New To Coin Roll Hunting. What Should I Start With?

Normic, you are absolutely correct your advice about the roll ends transcends the border lines. However, I have a hard time when I see tellers about to hand me what I call "Junk Rolls" the rolls wrapped in cello which are usually current year, or even the tightly white wrapped ones from Churchill.

You have 2 options neither of which is great:

option 1: refuse the rolls, the issue here is that you may have had the teller spend 5-ten minutes getting these rolls, and now you are refusing them, this is an easy way of making enemies at the bank.

option 2: suck it up and dump them at your dump bank, the issue here is that you basically wasted your time effort and are now holding up funds until you dump them.

personally for me it is a toss up between the 2 options, if the teller took more than 1 or 2 minutes getting the rolls, then I happily take what I get (luck of the draw), if its was a quick transaction I may say I prefer not to take them (however this is not a common response for me)

What I get into the habit of doing is just as the teller is turning away to get the rolls, I say clearly, "I would prefer the oldest rolls you have!" this works some of the time, but not always.

I do have a lot of tellers who know me and will just give me all that they have as good CWR (customer wrapped rolls)

what is the main purpose people do this?

Can collectible coins be found in these rolls?

That's Me!

Yes you can absolutely find collectible ones, very easily which is yet another reason why people do it.

The alloy recovery programme is a programme that recycles the metal found in old coins, they take all the coins back and sift through them and take all the older ones with certain metal contents out like copper and silver.

Remember, the people that do that programme are any coin collectors worst enemy. When you see a brinks truck make sure you say something nasty to them.

The alloy recovery programme is just really really stupid, some of those old coins that get melted for there metal content could be worth a lot of money and collectible items (especially ones that are antiques) do NOT belong getting melted for the reasons they are.

The alloy recovery programme is a BAD thing!

If you want silver, go with Half Dollars if you can get them.

If you want to build a sets, go with nickels or quarters (for Statehood set).

"What should I start with ? " umm.............lets see . Ah yes !! The first thing you start with is a thick skin as Bank tellers will come to despise you. I was at a CU last week and saw a CRH tossed! Banks just do not want to deal with CRHers. It costs way too much money to order coin. Indeed my bank is now charging 15 cents a roll . IMHO all banks should discourage coin roll hunters.
A far better way to find coins for nothing...........a turned up hat on the street corner...........but be prepared to do some stupid people tricks. !!
In all seriousness visit a local dealer and spend a few bucks looking through junk boxes, or attend a coin show or two. Even a flea market is more promising. With the Asset alloy recovery program in Canada CRH is a total waste of time for the most part.

Not for ace_ftw!