i see many videos o youtube about finding silver coins in bank rolls but I've never found any silver only world coins. are this videos staged or is it just in canada most silver has bin removed. early do i find silver in pocket change or a coin star but never from bank rolls. plz help?
I do it casually and don't go out of my way to do it but I get a few rolls of coins when I am at the bank just for the fun of it. I have found an occasional silver coin here and there but not often. Here in the states I am more interested in finding AU or UNC America the Beautiful quarters or the highly sought after W mint quarter. It depends on your interests but if you do it not expecting much, sometimes you will be pleasantly surprised.
I haven't done any roll hunting in a while but before 2000 I did it for a bit. I would get some silver occasionally. Last time I got silver in my change was a couple of months ago, a dime. But I find the banks no longer deal in change very much. You are lucky if they have rolls from customers.
Try your friends, if they have a penny pot, tell them you will roll them up for them on condition you get to buy what you want from the pot. I have had good luck doing this but will give them bullion value for the silver. Pennies, most people in Canada are glad to get rid of them. I have a good collection of pennies and nickels from 1940 to 1970. My penny pot is growing.
Quote: "ThePoet"I haven't done any roll hunting in a while but before 2000 I did it for a bit. I would get some silver occasionally. Last time I got silver in my change was a couple of months ago, a dime. But I find the banks no longer deal in change very much. You are lucky if they have rolls from customers.
Try your friends, if they have a penny pot, tell them you will roll them up for them on condition you get to buy what you want from the pot. I have had good luck doing this but will give them bullion value for the silver. Pennies, most people in Canada are glad to get rid of them. I have a good collection of pennies and nickels from 1940 to 1970. My penny pot is growing.
The Poet
in canada the penny was such of cultural value. many people have penny collections so they always give it to me and so 10,000 penny's over time after searching through you can get some cash when returning it to the bank.
Quote: "Ben-jamin"Coin roll hunting is legit. But in a box of quarters (1600), you may find one or two worn silver coins, but often you’ll find none at all.
I search for AU State and State Park quarters, as well as the elusive W-mint quarters.
why in America do people hunt for those state and park 25 cent coins... like in Canada we have commartive coins and unless they are in a package they are worthless plus the Mintage figures of those coins are so much. Why do they love doing it ?
Quote: "Legowwww"
why in America do people hunt for those state and park 25 cent coins... like in Canada we have commartive coins and unless they are in a package they are worthless plus the Mintage figures of those coins are so much. Why do they love doing it ?
Why not? I like coins. I started coin roll hunting as a means of finding the W-mint quarters, and then decided to collect to State and National Park quarters as well.
I hunted rolls of half dollars back around 2007-2010. I found a few dozen silvers 1952-1964, and a few proofs. Then my bank started charging me for rolls of halves, since they were trucking them in at their expense, so I quit.
Whenever I'm in a branch, I always ask for weird money ("half dollars, dollar coins, $2 bills, anything old or foreign") and accept whatever they have on hand.
When you coin-roll hunt, how well you do usually comes down to one thing, your bank or banks in your area. I'm guessing that you are asking if hunting silver by coin-roll hunting is worth it? Most coinage that is made from silver and used as currency no longer exists here in the U.S. The only way you can get silver in legitimate amounts is buying silver out-right. The 1 oz. silver rounds are popular, go online, and search eBay. You also may have current or modern proof coins that may be silver, but they weren't issued for the public, it was a collector's piece only. Most people that are interested in silver buy it by the ounce. Coin-roll hunting was used for other purposes. Hope this helps. Let me know if you need anything else.
Sincerely,
KC
Quote: "kcoins82"When you coin-roll hunt, how well you do usually comes down to one thing, your bank or banks in your area. I'm guessing that you are asking if hunting silver by coin-roll hunting is worth it? Most coinage that is made from silver and used as currency no longer exists here in the U.S. The only way you can get silver in legitimate amounts is buying silver out-right. The 1 oz. silver rounds are popular, go online, and search eBay. You also may have current or modern proof coins that may be silver, but they weren't issued for the public, it was a collector's piece only. Most people that are interested in silver buy it by the ounce. Coin-roll hunting was used for other purposes. Hope this helps. Let me know if you need anything else.
