New To Coin Roll Hunting

So what do you consider cool then? Everyone will ahve a different idea, bt only you know what ocin or design or what you like best. foreign I find most in nickels boxes. They have intersting designs. Find a lot of really shiny copper in pennies boxes. maybe AU or something like that, not much into the grading myself because if I can read the date, see the imagery and read the mintmark I keep it if I want it. otherwise I toss it back.

Dimes...they kill your eyes so not worth it for silver from what I have seen.

quarters.. all the states.

halves. might find a commemorative, I haven't but others have, gold plated, silver plated, holed, counterstamped, NIFC, proofs, so many things could be found in halves, or it could be just a whole box of 1971.

being in a roll doesn't keep them from getting scratched

Then you need to search boxes of each coin type. $1, half, quarter, dime, nickel, cent.

Bags seem to be better than boxes if you can find them. Though dollars will have mostly "golden" ones now with some SBAs in them. The most interesting ones I find are either old or foreign. Some recent foreign have been swiss coins in nickels, 2-euro cents and pfennig coins in pennies. Think I got some mexican and korean in quarters? and Canadian in just about everything. only boxes I haven't found foreign in yet are dollars and halves.

okay

You can say that all you want, but the box has to have silver in it for you to find it. Then youmust not check for proofs in dimes if all you are doing is edge checking?

The key to success in coin roll hunting is searching volume.
A roll here, a roll there, is great, but if you want the finds to be consistent, and reduce boredom, buy large quantities at a time. You will save time, and money.

I've found over 1,000 silver dimes in the last six years, and also clad, silver, Cud, and clipped planchets, all via edge searching. One does not have to tie up a lot of money to buy coin. What I do is have several banks lined up and they call me when they have $500-$1k in coin, customer rolled, or boxes I've ordered. Compared to what many hunters buy, and what I used to buy, that's small potatoes. I used to buy 10-12 boxes at a time, once a week. I make one trip to pickup, and one trip to dump (at a different bank). I can search $1k in coin, dump, and get my money back all before noon if I like. It's a very simple system.

I suppose it's all about what you want out of the hobby. If you want hundreds, or even thousands of silvers, UP the volume!

In general, proof dimes have a very fat, crisp rim, so they stick out. I have found more clad proof dimes than I have silver proof. I have also found gold plated, chrome plated, and annodized silver dimes.

My younger daughter spent several of my clad proofs a while back; oh well I should've put them up so she couldnt get hold of them, ha.