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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BigsWick, post: 484983, member: 3534&quot;]It depends upon a few things. You would likely get a lot of different answers to this querry if several people replied to your question. I&#039;ve read some pretty creative things from guys on this forum as to how they&#039;ve gotten rolls of coins to search.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I first started searching rolls, about 4 or 5 years ago, I just walked into a branch of the bank where I had an account and asked for some rolls of halves. They had a few, maybe 50 or so total that had been sitting for years. I searched them all, like 10 rolls at a time, over the course of a couple of weeks, then asked for more. They didn&#039;t have any but the teller said she&#039;d order some. She got a couple of boxes and I continued to go in and get 10 or 15 rolls to search at a pop.</p><p><br /></p><p>My returns? I&#039;d take them to that bank sometimes, sometimes to another branch of the same bank, sometimes to another bank altogether. I spread it out to keep every branch as happy as possible (fewer coins to count), and I thought I&#039;d reduce the odds of my getting the same coins back over and over.</p><p><br /></p><p>15 rolls at a time wasn&#039;t enough once I got the fever. I pulled together $500 and bought a box. One box led to more. After buying a few boxes over the course of about a month the head teller decided she wouldn&#039;t sell me any more. She said she needed them for her commercial customers. I thought that was baloney, so I asked to speak with a manager. The manager wanted to start charging me $20 a box for all future boxes. So, I asked her how many rolls per week I could get at no charge. She said 25. 25 it was.</p><p><br /></p><p>I repeated this process at a couple of other banks. Some branches were more cooperative than others and, at the height of my searching, I was sorting about 3 boxes a week. Eventually the tellers stopped with the funny looks and the whole thing became routine for them. It just took a little time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I searched regularly for 3 years before my efforts began to yield less than satisfactory results. About a year ago I stopped for about 10 months. Then, one day I was in the bank and a teller asked me why I stopped. I told her I needed a break. She said she&#039;d be happy to order me some more boxes if I wanted to start again. So, at the end of October, I started year 4. My results have been OK thus far, and I guess I&#039;ll keep at it until I hit another long dry spell.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope this helps. Good luck with whatever you decide to do![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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