January 2nd part 2:

I went to my local bank today and the teller gave me $270 in rolled coins.

2026 looks to be starting on a positive note because along with a fair share of US dimes, I was able to get a 2017 quarter and a 1953 nickel.  Unfortunately, it looks like the near leaf, shoulder fold variety, which is the common one.

Even better, the dime rolls yielded a 1967 silver dime!

Enjoy!
Dean

January 2nd part 1:
Coin hunt update.

Well, my last coin hunt of 2025 turned out to be a bust.  No silver, no US coins and no commemoratives.
I was disappointed to find nothing but modern coins in those two vintage dime wrappers…I hate to think that they contained silver coins that someone cashed in and then re-used the rolling papers…

But here are the silver coins I found in 2025.

Enjoy!
Dean

Looking to complete my $1. prefix collection. Don't have to be Unc. but must have nice eye appeal, no visible folds. bends, marks etc.
Need the following,
U/A
B/M  D/M  E/M  N/M  O/M  Y/M
I/N
O/Y N/Y   U/Y 
N/Z
V/O
B/P
V/F Law/Bou.
please reach out if you have any.

December 31st:
New Year’s Eve coin hunt!

I went to a couple of banks today and got some coin rolls.

Hopefully, 2025 will end with me finding silver!

I’m encouraged by these two rolls…the wrapper looks ancient!

Wish me luck!

Dean

December 30th:

One of the paper $20s I picked up on Dec 30th had a partial teller stamp on it.

31302-002
Scotiabank
…Shopping Plaza
—ugh Ontario
2011

A quick Google search tells me that this Scotiabank is located at the
Eastown Plaza, 2668 Eglinton Ave East, Scarborough Ont.
M1K 2S3

Pretty neat!

Enjoy,
Dean

December 30th:

Some photos of what I found in the coin rolls…

December 30th:
Main Branch Madness!

I went to the main branches of all of the big banks yesterday.  There wasn't much to be found, but I did manage to score a few bills!

The teller at Scotiabank gave me six journey $5s.

When I went to RBC, the teller was reluctant to give me anything, saying that “he’s not supposed to”.  After some convincing, he relented and gave me two ratty old $1s and a single journey $20.  The teller was new—of course, the teller I was used to dealing with got promoted!

I have a feeling there was more old money in the cage, but the teller clearly wasn’t comfortable giving it out. With further work, I will get him to understand this hobby.  😀

I decided to stop at one more bank on my way home and the teller at this bank was more than willing to give me a huge pile of notes!

Interestingly, there were three polymer $10s in the mutilated pile— one old Macdonald $10 and two 2017 commemorative notes that had nothing wrong with them.  There is certainly an active effort to withdraw these notes, but I rescued them so I can spend them and prolong their lives.

I took the opportunity to buy some coin rolls and unfortunately, there was no silver.

I did find a few foreign coins including a 10 cent piece from Aruba and a Chinese coin.  There was also a fair amount of US coin in this batch.

Enjoy!
Dean





 

Very interesting. To add to this I noticed A/E 0433020 that was BCS Unc 60 Original has been regraded legacy gem 65 & is for sale on eBay.

Hi all,

So the saga of the ATM SSN hunt continues …

Today I went to a different branch to deposit my rejects so I could go back to the ATM full of IOBs where I’ve been getting all the repeaters. But before I left that branch I decided to try get 200 from THEIR ATM to see what it was stocked with for the holidays, and to my surprise I got new prefix IOC notes in a 0.8 range with a repeater sitting right on top, and a second not far behind. 

Although repeaters are nice, the 0.8 range doesn’t leave a ton of potential for radars so I went bank to the ATM that does and took out 800 notes (my daily limit) and lucked out on two IOB radars, and one repeater.  Photo attached.  Going back to both tomorrow. Wonder what I may find??   

Also, if anyone is interested in purchasing any of the notes I post, simply DM me a reasonable offer.  Postage extra. 

Cheers, B

Great find, enjoy