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I think it'll get you a small cup of coffee.

Is it normal to go through a total of about 8,000 coins and find no errors? Does living away from Denver and Philadelphia have anything to do with it?

I have gone through thousands of BU coins and found many saleable errors from new banks rolls. You do need a good eye and a good lupe.

Bank rolls are face value so all you have in them is time.

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Benji is correct about the major errors, that's why I love ebay as I am not going to go to work for a sorting room. Those coins found in sorting rooms end up on ebay.

As for new bank rolls, you do not find usually find major errors, although it IS possible.

Some errors that could be found in Bank rolls are, Off metal strikes, on center double strikes, die adjustment strikes, Missing clad layer strikes, Double denomination strikes, Copper wash strikes, clips, blanks, massive die cracks and Cuds, major strike-through, no edge lettering, double strike edge lettering, split or cracked die strikes, Double dies, and many others.

Bank rolls cost you nothing except time and you will learn a great deal about die varieties.


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So I suppose the bottom line is it isn't worth checking rolls of coins for errors unless you enjoy getting your hands black and becoming nearsighted for the rest of the day. I personally would have been much more happy at my job actually making money those many hours instead of looking through thousands of dirty pennies and dollars. (But don't get me wrong, I love coins) The reason I got startd in cherrypicking is because I would rather find my own goodies and sell them than buy it from other people to invest in.

These forums and many of you in it have been a great help. I think I'll search maybe another 5,000 pennies and despair at the end of that if I don't find anything. And if I find anything iffy I'll post it here to avoid littering the forums with "is this an error?" "what about this one" "surely this must be an error" type of topics.

I think I'll pass on that really small cup of cofee and get my $500 back for now. They gave me a big bag to put all the coins in so I'll be real fun showing off to those people in line at the bank my treasure. And the security gaurds and tellers won't think I have a bomb with me (I always see them staring and always taking quick glances at me and my boxes). I swear- If I ever put a turban on they'll arrest me on the spot if they see me carrying any kind of box with me.

I've been going to the same bank for Presidential dollars and I keep getting sintered errors and die obstruction errors and been getting a good return for them on ebay. I guess you just have to try different banks and keep going to the same one for them? Works for me

Due to quality control at the mint, sometimes it takes searching many thousands of coins to find one error. I coin roll hunt, have been thru many thousands of rolls and have found less than a dozen errors (double clipped nickel, triple clipped penny, two single clipped halves, struck thru half (wire), another struck thru half (reeding shaving)). Have also found MANY of the 1974D DDO, so those varieties are not at scarce as some folks think.