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Valued Member
Canada
287 Posts |
How is it possible that each and every time I get these white rolls, they never ever have any coins dated earlier than 2000? Quarters, dimes, nickels.. makes no difference. Nothing ever older than 2000, even from different banks! I'm gonna start asking for "no white rolls", and I'm sure I'll get weird looks and questions.   |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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The white rolls are all from post nickel mining from my understanding...
I mean, once the base metals are recovered (nickel, copper) the white rolls are the junk coins that are left and redistributed.
Post Y2K for five cents and up...
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I have searched 2 boxes of nickels with the white Distribution Center wrappers and both boxes had nothing older then 2000. Needless to say I do not search the Distribution rolls any more for nickels. I have also searched 1 box of Distribution Center wrapped quarters and the I managed to pull 5 1973. Nothing older with aprox 90% of the dates ranging from 2000 and up. Out of that box I pulled 6 colored coins 3x 2010, 1 x womens Hockey & 2 x Klaussen Skating. The box was also a disappointment. I try to stay to customer wrapped rolls.
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Valued Member
Canada
223 Posts |
Same with penny's... I went through 2 boxes of them and pulled about 30 coppers total, ironically my oldest Canadian cent a 1934 came out of one of them!
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New Member
Canada
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When searching quarter rolls, I don't care as much where they come from. If anything the distribution center rolls might be better as they don't pull mounties\coloreds and the amount of silver is so low in circulation I don't really see it being worth trying to sort for.
As for nickels....I cry a little bit each time I see machine wrapped rolls
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Valued Member
Canada
166 Posts |
I stay away from distribution center rolls. Customer wrapped is what I look for. I also hit up local stores I know and they usually sell me a bunch of rolls they have, and a few store will take my searched rolls in trade for fresh rolls lol. So I put a lot of wrapped ( what I call crapped ) rolls back out which only contain zinc or steel plates, but I mark on the crimped rim with the letter 'M' for metal in blue ink in case of the likely-hood I come across them again. So if you are in my neck of the woods and see rolls with an 'M' on the rim...keep on truckin :)
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New Member
Canada
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Common sense that this will happen. Look at the mintage numbers from year 2000-2010. Basically anything older than like 1999 has been watered out.
When I searched rolls in 2000-2003. I used to get 50's and 60's in every roll. Not anymore.
I don't even bother with it now.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Of course older coins get "watered down" but we are specifically talking about the nickel (as in the metal)coins that the MINT are purposely pulling from circulation under their recovery program.
Machine wrapped rolls are often the result of what is left post processing, hence, very few nickel coins in them.
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Posted 03/16/2011 8:51 pm