Sincerely,
KC
thank you KC it did help I’m gonna try some new banks and areas. 👍😃👍
My local bank charges a fee for every roll so I will usually get 5 cent coins (the smallest denomination here) from my friends who are happy to get rid of them.
I do it here in Brisbane. My local bank has a coin roll dispensing machine. I can get $2, $1, 50c, 20c, 10c, & 5c coins from it. There is no charge to get them as long as you have an account at the bank, they are issued at face value.
The $2 rolls are worth $50
The $1 rolls are worth $20
The 50c rolls are worth $10
The 20c rolls are worth $4
The 10c rolls are worth $2
The 5c rolls are worth $2
In Australia we don't call it "Coin Roll Hunting" we call it "Noodling".
I look for coloured $2 coins in the $2 rolls
I am searching for a 2000 $1 Mule in the $1 rolls. (They are worth anywhere between $300 and $2000 depending on condition.
In the 50c & 20c rolls I look for low mintage coins such as Centenary of Federation coins etc.
I also am searching for a Wavy "2" 1966 20c in the 20 cent rolls. (They are also worth anywhere between $200 and $500 or even more)
Usually I find a strike rate of about $5 face value worth of interesting coins in $100 of coins. When I am done I take them back to the bank and pour them into the Coin Deposit machine. This is free of charge too. So I don't have to go near a bank teller at all. Just take them out and put them back in by myself. I do it at 2 different banks so that I am not getting the same coins back again.
My wife thinks I am crazy ... But when I finally get that $1 Mule and Wavy 20c I will have the last laugh.
Cheers Mike
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Quote: "brismike"I do it here in Brisbane. My local bank has a coin roll dispensing machine. I can get $2, $1, 50c, 20c, 10c, & 5c coins from it. There is no charge to get them as long as you have an account at the bank, they are issued at face value.
The $2 rolls are worth $50
The $1 rolls are worth $20
The 50c rolls are worth $10
The 20c rolls are worth $4
The 10c rolls are worth $2
The 5c rolls are worth $2
In Australia we don't call it "Coin Roll Hunting" we call it "Noodling".
I look for coloured $2 coins in the $2 rolls
I am searching for a 2000 $1 Mule in the $1 rolls. (They are worth anywhere between $300 and $2000 depending on condition.
In the 50c & 20c rolls I look for low mintage coins such as Centenary of Federation coins etc.
I also am searching for a Wavy "2" 1966 20c in the 20 cent rolls. (They are also worth anywhere between $200 and $500)
Usually I find a strike rate of about $5 face value worth of interesting coins in $100 of coins. When I am done I take them back to the bank and pour them into the Coin Deposit machine. This is free of charge too. So I don't have to go near a bank teller at all. Just take them out and put them back in by myself. I do it at 2 different banks so that I am not getting the same coins back again.
My wife thinks I am crazy ... But when I finally get that $1 Mule and Wavy 20c I will have the last laugh.
Cheers Mike
What exactly are the mule $1 coin and the wavy 20c? Never heard of them before.
Basically it was a variety of the coin minted at the London Mint where an incorrect die was used. Only a very small number were made. A picture of the coin is in the comments on that page.
The Year 2000 $1 Mule was an error coin produced by the RAM. A 10 cent obverse die was used on a $1 planchet with the normal $1 reverse. The resulting coin had a smaller Queens head and a double Rim. We actually have a separate page on Numista for this coin .... https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces128492.html
QuoteCeruleanЯ охотился на рулоны на полдоллара в 2007-2010 годах. Я нашел несколько десятков серебряных монет 1952-1964 годов и несколько доказательств. Тогда мой банк начал взимать меня за рулоны половинок, так как они были в их Автоперевозке за их счет, поэтому я ушел. Всякий раз , когда я нахожусь в отделении, я всегда прошу за странные деньги ( «половины долларов, доллар монеты, $ 2 купюры, все старые или иностранные ») и примите все, что у них есть под рукой.
And hasn't the Central Bank (or any other organization that performs this function) withdrawn silver from circulation?
