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While sorting, a unexpected bonus

PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 8:29 am
by J_Dodge
This morning I was finishing the sort of a box of cents. I got this box at a local bank, but the coins weren't tightly wrapped in
the usual red/white or green/white wrappers...These were are wrapped in wrappers made with brown "shopping bag" paper w/ red ink, and
all of the rolls were loose - you can push out the pennys w/ your finger tip or shake them out.

Any way, I was down to what I thought was going to the be the last 4 rolls (I keep a sheet with which I track my results - # copper,
# zinc, # wheats, etc), and in the box, I found 5 rolls.

From previous conversations w/ the tellers, I know that the bank does their own coin processing as much as possible - so I speculate that
these were wrapped at one of the branch offices, and then got shipped to the coin processing branch, and from there went to the
branch where I got them.

Was out of time at that point, so I wasn't able to open the roll - but who knows - maybe it will contain some rare wheat......or maybe a Indian.

JD

Re: While sorting, a unexpected bonus

PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 9:04 am
by amalekidad
An extra roll? That by itself is a good score. I have never had a box with an extra roll - not that I keep track. I just rip them open and dump them in the Ryedale.
I do find a dime now and then. Still waiting on some silver. I did pull out a 101 year old coin (1913 wheat back) from my last box. I always hold coins like that and wonder about all the things that coin has been through and seen.

Congrats on the extra roll!