CRH In The 70s - How Was It?

The only denominations I bought rolls of in the 1970s were Cents and Halfs.

Cents: Kept all wheaties, of course. Also, anything with a bit of mint luster, or better yet. full luster. S Mints, and anything that caught my eye as being less worn than most.
I sorted Cents by year and mint and rolled solid rolls. I guess it's a good thing that the switch to zinc was a few years down the road, or I would have kept every one. I haven't knowingly parted with a 95% Cent since 1982.
At one time, when I was relying on the city bus for transportation, I bought two $50 bags of Cents. I got a few odd looks lugging those onto the bus, a feat I couldn't manage now, at 72.

Halfs: Lots of 40%, a few 90%. And anything after 1970 that stood out as being less circulated. The 90% coins were scarce, but my guess is that most people were unaware of the 40% Halfs, because they were still pretty common in circulated rolls in the mid to late 1970s.

My weekly net pay was normally under $90. I'd take my paycheck, on my Vespa Caio moped, to the bank and cash it into rolls of Halfs. I couldn't wait until I got home to break them open and, instead, usually stopped somewhere on the way.
Most rolls had 2-3 40% Halfs, some were better with up to around 7 of them. I'd get around a roll per week with that routine. Although I was on a silver hunt, I kept some nicer post-1970 Halfs, too.

I gave up asking for Half Dollars at my credit union decades ago, with the usual response coming up with a few single coins. I don't know when it was that they last let me have rolls...30 years ago, at least.

I've still got a lot of the coins I hoarded a half century ago. And it's fair to say I was more of a hoarder than a collector, although I'd been a Lincoln Cent collector for a decade by then.