Just A Dumb Question

This is not the preferred method.

1) CRHers agree that picking up and dumping coins at the same bank is bad form, because you are recycling your finds and it makes tellers to extra work which will get you cut off eventually.

2) CRHers agree that informing tellers will often backfire. If they know it's valuable and what to look for, they'll get it before you do.

3) Asking tellers to search through coins will probably frustrate them and hurt your chances at a good relationship. Their job isn't to be your coin shop or find particular dates.

If you use the same bank for years, basic friendly interaction, creates a business friendship. I know all the tellers in my bank by name as they know mine. When I do bank transactions, I always say "so got anything interesting in the trays", if they do, they are more than happy to sell it to me.

In my old bank, one of the tellers was a collector, so he scooped up everything. Like your LCS forged friendships go a long way.

100% in agreement with what people are saying.

up here I buy all of the dollars and 50cent pieces I can find (in Canada they are out of circulation) and look for varieties and silver.

You need to get an account in a larger bank or CU that has branches in your town, and ones in adjacent towns. you need to dump the stuff you don't want somewhere outside of your own feeding pool.

Also know that trying once in a blue moon to get silver is really like playing the lottery, you might get lucky, but mostly you loose. If you want to find silver you need to commit to crhing buying a roll of halves is not committing, buying a box/week would be.

As for the rural/local aspect of your comment, I would say that it depends on the area, if you have what we call an area that is "Nearly Dead or Nearly Wed" you may find more silver, if the population is not in those categories I don't think you find much difference.

Note that in a rural area coins are not really circulating that much and your bank may not be ordering much new coinage, and for this hobby you need fresh coins to go through. This means I would suggest looking at a higher populated area with more banks to be a more primary pick up bank(s).

That all said, it would be wise to make friendly with your local bank tellers, let them know you are a coin collector. DO NOT tell them you are searching for silver specifically, because they may start pulling stuff before you can get them. Show the tellers old coins you have found in the past, bring them chocolates or candies from time to time, and when you go in, buy a few rolls, and then ask if they have anything odd or different.

Well, I'm glad some advice came in! No no no I didn't go to the bank and have a failure, but let me tell you a few facts. One, the town's population is about a NOT couple thousand, but around 7,000 to 8,000, so it might be eh, idk. Second, our bank is Capital One. Third, I did go in there and exchange $28 worth of change some time ago without a problem, but that doesn't matter and does not relate to the bank teller friendship building. And fourth, just a reclarification question, does population matter on the odds of finding more old and unique coins? I'm just wanting to be sure because I do want to find old stuff.

And about the halves, $500 of them is not in our budget sadly However, $25 of pennies can be in my own budget if I can save up my dang money, maybe even $100 of nickels! But probably pennies, cause of the many things you can look for in pennies (wheats, coppers if you want to hoard, errors, etc)!

+1. Yes!

Coin roll hunting is a gamble you can't lose, because if you do not find anything you don't lose any cash!

Banks would not separate coins by year, so I do not see how it could be beneficial to ask for "pre-1970" or "pre-1965" anything. How would they know unless they searched the rolls or loose coins?

I think that the bigger issue in searching is not whether the town is small or not, but whether they are any other roll hunters in the area. if so, the town has likely been emptied of all the good stuff by now.

I did not say it was the best option, only an option. some coinstars offer gift cards and a zero% fee. The best option is to find a dump bank.

This Hobby we do Coin Roll Hunting, is not by any means an easy thing, you need to have a plan, from where you buy the coins, to how you get rid of the coins. Heck you could just spend all the change instead of dumping, that is another option.