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Valued Member
Canada
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Just wondering what you opinion is to find circulation coins - asking for rolled coins or receiving change.
I am finding that when I ask for rolled coins, I only seem to get coins that are not needed. Seems like these rolled coins are ones that someone else has already gone through. Never a nice surprise.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Rolled coins by far. I can go into a bank and ask for 10 rolls of quarters and I have 400 quarters to sort through. Do you know how many weeks/months it would take me to receive 400 quarters in change?!
The good finds in a roll of 40 quarters is not better than the 40 quarters I can get in change, it is just that there are more quarters going by the roll so I find more good stuff quicker than waiting for pocket change.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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 Any denomination of rolls give you much higher odds of finding something good! The last $25 box of rolled Lincolns that I searched I found 14 wheat cents, One of them was a 1958 D with a retained interior die break, another one (I don't remember the year) had a few die chips . Plus a few more keepers. Rolls are definitely the way to go  Always check your pocket change, that should be second nature! Edited by Tootallious
12/17/2017 12:43 am
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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I always examine change I get/find, but that doesn't happen too often as I primarily use a card.
If I wanted to satisfy the urge to search and increase my odds of finding something, rolls are the way to go.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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My apologies, I just noticed that you are from Canada and my opinion was based on U.S. Coins. However, I'm sure the same applies as the more coins that you have to look through, the better the odds of finding a keeper!
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Valued Member
 Canada
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So if most are stating that rolled coins are the way to go, would you prefer asking for rolled coins from a bank or from a store. What do you think are the better odds of finding something worthwhile.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Bank. IMHO, my experience with stores is that they don't like to sell the rolls that they just got from a bank for handing out change to customers. It defeats the purpose they got them in the first place.
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Valued Member
United States
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I just started again last month, I like to order bank boxes of halves and dimes, $500 per half box and $250 per dimes
I did get a bank to sell me two bags of dimes, $1000 per bag and 10,000 dimes. Found 12 dimes, but one was a 1915 King George the V in XF+ worth about $25 Now they say they cannot sell bags because of the paperwork so I ordered 2 boxes of halves and 4 boxes of dimes to go through.
I then take them to my 8 dump banks, with coin counters to get rid of them, don't like to go to a dump bank more than once a week, you don't want them to shut you down dumping thousands of coins
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Valued Member
Canada
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If you get that many coins - how long does it take you to go through them all. I have been going through coins of a friend of mines who has been saving coins for years. I would take a bucket full of coins each time I saw him and it would take several hours to go through them and I wouldn't go through all types of coins but rather just quarters and dollars. Didn't bother with pennies or nickels as there were just too many to go through. Thought I would concentrate on the coins that I was looking for.
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Pillar of the Community
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would you prefer asking for rolled coins from a bank or from a store. Both. It's doesn't hurt to ask. If they say no, they say no. In many cases, it all depends on how you ask. I've had luck with both. From where I sit, it's the luck of the draw. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I've been roll hunting since the mid-1970's. For me, the only difference between hand rolled or machine rolled is the chance for finding solid silver rolls with hand rolled.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Valued Member
Canada
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Tried to see what I would find if I got rolled coins rather than just looking in change. Went through 10 rolls and only found 1 Women's Right to Vote loonie. Although I was happy to get it as I still need a few more, was hoping that I would receive some other coins that are still needed but no such luck.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Don't forget too, to look for upgrades if you collect circulated coins. Eighty-five percent of my Canadian Loon Dollar collection is from circulated coins. The rest I had to buy in mint condition as they were not circulated those years. I am not missing any from that set but from time to time I will pick up 10 rolls of Loonies to see if I can upgrade the quality of those coins and occasionally I find one in better condition than I had, so I will do a swap.
To me, finding a coin in better shape than I currently have, is as enjoyable as filling a missing hole in an album.
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Valued Member
Canada
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I do look through all of the circulated coins from the rolls (even the ones I already have) As you mentioned some of the coins originally received are not in the greatest condition so I will need to swap them.
Still hoping to try and get more for my grandkids collections as I had stopped for a few years and have only recently started up again.
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