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 Posted 04/24/2011  12:50 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Americanamafia to your friends list

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 Posted 04/24/2011  01:10 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rkrj to your friends list
For me the customer wrapped rolls have produced nothing, not even a Wheat cent, and while the bank wrapped rolls haven't been great they have produced more than zero for me. I have only got the plastic wrapped coins twice the quarters gave me nothing, the box of nickels however gave me my best box ever, I got 2 Buffalo nickels, 4 War Nickels, and one variety of a 1983 P nickel that is shown in the strike it rich with your pocket change book.
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 Posted 04/24/2011  01:49 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Russ789 to your friends list
It doesn't matter where you get the coins from...it only matters that people deposit/spend valuable coins!
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 Posted 04/24/2011  01:53 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rawmeat to your friends list
I asked this in another thread, but never got a response: 1 time when I searched a roll of brinks halves, the paper rolls had "brinks" written on the side (they were red), the rest have been sort of a green/brown design, with no "brinks" on it, and have been awful (the first box with the brinks rolls had about 200 bucks worth of silver in it), while there have been maybe 4 silver coins in the remaining 10 or so boxes. Where are these non-brinks papers coming from? Do all brinks paper wrapped rolls say brinks? I see yellow brinks rolls on ebay.

Everything else I get from brinks is plastic wrapped and is awful too. Wish I could find a way to get the bags from the fed, or otherwise bypass the hucksters at brinks.
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 Posted 04/24/2011  02:10 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add KenRingold to your friends list
I normally get a box at a time and if I am doing pennies, sometimes two. As far as customer wrapped rolls go, I have tried that and they wind up bring me boxes that have my marked rolls in them. So I don't do those. I do mostly pennies but lately it's been nickels. My best penny roll was a plastic wrapped Brinks roll. My best nickel roll was a bank wrapped roll. I personally think that overall there is no difference in quality between the two.
However, I do like the bank wrapped rolls better. The garbage rolls are recyclable, were the plastic wrapped rolls are not. Also, a Coke Fridgepack stuffed full of paper bank rolls makes an excellent fire starter.
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 Posted 04/24/2011  02:18 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add KenRingold to your friends list

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I got 2 Buffalo nickels, 4 War Nickels, and one variety of a 1983 P nickel that is shown in the strike it rich with your pocket change book.

Sweet And I thought I did so good when I found just two Buffalos in a box. So good I went back and got the box next to it. Which only had two upgrades and no hole fillers.
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 Posted 04/24/2011  07:16 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add John1 to your friends list
I only do cent rolls. The only difference between plastic wrapped,or paper wrapped or customer wrapped is that customer wrapped "may" contain older coins because they may have been hoarding their cents for awhile and now need the money. The down side to customer wrapped rolls is sometimes they are short a few coins,and then once in awhile you will find a dime in a roll of cents . As for boxes of cents from the bank, I don't think it matters if they are Brinks or S&S.
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 Posted 04/24/2011  08:57 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add fistfulladirt to your friends list
Having consistently roll hunted for 3 years now, I have to say that your best bet will be to intercept customer rolls, on the teller line, before they are shipped out. 95% of my finds are made this way, and I've found multiple rolls of solid silver halves this way.
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 Posted 04/24/2011  09:01 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list
For Cents and even Nickels I never try for rolls. Almost all rolls are either from someone that has already looked through them or from a bank that took in those from someone that looked through them.
Some banks now send bulk coins out for counting to places like Brinks and again, those are basically coins already searched. Roll searching is becoming so popular that many are just reseeing the same coins over and over and over.
I always ask at banks for bags of coins. In many banks they keep bags in the vault for coin shortage emergencies. Usually they don't like to just give them out but for customers they know, they sometimes will give them out. Many of such bags have been there for a long, long time and your results may well be completely different from rolls. The Cent ones are $50 and sure are heavy.
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Also, a Coke Fridgepack stuffed full of paper bank rolls makes an excellent fire starter.




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 Posted 04/24/2011  10:29 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add RollHunter to your friends list
Carl, which banks will sell you bags? I have a hard time buying anything other than boxes, but I've noticed that some of the area banks are starting to buy extra half dollar boxes because so many people are ordering them.
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 Posted 04/24/2011  11:42 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add willy13 to your friends list
Its all luck IMO. Some guy on the forum got a box of 700 lincoln wheats a couple months ago!
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 Posted 04/24/2011  2:48 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add boatman to your friends list
I Like the Customer Wrapped One Best
Or Just Let Everyone Know
You Want All There Change
Get With The School When They Do a Penney
Drive With The Kids
I Just Missed One, They Collected $1200.00 in Penny's
But I Missed Getting Them, Someone Else Beat Me To Them

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 Posted 04/24/2011  7:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add hockingzig to your friends list
I have had great luck with customer wrapped rolls. Just as examples,I have had at least 10 CWR's of all wheat pennies,one was all 43 steelies.My best nickel roll was also a CWR,5 Liberty nickels,8 Buffaloes,5 of them with full dates and 3 War Nickels plus a bunch of pre-1960's.
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 Posted 04/26/2011  12:21 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add tershaffer to your friends list
How do you guys get the CWR? I take my change back to one bank and get my coins from another. I live in a small town and I'm afraid of requesting change from the bank I cash back at because I do not want to get stuff I already searched and the bank I get my rolls from uses all brinks rolls for change back ( I actually asked them) I may be able to request bags from them, have not tried yet, but would love to hear what you all do. Anyone tried both bags and CWR, Just curiuos of the odds? Obviuosly the last post was an awsome find, but is that a normal senerio or an exception? My first box from brinks I found (1) 1938S, (3) 1939S, (5) War Nickels and a 2003 proof, but no buffalo, varieties or nothing of great condition. Next box I found nothing at all except a few 50's. I'm half way through my 3rd box and nothing yet. I know it is basically down to luck, but some of you guys have me really curiuos about CRW and bags, which I have not received yet?
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