fed wrapped half rolls

[lance]

Anyone ever really scored off fed wrapped rolls? Or are customer wrapped rolls the way to go?

[Z00]

IMHO customer wrapped rolls are the best for any searching.

NOW, i would like to take this moment to suggest that someone write a sticky on the types of rolls that a person may run across.
The "FED" does not wrap coins. It actually has very little to do with them other than distribution through the member banks. The FED buys new coins from the US Mints at face value and does the distribution. These rolls are therefore Mint Wrapped Rolls. (They are most likely to have the year and mint printed on the wrappers.)
Other types of machine wrapped rolls are:
Armored Car services wrapped rolls. (These are the ones that are usually in a sealed box.)
Bank machine wrapped rolls. (Those banks that do a high coin volume and buy their own wrapping machine.)
Many smaller banks and branches will wrap coins by hand and these come into the CWR category as you have no way of telling if an actual customer or some teller did the wrapping.

[lance]

Interesting...so people dont find much in the "brink" rolls?

[cesariojpn]

Many smaller banks and branches will wrap coins by hand and these come into the CWR category as you have no way of telling if an actual customer or some teller did the wrapping.

A good tell tale sign between BWR and CWR is that CWR will have the persons name and either phone # or account # on them. If the WR are blank, it's probably BWR.

[PADFH]

I think the average is 2.6 coins per $500 half box. YMMV.