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I am relatively new to coin roll searching. I wanted to see if any experienced searchers can give me some pointers. What is the best coin to search? Where is the best place to get them?
I live in a town of 250,000 people, but my main problem is that we have a local bank that pretty much runs everything here. One of the largest privately owned banks in America. They have employees that search most coins through them for themselves. We do have quite a few credit unions, but they all use the big bank for their supply and I haven't found any that carry halfs besides the big bank. Am I pretty much screwed here? Is there a place online I can get rolls to search or should I go to the town 2 hours down the road to get my rolls and dump them in my hometown?
Also, is there a cheat sheet somewhere of what to look for?
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First of all welcome! You'll find this to be a friendly and helpful community. If you have an account with a bank, they should be able to get you boxes of rolls. That would avoid having the tellers sort through them first. Most banks I have found are reluctant to sell you boxes if you do not have an account. I search nickels and pennies. A couple of reasons. More for the money and nickels haven't been searched as much, from what I've gathered being on this forum. I have stopped into my banks and have picked up a box or two, but now one of my banks is ordering them, as long as they don't go over their own ordering limit. Good luck searching!
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What is the best coin to search? Depends on your intent and interests. If you are trying to put together sets or find upgrades, I would say either pennies or nickels for starters. Lately I have been having better luck with nickels. If you are mining for silver  , I wish you wouldn't. I can already picture Lady Liberty being melted into silverware. I don't do it and don't condone it so I can't give you advice on that. Quote:
Where is the best place to get them?
If your bank has employees searching coins, they are more than likely just mining for silver. And if the bank itself is not having them do it, I don't think they would be touching rolls much, but perhaps just what is in their trays. I think the bank manager might get a little upset if his employees started cracking open all the rolls. I'd buy a box and see what I got. If nothing try the credit unions. If still nothing, make the two hour drive, buy a million boxes of pennies, search them, then return them unrolled to your big bank. That will keep the tellers busy and they won't be able to search.  Quote:
Is there a place online I can get rolls to search... Not without paying more than face value. Quote:
Also, is there a cheat sheet somewhere of what to look for? I have my own for nickels and pennies and will share here if you like. |
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I am doing it for my own collection. I have had a collection for ten years now, but I haven't added to it at all. I am starting to get sets together for my kids. Don't get me wrong, I would love to find some silver, but I wouldn't sell it for melt.
I plan on going in to my bank and ordering a box of nickels and dimes. How much do each cost? I want to be prepared when I go in so I don't look like a fool. The main problem with my bank is that anytime I have ever gotten rolls from them, they are always rolled in their logo, so I know that they did it.
I would love some help with key dates and what to look for if you have it.
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I would go for pennies...but I am biased towards those. I have an obsession
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Hey Ken,
Share your nickel sheet with us new guys. I'm fixing to go through a large stack of nicks that I have been saving for a few years. Like danmc00 I need some pointers on what to look for.
Thanks, man.
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I plan on going in to my bank and ordering a box of nickels and dimes. How much do each cost? I want to be prepared when I go in so I don't look like a fool Cents :..... $25.00 per box
Nickels :... $100.00 per box
Dimes :.... $250.00 per box
Quarters :. $500.00 per box
Halves :... $500.00 per box
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•Cent rolls have 50 coins; $0.50 per roll
•Nickel rolls have 40 coins; $2.00 per roll
•Dime rolls have 50 coins; $5.00 per roll
•Quarter rolls have 40 coins; $10.00 per roll
•Half Dollar rolls have 20 coins; $10.00 per roll
•Dollar rolls have 25 coins; $25.00 per roll"Some" banks will let you have a small batch of rolls without ordering a whole box. Especially banks that you "don't" belong to. I do this all the time......I'll just pick a bank and go through the drive through and say, "Can I have 10 rolls of quarters please ?" (or whatever denomination). This usually works, but you will occasionally get asked if you have an account there.....then you have to "move on" to another one...  You can certainly get "cheat sheet" lists from the forum here. But, until somebody posts that for you, I'd just say: With "Cents", look for ANY Wheats, BU Memorials, varieties, Indian Heads, or foreign coins. With "Nickels", look for any Silver War Nickels ('42-'45), also the 1939 D, the 1950 D....and a few other semi-keys, and/or any in BU condition, Buffalo nickels, V nickels, 2009 P or D mints (low mintage). With "Dimes"....look for any BU's....and 1964 and earlier are Silver, Mercury dimes. With "Quarters"......look for any BU's.....and anything 1964 and older is silver, (there are of course "Keys" and "Semi-keys" with most everything too, some more than others) With "Halves".....look for any BU's..(2001 P mints and really starting in 2002, both P&D, and newer are classified as "Not intended For Circulation - N.I.F.C.)..and anything 1970 and older is silver. ('65-'70 is 40% silver, and '1964 and older is 90% silver) Franklins of course......and Walkers. Some denominations are easier to put a P & D Set together from circulation, than others are, obviously. And like the Lincoln Cents....you'll NEVER put that one together from circulation. The Lincoln Memorial, yeah, but not the Lincoln Wheats ! But really......aside from the "cheat sheets" you'll have, I'd suggest picking up the latest " RedBook". It will list all of the coins, keys & semi-keys, mintage numbers, apprx. values.....basically "what to look for" in EVERY DENOMINATION ! It's kind of like the coin collectors Bible in a way......very popular.....affordable at $10.00 - $14.00 dollars. It's a spiral bound book that's solid RED.....hence......"The RedBook". Most every bookstore will sell them. Edited by eaglefoot
