Pick A Denomination ~poll~

They are tarnished like old Silver forks and spoons. The 4 in the middle are my latest finds. Not easy to tell from other tarnishes but you can pick it out sometimes. I only get paper rolls but I still roll them out and do an edge check first.

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This is coming from a nonAmerican, I would search your Washingtons (one dollar bills). I would suspect that good finds are not perceived to have value. $1 is $1. You can find United States Notes and Silver Certs, and it would easy to put together a decent set from circulation. Is the $1 bill overlooked as a denomination for searchables? Here the lowest bill is $5 so the process is a bit slower (5x the capital!).

As for coins I would like to say pennies, but the time you waste looking for a wheat just isn't worth my time, to be honest. $1 bills pass through the hands and get spent up like nothing don't sit around in jars, or do they? Do Americans feel obliged to carry every single in their billfold for daily use? They're the first to get spent, am I wrong?

I use verifying the quantity as an excuse to crh. A $25 rack of pennies was 20cents over...which may not seem like much.. but If I verify them before, my drawer won't be off when I bust open a roll.

Call me naive, but why would you save pre-1960 nickels? aside from the Wartime nickels? Is it the lower run numbers? From what I can tell, they're the same composition as the post 1960.

Nickels for sure, as you can tell by my Forum name. You can find silver, buffalo, nickels with under 15 million mintage, and a rare Liberty here or there.

For me, pennies all the way. I'm up here in Canada, so the pennies are gone from the tills, but if they were still around they would definitely be my choice. There are at least 1500 different errors and varieties on our cents, many of which could be pulled from circulation, and seeing how many I could find on a boring afternoon sounds like a sweet way to spend some time.

My response to why keep per '60's is this, sort into 3 piles the next time you do any nickels, Pre-64, 1964 only and post 64. If you have $100 worth I doubt the pre 64 will be even half of the 1964 only pile. With silver being removed from other coins in the follow years the 64 mintage of nickels was 2.8 Billion! The mint always meant to remove the War Nickels from circulation they said so from the start by moving the mint mark and making it larger, so finding AU - MS 1964's is not hard, only keep a few of them thou, after all they are only one in 2.8 billion.

Thanks Jaymon74, after a few thousand rolls you can just see them with out even looking same thing with the older ones I usually open a roll see if there are any that jump out at me then stack or bag it and open the next one, then go back on the close inspection of each I usually only find newer ones because I took the old ones out from just seeing their age.

Cents for me.