Cash Register Coin Roll Hunting! Finds so far in 2010!

[scrible]

This is my first post, I have been browsing Treasure Net for a few months and have started collecting currency from work. I found this website in my search for metal detecting information. I still have not purchased a detector but that is a hobby I know I will greatly enjoy in the future.

I am a 21 year old college student, political science major, and work as a bottom of the bucket manager for one of the nation's largest automotive parts retailers. I work about 25 hours a week and handle a ton of cash. I have started searching each and every roll of coins I open, as well as the coin trays whenever I get the chance. If I see something I like, I pull the equal amount out of my pocket or car and swap a dime for a dime, a penny for a penny, etc...

Here are my finds since late December 2009 when I first started this hobby. I think my favorite find so far was the Mercury dime, what a beautiful coin! I have been fighting the urge to begin buying boxed coins at my bank. Hunting coin rolls is addicting.

Here's a quick run down of my finds so far:

3 buffalo's, no date, 1920, and 1936
2 silver war nickels
1 1963 Rosie
1 1935 Merc
1 1941 Washington
1 1967 40% half (with a real nice scratch on the obverse)
1 beautiful (looks uncirculated) 1974 penny
40 wheaties, oldest being a 1910 (no key dates, mostly 40's and 50's)

I have also collected ten crisp two dollar bills that a customer payed with, and a pretty nice 1985 ten dollar. I don't know why though, I just like 'em.

This is addicting!

 

[DAS7NY]

Welcome to the addiction!

 

[rileyboy]

You'll enjoy the hobby, plus reading all the postings here.
Good luck and welcome to the site.
rileyboy

 

[jdsarasin8194]

I would use the merc as your profile pic man.
Nice Score

 

[quick-silver]

welcome!

 

[d2arcing]

nice finds, merc and washingtons are so hard to find i think

 

[RIcoinhunter]

Nice haul.I worked retail a long time ago and got alot of good coin roll finds that's how I started.Keep checking you never know what you will find!!

 

[quiksilver]

ummm why fight the urge to buy boxes of dimes [halves are better]

 

[scrible]

I have found some foreign coins as well, but skip over the Canadian coins unless they are silver (no Canadian silver yet!)

I think the coolest was a coin from trinidad in a penny roll. It's slightly smaller than a penny and the same color.

 

[Detectingfreak]

be careful your manager doesn't see you doing that. My old manager got mad at me that I was exchanging coins. I wasn't even making the tills off

 

[scrible]

be careful your manager doesn't see you doing that. My old manager got mad at me that I was exchanging coins. I wasn't even making the tills off

He knows that I do it and doesn't mind. I usually show him my finds. In fact him and another gentleman I work with were fighting over a 1964 silver Washington last week. I wish I would have found it.

 

[iceman0xh]

I work at a grocery store and score something almost everyday....in the last 2 days I got 36 wheats, 2 silver rosies, and a 1888 indian head in tills.

 

[ivan salis]

another poor soul caught in the undertow