Suggestions On Rolls To Begin Searching

Choose whatever one you like most.
John1

It's up to you to decide first, but generally I would choose Jefferson nickels first if you want something old. You are guaranteed to find many from the 40's in every box of nickels. Since people typically don't hoard copper as much anymore, I would choose pennies next because wheat pennies and typical uncirculated Memorial cents aren't rare either. If you are looking for silver though, I would go ahead and get rolls of half dollars, but like all other machine wrapped coin rolls, the machine that rolls them often spits out the silver, therefore making the chances of finding silver much lower than pennies and nickels. Quarters are the hardest to find silver from my experiences. There is about 1 silver 1963-64 silver quarter in every $500 box of quarters you open.

when we get coin rolls we call the bank ahead of time usually in the morning so that they have time to set aside rolls for us before they give them all away to businesses

What I liked to do starting out is to pick up like $60 or $80 at once. Most banks will require an account and using you card for a transaction of $100 or more but under $100 and they don't mind as long as you are doing all pennies.

I would do this:
Coins $60 =
$30 quarters
$15 dimes
$10 nickels
$5 pennies

This way it normally doesn't trigger a teller in turning against you and you get a decent sampling from a bank to look through until you settle on a series you enjoy more than the others to hunt and kind of gets you started on all of them.

I would do 10 stops a week at various banks or more on my way to or from work and save them up for the weekend to search through and that works out to a box of pennies, a box of nickels, a bit more than half a box of dimes, and a bit more than half a box of quarters and equals $600.00.
You can tweak the order many ways to get it where you want it of course.

Just don't return them to a bank you get them from. The tellers will take notice and cut you off or you will get what you've already searched. I opened an account with a credit union that has a coin counter in the lobby that's no charge for account holders and I use that as my dump bank.

I did it like that for years and rarely banks refused me but some would do only $20 for non account holders, and there were a rare few that refused without an account but I think that was more of the teller being a jerk more than anything.

This will gain you contacts at banks in your area for later and make it easier for you to get boxes of one type when you're ready to do that. And also some of the tellers might set aside for you better stuff if the relationship is good and you're regular and they know you.

Half dollars are a big red flag at most banks that you are a coin hunter looking for silver. You really have to build a relationship first before getting those from a bank. Don't start there but always ask if they have any. Always be pleasant if told no. It won't help to get angry or cause a scene or demand service or a manager.

Banks will let you go big with the right connection set up. You want to build a relatonship where you aren't a chore or a problem for them and they will usually be really helpful and cool. Do it wrong and they will just flat out cut you off. If a bank orders a couple boxes of halfs, don't bring them back there when you're done, they won't do it for you ever again. Lol.

Start small and work your way up is my best advice, look through a bunch of different denoms of coins first and figure out which ones you like searching best/which is most productive in your area.
By going mixed you have a shot for silver and W quarters and as always nickels and pennies too.