What's In A $25 Box Of US Cents These Days, Anyway?

@Frog - what sounds like a waste of time to me is trolling awesome collector sites spewing negativity.....

I enjoy the hunt and the hurt and I most enjoy sharing the ups and downs of the hunt..... collectors are in the trenches together and look out for each other....we all want to find that collection dump in the next roll we open and then race to sites to share with our friends that understand our delight..... some people will never understand the utter joy that you get getting 2 wheat pennies in the same roll.... so you have to find like minded people that share that same sentiment to celebrate.....

Let us have our fun and search to our heart content without the negativity...... Merry Christmas to all of you collectors out there......

Thanks for the info Halfamind. My local bank has been posting they don't have change to give such as rolls, and has happened at times all this year, so boxes (at least cheaply obtained) are not an option. I tend to go through more pocket change although I still have change left to go through from about 10 years ago I put away. The hunt became more enjoyable as I learned more about varieties and errors as those have at least some potential payback value (if desired) for pocket change, where top grades are very unlikely to be found outside of brand new rolls that happened to be opened and given to you right away.

Even a basic book like strike it rich with pocket change is plenty to get someone started. Those hunts for top condition are better suited to uncirculated rolls and mint bags of which I also still have some that I'm hopefully finally going to be able to do as well as this year has been terrible for extra time to do that and posting as well. Of course some people also just like to fill albums that some of the longtimers may not get excitement doing anymore. My family who were not collectors just enjoyed doing the quarter sets for example. Ive been wondering if I do that again with cents now, just what is possible to still find out there.

Great discussion, everyone! Glad I'm not the only one who enjoys cracking open a roll every now and then. Happy holidays to all!!!

I offer my thoughts looking back on a long life of collecting and imagining how things would have turned out if I'd allocated my time differently. Truthfully, my success and joy has stemmed from meeting other collectors, buying and selling, reading and learning, getting to know dealers. Coin roll hunting is a solitary endeavor with only marginal increments of knowledge and even less likelihood of financial gain.

I know most of you dismiss me as an old coot, which indeed I am, but I have walked your path and bet with certainty that all of you will one day come to agree with me.

CRH can serve a lot of different purposes for different folks.

For the data-driven and those on the autism spectrum, CRH statistics can provide comfort.

For the gamblers and the risk-takers, CRH can be a low-cost alternative to playing the lottery or the one-armed bandit.

As others have mentioned, there is minimal cost in CRH, aside from what you extract for yourself, thus opening the hobby to all income brackets.

I am Autistic and love coin roll hunting. I have been coin roll hunting for some years now (I am 24, almost 25). I one time got a coin bag with 500 wheat cents in it, it was last Christmas I think. Also I respect everyone's opinions. My grandma Linda and I used to coin roll hunt, sadly she passed away some years back, and I loved to spend time with her coin roll hunting. We used to go out of town to a delicious Chinese restaurant, and would stop at this TCF bank (I noticed it is now a Huntington bank), and get nickels. One time, they had a whole box of nickels for my grandparents and I. My grandpa had an account at the TCF bank. I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas.

@halfamind.... I appreciate the analytics/statistics, as the data appears to be pretty much spot-on from my experience CRH'ing. I also picked up a $25 box from the bank a few days ago. I'll go through a couple rolls here & there in my spare time & am cognizant of the fact, that its highly unlikely that I'll ever find those elusive bucket list DDO's or transitionals. That being said, I do enjoy the hunt even though 99.9% of what I find is junk & I end up rolling it back up or dumping it. Over the years, I've come across many minor DDO's/DDR's that are in decent condition & have added to my hoard.