Roll Searching

They search for errors, varieties, silver, or just to fill holes in a Whitman folder. Pick a series and try it, you will have a whole bunch of learning to do......

I'm one of those who finds roll searching fun and oddly relaxing. I look mostly for errors and fill the remaining empty holes in my whitman books. Go to your bank, credit union, or even grocery store and get a couple of rolls in each denomination you like and look through them. Either re-roll them and deposit what you don't want to keep or coin star what you don't want to keep. If you enjoy doing that, then do it again. Mostly just have fun with coins in whatever way you like.

- Tony

Where do you guys acquire the boxes of rolls? the bank? and how many rolls are in each box?

On roll searching , I do it everyday on nickels. Yesterday I bought and sold over 160 bucks worth nickels and built one complete 62 thru 2007 nickel book in one day.
The trick is buy say buy 40 bucks and go thru it fast and roll them and sell them. Go buy another batch all day long. I may hit 5 or 10 banks all day long. I also buy up all halves , dollar coins , 2 dollars bills from bank tellers to remove them from circulation to be sold on ebay's .
I sit in my truck in an parking going tru nickels as fast I as can to get ready to sell the next batch. You will amazed all pre 38 thru 62 nickels I found out there. Building the 38 thru 61 set is very hard . I have went tru maybe 1000 dollars worth of nickels in last serval monlths. I am still missing these dates on my nickel book. 38d, 38s, 39d,39s, 42d, 42s, 44d, 44s, 45p, 45d, 45s, 48s, 50, 50d, 51s,54s, 55, 56, 58, . I do save all those pre 60 nickels I pull from circulation. I was thinking about trading them in to complete my set.
This what I learned on nickels you can build the 62 thru 2007 book in one day with maybe less than 100 bucks worth of rolls. But the 38 thru 61 book I think cant be done without buying coins from your coin dealer or coin shop. The 65 thru 2007 dime book is easy to build from roll searching. I never found any 46 thru 64 silver coins yet. I have not done the quarter book yet and I dont know.
One last thing on dollor coins and those half dollar coins, two dollars bills. Those are hard to find and banks dont buy them from feds. You need wait intill an person turns them into bank. I may find less 10 bucks worth or any those at any bank. When I find them. Most all ones I find are defaced or all messed up and you dont want to install them in books. The bank tellers tell they dont get turned everyday. One bank tellers I know told me he has worked there for 6 monlths and never seen one half dollar turned in. Its like all banks it seems on those. I dont do this everyday when I do I hit as many banks as I can if I have time.
Have fun roll searching if you want to try it,
Chevrolet454ss

You may have to travel to different banks to find one that will order a box for you. Most of the time they have to order $1000 (2 boxes) of halves. The people at Suntrust wouldn't or just had no idea how to order boxes for me. The local bank I stopped to ask questions of is now my primary go to bank for rolls. I even opened a small $100 checking account with them. They are very customer friendly. When I asked about 1/2 dollar boxes they checked into it for me and said sure we can order you some. So I put $500 more in the account as a good faith gesture. Now they save all the foreign coins for me, any odd ball coins like Ike's, 2 dollar bills, etc. I stop in there at least twice if not three times a week just to say HI if nothing else. So you may want to try a new local own bank for your rolls.

I'm planning to buy a box of quarters next. My daughter was mad at me that I came home with a box of halves and no quarters for her to search. She is trying to put together a 50 state set.

I got a $10 roll of quarters from the Customer Service desk at my grocery store. They didn't have any halves (and neither did my bank), which was what I was looking for. This is the first time I've actually gone out and got a roll of coins to search through. Usually I just gather coins from change and then go through all of those at once.

Heres something I just started doing. When I bring my $500 or $1000 dollars worth of halves into my bank, I ask for the cash in 10's and/or 20's and search them for star notes. I've been able to pick 8 or 9 star notes that way within the last 2 weeks. I like the idea of being able to collect coins and bills in one stop. FYI a crisp 1996 star note is worth $35 last time I checked. When I get enough of them I'll sell them, take the profit and buy more coins

That is a great find Plugnickle. Hope I have that type of luck some day. I just picked up $30 of $85 in pennies someone turned in. Figure it is either someone that has been dumping them in a jar for years, or was another collector. If was the first I may find some nice stuff. Will let you know in the other thread on roll hunting.