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New Member
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I will be traveling through Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa. I am planning on doing some roll hunting in these states. Just wondering how is roll hunting there?
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Pillar of the Community
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IN should be nice. Less cities = less people = less % of people that collect coins = less people that ask for rolls (maybe) so go for it.
IL (if you go to Chicago) would be the opposite of the above, so be careful.
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United States
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Where in Indiana? I'm in the Northeast area. I can't find any silver from our local banks.
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Thanks for the responses.
Kellikae,
Northwest and northeast Indiana around the US 20 area from Angola to Sound Bend to Michigan City to Gary. You haven't found even a single silver coin?
YoshiRules,
Yeah, I will be avoiding the Chicago area. Is it always that the less population the better the roll hunting? If so then states like Montana and Alaska are a lot better than California and New York.
Edited by fastgc
08/31/2014 9:03 pm
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I haven't been searching that long, but I know our Chase banks can be kinda stingy. My teeny credit union is stingy and another credit union (Salin) converted to virtual tellers so they are no tellers really available to chat to. I live in Fort Wayne. I would try the banks in the little towns. The small banks in the Amish towns and farm towns. I guess I haven't really tried too much past Warsaw. May I ask why you will be traveling to these obscure little cities? Angola = Lakes, South Bend = Notre Dame, Michigan City = prison (lol) and Gary = (crime and the Jackson family beginnings). I have a bad case of silly today. lol
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Gary = (crime and the Jackson family beginnings). I have a bad case of silly today. lol  I liked the way you boiled down Gary into those two main claims to fame  ..... while still on the subject what are bank tellers like (in terms of friendliness etc) in smaller high crime areas like Gary ? |
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I would avoid Gary like the plague... I would avoid South Bend as well... Both cities are the armpits of Indiana at least in my opinion...
If you are going to be taking the US 20 bypass the smaller communities may not have the rolls you are looking for but I would try those first because they probably won't be that busy and you can get in and get out quick and move on if they don't have any for you...
Here is a lists of communities that you should try... Please note that not all towns are on US 20 but within a few miles of it and not that far out of the way...
LaPorte
New Carlisle
Rolling Prairie (they have one bank)
There might be a bank or two where US 20 and US 31 meet on the far south side of South Bend and it wouldn't hurt to check those out
Dunlop
Middlebury
Shipshewanna
LaGrange
Angola (If you want you could take SR 827 and check out Fremont it would be the longest drive from US 20)
Good luck!
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Kellikae
Have you tried going to Churubusco?...
If you are going all the way to Warsaw you might try going to South Whitley, North Manchester, Akron, and Rochester... Might be further of a drive but it wouldn't hurt to try them....
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Bryan,
Thanks for the list. I will check them out.
Kellikae,
Thanks. I will avoid the bigger cities.
Edited by fastgc
09/02/2014 08:47 am
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Pillar of the Community
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You're welcome fastgc Good luck and please post and let us know how you did (at least for Indiana)....  |
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I would avoid Gary like the plague... I would avoid South Bend as well... Both cities are the armpits of Indiana at least in my opinion... And don't forget Hammond IN (at least the freeway exit I got off at) I had the misfortune to be low on gas on a bike trip and have to pull off and stop there. Same thing happened in Indianapolis and they were doing free way construction and you couldn't just turn around and get back on  You know you're in the ghetto when you see cars with a garbage bag covering 2 or more broken windows and you see cars with 2 donut spare tires on them (especially since your car only came with 1  ) |
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Pillar of the Community
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Hammond, Gary, Whiting, East Chicago its all the same... But with exception that Hammond has a Cabelas.... And it's a pretty nice one too...
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Hey! I was born in Hammond! But we moved away in the early 70's.  Fun fact... A Christmas Story is based on Jean Shepherd's time growing up in the Hammond neighbourhood of Hessville. |
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Sure, I will post my finds.
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Pillar of the Community
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In Southern Indiana in Evansville and Near Louisville there has not been much silver in a while. When I first started I got a lot of old rolls of halfs that banks in the small towns had for awhile that weren't complete boxes so there carriers wouldn't take. Made out good when first started, but it dried up fast. I live close enough to Kentucky that I dump my halfs out of state to try to avoid getting them back.
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I live close enough to Kentucky that I dump my halfs out of state to try to avoid getting them back.
Interesting  ! I was just wondering, have you tried doing it the other way round , i.e. getting some rolls in Kentucky and dumping in Indiana .......or is that part of Kentucky also drying in silver as well ? Edited by DaytR
09/06/2014 4:51 pm
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