nice finds this weekend

[cyberdan]

Saturday I went bank hunting.
Very interesting, at my first bank I dump $320 in halves and I see the teller has about 6-8 Ike dollars stacked by his coin tray. I ask to buy them and he says that he is saving them for someone. I offered to buy half and he said he couldn't and then put them in his drawer and offered me a buffalo nickle he had gotten the day before, that seemed like a fair exchange. So I have added a no date buffalo to my CRH list of finds.

I stopped at 5 banks and ran out of cash.

Got $100 in quarters - 0 silver
Got $260 in halves - 0 silver
(most were marked and hunted and put back all facing the same direction in brinks wrappers, what a waste of time)
Got $25 in new washington $$ - nothing special
Got $60 in halves - 9 40% JFK
Got $122 in Ike dollars - nothing special but put away

Also got my usual 2 boxes of halves. Found 1 walking liberty 4 - 90% JFK 13 - 40% JFK

 

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[thurmownator]

A buffalo (nickel) is not a bad trade off for some Ikes; especially since you found some later down the road.

Kudos on the keepers you did get.

 

[Dimeman]

At least you found some goodies this time out.

 

[LJ]

Good job Dan....I just love those Walkers.

 

[patpall22]

Got $260 in halves - 0 silver
(most were marked and hunted and put back all facing the same direction in brinks wrappers, what a waste of time)

I don't understand how the half's from the brinks truck could have been re-rapped.
Do the rolls come in those tightly wound wrappers like in a box, or are they paper ones like the ones we use to return clad back to bank?

 

[cyberdan]

I don't understand how the half's from the brinks truck could have been re-wrapped.
Do the rolls come in those tightly wound wrappers like in a box, or are they paper ones like the ones we use to return clad back to bank?

It is a lot of work for me so I do not re-wrap the bank rolls. But this is how they must do it. Take a butter knife and un-crimp/un-roll one end, push out all the halves from the other side, check the halves, reinsert the halves and fold the end closed.

I invented a little stand that will hold a coin wrapper open and I literally pour the halves into the wrapper and they all fall in place centered in the tube. I then fold one end closed, remove the roll from my stand, turn it over and fold the other end. Easy & fast, still can't say I enjoy re-wrapping coin but it is faster.

 

[patpall22]

Wow, that's innovative how you roll your coins, what a great Idea.
That's terrible what those brinks employees do with those spun rolls.
I guess you can't trust any type of roll when hunting half's.

 

[cyberdan]

Wow, that's innovative how you roll your coins, what a great Idea.

Thanks, I guess I am lazy at heart. I am always building some kind of tool or machine do make my hobbies or business a little easier to do.

That's terrible what those brinks employees do with those spun rolls.

The coins on each end are ruined if they were good enough to be a keeper. The crimper machind puts a round scratch all the way around the outside facing coin. I have had a few BU coins that I had to toss back because of the scratch.

I guess you can't trust any type of roll when hunting half's.

The Brink's rolls are the only ones I trust to be exactly $10. I count all hand rolled coins to make sure they are full $10. I have only been shorted once, the roll had $9.50 but the next one had $10.50 so it worked out.