Half Dollar Roll Hunting For Small-Timers (Not Box Hunting!)

The original Half Dollar Roll Hunting thread was started back in 2007 and currently extends to over 1600 pages. In recent years that thread has come to be dominated by posts from hunters who process half dollars by the $500 box: 2 boxes per week, or 5, or 10, or 20. Many posts discuss strategies for turning in ("dumping") the thousands of unwanted coins back to the banks, hopefully without annoying the bank personnel. It seems like roll hunting has become an industrial-level process, complete with special equipment for transporting hundreds of pounds of coins.

Some bulk hunters find large quantities of silver halves along the way and I'm definitely impressed (and envious) about their success. My modest roll-hunting operation generally involves dropping in at banks and buying whatever loose coins or rolls the tellers have on hand. The scores are small but somehow satisfying. If other roll hunters are content with small-scale hunts then maybe you will consider adding to this thread. I myself will continue to check out the "big boy" posts on the 1600-page topic but it seems I have little to contribute there.

That being said, I recently picked up 5 rolls of customer-wrapped halves at a local Chase Bank. These 100 coins included at least 70 proof halves, dating from 1970 to 2010. A single 1970-S was the only silver coin (40%) but I was amazed at the sheer quantity. I'm keeping about 40 of the better coins; the rest were too impaired from circulation and I will redeposit those. I also found a few NIFC business strike coins, plus two clad commemorative halves: a 1986 Statue of Liberty and a 1991 Mount Rushmore. This little score made my day!