Coin Roll Hunters Opinions And Theories Sought

For clarity, are you referring only to commercially-wrapped rolls (Loomis, etc.), or 'customer'-wrapped rolls? Or both?

@ny, unless there is a member here who is actively moving from one state to another, CRHing along the way, I think that this sort of geographic comparison is going to be tough. Otherwise, you are going to be comparing results from two different people who might be looking for different things and in different ways.

For example, back in the day I did quite of bit of this stuff, but over the decade or so that I CRHing, I went from primarily looking for wheat cents to only looking for silver. Others may primarily be looking for errors and varieties, which is something that I never did. Also, even within the relatively small area that I was looking, I found dramatically different results based on which specific bank that I used to get my coins. In the end, my absolute best results were at a small credit union, where I was the only person asking for change and multiple tellers were setting aside findings for me. All this is to say that someone else in my same area who was either collecting something different or getting their coins from my dump bank (or both) would have had a dramatically different experience.

In moving from the Charleston, SC area to the Philly area I have noticed a drop in Buffalo nickels and wheat cents in those denominations. Obviously also more Philly minted coins here but still a decent mix of D (some) and S (few) mints.

The number of bank branches in Philly is far larger, which gives me more options for dump and pick up banks, though I've already been told by two branches to stop bringing them rolled coin.

Next step is to start an account with a different, possibly local, bank and get into another coin pool.

I've noticed here a lot of NF string & sons wrapped coins compared to nameless rolls; have yet to see a Loomis roll anywhere but I've been dealing exclusively with Wells.

In my experience, the highest 'density' of Loomis (or similar commercially-wrapped) rolls are found in metro areas--typically at banks in close proximity ('across the street') to major retail operations--like malls and close-by big box stores. Many mall businesses and satellite retailers conduct cash transactions with these banks. These banks will typically have boxes and boxes of fresh Loomis (or other) coin rolls. At least that was the reality pre-covid.

That said, most of my best finds have come from customer wrapped rolls.