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Valued Member
United States
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I have been roll searching for a few months now in my spare time and I have been seeing alot of mention about bags, plastic wrap rolls, paper wrap rolls, etc. Is there a big difference in the quality of coin you find in these? The rolls I am receiving from my bank are boxes from brinks, but they are plastic wrapped.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I am sure someone knows the answer. The ones I have been getting are paper rolled.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I like customer wrapped rolls(CWR) better... But the only difference is the source really... And also depends on what kind of denomination you are searching...
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United States
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Valued Member
United States
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For me the customer wrapped rolls have produced nothing, not even a Wheat cent, and while the bank wrapped rolls haven't been great they have produced more than zero for me. I have only got the plastic wrapped coins twice the quarters gave me nothing, the box of nickels however gave me my best box ever, I got 2 Buffalo nickels, 4 War Nickels, and one variety of a 1983 P nickel that is shown in the strike it rich with your pocket change book. |
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United States
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It doesn't matter where you get the coins from...it only matters that people deposit/spend valuable coins!
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United States
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I asked this in another thread, but never got a response: 1 time when I searched a roll of brinks halves, the paper rolls had "brinks" written on the side (they were red), the rest have been sort of a green/brown design, with no "brinks" on it, and have been awful (the first box with the brinks rolls had about 200 bucks worth of silver in it), while there have been maybe 4 silver coins in the remaining 10 or so boxes. Where are these non-brinks papers coming from? Do all brinks paper wrapped rolls say brinks? I see yellow brinks rolls on ebay. Everything else I get from brinks is plastic wrapped and is awful too. Wish I could find a way to get the bags from the fed, or otherwise bypass the hucksters at brinks. |
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United States
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I normally get a box at a time and if I am doing pennies, sometimes two. As far as customer wrapped rolls go, I have tried that and they wind up bring me boxes that have my marked rolls in them. So I don't do those. I do mostly pennies but lately it's been nickels. My best penny roll was a plastic wrapped Brinks roll. My best nickel roll was a bank wrapped roll. I personally think that overall there is no difference in quality between the two. However, I do like the bank wrapped rolls better. The garbage rolls are recyclable, were the plastic wrapped rolls are not. Also, a Coke Fridgepack stuffed full of paper bank rolls makes an excellent fire starter.  Edited by KenRingold
04/24/2011 02:30 am
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United States
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Quote:I got 2 Buffalo nickels, 4 War Nickels, and one variety of a 1983 P nickel that is shown in the strike it rich with your pocket change book. Sweet  And I thought I did so good when I found just two Buffalos in a box.  So good I went back and got the box next to it.  Which only had two upgrades and no hole fillers.  |
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 United States
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I only do cent rolls. The only difference between plastic wrapped,or paper wrapped or customer wrapped is that customer wrapped "may" contain older coins because they may have been hoarding their cents for awhile and now need the money. The down side to customer wrapped rolls is sometimes they are short a few coins,and then once in awhile you will find a dime in a roll of cents  . As for boxes of cents from the bank, I don't think it matters if they are Brinks or S&S. John1  |
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United States
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Having consistently roll hunted for 3 years now, I have to say that your best bet will be to intercept customer rolls, on the teller line, before they are shipped out. 95% of my finds are made this way, and I've found multiple rolls of solid silver halves this way.
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Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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For Cents and even Nickels I never try for rolls. Almost all rolls are either from someone that has already looked through them or from a bank that took in those from someone that looked through them.
Some banks now send bulk coins out for counting to places like Brinks and again, those are basically coins already searched. Roll searching is becoming so popular that many are just reseeing the same coins over and over and over.
I always ask at banks for bags of coins. In many banks they keep bags in the vault for coin shortage emergencies. Usually they don't like to just give them out but for customers they know, they sometimes will give them out. Many of such bags have been there for a long, long time and your results may well be completely different from rolls. The Cent ones are $50 and sure are heavy.
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Carl, which banks will sell you bags? I have a hard time buying anything other than boxes, but I've noticed that some of the area banks are starting to buy extra half dollar boxes because so many people are ordering them.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
632 Posts |
Its all luck IMO. Some guy on the forum got a box of 700 lincoln wheats a couple months ago! |
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Valued Member
United States
109 Posts |
I Like the Customer Wrapped One Best
Or Just Let Everyone Know
You Want All There Change
Get With The School When They Do a Penney
Drive With The Kids
I Just Missed One, They Collected $1200.00 in Penny's
But I Missed Getting Them, Someone Else Beat Me To Them
Boatman
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Posted 04/24/2011 12:36 am
