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Canada
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In the last month, I've found a 20p in a nickel roll, a 5p in a dime roll, and a 10p in a quarter roll. Is the reverse also true in the rolls you guys use? (idle curiosity)
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 Australia
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I don't think they still use "rolls" in Britain. If they're like here in Australia, the banks have all switched to plastic bags instead, which are checked by weight.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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 Canada
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United Kingdom
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Last time I got a bag it had US and Euro coins in it. 100 pennies had 1 cent and 2 eurocents.
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United Kingdom
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I thought we didn't do rolls at all - only bags, however I was in Lidl (a European run bargain basement supermarket) the other day and noticed they had rolls in the till - not issued by any of our local banks though. It may be that because this is a continental European company they do something different - but that's the only instance I know off.
From the writing I saw on them they seem to have been put together somewhere on the continent - not here in the UK.
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United Kingdom
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In UK bags, I have found:
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar
Guernsey
Isle of Man
Jersey
St. Helena Ascension
Ken
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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I don't get much coin rolls, but one time I got two or three Canadian penny rolls from a relative that weren't searched (freshly from a bank). As I was looking through, I found a 1995 one cent coin from Singapore in BU condition.
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Canada
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The U.S. of A. could operate on plastic bags if they didn't use it for the cent. Nickels, quarters, dimes, can all be weighed (uncommon to see silver, although they're around, and even if they were counted towards the total weight the customer would still lose).
Canada, though has a unique problem, in that it changes its coins' alloys every 15- years, it seems. We have dimes that were nickel until 2000, quarters with the same issue, nickels with nickel then cupro-nickel and finally steel, and pennies with all sorts of anomalies. Even loonies and toonies are going the way of the penny.
The usual foreign coins I find are Euro cents and Barbados quarters.
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United Kingdom
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Even here we have had coins changing alloy (and size)in recent times., at least you guys in Canada still have some coins which are pure nickel and some with silver - I am so envious ! The best you can get with roll hunt here are old bronze pennies and 2p coins and in the not too distant future it will be exciting to find cupro-nickel 5p and 10p coins ..... I tend to get the impression that Isle of Man coins are one of the most frequent foreign coins in bags here ...
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05/19/2013 4:04 pm
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Canada
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You're lucky to have all the dependencies that use the same-sized coins, though. Most of my foreign finds wouldn't pass muster through a coin counter, and so I can either commit roll fraud and hope the scarily accurate tellers won't sense it through the paper (one decided that a dime roll I had was 1 dime thick - she opened it up and indeed counter 1 over... this is a 1.22 mm difference...), or suck it up and lose money on the deal. Most non-American foreigns are used to deliberately cheat rolls/slow-witted cashiers, and it's a rare foreign find that's worth above face value.
The best find I've seen was made in the 70s by my father. Someone gave him a dime in change, and it was an Edwardian 1903H! The best find I've made were six silver Centennial (1967) quarters in the same roll, but I have yet to find silver in any other denominations.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Roll fraud  ! At least you have experienced finding silver , did you keep the silver coins ? |
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United Kingdom
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Got a bunch of 5 pences from the bank to make a set of 5 pence for a friend in Oz. Found a 1992 5 pence coin from Jersey in the lot.
I did like roll searching more when I lived in the US since silver and other old coins could be found. In the UK, oldest coins would be the 1 pence or 2 pence from 1971.
Ken
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United Kingdom
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An associate of mine got a 1910s half penny in change masquerading as a 2p. A guy I know who ran a till has had silver 3ps hiding in change as 5ps. He apparently once got a cupronickel shilling, I have no idea who could possibly think thats still a thing. SOme people just dont look at their money.
I once also counted up some charitable donations from one of those tins and found all sorts of rubbish and old stuff in there
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Interesting finds !  Do you know long ago he found the half penny ? And what sort of condition was it in ? |
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United Kingdom
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It was 2013 and it was in alright condition - it mustnt have recirculated long. He lives up in the north.
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United States
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Here in the States I often find Canadian coins which is great. I'm happy to have them.
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