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Everyone loves to report their great coin roll finds, but I bet that many of us have other odd or interesting stories relating to this practice. So let's share a few.
Here are a few of mine:
About a month ago I went through a few rolls of dimes. I was not too surprised that my search only yielded a beaten up 1979 Canadian dime. But to make matters worse, a couple of my rolls were actually filled with dead AA batteries with a couple of dimes at either end of the roll.
About a year I found that all of the pennies within a roll that I got from my bank had been sawed in half and soldered back together or were missing a fraction of the coin.
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That stinks. Do you get a lot of dime rolls and not realize it until you opened the roll? I have looked through lots of rolls (penny, nickel, dime, quarter half) but haven't had any of those experiences yet. Only random stuf I found was Australian Coin (fit in a half dollar roll so don't know if it is a Australian half dollar or not) and Canadian coins.
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I'm sure may of you, like me have gotten rolls that were short one coin. Maybe occasionally have an extra coin. I did recently get a roll of IKEs and one of the coins was not a coin but a JFK medallion. Sells on ebay for more than $1 so I guess it wasn't bad. But the medallion was badly damaged so it wasn't even worth keeping. |
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I did recently get a roll of IKEs and one of the coins was not a coin... Where did you get a roll of IKEs? |
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I have found;
play money
casino tokens
transit tokens
buttons
washers
knock-outs from electrical boxes
wads of hair
chewed gum (usually stuck to a coin acting as a spacer)
coins bent so they occupy the space of two coins
partial coins
grease
animal urine (I'm pretty sure it was feline)
coins glued together
coins mutilated and/or corroded so bad I can't guarantee they even were coins
I once got a roll of nickels that had $2.04 in it. 38 nickels. 1 dime and 4 cents.
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Bowfin- heh I must admit that I've found a few things like that too. I once found a nickel onto which someone had blown their nose. Every so often you do open that roll that contains coins that just look wretched.
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The good. I went through a box of cents a while back that contained 38 dimes.
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I have found dimes in cent rolls, foreign coins that were just plain junk.
Oddities, and yes, I have heard about the battery being put into the dime rolls.
Archraz:
Don't you have to feel sorry for people who have to do that in order to make a living.
They are just sad people.
Edited by TreasHunt
11/08/2008 06:00 am
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TreasHunt- yeah I really know what you mean. It really is pathetic when people have to cheat their bank. But at the same time, their attempts to be dishonest can turn out well for me. For instance, I once cracked a nickel roll that was full of British pound coins.
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I returned to the local Wells Fargo to see if anything good had come in. I got $58 in halves, some loose, some rolled. The loose coins included a 1962-D Franklin plus a 1969-D silver-clad. The rolls yielded a 2004-D NIFC coin, plus the worst proof I've ever seen. This is a 1972-S that looks like it's been buried. It is covered with shallow corrosion pits and the S mintmark is barely visible. I'd say it has VF-30 detail, but with the corrosion it would net-grade down to about Proof-03. It's so ugly I may just have to keep it!
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Jaobler- heh Proof-3. That may be the only proof of that grade out there. A real rarity haha.
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Posted 11/07/2008 4:37 pm
