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My First Real Coin Roll Hunt

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 Posted 02/08/2009  7:25 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add christian_cyclist to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I stopped by my local casino during a bike ride to pick up a couple of rolls. With $20 in hand, I asked the lady behind the cashier counter for two $10 half dollar rolls. The rolls were wrapped in yellow paper with the N.E. String and Sons logo on them.

So what did I get? There was nothing older than 1971 and nothing newer than 2001. I found a couple of Bicentennials in the mix. All the coins looked pretty well circulated. Imagine sticking coins instead of fruits and vegetables into a high speed juicer.

Well, ok, they don't look that bad but there was nothing pristine. So what did I glean?

First, I broke even. The coins didn't cost me anything more than face value. It definitely beats ebay. Who would ship coins, even well circulated ones, at face value with no S&H charges?

Second, I can see how easy it is to build up a complete set of coins. They won't be spectacular MS-6x quality but maybe that's not the point. Upgrading coins through coin roll hunting could be difficult.

So I set aside one of each, year and mint, and put the duplicates from my two rolls into a Zip Loc baggie to take work. Lunch money.

It was actually kind of cool to try and I think I will do it again. Am I hooked? Not yet. Am I getting there? Maybe.

-- Boris
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 Posted 02/08/2009  7:33 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add MtnCoinMan to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Don't feel bad Boris, I got an entire box of Kennedy halves, $500.00 worth, and found nothing older than 1971 or newer than 2001. I got a ton of Bi's, 71s and 72s. I think 99.9999% of silver has been stowed away in shoe boxes, dresser drawers and change jars.
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hmm... I personally think there won't be any silvers in the Casinos because the machines are built to read clad coins. If it was silver, it would have been recognized as counterfiet (to the machine) and rejected.

However, I bet you can find a lot of old nickles at the casinos. I got a Buffalo by asking my parents and their friends to let me go through their nickel winnings.

sigh... Vegas is not fun at all for a minor...
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 Posted 02/08/2009  10:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ceaton to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yeah, I've searched about $3,000 before find one silver half. I dont search halves anymore lol! :0 I honestly got tired of finding the bi-centennials.
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 Posted 02/08/2009  10:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add christian_cyclist to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I wasn't looking for silver issues so much. All I wanted was some nice almost uncirculated coins. I figured half dollars could be a good place to start for ths since they don't seem to make their way around the cash register as much as say a dime or a quarter.

Why would a coin sorter/counter get jammed up with a silver coin but work with a copper/nickel coin? I thought they worked by detecting size, not weight, of the coin.

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pretty sure weight is a factor with these high tech machines. Otherwise any object of the same size, say, a plastic round or an aluminum slug or brass washer would not be rejected if it was the same diameter and thickness
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Yup, silver has a different electromagnetic signature than clad coins. Whenever the machine picks up something different than what it expects, it rejects it as invalid.
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You guys are unlucky. I can RARELY ever find halves, but when I do 90% of the time I've gotten at least 1 silver.
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