1956d Original 25 cents bw original roll

[ken]

Anyone seen one of these recently?

[Bob P]

Can't say I have ever seen a paper wrapped half roll of pennies. Are you going to open it Ken??

[eagames]

cool roll



I've only seen a few of these shorties ever. They were from the 50s. They might have also been used before then.

I also have a few plastic screw lid cent coin tubes that are for only 25 coins.

[ken]

I picked up several of these over the past month from a dealer friend of mine.They were in a small old time bank stored in the vault from who knows when.They are all dated in the 50's.One roll is a 1955 DDO?????It was tails to tails,so he didn't(nor I)know what the date was,lucky me maybe I'm afraid to open it,fearing a heart attack getting several of the treasured dd0 .As for the others,I probably will open them at some point to check them,but not at present.Paid about $10 a roll for them.

[ken]

I only undid the bank crimp as to not tear it. Peeled back one coin just to see the date and closed it right back up.Also got a bw 1947s full 50 coin roll that the end coins are pristine.Any major rpm's,varieties for this date?Thanks all.

[coop]

Ken: Use the search menu off the home page on the upper/mid left. Choose the date 1947 Looks like you have Philly ones and check the section Obverse & Reverse boxes and it will show what is listed for that year. Then I look closely at each coin for markers and then you will know which die they come from and see if you have a new discovery in that roll. If you find a variety check for others in that roll with the same markers. You just never know.


I bought two rolls of the 1/2 rolls years ago and sold them on ebay for double what I paid for them. So there is interest in them. What I would like to find again is coin tubes for 1/2 rolls. I found them one time at a coin show and bought them all. They are nice for storing varieties in. Just so many times you find 6-20 of one variety and you don't want to 2X2 them yet. Si I use them. Seems like no one else still carries them any more.

[KurtS]

What a fascinating coincidence! I happen to live in Sunnyvale, but Bowser, Inc must be long out of business. In 1956, Sunnyvale was little more than a small town and orchards next to a Naval Air Station.

[chrsb]

I collect some of the different wrappers-


50C wrappers-

[Dick]

Kurt my mailing address when I was stationed at Moffett Field, was Mountain View, CA.
Dick

[coppercoins]

I haven't seen a 25 cent wrapper in a couple of years...they also made the flat wrappers in 25c 'half rolls'. The ones I know of are the dark pinkish type from the late 50s.

[KurtS]

Dick, I can see that too...the part of the base my dad worked at was actually in Sunnyvale...ever see the "Blue Cube"? That's Sunnyvale.