Coin Roll Hunting

In two years of coin roll hunting, here's what I've found (approximately):

pennies - wheats (1 in 1000), Geo VI (1 in 1500), foreign (1 in 2000)
nickels - Jeffersons (1 or two in each roll, none before 1960 though), Geo VI (1 in 1000), foreign (3 in two years - 2 twenty pence from UK, 1 five cent Bermuda)
dimes - Roosevelts (1 in 100 or so), 4 silver dimes in 2 years, NO 1970 dimes! :(

Part of the "joys" of the big T.O.

Silver, nah! Only found 2, both in the same roll. They were a 1968 silver dime and a 1967 commem. dime. As for old pennies, they are abundant if you get enough rolls. I say the odds are a little better for me compared to Topher's. I've found the years of 39(2),40(2), 43, 46,47,48,51,54,55(2),56(2),57,58(3),59(2),60,61 and a whole bunch of the 67 commems. Nickels, I've only found one keeper, a 1950 George VI in my first ever try. If you withdraw rolls of quarters, you're in for a bunch of commemoratives. You will pull at least 5-10 reverse varieties in just 2 rolls of 25 cents. Hope that helps.

kestreliam it depends on the bank. My usual bank doesn't have boxes as they're in an older, established neighbourhood and don't go through coins all that quick. They do get older people turning in rolls, which are prime for searching, though. I have found an RBC two doors down the road from my workplace that does. Both banks know me pretty well, and are happy to oblige. The RBC even gave me an extra 1c box a couple of times when I was taking mixed coinage home. I use them now to help keep all these coins sorted at home.

This may be too late for your visit into Canada but just a little info on rolls. Recently I had gone throught bricks(boxes) of CDN nickels to collect only CDN nickels from 1981 and under because they could be sold for .20 cents each beacuse of their nickel content. Out of every 4 boxes (each box has 50 rolls @2.00 face total box cost $100.00 cdn) I could get 1 box of pre 1981. Also approximately 20 rolls of US nickels, 4 rolls of 1967 centennial rabbit nickels,and 20 rolls of cdn nickels prior 1950. Also a good hanful of misc. foreign money people sneak in.
The best rolls to get are from small outlets where people bring in their own rolled money. At the banks you tend to get newer coinage.
Hope this helps. I have also received rolled quarters of all of the 1999 and 2000 BU millenium quarters. Junk silver is getting rare in rolls but usually ther is more than 1 in the roll if you find it.
Good luck hunting.