[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Coin Roll Hunting (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 9/14/2015 6:48:10 PM EDT
| I recently started looking for old coins in coin rolls bought from the bank. I've been finding a lot of uncirculated pennies from the 1950s to the 1980s. Anyone know if thats normal? |
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Quoted: not normal in the sense that new pennies from the 50's to 80's usually aren't found in circulation, but normal in finding neat stuff like if you search enough, part of the fun Find any silver yet? I just found a 1960 mint condition that was stamped off center, so thats nice. I found about 10-20 30% silver nickels and a 90% 1964 Kennedy half dollar.  |
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Quoted: Had a neighbor that used to get those large $50?? canvas bags of pennies from the bank and search them. Used to find all sorts of stuff from Indian cents to errors, etc. Lots of sorting involved in that. I'm hoping that I can find some indians but I'm not holding my breath. I have found about 15 wheats pennies though. |
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Had a neighbor that used to get those large $50?? canvas bags of pennies from the bank and search them. Used to find all sorts of stuff from Indian cents to errors, etc. Lots of sorting involved in that. My dad did this with me and my brother when we were little. Around 30.years ago or more. I found a 1919 wheat penny that could pass for uncirculated. I also found a well worn silver 3-cent piece in a roll of pennies. I've heard stories of people going to small town banks and asking for their oldest bank bags of half dollars, and rarely (but it has happened) taking home a bag of Franklens. I would never get that lucky. |
| I got two rolls of half dollars for tooth fairy purposes and found one silver one, which was worth like $10 at the time. That was a great ratio and I asked once or twice after that, but they never had rolls. I suspect finding silver is pretty hard, although people probably turn in grandpa's old rolls once in a while and you could find cool stuff. |
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I'm hoping that I can find some indians but I'm not holding my breath. I have found about 15 wheats pennies though. Quoted:
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Had a neighbor that used to get those large $50?? canvas bags of pennies from the bank and search them. Used to find all sorts of stuff from Indian cents to errors, etc. Lots of sorting involved in that. I'm hoping that I can find some indians but I'm not holding my breath. I have found about 15 wheats pennies though. I have roughly 4 dollars in wheatback pennies, and 5-6 indian head pennies. When I worked at a gas station I used to come across all sorts of coins. My biggest regret was someone came in with a 10 dollar roll of quarters that turned out to be all silver quarters and I didn't trade a 10 dollar bill for it. |
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My dad did this with me and my brother when we were little. Around 30.years ago or more. I found a 1919 wheat penny that could pass for uncirculated. I also found a well worn silver 3-cent piece in a roll of pennies. I've heard stories of people going to small town banks and asking for their oldest bank bags of half dollars, and rarely (but it has happened) taking home a bag of Franklens. I would never get that lucky. Quoted:
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Had a neighbor that used to get those large $50?? canvas bags of pennies from the bank and search them. Used to find all sorts of stuff from Indian cents to errors, etc. Lots of sorting involved in that. My dad did this with me and my brother when we were little. Around 30.years ago or more. I found a 1919 wheat penny that could pass for uncirculated. I also found a well worn silver 3-cent piece in a roll of pennies. I've heard stories of people going to small town banks and asking for their oldest bank bags of half dollars, and rarely (but it has happened) taking home a bag of Franklens. I would never get that lucky. A good 40 years ago my father and I used to drive around to all of the local banks and get hundreds of dollars of pennies that were rolled to go through them. We never found anything worth a lot of money, but we collected a nice assortment of wheat ears. |
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The wife said that locally there was a sudden rash of old coins coming through the bank. Some checking around revealed that an elderly person had died and left all their change, several 5 gallon water jugs full, to his youngest grandson. Kid was having a blast, buying snacks and candy. Eventually most of it showed up rolled and it turned out to be almost $3000 the old guy had left the kid.
It wasn't a situation of old coins, but when Mom's second husband died he left behind several of those 5 gallon water cooler jugs full of change and a piggy bank collection with each bank filled. It was split between all the grand kids and it worked out to a few hundred buck each. Hopefully the money went into college funds for them. |
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I thought nickels where made of, you know, nickel.
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I just found a 1960 mint condition that was stamped off center, so thats nice. I found about 10-20 30% silver nickels and a 90% 1964 Kennedy half dollar.
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not normal in the sense that new pennies from the 50's to 80's usually aren't found in circulation, but normal in finding neat stuff like if you search enough, part of the fun Find any silver yet? I just found a 1960 mint condition that was stamped off center, so thats nice. I found about 10-20 30% silver nickels and a 90% 1964 Kennedy half dollar.
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This site has all the metal compositions of circulating and non circulating coinnage http://www.coinflation.com/ |
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Quoted: Nickels are actually 75% copper 25% silver except so called silver war nickels which were 35% silver Quoted: Quoted: I thought nickels where made of, you know, nickel. Nickels are actually 75% copper 25% silver except so called silver war nickels which were 35% silver No. Only the war nickels contained silver. Did you mean to type nickel instead of silver? |
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I thought nickels where made of, you know, nickel. Nickels are actually 75% copper 25% silver except so called silver war nickels which were 35% silver Ummm..... No |
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I'll ask around for half dollar rolls now and then around town.
