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Back in the day, I used to engage in roll hunting. I used to go to banks and order boxes of coins and look through them, hoping to find a few silver coins.
Then I realized that I was investing a lot of free time in order to be a successful roll hunter. I would spend hours and hours looking at coins. I finally decided that I had enough.
I came to the conclusion that too many other people were engaging in this activity as well. How many coins can one go through to find a paltry amount of silver coins, especially now? Maybe in the eighties this would have been a good hobby. Now, with the limited amout of silver coins out there being circulated, you almost have to be an obsessed silver hunter, driven to find that little bit of treasure.
Now, I just go through the change I receive from a transaction. I don't spend the hours looking, hoping to find a few silver coins. I have to say that I don't miss coin roll hunting.
I can only imagine what the lifestyle of a successful coin roll hunter is in today's world. The person must be lonely, have a lot of free time and live in their mother's basement or just be retired. Whose got the time, in today's world, to be successful in this activity? It can only be a person who is obsessed with finding silver. It is no longer just a hobby. Edited by joeysanders627
10/29/2016 07:48 am
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Ha-ha, that was me! Except for the lonely, basement type. I spent several hours each week to search/dump in thousands of $ in coin. It got to the point that I was turning down good overtime $ at work just to roll hunt, with not much silver to show for the effort. It was all about the thrill of the hunt. What finished it for me was not the lack of finds, but the ungodly greediness of banks and their fees, every one of them. I'll never go back.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Same here. I'm not saying I no longer look through coin stashes; just not from the bank. Now when I want to look through bunches of coins, I do it on ebay.  |
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Back in the day, I used to engage in roll hunting Neflix.
Then I realized that I was investing a lot of free time in order to be a successful roll hunter Netflix watcher. I would spend hours and hours looking at coins Netflix. I finally decided that I had enough.
I came to the conclusion that too many other people were engaging in this activity as well.
Maybe in the eighties nineties this would have been a good hobby. Now, with the limited amount of silver coins good shows out there being circulated, you almost have to be an obsessed silver hunter Netflix viewer, driven to find that little bit of treasure.
Now, I just go through the change I receive from a transaction over the air TV. I don't spend the hours looking. I have to say that I don't miss coin roll hunting Netflix.
I can only imagine what the lifestyle of a successful coin roll hunter Neflix viewer is in today's world. The person must be lonely, have a lot of free time and live in their mother's basement or just be retired. Who's got the time, in today's world, to be successful in this activity? It can only be a person who is obsessed with finding silver Netflix. It is no longer just a hobby.
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10/29/2016 09:47 am
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I roll hunted back in the early seventies. This is why I could not do it today other than an occasional customer rolled half dollars if my bank should happen to have any.
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Hmm nice stereotype of a coin roll hunter. So I hunt rolls for fun and for any interesting coin I may come across. Am I successful... in my opinion yes. Am I obsessed with finding silver or other valuable coins...no. it is the thrill of the hunt so to speak.
So to burst the stereotype... I own my own home, am far from lonely, have a career, and do not have a great deal of free time since I have kids and family. But when I do have time I love to hunt rolls as you just never know what you will find.
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10/29/2016 10:08 am
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I don't engage in coin roll hunting. Just never found it appealing. aristarchus123 brought up a great point. Everyone enjoys different things. If someone spends 20 hours a week coin roll hunting...who is to say it is any better or worse than 20 hours a week hunting, watching TV, reading or any other thing that brings you happiness, but is generally a solitary endeavor. I get that you can watch TV with other people, but you could also look through your rolls while engaging in conversation with the family, I suppose. However, I don't think the point of the OP was to say anything negative about people who enjoy roll hunting. I think their point is that the upside to make all the time worth it is getting farther and farther between. It must be difficult today to still get the joy of those discoveries and the amount of energy required for the same payoff has almost made it not worth engaging in the activity. The comment on hunting on ebay was interesting. I could easily spend 20 hours a week, if I let myself, looking for those fantastic last second deals and hunting for my silver coin in the roll that is ebay. Some of it comes down to how fun the hunt itself is to a person. I could imagine for some people, the need for payoff threshold is quite low. The thrill of looking is more exciting than having the find. Edited by crazyglue
10/29/2016 12:17 pm
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aristarchus123, I <3 that post!
It's a great hobby.. and it keeps me out of trouble.
CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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It's a great hobby.. and it keeps me out of trouble. What? What activities would you be engaging in if you were not coin roll hunting? I'm curious. |
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It's a great hobby.. and it keeps me out of trouble. What? What activities would you be engaging in if you were not coin roll hunting? I'm curious. I don't presume to speak for John77, joeysanders, but the expression "keeping out of trouble" is a conversational idiom in English. http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com...t+of+troubleIt is a standard response to a greeting among English speakers. I'm trying to figure out what you are trying to do here, joeysanders. Some people enjoy coin roll hunting. I collect coins at face value. It is a hobby I like to do. Some people enjoy other activities, as crazyglue eloquently remarked above. Perhaps it would be helpful to point out that I am not necessarily silver-hunting. I go through more cents and nickels than quarters or dimes. If I find silver nickels, that's great, but my goal is not to hoard silver. I'd prefer a Buffalo nickel or V nickel to a silver nickel, all things being equal. I prefer numismatic value to melt value, but even if one is pursuing silver stacking, that is a great hobby also if one enjoys it. Sure, one should not fail one's obligations to oneself, family, friends, at work, and the community. I assure you that one can coin roll hunt and fulfill one's obligations. |
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Did it hardcore for about 4 yrs.... Silver dried up in my area to the point it made no sense anymore, plus it was getting tougher and tougher to dump.... I still grab the random box of cents, nickels or dimes now and then though....
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I still do the occasional box of cents, but with all the competition for silver these days it is not worth the effort. I now spend that time doing more research on the local Civil War/Revolutionary War activities, and looking for Native American sites for the local Archaeological Society I co-chair.
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I don't presume to speak for John77, joeysanders, but the expression "keeping out of trouble" is a conversational idiom in English. How do you know he meant it in that way? Are you psychic? Quote:
I'm trying to figure out what you are trying to do here, joeysanders. You can't read my mind? Okay. I'll spell it out for you then. This post is a commentary about how difficult it is to be a successful silver coin roll hunter during this period in history. Given the amount of time that one would have to invest in order to be successful in this activity in today's world, one has to obsessed with trying to find silver. It is no longer a hobby. Some of the article is tongue in cheek. Don't presume to speak for me, since I can do it for myself, but the expression, "tongue in cheek", is a conversational idiom in English. http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com...gue+in+cheek |
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Quote:I don't presume to speak for John77, joeysanders, but the expression "keeping out of trouble" is a conversational idiom in English. http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com...t+of+troubleIt is a standard response to a greeting among English speakers. You hit the nail on the head, aristarchus123. I think you know me too well!  CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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10/31/2016 02:49 am
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What? What activities would you be engaging in if you were not coin roll hunting? I'm curious. Tracking down on-line stalkers and predators as an FBI informant. CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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You hit the nail on the head, aristarchus123. I think you know me too well! Holy smoke! He might actually be psychic!!  |
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