Bags Or Rolls, Which Has A Better Chance To Find Errors?

I would say chances are better in bags and only because you would get more coins in the bag.

I agree...bags. But for a different reason.

In bags you have a chance of finding errors which would foul a coin counter or roller and be removed, such as die caps, significant off-centers, multi-strikes, etc.

Also, chances are that in a bag of coins, say, a $50.00 bag of cents, all the coins in that bag will be from the same bin (same coining machines). If an error occurs, there's likely to be multiples of that error in the bag.

Steve


Steve

Neither. The Mint no longer bags coins the way they used to so a bag of coins struck for circulation does not exist anymore outside of the special bags of any coins they might be selling in Mint Gift shops.

The coins are shipped in huge bags that are filled by weight to places like Brinks where the coins are counted and rolled.

So..today , the only thing you can get that contains regular mintage coins dated in the current year are the rolls that come from companies like Brinks or N F String and Sons.

You can find bags that have been laying around for years but they are usually in dealers stock and not available from the Mint or from banks.

Anything found at banks that would be in bags would be coins rolled or loose that had been brought in by customers to be traded for cash.

It therefore makes little difference what form they are found in, Rolled or bagged since the bags are filled with the same as the rolled coins with the coins removed from their wrappers.

Actually, The US MINT bags are becoming collectible:-) I can't tell you about values on them but there is a market developing:-)

Thanks Bill, explains why you corrected on another post.

On the bags of older coins that are still sealed, the chances of find the coins from the same dies over and over. Usually rolls have the same number as the batch they came from. So the bag could be a two edge sword. They could have several of the same variety or....... All coins will nothing as regards varieties. I've gotten a couple of bags that way. 1964 & 1964-D. Nothing of note in either bag. I found one double clipped cent once, but now that I think about it it was in a tubed roll.