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uncommoncents Valued Member United States 76 Posts	Posted 11/19/2008 01:08 am Which yields more coins worth keeping, hand rolls or machine rolls? When searching half dollars, I have had much better luck with hand rolls. However with pennies, I have had better luck with machine rolls. What is your opinion? Report this Post to the Staff

Archraz Pillar of the Community United States 3499 Posts	Posted 11/19/2008 02:10 am Hand rolls tend to be better since the coins that end up in machine rolls are from a batch that are subject to filtering. By this I mean that a lot of foreign coins and other unusual coins end up being taken out. And in the case of hand rolls, often people try to cheat by putting in odd coins. So this can yield some rather interesting results. For instance I once opened a roll of nickels that was filled with British pound coins. Report this Post to the Staff
Kabiye_Lady Pillar of the Community United States 581 Posts	Posted 11/19/2008 04:07 am I think it's a crap shoot. Machines do filter out "junk" which you might consider interesting. However, a machine can't distinguish a 1950-D Jefferson or a 1909-S VDB from all the other coins. Hand rolls are done by humans. So you have a chance of getting rolls that are "searched" - either throroughly or just someone pulling out ones that look interesting at first glance. Of course, many are not searched at all. If I had to choose between a hand-roll or a machine roll, I'd probably take the hand roll, but that's just because something idiotic deep, down inside of me wants to believe..... in the tooth fairy! Report this Post to the Staff
TreasHunt Pillar of the Community United States 2540 Posts	Posted 11/19/2008 09:13 am I'll choose hand rolls over machine rolls any day. Report this Post to the Staff
Spider5689 Pillar of the Community United States 2269 Posts	Posted 11/19/2008 10:17 am Quote: I think it's a crap shoot. I have had good luck searching both hand and machine rolls. Report this Post to the Staff
PennehChaos Valued Member United States 311 Posts	Posted 11/19/2008 11:56 am For the most part, I get better luck with machine rolls- particularly with nickels. I've never gotten anything interesting out of a customer-wrapped nickel roll. Pennies are more of a mixed bag... on average, I seem to get a lot of exceedingly scummy (corroded) batches, but there is more potential for the occasional "jackpot" (earlier this year I got a batch of $20 in pennies that had been rolled in the early to mid-60s) Report this Post to the Staff
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