How Many Are Into Coin Roll Hunting?

Madmartigan--glad you enjoyed the post. I wish I could see the security tapes at both banks. I'm sure it would be pretty entertaing to watch myself try to carry an open box and a bunch of loose rolls out of the one bank and dropping the roll of dollars all over the floor. My guess is the look on my face at the bank where the teller gave me the whole $500 box would be pretty funny too.

Someone should start a thread about funny things that happen at banks/coin shops.

Well I searched $1000 last night and nothing . Oh well, I guess I due for a 'famine'.

Unfortunately I can never find halves in quantity, then when I find some they are all really beaten up from service in a Casino about 100 miles from here. I have my best luck with nickels and cents. My weirdest find in a nickel roll was a British 20p, a seven sided coin masquerading as a nickel, but a coin worth 41¢ appearing as a nickel pleases me no less.

Just finished going through 2 boxes of pennies. I keep any foreign coins or non pennies, wheaties, 1960 (cuz I was born that year), S mint, and errors and here is what I got out of them:

Box 1
Non-Pennies
1979P,1983P dimes
Wheats
1944,1946,1947,1953D,1956,1956D (x2),1957D (x2)
1960 Pennies
1960 (x2),1960D (x2)
S-Mint
1969S,1970S,1971S (x2)
Errors
1995 Crack Head,1999 Filled bottom of "B" in Liberty
Canadian Centennial Penny 1967

Box 2
Foreign
Canadian Pennies
1964,1974,1983,1986,1987,1989
Wheats
1940,1941,1941,1943,1944,1944D,1945,1948,1953D,1955,1956D
S-Mints
1968S,1969S,1970S (x3),1971S (x3),1974S
1960 Pennies
1960,1960D (x4)
Error Pennies
1983 Clash (x2),1989 Die Crack Rev,1995 Toned Crack head

I've had worse boxes! That makes $250 in pennies that I have searched (only started a couple of months ago). That is the most S Mint pennies I have ever found. Normally, they are more scarce than wheaties for me here in Florida.

- Tony

I've been searching rolls of halves lately and was wondering if it might be worth my while to start searching rolls of dimes and quarters for a change. Does anyone have a feel for the percentage of silver coins found per $500 searched--comparing dimes, quarters and halves?

I guess what I'm after is a number like:

average $5.00 worth of dimes per $500 searched
average $8.00 worth of quarters per $500 searched
average $2.50 worth of halves per $500 searched

Does anyone keep track of what they find like that?

Here is what I've done so far in halves:
40% = $2.61 per $500 searched
90% = $0.73 per $500 searched

CPChicago--I've found the hunt to be either feast or famine when it comes to halves. You either find a bunch or nothing at all.

Where are you at in Chicago? I'm in the NW suburbs.

Happy hunting!

ludeboi121--I'd be interested in some rolls of Franklins. Shoot me an email. I looked in your profile and couldnt find your email address just AIM which I don't have access too.

Thanks,
Galen

dubya_75 -- Lincoln Park

I may go out today to find more halves. We shall see what the evening brings me!

Well I'm back from vacation. No luck with banks at the beach. They didn't have any halves or dollar coins.

ludeboi121 - wish I worked at a bank. I'd pull out any star notes, silver coins, etc. I came upon and put them out of sight. Alas I work in medical IT. Course that saves my paycheck. I'd be putting 1/2 may paycheck in coins/currency that I found each week at the bank. You should keep an eye out for older customers that turn in change. Specially if they are in older wrappers. Those you may want to set aside and buy from the bank to search.

gee_dubya75 - you rubbed off on me. Was telling my local teller friend about your story as she was getting my $400 in coins. Guess what happened as I was going out the door? A bundle of dimes dropped and bust opened. I just had to laugh.

As for the dimes and quarters. I've just searched $200 in dimes and found 1 silver. Before that I searched $250 last month and found 1 mercury and 2 silver. So out of $450 I'm at 1 merc and 3 silver. Not great results. I also hate dimes due to the size of them. Is sometimes hard to get them back in the rolls. Quarters I've had mix luck. I've purchased $1000 in quarters so far plus some odd rolls here and there. One box was brand new State Quarter so just turned it back in after searching for errors. I've pulled a few silver but have not kept track. Mostly been getting the quarters for my daughter to search for State Quarters. I've been stuck on nickles for some reason the past month. I buy a box every week. So far I have over $18 in nickles I've pulled. I've made rolls of 1960-69 w/o 1964, and then pre-1960 rolls. I've finished one book and doing the older nickle book now. I find about one or two silver war nickles in each box.