Is Coin Roll Hunting Really Worth It?

I find coin roll hunting very worth it but not necessarily for the financial benefit. Although around this time last year I found a coin which would be considered valuable by anyone. I thought I would have the coin forever until I lost my job unexpectedly and a coin I had found for nothing made my life that much easier. It can be relaxing or it can be thrilling at times. If you're a bit of a hoarder or just OCD it can help scratch that itch as well. On days I'm feeling depressed it gives me a reason to get up and out of the house. Going to the bank to pickup coins and feel like I'm doing something.

O-train; that sounds like good therapy while you were in the in-between. I wouldn't hesitate to part with a find if it meant that the proceeds would go towards a greater need. Well, I'd hesitate just long enough to snap some pictures to remind me of a previous success until the next find.

Even better!

Hmmmm...

There's intrinsic and extrinsic value to CRH. Some may become addicted (a person can become addicted to about most anything I suppose), but I'm reading mostly about the intrinsic value (relaxation, reduced time in front of the boob-tube, etc.). As for the price of gas getting to and from the bank, if all you are after are the easy pickings (mainly low value finds), then extrinsically speaking, you might be better off saving up and going to the local coin shop. That said, I'm sure that many of us plan picks and drops while running errands here-and-there. So gas costs might be otherwise nominal (unless you live in a remote spot without easy access to the bank). Really, there's no right or wrong answer here - just your personal preference in how you obtain pieces for your collection.

So far, about 1/3 through a box of cents and I've 9 LWCs worth about $0.18. I've a few more AU LMCs, 3 2009, and 10 Canadian cents worth about a quarter in all. But I have a 1991 DDR set aside for identification roughly worth $8 to the right collector. So net investment in time (well spent by my standards) and around $0.35 face value, a decent ROI (but by no means will I get rich doing this, extrinsically speaking). Have fun folks!!

This question reminds me of a question my Micro Economics professor asked the first day of class; ‘Would you bend over to pick a penny up off the sidewalk?'

He went one by one around the room to get a yes or no and a short explanation. Maybe because I was twenty years older than everyone else I was the only one to answer in the affirmative. When a young girl on the other said of the room said ‘What the #$%^ for?'
I answered ‘It only takes 100 to make a dollar.'

So is CRH worth it? Well in the last few months most evenings I sit in the living room beside my wife as she chats on Facebook, usually with a dog in my lap, the TV on, a drink and a tray covered in cents. I have found three dimes in cent rolls, over 100 wheat cents, two Canadian cents needed for my wife's collection, numerous misc oddities, and 5 1998 WAMS that I can't find anyone who wants to spend money on them. Oh yea, and I keep all the cents in a hundred year old wooden strongbox with a cool spring loaded latch, so I have about $400 saved that I would most likely have spent on something else.

Yep, it is worth it.

I do some roll searching for dimes, nickels, pennies, and quarters.

When searching the dimes and quarters I'm not looking for silver (although I'd gladly take whatever came my way). When it comes to dimes I'm trying to assemble at least two rolls for every date and mintmark in what could be called BU condition. So far I am well off finishing my goal. When I arrive at my goal I'll have to come up with another goal for my dimes. In quarters since I have a nice collection of quarters for the last four series I'm currently trying to put together a circulated set of the ATB's and again am far away from completing that project. I'm also trying to put together rolls of BU coins also but am really not trying to push that agenda at all. The cost factor adds up to quickly in the quarter persuasion.

When it comes to nickels I'm trying to finish one circulated set of Jeffersons and working on another. For some reason I'm not trying to put together BU rolls by date and mintmark.

On the other hand when it comes to the cents there I am a multiple mission. I'm looking for IHC (found quite a few), Lincoln Wheatback coins, Copper, 2009 pennies, and S mark coins of any year(which is true of any current issue coin). I've most likely bypassed the Wide AM coins (not really sure of what to look for). Ever since I started I was never attracted to mis-struck coins and most likely I shouldn't be to quick to by-pass those coins either.

When it comes right down to it, I'm curious as to how much copper coins I can amass, just for the curiousity of it all. I figure I have a few hundred pounds of copper pennies and I'm leaving the problem of what to do with them all to my kids. They can be a pain in my but, but when I gone I'm plan to be a big one in their's. Sort of a revenge from beyond the grave thing.

I also cwr cents because there are a lot of nights when I can't sleep and rather than watching the TV all night, I do something I consider constructive.

So is it worthwhile for me, yes and on many levels. I still have long way to go.

I think it's like any hobby, it's worth it to you cause you enjoy it. I pick up a box once a week at the local bank and sort it through the weekend. I then deposit into my account Monday and repeat the process on Friday. It's just something to do on a slow night if anything else.