04/21/2011 2:00 pm
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Okay here are the two cheat sheets I have assembled. I will probably do another look at the one for pennies, since I recently aquired the Cherrypicker's Guide and that list was made before I got it. Although I think it's good to go. The nickel one was made after I got it. CentsAll Wheat, Indian Head, and S mint cents 1959 1959 D 1959 D/D/D large/small rpm 1960 small date 1960 D small date 1960 D/D rpm 1960 D/D large/small DDO rpm 1961 D 1961 D/Horizontal D rpm 1962 D 1963 1963 D 1966 1968 1968 D 1968 S 1969 1969 S 1970 S large and small date 1970 S/S rpm 1971 1971 DDO1972 DDO1972 S 1973 D 1973 S 1974 1974 D 1974 S 1975 D 1976 1976 D 1982 Seven varieties 1983 DDR1984 DDO1984 Doubled ear 1992 CAM 1992 D CAM 1994 DDR1995 DDO1997 DDO1998 WAM1998 S CAM 1999 WAM1999 S CAM 2000 WAM2006 DDONickelsAll Shield, Liberty, and Buffalos 1938 (Double-Die Obverse) 1938 (Quadrupled-Die Obverse) 1938-D (Low mintage) 1938-S (Low mintage) 1939 (Double-Die Reverse) 1939 (Quadrupled-Die Reverse) 1939-D (Low mintage) 1939-S (Low mintage) 1941-D (RPM) 1941-S (Large S) 1942 (Double-Die Obverse) 1942-D (Low mintage) 1943 (Doubled eye) 1943 (Double-Die Obverse + Overdate) 1946-D (RPM) 1946-S (Low mintage) (Double-Die Obverse) 1948-S (Low mintage) 1949-D (Overmintmark D/S) 1949-S (Low mintage) 1950 (Low mintage) 1950-D (Low mintage) 1951-S (Low mintage) 1953-S (Double-Die Obverse) 1954-S (RPM S/S), (RPM S/D) 1955 (Low mintage) 1955-D (Overmintmark D/S) 1956 (Tripled & Quadrupled-Die Reverse) 1964-D (RPM) 1990-D (Missing initials on obverse) 2009-P & D (Low mintage) |
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On another note, the 2009 dimes were low mintage also.
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My biggest issue with using cheat sheetsis that it pretty much limits you to a very small sample of what is known and completely negates the possibility of discovering anything new. The best thing to do is know what a normal coin looks like then search everything for anything that stands out. Of course with the CherryPickers Guide you will have a list of many of the well known die varieties, but that book lists less than 5% of everything known. There are a LOT of die varieties that are valuable and well worth searching for that are not in the CPG or the Red Book at all. |
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But with a cheat sheet with the more common varieties to look for, you won't be spending days examining each and every coin. Unless that is what you want to do. I personally, don't have the patience or microscope required for that.
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I don't mean to commit an act of treason, but he may not be interested in any varieties. It is very time consuming, but quite worthwhile nonetheless, I would agree. Just starting out though, he may want to look for "easier" finds that don't take the professional well practiced eye to find. There are still MANY little treasures to be found without looking for any of those. And yeah, some varieties are VERY hard to find without a GREAT microscope or even digital scales to identify them. If he's not well equipped with the experience and the proper tools.....could be very difficult and unrewarding possibly. But I'd still say to "try it".....you have to start somewhere eventually in the "variety/error" realm, it can be daunting, but profitable if you're successful.....  I've made a couple very short lived foray's into that world.....need to give it another go around soon.... Edited by eaglefoot
04/22/2011 01:16 am
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I just search the rolls to fill my dansco. I compare each coin to the one I have in the album and upgrade as necessary. Nothing beats cracking open a roll and finding a hole filler for me :)
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Got my first rolls today. Went to a town 2 hours south of me for some business and hit a couple of banks while I was there. Ended up with: 3 Boxes of dimes 2 Boxes of Nickels 1 Box of Quarters So far I have searched two boxes of dimes and found this: 1945 Mercury dime (was very excited to find this) 1964 D 1956 D 1964 P 1949 D 1959 D 1962 D (5) 2009 Dimes and about 4 that I would call a "deep dish" variety of dates (the edges come up really high on them....don't know if they are just junk or worth something) Needless to say, I was very excited for my first two boxes of dimes. I tried at 5 banks to get a box of halves and only one bank had halves at all and they required me to be a customer to get them. I was able to buy the dimes from them though. Can't wait to search the rest of the boxes tomorrow! |
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Also wanted to know if I am just looking for 1964 and older plus the 2009 dimes? Is there key dates on other Roosevelt's?
I really appreciate all the help you guys have already given a newbie!
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Keydates - 1949-S
Semi-key dates - 1949, 1950-S, 1951-S, 1952-S
Then there are the varieties also. I don't collect Roosevelts and I don't mine for silver so I don't have a cheat sheet.
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