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Pillar of the Community
United States
3276 Posts |
if I am noot mistaken, brinks boxes of pennies are when the coins are in plastic, and nf string are the paper ones. if I go to the bank to get a box of pennies, how can I make sure I get paper rolls? just wondering because I do a 2 nf string boxes and get 17 and 13 wheats. I do 4 boxes of brinks and everage 4.5 wheats. i'd much prefer the nf string boxes. how can I make sure I get these?
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Moderator
 United States
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Ask the bank teller before you buy them. One bank near me has brinks and there is another bank that has S&S. John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
744 Posts |
I score better also in my area with string vs brinks.......my local super-market gave me the information that brinks is the processing company located in Maine the services their Coinstar machine.
I sell my coppers for profit so I use coinstar to dump large amounts of Zincolns and get them out of my area. The brinks boxes I get, I don't think I get what I do from String boxes, but I accept them from the banks I go to anyway.
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Valued Member
United States
277 Posts |
Call around to different banks and ask them which they carry before you head over there
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Valued Member
United States
277 Posts |
Call around to different banks and ask them which they carry before you head over there
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4113 Posts |
I get both String & Son & Brinks boxes for pennies/nickels/quarters.
I also mix up loose roll purchases between both.
I completely avoid any half dollar boxes from Brinks!
String & Son are much more profitable for Halfs- Brinks is terrible with halfs, at least by me in N.J.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
809 Posts |
It doesn't matter....its all chance! isn't that why we roll search in the first place? because you never know what you are going to find! Its all completely chance...it has nothing to do with what kind of wrappers or what bank they are from...its all chance!  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
3276 Posts |
lincolncentguy: based on my numbers for both kinds of boxes I would much rather have nf string, until that changes then I still want to avoid brinks.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4333 Posts |
Brinks pays someone min wage to sit at a bin and pull silver and copper. CWI (String) is next. I heard they were taking apps.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3276 Posts |
hahaha, maybe I should apply for string. btw, what does CWI stand for?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I think you're losing track of the point. A sample of a few boxes cannot possibly tell you the odds of finding anything in a batch for which there are tens of millions. You just happened to get more in one than the other a few times...says nothing, actually. Furthermore, why are you just concerned about finding wheat cents? Why not just buy a bag of common wheat cents? Guaranteed you'd find 5,000 that way.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Brinks wraps coins, String & Sons makes the machines and supplies the paper they use. They don't wrap themselves. Whether you get plastic or the String & Sons paper depends on what machines the firm doing the wrapping happens to be using. The banks probably contract with one firm or another so whatever they get they will probably keep getting unless the wrapping firm changes machines.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
809 Posts |
Murrellington...my best box I found 47 wheat cents....and it was from Brinks! Also found two Indian Head cents...also from Brinks boxes! I will say Brinks is very very bad for half dollars though...they take out all the silver right at the Brinks office. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Before I though Brinks some how take the silver and old coins away because they have a chance of make big bucks duo the large number of coins they deal with ! I keep searching don't matter what just for sake of my will than last year I found a 1916 Mercury dime in a penny roll Also found a 1945 as wel ,1940 ,1946 cannadian dime . I found a 1909 VDB as the single LWC in the intire box (hard to believe ) . Found about 20 VNickel and buffalos together during roll searching all in Brinks boxes ! the only S.S box I ever got was from my girl at mcds that gave me a full 2009 LSC . So I changed my mind and I don't think they search the coins before they wrap them , I just think the coins are pi ked at registers (bank ,fast-food , grocery store , all by chance ) is all about luck but in my conception the location where you live or get your boxes of ( big city, small old town ,state,east ,west ,) is a big factor in the roll search as how long this box was at the bank safe ?! If the coin box was wrapped years ago you have a better chance to find wethies for sure because every year represent millions billions of more coin to be mixed with ! It's what I learned during my roll search , all about luck and everyday more and more people getting into the search And holding the old finds what is gonna make very hard to find anything sooner then later Edited by Ricardocody
02/21/2011 1:29 pm
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Valued Member
United States
326 Posts |
I agree with lincolncent that it is completely randum chance. I have been successful with both types
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