How Did You Get Your Start In Coin Roll Hunting?

I remember as a kid back in the mid-sixties, soon after I got started in coin collecting (Whitman folders, etc.),I would always check my parents pocket change to fill holes in the folders. Then one summer we were on a camping vacation with a cousin and he went into a bank and came out with some rolls of cents. I was very interested and he showed me what it was all about. I thought it was a great cheap way to fill holes and I have been at it ever since, although only periodically. Now I am interested again. My cousin also informed me that most 1955 double die Lincolns may have been released in the Northeast (New England, I think). Since I lived in the northeast, I have been searching for this elusive coin since then, but no luck just yet (many PMDD's found though).
It may be a good idea to check out local banks while on vacation or business traveling to different areas of the country.

I started last year trying to finish two Statehood Quarter sets, and now I just began searching nickels to assemble two Jefferson sets

Very nice!

My son needed to do a collection for cub scouts. Pennies are cheap and plentiful so we started. then I saw a youtube video about CRH and then found this forum. Now I am hooked.

About a year ago today I was searching Google for coin mintages and found this site and read about coin boxes, and well I stopped ONLY checking change for my coins and started getting a box of two a month. Before that I didn't really check rolls except for when working at a cash register and setting something I wanted aside and paying the register for it when the drawer was removed. Got my first foreign, non-Canadian coin that way, a wartime British 3-pence. Now I have about 16 different countries coinage due to roll/box hunting. :D

Why, what's in the spare bedroom closet that's such a problem?

Got hooked when I received a 1960 Franklin as a Christmas gift couple years ago. Went to the bank a few days later and asked if they had any halves. Out of 100 I pulled a 64.

Now I CRH 8-10 boxes of halves a week.

My dad got me started roll hunting when I was a kid in the mid-70's, although not intentionally. Every Saturday he would go to the 2 banks in town and pick up rolls of half dollars. I am assuming it was just what came in during the week, as sometimes there would only be a roll or 2 and others a few dozen. The funny thing is, he wasn't even a coin collector, he just knew that there was silver to be found. We did this for a few years and then when the hunt brothers drove up the prices he sold them all, re-invested the money and wound up with a nice chunk of my college education! We never did it on a grand scale, like now with everyone ordering boxes, and we would always re-roll the leftovers by hand. As I got older I lost interest, and I think the hunt brothers incident probably bled the market dry as well. Not sure when exactly we stopped doing it. I always wondered what kind of stuff we found when I was a kid. I had a collection of wheat cents and Buffalo nickels, along with a few stray silver dollars and things I got as Christmas presents, but I wasn't a big collector. I remember the silver we pulled had lots of Kennedies, and also quite a few Franklins plus a few stray walkers, but I can never be sure exactly what we had in our hauls. We had a Red Book, so I'm sure Dad looked to see if there were any rarities.

Fast forward to about 10 years ago. I started collecting again and joined a local club, where I met someone that was getting boxes of half dollars and making use of the coin counting machines that started popping up in local banks. It brought back those memories and I thought I'd give it a shot. My first box yielded a single 1964 Kennedy, but it was enough to bring me back for more, and for a while I was searching 2-3 boxes a week. A couple of years ago, the silver started drying up so I started doing nickels and cents, with an occasional half dollar box every now and then.