QuoteCeruleanЯ охотился на рулоны на полдоллара в 2007-2010 годах. Я нашел несколько десятков серебряных монет 1952-1964 годов и несколько доказательств. Тогда мой банк начал взимать меня за рулоны половинок, так как они были в их Автоперевозке за их счет, поэтому я ушел. Всякий раз , когда я нахожусь в отделении, я всегда прошу за странные деньги ( «половины долларов, доллар монеты, $ 2 купюры, все старые или иностранные ») и примите все, что у них есть под рукой.
And hasn't the Central Bank (or any other organization that performs this function) withdrawn silver from circulation?
The USA does not do this. The Mint does not reprocess old coins, except to scrap damaged coins sent to them by the public. (The United States has never demonetized any of its coins in its 200+ year history.) We have no central bank, and our Federal Reserve system only distributes new coins from the Mint. The only way old coins leave circulation is when they are not accepted by automated systems like vending machines and coin counting/rolling machines, or when they are deliberately saved by the public.
QuoteCeruleanЯ охотился на рулоны на полдоллара в 2007-2010 годах. Я нашел несколько десятков серебряных монет 1952-1964 годов и несколько доказательств. Тогда мой банк начал взимать меня за рулоны половинок, так как они были в их Автоперевозке за их счет, поэтому я ушел. Всякий раз , когда я нахожусь в отделении, я всегда прошу за странные деньги ( «половины долларов, доллар монеты, $ 2 купюры, все старые или иностранные ») и примите все, что у них есть под рукой.
And hasn't the Central Bank (or any other organization that performs this function) withdrawn silver from circulation?
The USA does not do this. The Mint does not reprocess old coins, except to scrap damaged coins sent to them by the public. (The United States has never demonetized any of its coins in its 200+ year history.) We have no central bank, and our Federal Reserve system only distributes new coins from the Mint. The only way old coins leave circulation is when they are not accepted by automated systems like vending machines and coin counting/rolling machines, or when they are deliberately saved by the public.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the US took out silver for a few years after 1964 but stopped after citizens started hoarding the silver coinage.
At us-too, people sort out, only not rolls, and bags. We have coins in bags (or rather they were), now in plastic. The bag was from 500 pieces (10 rubles BIM) to 4000 pieces (kopecks)...looking for factory defects and rare years: 2002/2003. Only rare years are searched in Solyanka (bags not from the mint). My friend found 2 pieces for 2 rubles in 2003 and 1 piece in 2002.....But as the years go by, there is more and more money in circulation...therefore, finding an infrequent year is less and less likely. But there are plenty of defects.
As some have said, roll hunting now depends upon what you want. Banks now accumulate change deposited, and ship it to a processing center, so the rolls were not very fruitful (at least not in the Chicago era). Bank tellers also run bags of coins through the counters, and listen for the "ting" of silver coins.
My best experience was driving across East Texas to visit my sister at Nacogdoches in 1974. I stopped at each bank on the way, buying all the rolls of half dollars they had, searching for 40% silver half dollars. At most banks, they only had $100 or less in half dollars, and few of them were 40% silver, but I did get one or two 90% silver halves.
However, one bank only had two rolls. One had nothing, but the other was a BU roll of 1969D half dollars, from which someone had swapped out one coin!
This may not sound like much, but I made enough on the silver to pay for my gasoline for the trip.
Quote: "Jvan"Is the Euro being introduced in Sweden?
I believe Sweden has to join the euro when they reach certain economic targets, but there is no deadline. This means that if they don't want to join the euro, they can just keep failing the economic targets.
Quote: "Jvan"Is the Euro being introduced in Sweden?
I believe Sweden has to join the euro when they reach certain economic targets, but there is no deadline. This means that if they don't want to join the euro, they can just keep failing the economic targets.
However, for some reason, neither Switzerland nor the UK not joined the Euro zone, although they have more than enough economic heights...
QuoteCeruleanЯ охотился на рулоны на полдоллара в 2007-2010 годах. Я нашел несколько десятков серебряных монет 1952-1964 годов и несколько доказательств. Тогда мой банк начал взимать меня за рулоны половинок, так как они были в их Автоперевозке за их счет, поэтому я ушел. Всякий раз , когда я нахожусь в отделении, я всегда прошу за странные деньги ( «половины долларов, доллар монеты, $ 2 купюры, все старые или иностранные ») и примите все, что у них есть под рукой.
