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Valued Member
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Question for the board on returns. How much do you bring back each time? Do you count it before it goes? What do you do if you feel you were shorted? I counted $620 in returns and they said I had $607. They had to change the bag and I'm assuming that some was lost in the bag changing. Thoughts?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I roll my halves before I dump them. It's quick and easy enough. If you're at a bank getting halves just ask for wrappers. Nickels and cents I run through a Coinstar at my bank.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I also roll my halves before I return. I just crack a roll down the side, scan for silver, then tape the roll up and take it back. I used to ask for wrappers at the bank, but have found them harder to come by these days. I return 2 or 3 boxes each time.
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Valued Member
United States
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Did 4 boxes this past week...all skunk. Did get 11 40% from a little bank hopping including a shiny 70-s. I think we might see more people cashing in for holiday shopping.
Maine_JIm
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Quote:
I just crack a roll down the side, scan for silver, then tape the roll up and take it back. Quote:
SilverEagle: Your probably missing out on some nice die varieties by not looking at each coin. There's more to it than silver. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 Not to mention that you could miss some 40% that way. I usually look at the edges when I slide them out of the roll. Several times I figured No Silver but was fooled and found 40% when I went through them. |
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United States
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also. I always check each coin for die varities and possible Cuds,die rotation errors etc. Regarding just looking for silver, I would have missed some 1969's that were toned on the edges and looked more like clad on a couple of occasions if I didn't look at each coin. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I agree about watching those 40% silvers very closely, sometimes they can fool the eyes. I examine the roll under a bright lamp and pull out any coin that looks like it may have silver. As far as die varieties and errors - these generally do not interest me, but I do save them if I come across them. I have been searching for five years and began searching by this method for the last six months because wrappers were becoming hard to come by. Maybe I should go back tearing the roll open - you truly never know what you will come across!
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Valued Member
United States
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Thanks for all of the responses. I wish all my boxes were silver and I wouldnt have to worry about returning them.  |
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Valued Member
United States
310 Posts |
Searched box found 1 silver. Also found 1987P, nice condition (a few small scratches but details and shininess is still there), is this worth keeping?
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Valued Member
United States
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Motos, I would keep it. Thats just me as that is one that I'm missing. Guess I would keep it regardless...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I would keep it due to the fact it's a NIFC with a mintage of less than 3 million. Seems like alot of 87's are turning up in the wild. I recently found a P&D.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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For everyone who has trouble finding half wrappers, and rolls their coins before returning them, its not that hard to turn the ends up on machine wrapped rolls, and reuse them. I find that a small screw driver with the end bent slightly to pray the paper up works best. It takes a bit more time, but beats trying to find or buy wrappers. I've found that many banks don't carry them.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I agree! I've done that when I'm short on wrappers (in fact I have a couple hundred I've saved for emergency use) But I've found that the banks don't really like seeing those wrappers for various reasons. The first is obvious...they catch on quick that you are ordering halves from somebody and dumping them there. But the second reason is that once they have accumulated enough to ship back ($1000.00) they then have to open those rolls and dump them in a bag. It is alot easier to dump the halves out of a flat wrapper than the shotgun style rolls. I much rather not have the tellers angry with me. And honestly it's not hard to ask for half wrappers each time you stop in a bank (and most of the time they give me around 100 of them)
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Valued Member
United States
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I knew that it was around 2.8 mill minted in those commemorative sets but I didn't know how good of condition it had to be before it was keepable. Well I guess I will keep it, maybe start a JFK book because I have just been in it for the silver.
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