How Do You Guys Subject Yourself To Roll Hunting?

@DaytR

Thanks. Since pennies have been minted is almost every year since 1971 I thought it would be a fun and easy collection to complete. It's a shame that there is no circulation issue from 1972.

All the other dates I found multiple coins for, although naturally coins from the 1970s and 1980s were a little scarce. 1982 was a noticeably rare date. I think I only found 4 copies of that coin.

There's a difference between finding a coin at a coin store and buying it and finding a coin in circulation while roll hunting + getting it for face value. Its kind of a invisible difference but if your a true collector you will know what I'm talking about.

Well sadly we don't have any coins of real collector value in circulation. That said, I've now practically completed my 1 penny collection. Only years I'm missing are 1972 (proof only year) and 2011, 2012 and 2013 which should be easy to find.

I have fun doing it. I can kill an entire day going through a $25 box of cents. In fact I am going to pick one up on my way home tomorrow just in case it rains and I can't go metal detecting over my 4 day weekend.

In Canadian pennies, you could always have had fun picking out Laureate Elizabeth II, both King Georges, American pennies and other wacky foreign coins. Other countries, I guess, wouldn't be as interesting to someone used to seeing those coins - although I would absolutely love to pick through some coin rolls from certain commemorative-heavy countries, like Thailand (so many 10-baht commemoratives...).

I haven't found any for a long time. It's technically illegal to distribute them (or this is what the banks say).

I search as many pennies as I can get a hold of. Partially because I really like it and also because they are becoming harder and harder to find. I consider it a privilege that I can still get a fairly steady supply of small cents. I probably wouldn't CRH if I was in the UK because I can see it being very boring. Once the pennies dry up I may switch back to nickels but search less often or I may quit altogether.

I've been getting really good results lately because I think the pennies coming in to the banks now are not from stores/businesses but from people cashing in their jars they've had sitting for a long time. Today I probably had close to 100 pennies from the 80's that looked like they had just come out of an original mint roll or close to it. Then there were 15 wheat pennies and some MS copper American cents. Not to mention 4 UK pennies and 4 half pennies (first time seeing half pennies ever let alone in rolls).

It can be like treasure hunting when you find something great. I think I've found 6 George V small cents (1920-1936) out of probably 100 000 or so pennies searched. Then there was this error coin I found: https://goccf.com/t/158225&whichpag...chTerms=2006
which now has a new owner right here on CCF.

I look forward to coin roll hunting kind of like other people buy lottery tickets. The only difference being my "tickets" are redeemable for face value and I win a lot more often :).

Coin roll hunting takes me back to my youth when my grandfather brother and I would spend hours looking. I rarely get bored. These days I usually have the TV on in the background. If you watch TV you can coin roll hunt at the same time. Just requires more hand washing than normal.

To spice things up a bit, look for errors. Learn what errors to look for. There are a fair number of those in the wild at any time.