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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GenX Enthusiast, post: 3403452, member: 101075&quot;]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</p><p><br /></p><p>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 &quot;Hamilton&quot; halves lol. For that reason, my blood pressure spikes when I see customer rolls, although I&#039;ve found more silver in machine rolled, personally.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second, more reliable method is to place an order at your bank for boxes of halves, nickels, dimes, pennies and even quarters (if you&#039;re into futility).&nbsp; Depending on the bank, change order comes 1x per week, you&#039;ll probably have to buy the whole box if you order and they will start looking at you funny. </p><p>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&#039;t if I wasn&#039;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)</p><p><br /></p><p>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<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>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&#039;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 &quot;dump bank&quot; with a good coin counting machine. (Did I say yet they&#039;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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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&#039;t screw around with, and quarters I&#039;ve got only once, before hearing a bank teller say that he had NEVER found silver in the many, many boxes he&#039;d searched. </p><p><br /></p><p>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&#039;d rather go to a coin show.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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