Marking rolls of coins to alert potential holders the rolls are silver free?

Louie D

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Is there any accepted practice for identifying rolls of coins you've rolled yourself as already being worked over for silvers? Some discreet marking CRH hunters would recognize at a glance?

I'm busy working to liquidate my 5 gallon water bottle coin jar, and will probably have $1500 in quarters alone when all is said and done. My bank(s) in the area no longer have coin sorting/counting machines and will no longer accept bags of coins from a non-business account, so I'm forced to hand roll my stash. At least they gave me some free coin wrappers.

The forthcoming nickel/dime/quarter rolls may contain some rare modern coins, but no silver, that's for sure.

TIA for any input.
 

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Was the message correct?

I get the same square boxes, but my skunks, 19 in a row now, are not advertised.

The message was correct, but like I mentioned the box contained customer wrapped rolls, not mint wrapped. There was about $380 if I remember correctly. In my area I've never seen square boxes like this, at it for about 6 years now.
 

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First if they are CWR then unless they opened each one and searched it how do they know there are no silver? And that is time consuming for a business to do that.

I get these boxes every so often, around here they come from Guarda and Brinks, Loomis has the rectangular boxes with yellow printing
 

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Looks like you live near Detroit. TCF Bank has coin counting machines. This is the only bank I have joined because of Coin Roll Hunting. Also some credit unions have coin counting machines.

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Thanks for the info, I live a block away from a TCF bank.

Unfortunately, I'm not interested in opening a new bank account for a one time event so I'm stuck going the hand rolled route. On the good side, so far I've discovered a silver nickel, dime and quarter during the sort phase.
 

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Is there any accepted practice for identifying rolls of coins you've rolled yourself as already being worked over for silvers? Some discreet marking CRH hunters would recognize at a glance?

I'm busy working to liquidate my 5 gallon water bottle coin jar, and will probably have $1500 in quarters alone when all is said and done. My bank(s) in the area no longer have coin sorting/counting machines and will no longer accept bags of coins from a non-business account, so I'm forced to hand roll my stash. At least they gave me some free coin wrappers.

The forthcoming nickel/dime/quarter rolls may contain some rare modern coins, but no silver, that's for sure.

TIA for any input.

Why are you letting the next hunter take your rare modern coins?
 

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I’m not too fond of NIFC halves, scuffed IH’s, dateless buffalos, 1938 and newer Jefferson nickels, etc, and lately even wheaties. So, I dump them by the hundreds hoping to spur new collectors. That saying - one man’s trash...
 

Ben Cartwright SASS

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Thanks for the info, I live a block away from a TCF bank.

Unfortunately, I'm not interested in opening a new bank account for a one time event so I'm stuck going the hand rolled route. On the good side, so far I've discovered a silver nickel, dime and quarter during the sort phase.

I opened 6 accounts at 6 different banks, each only required $10 to have no fee checking
 

Ben Cartwright SASS

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Ben, how easy is it to juggle six different checking accounts and keep them active?

Not hard at all! you only have to deposit $1 once a year to keep them active, you can then withdraw it if you want. One bank did something interesting, I opened two accounts and put $10 in each then I put an extra $1 in and set up an automatic transfer from one to the other and then back the next day so once a month it puts a dollar in each account and keeps them active without me doing anything. I have all the accounts written down so I know which is which. I also have a card with the numbers in my wallet, sonce there is only $10 in each and no overdraft protection I doni't care if someone drains it, the banks require the account number when using the coin counter
 

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Need the money.

I'm gonna look for Wisconsin quarters and the potential leaf varieties, any thing else I can look for in quarters?

CUDS abound on State Qtrs., '92 to '98 Eagles have vast array of obv/rev die cracks, lots of greasers on eagles & States, O/C's are rare but have value. never found a Wi. leaf ----yet :BangHead:
 

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Dang Port Ewen Ace! I'd sell ALL my 40% for that price. Feebay?
 

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I just got a box where 80% of the individual coins were marked with a sharpie. It tells me I am downstream from an idiot. What a waste of time to mark each coin lol. I am assuming they looked for errors etc if they have that much free time. It does make it mildly interesting to see how they'll disperse. I opened a few rolls and dumped the box without searching it once I saw the pattern.
 

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I just got a box where 80% of the individual coins were marked with a sharpie. It tells me I am downstream from an idiot. What a waste of time to mark each coin lol. I am assuming they looked for errors etc if they have that much free time. It does make it mildly interesting to see how they'll disperse. I opened a few rolls and dumped the box without searching it once I saw the pattern.

I wonder how far our coins go. My wife had a skunk box with over 70% marked with a sharpie at the end of December. Of course I dumped them without removing the marks & wonder if you might have gotten them now.
 

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I wonder how far our coins go. My wife had a skunk box with over 70% marked with a sharpie at the end of December. Of course I dumped them without removing the marks & wonder if you might have gotten them now.

I do the "Where's George" marking dollar bills and people downstream enter them in the computer and you can see where they went and how it took to get there. I have had several go from Boston to California and others to Florida, some get entered a year or more after I marked them.
 

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I have had several go from Boston to California and others to Florida, some get entered a year or more after I marked them.

That makes sense, I am in California. So those people going from Boston to CA of FL are called snowbirds. See it every winter,they bring their $$ with them. Good for our local economy, I live in a tiny tourist town.
 

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In the past a few times I would put an old year (like 1964 or 1950) on the wrapper or the word silver. We all get CWR in old dingy wrappers, they are what I would use. Didn’t do it a lot, just enough to give another Hunter a short thrill when the teller hands him the roll.

OK, now you all don’t jump on me for being mean.
 

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The only reason to mark a wrapper is so you don't buy them again.
 

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