How Many Are Into Coin Roll Hunting?

You guys are killing me...I started the forum a few days ago and this thread caught my eye. So I have been thinking about going to a local bank and start coin hunting....

I'm past having the fever (as it was commented in another post)...I'm DREAMING about it!! Last night I had a dream that I got a roll from the bank and I was somewhere with my wife and family and I stopped to open the roll and look at my coins. It was a paper roll not a bankroll. There was one Kennedy, no date as I remember but it looked like a 90% silver in my dream....

My wife rolled her eyes when I told her...but she didn't say I couldn't...:)

Of-grampa:

I would find a new bank.

Or you can wait at the door when this someone coming and tell him/her "not to poop at the same place to eat".

I also suggest that of-grampa should find aother bank

Well my bank is happy to order halves for me because my Company account, my personal savings account, and my personal checking account is with them. I would expect them to actually, even though they don't have to. They have been acting like they're happy to do this service for me and I certainly hope that doesn't end !

Just be careful you don't develope and turn the teller INTO A COIN COLLECTOR !.. ..Having coin collectors at a bank is devestating !.... for obvious reasons!......I've learned to play it pretty casual with what I'm excited by.....so they don't then decide to do it for themselves or their friends or something.
The silver half hunting thing is VERY contagious !
If someone there gets SILVER FEVER.......YOU'RE DONE !!..

Qoute:
"Walker, do you have accts at these banks, and if NOT, do you ask over the phone if they will sell them to you even if you aren't an acct holder?"

Sorry I couldn't answer sooner, I'm working night's right now, and it's killing my schedule.

In answer to your question, no I don't have accounts at most of these banks. I've found out that most of the banks are very happy to offload there halves. They don't use them, and every night that they sit in the vault, they have to be counted for nightly accounting. Most banks happily give them away. I have found a few that are anal, and won't talk to you if your not a member. RB centura is one of them. A few banks are 50/50, just depends on who you talk to. If you get halves from one Wachovia (for example), but can't get them at another, just call back on a different day, and hopefully you'll talk to someone else. You'll come across some busy or lazy tellers, that either can't or won't take the time to look. If you don't get a felling they even looked, call back on a different day, might very well be worth your 30 seconds.

As far as getting halves ordered, you have to have accounts at those banks. I also have trouble at a few banks trying to get large amounts of other coins if I'm not a member (i.e. pennies, dimes). Most banks are easy, and cheap (if not free), to open savings accounts at, and then your a member and you don't have to worry about it anymore.

I would say I have a 85 to 90 percent success ratio calling around, and I know exactly how much I'm picking up, and saving a lot of gas, and time in the process.

stats for yesterday:
went thru 50 rolls of pennies and ten rolls of dimes

5 1/2 rolls of copper
3 wheat pennies (40's and 50's)
3 3 cent euro's
1 old German Reich mark (not sure if I spelled that right)
1 united Arab emirates coin (?)
1 Canadian penny
1 silver 1964 dime

Happy hunting to all!

I tried coin roll hunting once for Kennedy halves, I had limited funds because I'm in college. At least I pulled out an AU 1982 P.

If I brought a box of half dollars I'd probably get robbed in my dorm. The next night they'd probably bring them back however with a note saying something like "we thought we were stealing money, sorry!"