searched. Dimes are probably better for finding silver... but be careful. I've had entire blocks with (systematically) 49 dimes each. Short rolls hugely cut into any silver I find. I basically quit searching dimes because of this.
I don't bother counting the number of coins in a roll. If 2 coins from a roll are keepers, I simply replace those 2 coins in the same roll. The bank obviously didn't count the rolls when they got them, so I doubt they'll count them when they get them back from you. On the flip side of this, I have received rolls of dimes which were in plastic rolls of pennies. I got an extra buck in each of those as they contained 60 dimes. It was quite obvious too.. teller hands me two bundles of 10 rolls each, with a few rolls clearly towering over the bundles, lol. |
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Valued Member
Canada
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yes harder and harder to find any good older coins
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Valued Member
Canada
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Very rare to see nickel quarters, much less silver quarters. Still possible to find silver dimes.
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