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Valued Member
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I constantly see people saying how they search through boxes of coins to find errors and I was wondering where to get boxes of coins.
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Pillar of the Community
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You can order them from your bank branch.
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Valued Member
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what amounts of pennies can you order the boxes in.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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One box of $25.00 is 5,000 coins. Also a good time to pick up hand rolled Cents as hard times get worse, the more hand rolled coins get turned in. These may have been out of circulation for some time.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Boxes of pennies (cents...not this again....lol) come in $25 face boxes.
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Pillar of the Community
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One box of $25.00 is 5,000 coins. Also a good time to pick up hand rolled Cents as hard times get worse, the more hand rolled coins get turned in. These may have been out of circulation for some time. Definitely can find some gems in those, but to play devil's advocate, you may also be getting someone's rejects who is doing the same thing. I get a high enough percentage of copper cents and wheats out of $25 boxes, that I just order the regular sealed ones. I have found a handful of 1998 and 2000 Wide America varities this way too, but no other errors that I recall. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Coin Hunter Nice looking 1950-D Franklin Avatar. How Did I know it's a Denver?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I got about 30 rolls of hand rolled ones once and 99% of the were Philly cents. Someone had picked through them, but I did find a 2000 wide A M that they missed.
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Valued Member
United States
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One box of $25.00 is 5,000 coins. Also a good time to pick up hand rolled Cents as hard times get worse, the more hand rolled coins get turned in. These may have been out of circulation for some time. Wouldn't 5,000 cents equal $50 dollars? How could the box cost only $25? |
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Coin Hunter Nice looking 1950-D Franklin Avatar. How Did I know it's a Denver? Is it because it's a key date, so why would he show the 'P'. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It's $25 I think... I think he means 50 rolls.
Anyways, I just had a talk with one of the tellers. He said that whenever he orders them from the Fed, he has to order in boxes, so I think if you can talk with him, he can get you some, but only in multiples of boxes.
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Pillar of the Community
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$25 box = 2,500 coins or 50 rolls.
$50 bag = 5,000 coins or 100 rolls.
All cents came in bags from some time in the late wheat years up until 2001. $50 bags could be ordered and purchased at banks. Starting in 2002, the Mint started packaging cents in tubs that contain what I believe to be 400,000 coins each for shipment to the Fed and to banking suppliers like Brinks for wrapping. After the coins are wrapped, they go into boxes that hold $25 each.
One thing to know and make note of...JUST because you can get $25 'sealed' boxes of cents does NOT mean all the coins in the box will be solid date BU rolls. It just depends on what the rolling company was wrapping up that day. They gat cash-ins from banks and coinstar vendors (and others) and wrap those up too.
Remember - financial systems are there to take care of money in a utilitarian sense of the word - they are not there to create collectibles for you, so they don't care if the rolls are solid date. Just depends on what comes out of the machine that day.
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Chuck beat me to it, but I look at a box ocents for 25 dollars, is the same as 2500 cents, so I don/t get confused. LOL Don't ask me about nickles, because I don't but them. Quarters, and, (used to) halfpdollars), yes. Those are $500.00 each. Dimes, no way! I can't keep them from slipping between my fingers. Shadow, maybe they had a sale that day!  Dick Edited by livingdinasaur
04/23/2009 4:24 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'm wrong...... I was thinking 50 rolls and put the wrong amount for the coins. Maybe they should make 100 Cent rolls?  Quote:
Rockdude wrote:
Is it because it's a key date, so why would he show the 'P'. There is a different answer to this question....  Edited by coop
04/23/2009 4:37 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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It's the only one offered in the 'avatar selection' for your profile.
Edited by rockdude
04/23/2009 4:57 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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That's true. But I was thinking of something else. I'll share that later...  |
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