Coin Roll Hunting Without Banks

Where do you get coins from that are NOT banks?

 

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Change machines in laundromats is a good way to get a lot of quarters, outside of a bank. Also might try video arcades (if you can find one, and they use quarters instead of tokens) and casinos (if you can find one that uses coins instead of tokens or cards for their slot machines).

Some grocery stores might, if they're in the mood and you ask nice, give you a roll or two of some coins. Results may vary, but can't hurt to ask. Also would suggest check cashing places or payday loan places (often the same place lol).

But banks always seem to be the easiest and most reliable way to get significant quantities of coins to look through.

P.S. Not sure if this is still true or not but back in my early coin roll hunting days would often get rolls of coins from gas stations to look through.

P.S. The example of a clad Kennedy half dollar in my Dansco 7070 is a 1971-S slightly circulated proof that I got from a casino in Biloxi, MS. They still had 50 cent slot machines that actually used half dollars; you could put money into them and immediately cash out to get half dollars to look through. Most were pretty beat up though, but hey found a nice one that I still held onto!

 

Nice video report, it looks like you had a ton of fun on your experiment. I especially liked you sticking to your own rules and not cashing out as soon as you could.

This is really handy for younger members but, in all honesty, I’ve been doing this kind of acquisition for well over 20 years, and one thing I learned from the variety of sources of coin is that each type will ebb and flow for getting coins. For instance, it is getting waaay more difficult to get CWRs (customer wrapped rolls). One bank I tried about a month ago told me their policy is to run all CWRs through their counting machine and prep them for re-wrapping.

 

Dude! Thanks! You have a lot of knowledge there in one post! The half dollar is amazing! I need to go to the local casino and have a look around for some coins.

 

Yeah, I have some banks that reduse to give customer wrapped rolls. I stopped going there. On to the next one! I made friends at a couple banks who have customer-service / customer-first mindsets. I go to those and the rest are dump banks now.