And hasn't the Central Bank (or any other organization that performs this function) withdrawn silver from circulation?
the Canadian mint is bad for This , they take out all coins before 2001 and this makes it virtually impossible to find coins from even 1996 , I have a nickle and dime book and it’s hard to find any dates
the only way to find silver is to find it at store registers and to ask them because it’s the last stop before the bank
or go to coin stars and hope u find silver sorted out
However, for some reason, neither Switzerland nor the UK not joined the Euro zone, although they have more than enough economic heights...
Switzerland is not even a member of the European Union which is a pretty good reason for not joining the Eurozone. Although when you go there, and I have been a few times, they accept the Euro just about anywhere. It is like a second currency.
As to the UK they had a option to remain out of the Eurozone, even though they met all the criteria for joining it. And as they are leaving the European Union I am pretty sure they are glad they stuck with Pound Sterling.
Mike
Master Referee - See my profile for what I collect.
Quote: "Terrazone"I only wish my country actually did coins at this point we got 1 year for most of our circulating coins in use.
Is the Euro being introduced in Sweden?
nope we are rather anti-euro in sweden tough our own currency the swedish crown is more or less stale we havent had a single new commerative coin since what 2016.
and the current currency is one year issues save the 2 denominator.
Sweden is trying to digitalize its currency or something like that so the physical coins in circulation are rather stale.
Picked up $175 worth of rolls from a local TCF (well, Huntington now) the other day, 10 rolls of each denomination from penny to quarter.
- Pennies: Didn't find anything interesting. Not even any wheats. Looked like someone had already gone through them.
- Nickels: The best find was 1964D in XF - usually they're a lot more worn. The oldest ones were 1939 and 1940, both Fine. Plus, a couple foreign “nickels”: Canada 5 Cent 2010 and Ecuador 5 Centavos 2000.
- Dimes: 2(!) mercury dimes, both from 1942. First VF and then AU, with very light wear on high points on the portrait side. 1964D Roosevelt dime (silver). Oh, and a Canadian dime from 1979.
- Quarters: nothing interesting, other than a couple 2020Ps I didn't have yet.
However, for some reason, neither Switzerland nor the UK not joined the Euro zone, although they have more than enough economic heights...
Switzerland is not even a member of the European Union which is a pretty good reason for not joining the Eurozone. Although when you go there, and I have been a few times, they accept the Euro just about anywhere. It is like a second currency.
As to the UK they had a option to remain out of the Eurozone, even though they met all the criteria for joining it. And as they are leaving the European Union I am pretty sure they are glad they stuck with Pound Sterling.
Mike
They might be happy about having stayed with the pound, but they are not so happy not to have stayed inside the EU zone. Their economy is crumbling rather a lot.
Picked up $175 worth of rolls from a local TCF (well, Huntington now) the other day, 10 rolls of each denomination from penny to quarter.
- Pennies: Didn't find anything interesting. Not even any wheats. Looked like someone had already gone through them.
- Nickels: The best find was 1964D in XF - usually they're a lot more worn. The oldest ones were 1939 and 1940, both Fine. Plus, a couple foreign “nickels”: Canada 5 Cent 2010 and Ecuador 5 Centavos 2000.
- Dimes: 2(!) mercury dimes, both from 1942. First VF and then AU, with very light wear on high points on the portrait side. 1964D Roosevelt dime (silver). Oh, and a Canadian dime from 1979.
- Quarters: nothing interesting, other than a couple 2020Ps I didn't have yet.
Nice, detailed report.
I don't do CRH but I work in a retail store, so I see a bit more change that what passes through one's pocket.
The mercs are interesting; I probably haven't seen one in change for at least twenty years.
I used to find “war nickels” occasionally (maybe 1 or 2 per year), but none since the pandemic.
I found a 1911 Lincoln in change last year. That find was interesting because I think it was the oldest coin (at 110) that I pulled from circulation in my life.
