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Valued Member
United States
67 Posts |
I have read many posts by frustrated roll searchers who think they are searching coins that have already been searched. I mark the rolls that I turn in so I know if I get my own rolls back (and no not with my acct. #, I can't believe people do that!).
My proposition is that the members of the Coin Community Forum come up with a universal mark or word so we can know if we are chasing our tails.
How about writing "searched" on the roll?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
673 Posts |
I mark my rolls with a black line along the roll, I rarely see them again- but then I only get rolls once every couple months.I use a black marker and mark them before I put coins in so it won't bleed onto the coins. Need to make a CC stamp and sell it here for members  . Not me of course...I will leave that to the Operators of this fine forum. I for one would be happy to purchase one  |
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Valued Member
United States
186 Posts |
I take a pink highliter and mark the paper rolls I've searched. With the way things are right now, price of silver, inflation, etc...people who really don't know the true value of their coins are beginning to cash them in, which means more will show up in the rolls we buy.
That being said, I'm not really so sure what true good it does to mark our searched rolls (CERTAINLY, don't deface your coins like some people do!)
since we are going to be searching rolls no matter what and who's to say that just because a roll has been searched by someone else, what if you find something you like that they discarded as "searched" ?
happy hunting,
Laura
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Pillar of the Community
United States
543 Posts |
Thats sound s like a pretty good idea, it would save many people countless hours of searching.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1179 Posts |
I dont roll anything back up though. I'm sure this is the case for many others too. I bring ice cream buckets back in full to the brim :) The banker last weekend looked at me funny when my slip was for $1100 :)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6326 Posts |
Yup !... me too......I just bring back mine ALL loose..... My bank told me NOT to roll them.... because they just had to "break them open" anyway to count them and/or just dump them into the "coin counter machine". Guess they won't take a customers "word" that the paper roll doesn't have "dummy coins" in there or "slugs" or something......but no.......they don't want them rolled....Thank goodness too........that'd be a lot MORE work for me to do !
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Valued Member
United States
328 Posts |
Marking a roll does nothing, because when you turn a roll in, the coins go into a machine and are rerolled that way, and the marked paper goes onto a new set of coins. You would only be getting the same paper back, not necessarily the same coins.
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Valued Member
United States
130 Posts |
I never even considered rolling them up again. That would seem like a huge waste of time to me.
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Valued Member
United States
243 Posts |
I put em right back into the rolls they came out of,I push them into piles of 10 ,to make sure theres the right amount,then put my mark on each roll.I have got rolls that I knew had just been searched ,the coins were all turned the same way.
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New Member
United States
37 Posts |
How about marking the individual coins somehow? Maybe mark one out of every 20 coins with a permanent marker in a certain way. This would be really good to determine if your coins somehow get back to you, even if they were taken to a different bank.
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Valued Member
United States
186 Posts |
NO !! Please don't mark or deface the coins...for the love of God, please don't !
Laura
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2589 Posts |
i have a smelter in my back yard so when I'm done searching through nickels and pennies, I just toss them in their and watch the smog rise over my home, that way I never have to look at the same coin twice
lol
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2602 Posts |
I don't see how marking the wrapper helps all that much, as the coins deposited in the bank often will go back to the fed, where there will be removed from the wrapper, mixed with coins of the same denomination and then re-rolled. It would only work if the bank where they were deposited keeps them and doesn't turn them into the fed. It may vary with different banks, but my bank takes all customer-wrapped coins and sends them to a central branch downtown, and they in turn send them to the fed.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4541 Posts |
I agree with mycrob. waste of time marking the rolls b/c the get re wrapped by brinks and companies like that
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Posted 03/03/2008 9:13 pm
