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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2791594, member: 27832&quot;]Welcome to CoinTalk!</p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of us came to this hobby because we&#039;re naturally oriented toward detail, patient, and persistent. You <i>absolutely</i> need the last two to get anywhere with CRH; the stronger you are with the first, the better your odds of finding something good.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mere silver-hunting is really easy; it&#039;s hard to miss silver, because it&#039;s clearly indicated by date and/or appearance of the coin. (You&#039;ll find some threads here where people think they&#039;ve found &quot;off-metal&quot; coins, struck on the wrong metal for their denomination or date. That&#039;s a big deal when it happens, but it&#039;s <i>extremely</i> rare, and most are false alarms.) You won&#039;t find much, though, because people have been &quot;mining&quot; the silver out of circulation for many years now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hunting for different designs (wheat-ear cents, Buffalo nickels, etc.) is also easy. Wheaties still turn up in every few rolls of cents, and are fun to find, but not especially valuable.</p><p><br /></p><p>Foreign coins turn up sometimes as well. If you find them interesting, they add more fun.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re very detail-oriented, you can look for varieties and errors. As [USER=24633]@cpm9ball[/USER] said, you&#039;ll more often find damaged coins, but with practice you can learn to distinguish those. I never pursued that much myself; I&#039;m pretty detail-oriented, but I found variety-checking too strenuous.</p><p><br /></p><p>Keep in mind that it costs banks actual time and money to get in rolls of coins and to process ones you return. Try not to abuse their service, and be nice to your tellers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line, from my point of view: If you <i>enjoy</i> roll-hunting, it&#039;s easy to pursue, and about the cheapest way to participate in coin collecting -- you never pay more than face value for your coins (unless you get a roll that&#039;s short or contains the wrong coins), so you can always get back what you paid. If you&#039;re just looking for financial reward, CRH is a poor choice, because you&#039;ll effectively be making much less than minimum wage at it.</p><p><br /></p><p>(If you want a cheaper way to get into the hobby, check out the &quot;CoinStar reject finds&quot; thread, and keep your eyes on the ground as you&#039;re walking around. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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