When you folks go to your local bank and request rolls or boxes of coins, do you ask for machine rolled or customer rolled denominations? Also how much is a box of: Pennies Nickels Dimes Quarters Halves Do you reroll your rejects? The bank used to give empty rolls when I requested them many years ago. Do they still offer them? I'm guessing no way. If they don't offer them for free, where is the cheapest place to buy them? What denomination coin seems to be the best success rate when CRH? Thanks for your help.
I'll take what I can get. My bank is honest with me as I'm a favorite customer but I'm not the only CR hunter they supply. If I ask they provide me with flat rolls to reroll them. Not all banks provide these services.
Ah, coin roll hunting... or how to turn your house into a conglomeration of piles of semi-sorted change. I do this still, but ever less enthusiastically 1) Two ways you can get coins at the bank; asking for and taking whatever they have on hand will give you either customer rolled, loose coins, or Loomis/Brinks rolls. A lot less likely to find a whole roll of silver as above with Loomis rolls, but can happen on occasion with customer wrapped stuff, like the above "Hamilton" halves lol. For that reason, my blood pressure spikes when I see customer rolls, although I've found more silver in machine rolled, personally. Second, more reliable method is to place an order at your bank for boxes of halves, nickels, dimes, pennies and even quarters (if you're into futility). Depending on the bank, change order comes 1x per week, you'll probably have to buy the whole box if you order and they will start looking at you funny. It is increasingly unlikely that a bank that is not your own will give you a whole box of Halves, for example. I have been in US bank asking if they had boxes of halves, and even though the teller REALLY wanted to get rid of them, she couldn't if I wasn't a member. (I have found a few very nice tellers and banks that help me double my hunt; when I finish the weekly 500$ box from my bank, I get it rolled and trade it for another box at one of these banks, same with pennies) 2) Halves and Quarters come in 500$ boxes, dimes 250$, Nickels 100$ and pennies 25$. Some banks need you to order 1000$ (or some minimum) at a time in order to do the operation at all. So CRH becomes like a forced savings account, where you just circulate your 1000$ or whatever ad infinitum or until you get thrown out of the bank 3) Some people DO roll their rejects, especially if they started CRH before free counting machines. You can get quite fast at it and avoid the feeling of stopping up someone's toilet with your unnecessary, selfish hobby. You may need more than one bank; one, two (or ten) to order from and at least one "dump bank" with a good coin counting machine. (Did I say yet they're gonna look at you funny?) And yes, they will give you rolls, unless they no longer accept them and ask you to dump them in the machine, which is possible. I started with half dollars, big silver being easy to notice both in the rolls and insofar as worth, but pennies have quickly become an equal favorite, if not a more interesting actual yield in errors, nifty coins and fun. Nickels are another great hunt, though I seem to get more whole boxes of uncirculated 2018/19 rolls which has led me to reduced interest. Dimes I don't screw around with, and quarters I've got only once, before hearing a bank teller say that he had NEVER found silver in the many, many boxes he'd searched. Now, is it worth it anymore to get boxes of halves? My best box only contained 16 silvers, mostly 40%, while a few years back, a fella got 500 (or 250$ face) out of 2500$ in halves or 100 per box. One box was a total skunk before the last two rolls, containing 2 benjis and 2 walkers, which turned it into a good box all of a sudden. In conclusion, pennies, nickels and halves for me, and only every once in a while. I'd rather go to a coin show.
Halves are the way to go for me. I still do a little CRH in the other denominations but mainly to fill holes in my albums. Finding silver halves while CRH (MWRs or CWRs) is the best.
Occasionally you will find a bank that has what is essentially a half box of nickels for 50.00. I did at one of my banks years ago (look at the box below that states $50 NICKELS on it in blue)
I re-roll all of mine using the original bank rolled rolls wrapper. It took about 25 rolls before I mastered a way to get them out without shredding the wrapper though
I find grocery stores where it is easy to insert the coins in the check yourself out area. Some stores are better than others. For example, Walmart takes halves, but some other (like the local Meijer) does not... it regjects those. Some, like the Meijer, takes the dollar ones (SBA's and Sacs, not the Ikes). Kroger is a pain as theirs are so hard to use, similar to Target... basically can't load many coins at once. I try to not use more than about 50-70 $ in coins to pay, and sometimes the coin hoppers are full earlier, but this is a way, if you don't mind taking about 10 minutes to pay for your groceries in coins. The beauty of it is you can CRH and not have to have a dump bank or be forced to pay like 11% of it to a coinstar type thing (what a bad deal), and if you don't overdo it, usually the cashiers/people monitoring the counters don't say anything. Occasionally they do, but I just pretend I'm dense or say well, I've done it before and it's been no problem. If I want to be really rude because the person is hassling me, I occasionally say I don't have any other way to pay that day and if they don't want to take my cash, today, they can help me put some of what I bought back. Nah, they don't want that hassle. Other times I say I'll try not to do it again (and usually I go to a different store or wait several weeks to use them again). Surprisingly, most people who line up behind me indicate they are alright with waiting and if they aren't they just move to a different counter to check out. I find this useful because my grocery money is the money I get to CRH with first. But the only hassle is bringing in a couple baggies of coins, which does weigh something and having it not rip a pocket (so it has to be in my purse and maybe an extra bag).... that also limits what I spend at a time with it.
When I was searching bags and rolls, my BoA branch would give me all of the wrappers I wanted for free. Chris
I picked up 16 rolls of halves today. That's all Chase had. Totally skunked. They gave me about 50 empty rolls and offered as many as I wanted. Till next week...
Every bank is different. Good luck to you with your hunting! I don't ask for paper rolls anymore. I thought I was being enough of a scourge asking for change so I just bought a box of each denomination of 1000 paper rolls on ebay or amazon for a couple bucks a piece. If I get customer wrapped rolls I just reuse them.
