Roll Hunting: A Hobby Or An Obsession?

I don't engage in coin roll hunting. Just never found it appealing.

aristarchus123 brought up a great point.

Everyone enjoys different things.

If someone spends 20 hours a week coin roll hunting...who is to say it is any better or worse than 20 hours a week hunting, watching TV, reading or any other thing that brings you happiness, but is generally a solitary endeavor. I get that you can watch TV with other people, but you could also look through your rolls while engaging in conversation with the family, I suppose.

However, I don't think the point of the OP was to say anything negative about people who enjoy roll hunting. I think their point is that the upside to make all the time worth it is getting farther and farther between. It must be difficult today to still get the joy of those discoveries and the amount of energy required for the same payoff has almost made it not worth engaging in the activity.

The comment on hunting on ebay was interesting. I could easily spend 20 hours a week, if I let myself, looking for those fantastic last second deals and hunting for my silver coin in the roll that is ebay.

Some of it comes down to how fun the hunt itself is to a person. I could imagine for some people, the need for payoff threshold is quite low. The thrill of looking is more exciting than having the find.

What? What activities would you be engaging in if you were not coin roll hunting? I'm curious.

Did it hardcore for about 4 yrs.... Silver dried up in my area to the point it made no sense anymore, plus it was getting tougher and tougher to dump.... I still grab the random box of cents, nickels or dimes now and then though....

How do you know he meant it in that way? Are you psychic?




You can't read my mind? Okay. I'll spell it out for you then.

This post is a commentary about how difficult it is to be a successful silver coin roll hunter during this period in history. Given the amount of time that one would have to invest in order to be successful in this activity in today's world, one has to obsessed with trying to find silver. It is no longer a hobby. Some of the article is tongue in cheek.

Don't presume to speak for me, since I can do it for myself, but the expression, "tongue in cheek", is a conversational idiom in English.

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com...gue+in+cheek

Tracking down on-line stalkers and predators as an FBI informant.

I would describe my roll hunting as a recreational pursuit. I go through roughly one box every six months, rotating through denominations.

If there's any obsession in this, it's in keeping track on a spreadsheet of the years/mintmarks.

I used to do about a box a week. Amassed about a thousand older nickels, nearly a hundred pounds of copper cents, and not even $20 face in silver.

I got burnt out. I got married and suddenly in the day-to-day upkeep of a house, my time became too precious to spend looking to get a theoretical $4 profit from a box of nickels. I did search a few more boxes when I had to run overnight releases at work, just because I was bored out of my mind and too tired to clean dishes or fold laundry.

I would love to have finished my nickel set from circuLation, but I can cruise ebay during my lunch break, and come home to be a dad and husband to my family.