Best And Worst Locations To CRH

My experience varies. I've had decent luck with rolls from a major bank branch serving an extensive commercial area--large indoor mall, restaurants, many close-in strip malls, etc. For customer wrapped rolls with occasional hoard dumps, branches in older, established, upper middle class neighborhoods generate good finds as well.

I think it also depends what you are searching for. If you are one of the small group who might go buy a book like strike it rich with pocket change 5th edition or goes to sites like doubleddie.com and varietyvista.com etc and really searches for known varieties and errors you should do well if consistent with most sources of coins. Knowledge and patience to look are the keys to success since you cant guarantee that rare find will show up in your lot, you at least have the knowledge to id it when it does.

If you are just looking for key dates, silver, and perhaps a few simple to find varieties that are well known you may find less success as there are quite a few more low level collectors like that looking these days along with reduced amounts of those type of coins out there to find compared to times of past. I get my coins mainly from family who saves their change, local city banks. I just go by assumptions like coin dealers have less time to look and will skip alll but the major key dates, silver, w quarters and the like and some well known date errors typically.

My experience is that I've made a majority of my silver and older coin finds in customer wrapped rolls. I my bank deals with Brinks and I haven't found anything in 2 boxes of Ike's, quarters and half. I've gotten to know a few inside tellers and the set aside strange looking coins in their words. They also set aside customer rolled coins.

I started at 14 in 1974. Of the hundreds of banks I've been to, I haven't noticed a significant difference. One very rural bank in Michigan's UP delighted me with a couple rolls of solid 40% halves, the older tellers were joking and snickering as I bought those. Another large bank in Tennessee surprised me with several dozen silver halves, I was astounded by how polite the tellers were.