Roll-searchers, post your results!

Discussion in 'Coin Roll Hunting' started by chicken_little, Oct 24, 2005.

  1. hotwheelsearl

    hotwheelsearl Well-Known Member

    They really aren't. If it takes you half an hour to go through a box, you'd need to make at least $4 in profit to be making even minimum wage. Would almost be better to mow lawns with that time...
     
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  3. calishield

    calishield Well-Known Member

    $500 halves today yielded zilch besides NIFC 2007 S

    Tomorrow is 1 bag of halves ($1000) and 1 box. Hoping for better odds!
     
  4. berto

    berto Well-Known Member

    I would always choose a bag of loose halves off a machine over boxes...good luck!
     
  5. bryantallard

    bryantallard show me the money....so i can look through it

    I've gotten multiple boxes and have gotten nothing...then one day BAM!! 211 silver halves out of 2 boxes. it's like playing the lottery. the big difference is you only spend your time. IMO never turn down halves.
     
  6. Dougmeister

    Dougmeister Well-Known Member

    211?!?!?! Holy cow; I would faint if I saw that much in 2 boxes! Nice!
     
  7. calishield

    calishield Well-Known Member

    That's the same thing I tell my relatives! You have better odds doing CRH than lottery!
     
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  8. bryantallard

    bryantallard show me the money....so i can look through it

    if they all were 90%ers I would have fainted. being they were almost all 40%ers I was only speechless. :)
     
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  9. bryantallard

    bryantallard show me the money....so i can look through it

    I've made more money off of roll searching than I have any lottery. I think i'll stick with it.
     
  10. hotwheelsearl

    hotwheelsearl Well-Known Member

    I've made a LOT more off the lottery. Scratchers are my thing, I currently have a 2:1 win ratio :)
     
  11. calishield

    calishield Well-Known Member

    Bag was a wash minus som NIFC but box yielded four including my first Franklin hunting!

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  12. abuckmaster147

    abuckmaster147 Well-Known Member

    There ya go, A Franklin and a 65 they are very hard to come by from my searches.
     
  13. Christobal

    Christobal Well-Known Member

    Not having much luck with this BWR box of Cents, but check out this uncirculated coin that just popped out of a roll...

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    Upgrade! :)
     
  14. brokecoinguy

    brokecoinguy I like what I can't afford

    Just got back in to roll searching when I can, halves are literally impossible to find around Atlanta.

    First $130 netted a Stone Mountain Commem ender, a '61 Franklin, '64, 2 x '67, and 2 x '68.

    Second search I was only able to find $20 in loose halves that a guy had just brought in. The teller was nice enough to even roll them for me. One entire roll was '68D's.

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  15. abuckmaster147

    abuckmaster147 Well-Known Member

    Well being I am down for the count because of my back Surgery, My sweet wife stopped at a convenience store last night and saw they had these halves in there drawer she asked if she could buy them and the guy said gladly!! 2 40%ers woo Hooo, She grabbed the sakadagwa also cause she did not know what it was for sure.
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  16. calishield

    calishield Well-Known Member

    What a great wife!! I sure hope you recover fast but it looks like she's got a good eye for it as well while you do.
     
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  17. calishield

    calishield Well-Known Member

    IMG_4941.JPG Couple fun penny and nickel finds for the day. Looks like 2005 D nickel roll, 1961 BU roll and 1974 D roll. Would so love to open them, but probably worth more altogether at the moment!
     
  18. Bambam8778

    Bambam8778 Well-Known Member

    I love the rolls with the bank name on them!
     
  19. calishield

    calishield Well-Known Member

    Me too. They get so few and far between to find. Love the Cincinnati Federal Reserve One!
     
  20. Bambam8778

    Bambam8778 Well-Known Member

    I'm a Bank of America collector myself. I saw one from Baltimore md but the price was crazy. I collect the bank named wrappers more so than the coins inside them.
     
  21. berto

    berto Well-Known Member

    I'm an engineer, so I like to collect and analyze data.

    I've kept a spreadsheet of my efforts CRHing half dollars in boxes since I started hunting boxes of halves 4 years ago. I've kept track of the time I've spent ordering, picking up, searching, and redepositing, as well as the silver (40% versus 90%) finds. I didn't account for the miles I've driven in my car while picking up and redepositing.

    I've CRHed 187 hours and "earned" $2/hr, based on a silver value of $18/toz, for a total of $374. If I had instead worked a job for $8.50/hr for 187 hours, then I would have earned a pre-tax total $1,589.50; post-tax about $1,065.

    Searching boxes of half dollars is NOT lucrative for the majority of hunters. Most of us would accumulate substantially more $$$ working a minimum wage-type job. This is strictly a hobby.

    HH all
     
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