About Done With CRH

That makes sense for me. I would never be able to afford it if my only option was to pay a return fee like at coinstar. You should maybe look around at banks around you and see if anyone has a free coin counter. Could you roll them up in paper wraps and return them to your bank? If not I understand, I would quit doing it too.

I search $100 boxes and could never justify my finds after a fee. You are better off just to spend the money in a coin shop and buy junk silver.

When I was CRH`ing I had an established dumping bank and I always took my coins to it and there was never any problems with that. The reason why I have quit is: There's never as much CWR`s anymore and they are all mint sealed and either fresh from the mint or fresh from the ARP. In my opinion the U.S. is a wayyy easier country to CRH in but you just need to find the right bank for it. Also you never know which teller you will get and sometimes they just want to be a @#$% to you. I have had some problems with tellers in the past but never ever regarding dumping. It got extremely frustrating for me and my S.A.D. wasn't helping so me stopping was yet to come. Also, people have said I look weird taking old coins out of a fountain but have never said I look weird taking a huge box of coins out of a bank and I feel more weirder at the bank because taking that box of coins out is usually ALL I do there. Finding old pennies and 1 or 2 silver dimes per box and having pennies not even available anymore makes Canada a very boring CRH`ing country. .

Are you telling me if you bring your own CWR to your local bank, they will open the roll and count out every coin in the roll?

When I'm done with a box, I just roll them back up and put them back in the box. I have a pile of nickels and a pile of cents to replace them in the roll with. My dumping banks sometimes count the rolls in the box, other times they don't.

Am am very fortunate that my main bank is widespread in my area and offers coin counters for free to their customers. I cannot justify the cost of any coin counter charging me a fee. Till then I will continue to do what I do.

You Crh guys aren't going to like this at all. I cannot possibly think of a bigger waste of time when it comes to this UNLESS it is strictly for fun. There is very little out there to find anymore and bank tellers think you are a giant pain to deal with.
A much better use of your time and finances ,frequent your local shops and markets and plow through the dollar junk bin for varieties.

Same as above to a large degree but I'll add this. With the exception of the occasional solid box of coins for the current year I have not gotten a box where I haven't made money on (based on published values such as Red Book). The amount of value varies between a few bucks and a few hundred. Obviously there aren't many $400 boxes of cents or nickels but when it happens it's like hitting the lotto. But as noted, the fun factor plays in as well so hopefully that helps to offset stingy boxes. Keep in mind that if you are a particular kind of CRH enthusiast (e.g. Only looking for LWCs or silver dimes) then you will always tend to be into the few dollar boxes and need to rely on the fun factor. This is to me where the cost of doing a box comes into play.

As noted above I pick my coins one at a time from a roll and replace with one of my own discards. On CWRs I tend to reuse the wrappers unless they look spent. On MWRs I use a new wrapper you can get on line for a few dollars for a 1000 wrappers. Fraction of a penny per MWR searched. I also return in the same box I accepted the coins in. Neatly organized and ready for inspection should the teller want to (they don't check my boxes). I turn between $50 in cents or $200 in nickels every 2-3 weeks.

Most of the folks not finding CRH profitable are those who don't collect error or variety coins. I can understand why it wouldn't be as rewarding financially or perhaps with the fun factor. That's a personal choice. And if it ends up costing you then buying at the LCS is the right choice. Good luck on your decision.