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updated 3/5 "X marks the spot!" Marked CWR

PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 5:23 pm
by henrysmedford
Today at a Chase bank we got $20 in CWR and all the rolls had a small x on them. When we ran them the were all zinc but there was ten 1982 cu. Look like Eagle Point Oregon has a hand sorter!
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Re: X marks the spot!

PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 7:18 pm
by Robarons
Back in the old days of Sorting halves I would write '1964', '1967', '1957', '1949', etc on my sorted half dollars when I returned them to he bank.

Always caused some commotion for some reason =)

Re: X marks the spot!

PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 7:36 pm
by Engineer
Robarons wrote:Back in the old days of Sorting halves I would write '1964', '1967', '1957', '1949', etc on my sorted have dollars when I returned them to he bank.

Always caused some commotion for some reason =)


That's truly evil... :lol:

Re: X marks the spot!

PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 11:33 pm
by TXBullion
Robarons wrote:Back in the old days of Sorting halves I would write '1964', '1967', '1957', '1949', etc on my sorted half dollars when I returned them to he bank.

Always caused some commotion for some reason =)


thats just mean, i like it ! :lol:

Re: X marks the spot!

PostPosted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 1:09 am
by uthminsta
I got three penny rolls that said WHEAT CENTS on them a while back. Guess what wasn't in them.

Re: updated 1/30 "X marks the spot!"

PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:03 pm
by henrysmedford
We went back to the same bank and more marked rolls. They had $100 CRW and they were all marked. When I asked were they came from and they said a older disabled man had brought them in the same man as the last rolls. They the tellers ask what he was looking for and he said just some dates. He told them he had found a silver dime and a 1906 IH that week.The last time I looked through his rolls the only was CU were 1982. So I quickly opened a roll and it was about 20 percent CU.So we bought them all. I told the vault teller she could give him my number to see if we could give him a hand with some dates if he is filling a folder. :mrgreen: It might be a nice way to get some CU.
This week rolls-- PS he missed a wheat.
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Re: updated 1/30 "X marks the spot!"

PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:27 pm
by Diggin4copper
Joe should write his sons name on a bunch of half rolls he is returning..... that would cause a ruckus :D

Re: X marks the spot!

PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:49 pm
by HPMBTT
Robarons wrote:Back in the old days of Sorting halves I would write '1964', '1967', '1957', '1949', etc on my sorted half dollars when I returned them to he bank.

Always caused some commotion for some reason =)


:lol: That, my friend, is truly evil. I busted out laughing when I read it. :)

Re: X marks the spot!

PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 1:30 am
by jacer333
Robarons wrote:Back in the old days of Sorting halves I would write '1964', '1967', '1957', '1949', etc on my sorted half dollars when I returned them to he bank.

Always caused some commotion for some reason =)


So so incredibly cruel...yet so funny! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: updated 1/30 "X marks the spot!"

PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 10:29 am
by silverhedgehog
Back before I located a coin machine at a bank to dump I used to roll them back up to return.
I would label them with a Z to identify them as ZINC. Pretty straight forward for the newbie
to figure out quick when getting them from the teller. I can hear them saying to the teller
"Well on second thought you can keep those rolls".

Maybe I should start writing Silver on my dime rolls that I still return rolled. LOL

Re: updated 1/30 "X marks the spot!"

PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 10:56 am
by AGCoinHunter
I have cashed in a few half rolls with "SILVER" written on them. The tellers were fumbling all over themselves to get them open and "verify" them. She asked me where I go them and I told her my dear aunt had just passed away and they were in her belongings. Of course they were all clad from my previous weeks bag of halves. Gave me quite a chuckle.

Re: updated 1/30 "X marks the spot!"

PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 12:08 pm
by HPMBTT
henrysmedford wrote:We went back to the same bank and more marked rolls. They had $100 CRW and they were all marked. When I asked were they came from and they said a older disabled man had brought them in the same man as the last rolls. They the tellers ask what he was looking for and he said just some dates. He told them he had found a silver dime and a 1906 IH that week.The last time I looked through his rolls the only was CU were 1982. So I quickly opened a roll and it was about 20 percent CU.So we bought them all. I told the vault teller she could give him my number to see if we could give him a hand with some dates if he is filling a folder. :mrgreen: It might be a nice way to get some CU.
This week rolls-- PS he missed a wheat.
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This happened to me 4 days ago; I got $25 worth of CWR pennies and went home. Then I noticed that almost all of them had the same person's initials. Hmmm. I checked 3 or 4 rolls and sure enough, they were all zinc. And I should have known better, because I remember one of my regular tellers informing me a few weeks ago that they have a regular older guy that comes in and orders new penny boxes; she even said that he came in excited last week, as a box had lots of older copper coins. What I didn't know was that he was dumping at the same pickup bank! Stupid move on his part. Anyway, they had around $100 in pennies in the back; I intentionally returned them to the same bank the next day, as I didn't want to deposit them at an alternate bank. The bottom line: some people are learning and starting to catch on.

Re: updated 1/30 "X marks the spot!"

PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:29 pm
by henrysmedford
Franklin got a 1943-S out of one today out of one of the x rolls. :mrgreen:

Re: updated 1/30 "X marks the spot!"

PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 9:06 am
by Robarons
Well duh- steel pennies arent worth anything, the copper ones are!

good find

Re: updated 1/30 "X marks the spot!"

PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:23 am
by Dave
I mark mine the same way, but I'm in Western NY.

Re: updated 1/30 "X marks the spot!"

PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 12:24 pm
by silverflake
3 X's on my searched and dumped rolls (XXX) down here in southwestern Virginia. If anybody comes across those, ain't gonna find anything worthwhile in them. Just educating...

Re: updated 1/30 "X marks the spot!"

PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 1:05 pm
by Z00
silverflake wrote:3 X's on my searched and dumped rolls (XXX) down here in southwestern Virginia. If anybody comes across those, ain't gonna find anything worthwhile in them. Just educating...

What are the odds that a wrapped roll will travel very far?

Re: updated 2/6 "X marks the spot!"

PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:14 pm
by henrysmedford
Back to the X bank today they had $80 of CRW most marked with the "X" but the teller said oh look I need to mark out the customer name "Wheat leaves" she then said looks like you have some winners. We got five rolls solid with five of them pre 40. Just think we had thought about dropping this bank thinking it was someone's else dump bank!
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Re: updated 2/6 "X marks the spot!" 250 wheats!!!!!

PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 10:52 pm
by HPMBTT
Awesome! At least the teller didn't take them for herself.

So you know what's coming next, right? You get any good ones??? Curious minds want to know. :)

Re: updated 2/6 "X marks the spot!" 250 wheats!!!!!

PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 2:19 am
by jacer333
Nice haul! Hope to hear you found some nice dates in the lot...

Re: updated 2/6 "X marks the spot!" 250 wheats!!!!!

PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 3:01 am
by henrysmedford
jacer333 wrote:Nice haul! Hope to hear you found some nice dates in the lot...

1934
1936
1937-S
1939 (2)
1939-D

Re: updated 2/6 "X marks the spot!" 250 wheats!!!!!

PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 11:51 am
by exbingoaddict
Seems the guys that dump zincs into bank machines are the polite ones here. No rerolling here. 8-)

Re: updated 3/5 "X marks the spot!" Marked CWR

PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:00 pm
by henrysmedford
Got more X rolls and also these the teller sail from the same customer who has been dropping off the x marked rolls. :D
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Re: updated 3/5 "X marks the spot!" Marked CWR

PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 2:51 pm
by henrysmedford
Today I went to break open the roll in the above post and dump them in the CU orange bucket and a roll had been marked 1972-D and had 25 Wheats from the early 40s and the rest CU for all years. :mrgreen:

Re: updated 3/5 "X marks the spot!" Marked CWR

PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 10:45 pm
by robroy
A few days ago I went to get some pennies and all they had were CWR's (or so the teller told me), and against my better instincts I took them ($100). Anyway she put them in a Brinks' box for me and when I got them home I weighed them. One weighed 16# and the other 17#. So I checked out a few rolls, liked what I saw and dug into the rest. The 16# box was over 85% copper and the other was well over 90%. I came away with over 100 wheat from one and over 50 in the other. That was some good fortune.

The previous time I got CWR's I found only 10% copper in that box. That's why I weigh them. It's a good indication of what kind of luck you have. A 14# box will garner you about 20% copper. Anything less depends on my mood. Still 10% is better than nothing, I don't mind because when I can't sleep I will go through the light weight boxes and watching late night tv.