Posted 01/13/2008 02:01 am
My brother who has a grocery store called me up at home and told me to come to the store and bring some cash. When I got there he brought me up to the office and showed me about 15 rolls of quarters that had come in with his coin shipment for the week. All silver 1937 to 1967. I was quite fortunate getting them for face value. A week goes by and I get another call and am told to come on down and bring cash. The Brinks truck had been there and this time it was about twenty rolls of silver dimes 1937 to 1968. A month after that I was going through the check out and I noticed the penny tray was full of George VI I cent coins. I told my brother and we checked his coin inventory and found another 10 rolls (circulated)of cents. He called over to the other store in the chain and asked the head cashier to check her stock and sure enough another 10 rolls. Later that year it was five full boxes of BU Canadian mixed rolls of cents ranging fron 1957 through 1963. Coins are out there, and it,s just a matter of being lucky enough to cross paths with them. I bought three rolls of 5 cent coins from his store, only because I was looking for an easy to find late issue coin and I figured 1 roll would do it, but bought three just in case. The first roll I opened I found what I was looking for and was going to return the other two, but for some reason thought why not check the other two. The other two contained every 5 cent coin from 1922 to 1967 including varieties. The 1925 and far 6 were not there though. I think that people collect these coins then die, and the families either don't know or don't care, roll up all the coins and take them to the bank.
