Saw this thread in world coins.....brightened my day 'Ordered $500 in halves - came sealed in a cardboard box that weighed about as much as a boat anchor. Result was $0.00 in silver, and an load of halves to get rid of. After some thought on this (not much) I realized this is a total waste of time. Unless you're retired and have nothing else to do, I don't see the point. You all have fun.' I know how he feels sometimes.
Yeah, I do enjoy coin roll hunting but I just don't enjoy going to the bank to pick them up and drop them off again which keeps me from doing it more often. If we still had pennies in Canada I would still be coin roll hunting though. That was a lot of fun.
I dont get it....what is coin roll hunting? people buy...what? rolls of coins?? sounds odd.....but then you Americans............................
You go to the bank and give them paper-money, for the equivalent value of rolled coinage ... and then you open-up all of the coin-rolls and search for valuable (silver) coins ...... therefore, except for the many unpaid hours where you're hunched over your pile of coins, the numismatic-activity is "free"
Yeah, what he said. But I have admit, in the past I've been an avid roll searcher, one of the advantages to it is being able to acquire a set coins for very cheap. Yes, sometimes you do find silver, but the total amount I've found has been 3 silver war nickels and two silver dimes (out of some +$1000).
My 7-year-old daughter has expressed interest in coins - she's got a cute little collection from change in a jar already. I think I'll buy a few Whitman albums and do some roll hunting with her. I could care less for that sort of collecting, but doing it with her isn't about numismatics.
I really enjoyed roll hunting pennies and still would if I could get boxes of them. In my brief foray into roll hunting pennies I managed to make around 50 bucks off of going through about $250 dollars worth of pennies. Pulled out a few semi-key American wheat cents and a couple sought after Canadian cents. I never hunted varieties though. It is always nice pulling something you recognize out of circulation for face value and selling it for a substantial profit.
Vlaha, you must have been doing something wrong. I've pulled seated liberty silver out of circulation and every dime and up coin was silver. The secret was to do it in the 1950's. When I was collecting US from circulation, the worst place to go was the bank and the best was the guy who serviced vending machines. I know some of the stuff I found was lifted from dad's coin collection and used in a soda machine.