About 3 years ago I went to a local Wells Fargo, and they actually had some. Got 9 rolls of halves, and 8 of them were 40% silver Kennedys. Heck they were even dated on the rolls, so I'm guessing it was a late husband/father's silver stash that someone unknowingly got $10 a roll for. Aside from those, have found a few other silvers in the rare occasions a bank has halves. |
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Quoted: Nickels are actually 75% copper 25% silver except so called silver war nickels which were 35% silver Quoted: Quoted: I thought nickels where made of, you know, nickel. Nickels are actually 75% copper 25% silver except so called silver war nickels which were 35% silver This. The ones I have that are the silver war nickels |
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Quoted: War nickles are worthless. I f you find donebody tgat will actually buy them and pay you their silver content, sell them all ASAP and then pm me their address and phone number. If they are truly silver war nickels they are worth 0.81 cents at current spot. We pay 75% of that at the store, silver is silver we don't care if it is a nickel, spoon or a pulled capped tooth. |
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I thought nickels where made of, you know, nickel. Nickels are actually 75% copper 25% silver except so called silver war nickels which were 35% silver From your link: 1946 - 2014 Jefferson Nickel Value (United States) Metal Composition:75% copper, 25% nickel |
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Used to hunt rolls when I was 13, that was 1985.
I hardly ever found anything in the pennies, and not a single pre-65 in any of the quarters or dimes...and I went through a LOT. It got to the point when one of the tellers would let me take home $20 worth of what ever I wanted to look through without paying her, as long as I rolled them all back up and brought them back in before the bank closed. I did a lot of bicycle riding back and forth during that time. My score in pennies was mainly 1944 and 1957 with a few odds mixed in. Found a half dozen or so war nickles. Usually when I found stuff, it was in change. I LOVE the familiar sound of silver clinking when the cashier hands me my change.
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If they are truly silver war nickels they are worth 0.81 cents at current spot. We pay 75% of that at the store, silver is silver we don't care if it is a nickel, spoon or a pulled capped tooth. Quoted:
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War nickles are worthless. I f you find donebody tgat will actually buy them and pay you their silver content, sell them all ASAP and then pm me their address and phone number. If they are truly silver war nickels they are worth 0.81 cents at current spot. We pay 75% of that at the store, silver is silver we don't care if it is a nickel, spoon or a pulled capped tooth. You resell them as numismatic coins then, correct? Manganese is a bitch to smelt out, even if you do get a mint waiver. 
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Quoted: You resell them as numismatic coins then, correct? Manganese is a bitch to smelt out, even if you do get a mint waiver. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: War nickles are worthless. I f you find donebody tgat will actually buy them and pay you their silver content, sell them all ASAP and then pm me their address and phone number. If they are truly silver war nickels they are worth 0.81 cents at current spot. We pay 75% of that at the store, silver is silver we don't care if it is a nickel, spoon or a pulled capped tooth. You resell them as numismatic coins then, correct? Manganese is a bitch to smelt out, even if you do get a mint waiver. We have a lot of customers who are buying silver coins for investments or a few are preppers. So we sell the coins for the silver value. If the coin is in really good condition XF or higher we will try to sell it for numismatic value. We don't bother melting the coins, easier to sell them as is. |
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This. The ones I have that are the silver war nickels Quoted:
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I thought nickels where made of, you know, nickel. Nickels are actually 75% copper 25% silver except so called silver war nickels which were 35% silver This. The ones I have that are the silver war nickels Nope. Regular nickels are not 25% silver. Only the war nickels had silver content. |
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I've found over 3500 Buffalo in rolls. And 10,000 pre 58 pennies. I've fill up I don't know how many boards with unc coins. Did the same with Nickles. 11 complete War Time Silver Unc condition sets. The only ones I've never had much luck with are dimes. I've found a lot of Unc. But not a lot of Silver. Kennedy Halves have been my best. Over 200 Silver. 20 - 30 Proof and hundreds of Unc. Sold a Dansco Album with Kennedy's for over a thousand that I got for .50cents each.  Ed |
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Quoted: No. Only the war nickels contained silver. Did you mean to type nickel instead of silver? Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I thought nickels where made of, you know, nickel. Nickels are actually 75% copper 25% silver except so called silver war nickels which were 35% silver No. Only the war nickels contained silver. Did you mean to type nickel instead of silver? Thanks for the catch, yeah meant nickel |
| While working in retail for way too fucking long, i have found a lot of older coins, and a few bills also. Oldest was a one cent piece from 1898. Found a 1935 $5 bill, and one or two pre 64 silver coins. Ever since i have left retail, i haven't found one silver coin. I have seen every 1965 coin ever produced, but nothing 64 and earlier. |
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Quoted: All of the 50s-80s pennies are in this condition. http://i1320.photobucket.com/albums/u522/jasonTTKA/F1E83DC0-B4A9-48DD-8593-25A394565899_zpsrf5brecw.jpg Somebody dumped Grandpa's coin jug into a coin star machine |
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I will hunt half dollar rolls. And find a few here and there.
