Roll-searchers, post your results!

Hippieman556,
roll of cents = .50
roll of nickels = 2.00
roll of dimes = 5.00
roll of quarters = 10.00
roll of halves = 10.00

Just ask your bank for however many rolls you can afford.
If you want boxes of each, they usually are 50 rolls of each, but your bank may have to order them for you. Especially half dollars, most banks do not stock them.
Sometime you get lucky and some one turns in some rolls of halves.

Others may disagree, but some of us feel that customer rolled coins have the best finds.
It basically comes down to luck, persistence and searching alot of rolls.
Good luck!

Read the past posts on this thread to see the amazing coins people have found!

 

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thanks so much for the info i hope to get to the bank this weekend and start on this great hobby i have been looking at all the great finds

 

good luck hippiman....and come back here and tell us how you did (it's motivational to hear of other's successes).

 

will do

 

Cool while I'm gone everybody answers the questions! LOL
Can't wait to hear your finds

 

finished the last 12 rolls in my last ever box of pennies...found a 1955-D and a canadian penny ((1992) Confederation 125).

I'm going to miss roll searching

 

Hippiman, an important thing is to take back the coins after you search them, to a DIFFERENT bank than the one you got them from. That way (hopefully), you won't encounter too many coins you've already been through.

Joe

 

Why do you have to stop?

 

todays Wells Fargo Box of halves

Found 1x40% and a 2003d. Hope I have better luck with BoA Tomorrow.

on another note the local WaMu has said they will order boxes on a weekly basis for me. WOOT!

 

I'm moving away from the US...I'm not from here

 

will they have banks where you are going?

 

Yes, of course! But the thing is that I'm not sure there is anything like "roll searching"....at least I never heard of anyone doing that when I was home for so many yrs! But then that time I wasn't into this hobby...may be I'll find out once I get there.

Else I can always keep a lookout for nice coins in circulation

 

Yeah thats what I thought. Hopefully you can still search. Good luck!

 

does this sort of thing exist in canada? im sure it does, but, there are quite a few things to look for in the states, do people do this sort of thing in canada?

 

agreed, seeing others finds is motivational...like we need any encouragement!

after searching 12,500 pennies in 3.5 hours and getting only wheaties (earliest 1918!) and one steelie, best friend turned in $80 worth of pennies at a coin counter at a bank we found that had one...and jammed the machine seven times! ha ha ha. i think the jig was up when one of the jams was caused by some paper from the paper that keeps the pennies in a roll that found its way in there...busted. ha.

i think we were so excited by the indian head we failed to realize that it is a pretty rare occurrence to find one in circulation and now are kind of disappointed that after going through 12,500 pennies we didnt find another!

 

I've NEVER found an indian head.

 

I got a question that only you can answer.
Where were you?

 

Yes, it does. Just walk into a bank and ask for rolls of whatever denomination you want. I bought quite a few rolls from a bank in Canada when I visited in 2005 and found nickels and pennies dating to the 1940's. Nothing too old in the dimes and quarters but such results aren't much different than searching rolls from the United States for those denominations as well.

 

My in-laws are cruising the Alaskan Highway through Canada so I gave them $30 and told them to get me some bank rolls to fill holes in my meager Canadian collection.

 

Just searched 7 rolls of pennies:

5 2009D log splitters
4 2009P log cabins
1 1952 Wheat
1 beautiful 1963 penny

Good night.