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Pillar of the Community
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i have been "roll" searching for quite some time, (mostly nickels), and recently a complete bank box of pennies. I have read a few posts, implying that people use one bank where they purchase rolls, and a different bank where the "dump" their searched coins, thereby assuring themselves that when they buy more rolls, the are NOT searching their own rolls twice. my question is - what if you are buying rolls, at the bank where I "dump" my coins. are you not at risk of searching my - searched coins?
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Yes, that risk exists. In fact, anywhere there's more than 0.01 Numismatist/Sq.Mi., they are probably searching someone else's previous searches. Don't make them dwell upon it, though.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Searching other peoples' "dump stations" is a hard cruel fact........and a very frustrating one....  |
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United States
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It depends really on the chain of custody. If you are buying boxes I think 99% of the coins you're looking at have been reviewed for collectability by someone somewhere. If a teller has loose rolls that have recently been deposited by an elderly long-time customer who has written their name and telephone number in an unsteady hand in blue across the fraying soft brown paper wrapper, then you might have a better chance, but it's all the luck of the draw.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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And people do make mistakes and overlook coins they may not like, but we do...anything red 1980 and below, errors, ect..good luck!
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Pillar of the Community
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And....  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Everytime they give me a box it's a sealed Brinks box with plastic wrapped rolls. I have yet to get any customer wrapped rolls....which might be good or bad. I mark ALL my rolls with a big Sharpie X to make sure there's no way I'm getting those back. LOL
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Go on a road trip out to a bank in the middle of no-where. You should have better luck of finding customer wrapped rolls.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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neversuited1 said; "And people do make mistakes and overlook coins they may not like, but we do...anything red 1980 and below, errors, ect..good luck!"
I know this is true because I'll look thru rolls I've looked thru and find something interesting. Yep, I missed it the first time.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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this is an old picture; but it is just an example of what can be found (the coin is a 1912D)  |
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Valued Member
United States
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I've never found a Barber, some WL's and Franks though
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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CND ... Hi, Are you ever going to go back to searching for that 50D nickel?
We missed you down there on that/those topic(s)
I don't blame you for searching halves instead but we are left hanging. :-)
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CND ... Hi, Are you ever going to go back to searching for that 50D nickel?
We missed you down there on that/those topic(s)
I don't blame you for searching halves instead but we are left hanging. :-)  Will your contest ever have a winner?   Just to be clear, it is just a little good fun between friends. I know you have had some difficult problems recently, so take your time!  Edited by jbuck
12/10/2008 10:39 am
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It depends really on the chain of custody. If you are buying boxes I think 99% of the coins you're looking at have been reviewed for collectability by someone somewhere. I would say it's at least five nines (99.999%), with a HOWEVER: boxes of machine-wrapped rolls from Brinks, etc., consist of bags of coins collected from various sources, dumped into a machine and rolled out at random. So while you are undoubtably looking through coins that have been seen by various people, possibly including yourself (!), it's always possible that they're being mixed in with somebody's old coin jar (or even collection) that got dumped into a counter somewhere. As an example, I recently pulled a very nice AU red-brown 1953-D cent out of a machine roll. Then the next roll had two of them. There were one or two more in that box, and then a couple more in the next box, and a couple more in a THIRD box, all bought at the same time... in the end, I had 9 '53-D and 2 '52-D all in high AU condition with some red remaining. (Of course it works both ways... right now I'm on my third box of cents that seems to include the results of somebody's can-we-dissolve-a-penny-with-THIS experiment... ugh) Quote:
If a teller has loose rolls that have recently been deposited by an elderly long-time customer who has written their name and telephone number in an unsteady hand in blue across the fraying soft brown paper wrapper, then you might have a better chance, but it's all the luck of the draw. Rule #1 of coin roll hunting- be nice to your cashiers :) |
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United States
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And the ones that arent nice back, they get the dumps.
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Posted 12/09/2008 10:54 am