During the recession it was much more common. From people cashing in old piggy banks to thieves stealing and rolling coin collections. I would find silver halfs about 1 out of three rolls if they were handrolled. Coin Star machines have hurt the coin hunting pretty bad in my opinion. Just last week a teller told me someone found a gold coin in a roll that was brought in...... Wasn't me.... 
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Nope. Regular nickels are not 25% silver. Only the war nickels had silver content. Quoted:
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I thought nickels where made of, you know, nickel. Nickels are actually 75% copper 25% silver except so called silver war nickels which were 35% silver This. The ones I have that are the silver war nickels Nope. Regular nickels are not 25% silver. Only the war nickels had silver content. 1943, and look for a P mint mark above the Lincoln memorial. |
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I thought nickels where made of, you know, nickel. Nickels are actually 75% copper 25% silver except so called silver war nickels which were 35% silver Ummm..... No Yep, modern nickels are 75% copper, 25% nickel. From 1942-1945 silver was actually cheaper and less useful for war production than nickel was, so they removed the nickel and some of the copper content and replaced it with 35% silver, 56% copper, 9% manganese. The manganese causes the war nickels to tarnish quickly and produce a greenish hue. War nickles in circulated condition tend to go for a good deal of money compared to a penny of the same year and condition. |
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1943, and look for a P mint mark above the Lincoln memorial. Quoted:
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I thought nickels where made of, you know, nickel. Nickels are actually 75% copper 25% silver except so called silver war nickels which were 35% silver This. The ones I have that are the silver war nickels Nope. Regular nickels are not 25% silver. Only the war nickels had silver content. 1943, and look for a P mint mark above the Lincoln memorial. GD never fails. |
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Quoted: A member at your bank beat you to them. Quoted: Quoted: I've been through at least 100 rolls of dimes, and qrts....haven't found a single silver coin. A member at your bank beat you to them. I work at a bank as a teller so I'm always looking for old coins when people bring change in. I snatch up silver half dollars almost daily. |
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Yep, modern nickels are 75% copper, 25% nickel. From 1942-1945 silver was actually cheaper and less useful for war production than nickel was, so they removed the nickel and some of the copper content and replaced it with 35% silver, 56% copper, 9% manganese. The manganese causes the war nickels to tarnish quickly and produce a greenish hue. War nickles in circulated condition tend to go for a good deal of money compared to a penny of the same year and condition. Quoted:
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I thought nickels where made of, you know, nickel. Nickels are actually 75% copper 25% silver except so called silver war nickels which were 35% silver Ummm..... No Yep, modern nickels are 75% copper, 25% nickel. From 1942-1945 silver was actually cheaper and less useful for war production than nickel was, so they removed the nickel and some of the copper content and replaced it with 35% silver, 56% copper, 9% manganese. The manganese causes the war nickels to tarnish quickly and produce a greenish hue. War nickles in circulated condition tend to go for a good deal of money compared to a penny of the same year and condition. I was saying no because he said 25% silver. |
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Quoted: Over the past year or so I have gotten two $1 silver certificates and one $5 silver certificate as change from everyday purchases. I haven't come across any silver coins in a while though. Never seen any of those come through the bank. I wish cause I'd scoop them up real quick. |
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I'm pretty sure you mean penny, not nickel. They made steel pennies, not steel nickels. Quoted:
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1943 saw nickels made out of steel. I've got one from where I collected coins as a kid. I'm pretty sure you mean penny, not nickel. They made steel pennies, not steel nickels. And if you stumble onto a 1943 copper penny you can name your price-IF it's real. Thousands were plated by novelty companies, some had the date changed by polishing part of the 8 off a 1948, but there's been something like a dozen real copper 43s found. |
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Never seen any of those come through the bank. I wish cause I'd scoop them up real quick. Quoted:
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Over the past year or so I have gotten two $1 silver certificates and one $5 silver certificate as change from everyday purchases. I haven't come across any silver coins in a while though. Never seen any of those come through the bank. I wish cause I'd scoop them up real quick. Currency is much harder to sell than coins for some reason. I've found red seal $2 bills and blue seal $5s, flawless shape, and no shops would pay over face value. |
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Quoted: Somebody dumped Grandpa's coin jug into a coin star machine Quoted: Quoted: All of the 50s-80s pennies are in this condition. http://i1320.photobucket.com/albums/u522/jasonTTKA/F1E83DC0-B4A9-48DD-8593-25A394565899_zpsrf5brecw.jpg Somebody dumped Grandpa's coin jug into a coin star machine |
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Quoted: Currency is much harder to sell than coins for some reason. I've found red seal $2 bills and blue seal $5s, flawless shape, and no shops would pay over face value. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Over the past year or so I have gotten two $1 silver certificates and one $5 silver certificate as change from everyday purchases. I haven't come across any silver coins in a while though. Never seen any of those come through the bank. I wish cause I'd scoop them up real quick. Currency is much harder to sell than coins for some reason. I've found red seal $2 bills and blue seal $5s, flawless shape, and no shops would pay over face value. Most likely cause bills are easier to counterfeit than coins. I run into counterfeit bills occasionally at the bank. They usually come from business deposits. |