In the US you could find silver fairly easily before the last run on silver, say around 2008 with the housing crisis. In my area that is when they started locking things down at the banks too, because there was an influx of rude and entitled people trying to get the “free money.”
I haven’t found much roll hunting in the years since then.
I've not done a whole lot of coin roll hunting for silver, specifically. I mostly hunt coin rolls because I prefer circulation coins, and to fill holes in my collection.
However, I did find a %40 silver “Kennedy half dollar” while roll hunting once, along with a bunch of clad-copper proofs. So it certainly happens.
The picture is my finds from 2022 from hunting Half Dollars, Dimes and Nickels. Just about $200 in melt value for a little more then $20.00 Face value. Hoping this might help answer that question. I also found 10 or so Buffalo Nickel 3 Indian head pennies and countless other goodies. One Indian head Penny was a One year off from the Holy Grail of IHPs, an 1876, worth about $30-$35 as well as a 1925s Buffalo in Very Fine (IMHO) condition, also worth about $30-$40 dollars. It is a lot of work and many times I only find common coins worth a penny or two more then face, but sometimes….
What does really anger me is people buying up new issues just to make a quick buck from unsuspecting collectors, one such person on Facebook had two £250 bags of pride 50p coins to screw as much as possible out of collectors.
What does really anger me is people buying up new issues just to make a quick buck from unsuspecting collectors, one such person on Facebook had two £250 bags of pride 50p coins to screw as much as possible out of collectors.
The law of the market, You do NOT have to buy, I never do, and then I end up with none of those coins, but that's part of the game….
What does really anger me is people buying up new issues just to make a quick buck from unsuspecting collectors, one such person on Facebook had two £250 bags of pride 50p coins to screw as much as possible out of collectors.
The law of the market, You do NOT have to buy, I never do, and then I end up with none of those coins, but that's part of the game….
it really makes me angry, part of the joy of collecting for youngsters is change checking, it is almost nigh impossible to find commemorative coins in your change in the UK because of the shysters getting bags of them from the bank or post office and selling them at mostly exorbitant prices on fleabay.
Yeah, as just an European, I'll probably never get one your “letter” 10p coins? Can I live happily without? YES! Would I be happy to have all 26? Don't really know, how that would feel, but if I could buy them for 2£60p, then it would have been nice….. and I would be a bit happy!
The picture is my finds from 2022 from hunting Half Dollars, Dimes and Nickels. Just about $200 in melt value for a little more then $20.00 Face value. Hoping this might help answer that question. I also found 10 or so Buffalo Nickel 3 Indian head pennies and countless other goodies. One Indian head Penny was a One year off from the Holy Grail of IHPs, an 1876, worth about $30-$35 as well as a 1925s Buffalo in Very Fine (IMHO) condition, also worth about $30-$40 dollars. It is a lot of work and many times I only find common coins worth a penny or two more then face, but sometimes….
Well, we now know the numerator, but not the denominator 🙂.
How many rolls of each denomination did you search?
The picture is my finds from 2022 from hunting Half Dollars, Dimes and Nickels. Just about $200 in melt value for a little more then $20.00 Face value.
Well, we now know the numerator, but not the denominator 🙂.
How many rolls of each denomination did you search?
Exactly. Those were my first thoughts. I have found some amazing things in my 60 years of casual roll hunting and collecting. Of course as time goes by, these finds are very far and few between. There are thousands and thousands of folks that have been doing this for decades and most of these little treasures have been picked clean.
I'll never stop being jealous of the US for actually being able to coin roll hunt. In Europe all I can get in coin rolls are modern, boring, face value coins. 🙁
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The picture is my finds from 2022 from hunting Half Dollars, Dimes and Nickels. Just about $200 in melt value for a little more then $20.00 Face value. Hoping this might help answer that question. I also found 10 or so Buffalo Nickel 3 Indian head pennies and countless other goodies. One Indian head Penny was a One year off from the Holy Grail of IHPs, an 1876, worth about $30-$35 as well as a 1925s Buffalo in Very Fine (IMHO) condition, also worth about $30-$40 dollars. It is a lot of work and many times I only find common coins worth a penny or two more then face, but sometimes….
Well, we now know the numerator, but not the denominator 🙂.
