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Valued Member
Canada
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I have been intrigued by the whole topic of coin role hunting and reading about everyone's experiences & finds really whetted my appetite for it.
I decided to give it a shot the other day, but because I'm always a bit fearful of trying new things, I decided to "get in the water" gradually, so I walked into my RBC branch, explained I was a coin collector and asked for two rolls of quarters. I said I didn't want new rolls from the Mint, and the teller came back with two rolls and said they never got new rolls at their branch because they always had enough just from customers bringing their own coins in.
I took them home, eagerly opened the rolls and began sorting them. There was quite a nice range of dates, better than I expected, although nothing terribly old. I found the following:
"Regular" (Caribou) coins: Singles from 1974, 75, 82, 83, 84, 86, 90, 95, 2002, & 04. Doubles from 1969, 77, 2001, 03 & 07. Triples from 1978 & 93. Quads from 2006, five from 2012, six from 2008 & 10, and eight from 2009 & 2011. All too new for silver, but I'm going to have to read through my Charlton guide to see if any of them have anything out of the ordinary to look at.
I also had the following commemorative type quarters: April & September from the 1999 Millennium issue. A Saskatchewan Centennial 2006. The following Vancouver Olympics quarters: Curling & Hockey from 2007, Bobsled from 2008, from 2009 a Non-colored Cindy Klassen, two Men's Hockey (one colored, one not), and a sledge hockey coin. A Canada Parks 2011 Falcon coin (non-colored). Two Isaac Brock quarters from 2012, one each of colored & non-colored, the latter is the first colored one I'd seen other than the set I purchased from the Mint's online free-shipping offer. Finally, there were 3 U.S. quarters, from 1965, 66 & 97.
All in all, I thought this was a really great variety but, and some of you may have already noticed this, this only adds up to 78 quarters! LOL Yeppers, both rolls had 39 coins in them.
So, I close with some questions. Is this likely to be the norm? One roll being short wouldn't bother me, but two of two did bug me a bit. Should I keep at it, accepting the possibility of this happening a lot? Would it be unreasonable to go in and say to the teller "Please count them--the last time I was in, all the rolls had only 39 in them". I'm not going to try & get the bank to reimburse me the two coins--I can't prove it, and I can't realistically expect them to believe me, as I'd be suspicious if our roles were reversed--but a part of me really wants to mention it.
All opinions & comments welcome. Maybe I don't have what it takes to be coin role hunting. Or maybe this is just because I'm a total newbie and I will get more resilient.
Rob
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