Roll Hunting

Roll hunting is going to a bank or credit union, buying rolls of coins from them and then looking through all the coins for ones that interest you. Then, you keep the interesting coins, and either spend or return all the uninteresting coins (to a different bank). Rinse and repeat.

If you only collect proof coins, you probably are not going to get much roll hunting. I think I have found 3 proof coins out of thousands of coins, and they were not in amazing shape.

If only some one would make a website devoted to roll hunting... You know one which explains what it is, how to do it, what to look for, and what you might find...

LOL springcypress too funny :)

If you start in on Roll Hunting, you may want to find out just how dangerous some may be. Some Rolls may have teeth, fangs and even be poisonous. You have to know how they hide and attack too.
As noted you just go to banks and as for rolls of coins. Then look through them for what you want, take back the remainders.
The problem is many banks are tired of this and have started to charge for the return of coins. Some will not take them unless you have an account. Around me Bank of America has started a new policy. Any coins you bring in they put into plastic bag, ship out to some company that counts them, notifies the Bank how much, electronically sends that amount back to the bank, they now put that amount into your account minus the cost of the preceeding process. It now costs about 20% of what you have brought in. Some banks are refusing coins. Some are charging a percent for counting them. Some refuse to take rolls due to a new scam of shorting rolls.

All in good fun... Seriously though, I think you'll find Roll Hunting to be addictive. To me it's not even about the "value" of the finds, I'm well enough off now that for my "real" collection that I can afford to work on it. But there's just something about Roll Hunting that I find to be a blast.

There really isn't a bad series to Roll Hunt. If you're interested in "completing" a set, the easiest one to do is probably the clad dimes. I haven't bought a box yet that I wasn't able to complete a full set out of. After that the Memorial cents are still pretty easy. Quarters aren't necessarily hard, there are just a BUNCH of them if you include the State Quarter series. I personally like searching nickels even though it's a really hard set to complete strictly from circulation as there are 5 really toughies to find, but you do find the oldest average circulating currency in the nickels.

Just find a series which interests you and go from there. And most importantly have fun with it.

WOW... an indian head on your first hunt! That's an amazing find. I've lost track of the number of boxes that I've searched, but I haven't lost track of the number of IHC's that I've found...

We're tied!
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