How many rolls of each denomination did you search?
I hunted 15 boxes of halves this year, most were skunk boxes, but if you put in the effort, it is out there. I won't become a millionaire but to me the fun is in the search:). Dimes have been hard to come by as well as Nickels.
I'll never stop being jealous of the US for actually being able to coin roll hunt. In Europe all I can get in coin rolls are modern, boring, face value coins. @
I'll never stop being jealous of the US for actually being able to coin roll hunt. In Europe all I can get in coin rolls are modern, boring, face value coins. @
Try Switzerland…..
Ahhh, yes, you're right! Forgot about Switzerland. 😃
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I think that roll hunting / noodling is great. I often find foreign or old coins mixed in with the legit circulating stuff.
Today I had £50.00 (5 bags) of 50p's and got a total of 39 commemoratives. So far since 1st of November out of £440.00 I have managed to get 42 of the 70 different commemorative 50p's that are currently in circulation. 5 of them are years old, but look as if they are straight out of the mint & are going into my collection as upgrades.
If somebody collects circulating coins it is a good way to build & upgrade a collection, it's also a good way to get kids interested in the hobby by letting them sort through piles of coins and starting their own collection.
Legowwwwi see many videos o youtube about finding silver coins in bank rolls but I've never found any silver only world coins. are this videos staged or is it just in canada most silver has bin removed. early do i find silver in pocket change or a coin star but never from bank rolls. plz help?
Hi, first post sorry if format is off. I have hunted a few rolls - nickels, quarters and loonies - and I have not found any silver but I have found a pile of very good condition commemoratives. It must've been a “collection dump” as it was over a full roll of quarters in commemoratives plus a foreign. This was out of 7 rolls so it has potentional. The only time I have found a silver coin in circulation was a 1956 Quarter. There arent too many in circulation it seems. That was close to 9 years ago or so, though I think looking back I may have encountered more when I didnt know it was silver.
Picked up a box of pennies, nickels and dimes last Friday. Each box is 50 rolls. Here are the results:
Dimes - Box stamped Sep 27, 2017. Rolls labeled H.F. String & Son, Inc. / Harrisburg, PA., U.S.A. - 1 90% silver: 1958D - 3 off-center errors, not by much, just clipped legends - no proofs/Ss - no foreign coins
Nickels - All customer-rolled - 1 35% silver: 1944S - other finds: 39D (not in the greatest condition, but it's a key date), 55D/S, really nice UNC 59D
- no proofs - foreign coins - Canadian 68,73,81,97
Pennies - No-name/no-date box, unmarked bank rolls - close to 30 wheat pennies total - oldest - 1917 (which I already had) and 1919 (highest mintage of all the early dates) - lowest mintage - 1935D (47 mil) and 1938D (20 mil) - a couple BU upgrades: 69D, 74D - no steel pennies - no proofs - 4 Canadian cents - 77, 85, 98, 01
1 box is still too small of a sample size, really. But, yeah… Nowadays, you're going to see a lot of skunk boxes, with no silver at all… and then you get lucky and it's loaded with silver. Like, the last time I hunted dimes, I only got 10 customer-wrapped rolls, but found 3 silver, including 2 mercs. I suspect, if you lived in a state like Florida, where a lot of elderly people (including collectors) retire to, you'd have a much higher chance of hitting someone's collection dump.
ps:
Based on https://www.pcgs.com/photograde#/Jefferson/Grades, I'd say it's about VF35-XF40 (probably on the lower end because of the scratches). The steps have worn away, I can't tell if it's type I or II.
This week's results from a box of each nickels, quarters, and halves:
Nickels: - buffalo: 1936(P) very heavily toned, almost black, but good detail - 1942-D (key date) - other pre-1960: 39, 40, 2x40-S, 48-D, 49, 52, 54-S, 55-D, 56-D, 57-D, 58-D, 59, 59-D - foreign: Canada 1993 - misc: 3 dimes?!
Quarters: - 2019-W San Antonio - Finally found an upgrade for 2009-P Northern Mariana Islands - Delaware Crossing - small die chip top left of the hat - Dr. Sally Ride - small die chip in Washington's mouth
