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Pillar of the Community
United States
2368 Posts |
I remember my story like it was yesterday...I always had memories of my grandfather buying me rolls of quarters to look for the states and of my father bringing home wheat cents that he received in change. I always liked the design and they were in my collection for years.
Then one day I looked at all of my collection and saw my four wheat cents from my father. And I thought, I got to get some more of those! I remembered finding wheat cents in change and quarter roll searching and put two and two together. And in the spring of 2012, I became a penny roll hunter.
I went to a small supermarket bank and asked for $3.50 in pennies. I opened up the rolls and found nothing and was beginning to get discouraged. Then, on the last roll, out poured a worn but attractive 1940. The rest is history, and almost 2 years later I buy 1 box per week and have accumulated 50 varieties for my date/mintmark set of wheats.
Post your stories, and, as always, thanks for reading.
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Moderator
 United States
56855 Posts |
Budget. I could not afford the coins I wanted to buy so I started CRH to get them at face value. And it's a lot more fun that way too. John1  |
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Moderator
United States
187702 Posts |
It started when I realized that my getting rolls from the bank was more efficient than letting the stores get them and slowly hand the contents to me as change.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7613 Posts |
My uncle got me started on Friday nights back in the early 1960's. We went through a 200$ bag of nickels in about 3 hours. Besides pulling the obvious War Nickels and buffalos, I pulled the "good dates" of the Jeffersons. Best Jefferson I ever found was a nice AU 39-D. Never found a 50-D. Several years ago I asked my uncle if he remembered that 39-D. He said "remember it?....I still got it!". I told him I'd like to have it. A few months later he called me and told me to come and get it. It's framed and hanging on my wall now. My uncle is nearing 93 now and still going strong! |
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
11922 Posts |
Around a year before Canada was going remove the penny is when I decided to start my penny date set. A few month after the penny was removed I decided to start a nickel/ dime/ quarter date set because I've already done the penny. Also I went through my mom's change jar and found lots of dates. And with 21 nickels, 4 dimes and 16 quarters to go I decided, why not.
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
17890 Posts |
I used to get £5 bags of British 5p coins to sort through in the 70s and 80s. In those days pre-decimal shillings were still circulating as 5p's and you occasionally got 50% silver coins (1920 - 1946) and 92.5% silver ones (1816 - 1919). The oldest shilling I ever found this way was a 1912 one, which is still in my collection. There were also quite a few varieties to look for, plus the separate English and Scottish designs of the 1937 - 1966 shillings. Occasionally NIFC 5p's would turn up, plus foreign coins including US Quarters. Sadly this all came to an end when the 5p was replaced by a smaller size coin in 1990. More recently I've searched a few bags of 20p coins looking for the famous 'undated' 2008 coin (no luck) and 50p coins to get a full set of the Olympic series.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4333 Posts |
Around 1979 I was a teen in high school, and while reading the newspapers I kept seeing these full-page adds announcing "Buying Silver!"
I found out that these brothers we will call the Hunts were trying to corner the silver market, and were driving the price of silver sky high.
I started checking dad's pocket change and I remember finding a 1919 S wheat and a silver rosie in one batch. I put two and two together, and said to myself, "why not go to the bank and buy rolls of dimes, quarters, and halves, and search them for silver?"
I didn't find much back then, because many others had the same idea as myself. High interest rates, a recession, and high unemployment drove others to take advantage of hunting rolls.
I find more silver today than I did back then.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Valued Member
United States
315 Posts |
I've been keeping my eye on quarters for years now. I usually get 2 rolls a month for laundry, and haven't found a single coin worth keeping. Then, I went through my piggy bank of 20kg of coins, and found one merc. After that, I sampled a few rolls from the area, and found nothing in quarters, dimes and nickles. I started pennies, because at least I was finding copper. After I rolled my 12th roll of copper pennies, I gave up on those. I still have an order of $200 of halves at one of my banks, but they still haven't called me back.
So I kind of started and quit within a month. I'm waiting for the 7th so I can deposit the coins I searched last month, about $25 in pennies, nickles and dimes.
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Valued Member
United States
116 Posts |
I am really into metal detecting and a few of the forums have sub-forums for CRH. I also hunt with someone who used to do it a lot. Been thinking about it for over a year and I was sitting at my desk at work and told my boss I'd be back in 10 min and I had to go to the bank.
I picked up 5 rolls of quarters, 10 rolls of dimes, 10 rolls of nickels.
In just that small selection, I found a merc dime and a war nickle! I was instantly hooked. Of course since then, I picked up cents and mostly do those and nickels.
It is awesome to get silvers, wheats, varieties, buffalos, etc all for face value. I used to collect coins as a kid so that helps the drive too
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8515 Posts |
I started reading about roll searching cents right here and had to try it. Been doing it ever since.
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Valued Member
United States
107 Posts |
I always held silver since I was like 10, now at 30 I started doing it more actively as a hobby, but I also try to diversify assets into commodities. I don't like the way we print money and devalue it, so a hedge more than anything.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
2368 Posts |
Great stories, everybody! Thanks for sharing.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8137 Posts |
I started when I got a box of dollars ($1000) While I was getting a CD at the bank. I also started because it was really fun to look at a full set of Jefferson nickels and think "wow I got this whole set for face! Even the War Nickels!" (my first and only complete set as of when this was written is my Jefferson set. My Ike set will be next though with only 2 coins missing) It is also very fun to get proofs, errors, forgien coins, silver, and whatever else people find in rolls these days at face vs. buying them at a coin shop. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6130 Posts |
I worked as a cashier throughout most of college and a little bit after. My grandparents got me into collecting, and coins were frequently part of my birthday presents growing up. I never gave much thought to change until I noticed a 1947-S nickel in my till one day.  I started keeping my eyes open after that, and started building a collection. I started CRHing after I realized that my bank got their coins directly from Brinks' vaults with no manual sorting whatsoever. I haven't really had much time for CRHing in the past 2-3 years, however. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3345 Posts |
I love looking through coins to find new and interesting ones, and thought, "hey why don't I try looking through rolls of coins for cool stuff? I mean they made so many of those coins!" I was very proud of the idea until I found CCF and I realized people had been doing it for over 50 years. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1053 Posts |
Found out about it on here... "why not?"
Got hooked w/ pennies.
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