Roll Searching Strategy

I currently search nickels and pennies. Just looking for anything that fills a hole or upgrades my circulation sets.

I normally search pennies. Get bored then switch to nickels. The nickel below is an error coin I found roll searching. But lately I have been doing halves. I hadn't started my Kennedy set yet, and with all the miners going through them, I figured I better get on the ball. As far as "playing the lottery" goes, that's exactly what roll searching is no matter what denomination. Sometimes you win, sometimes you don't. You will find something, you just have to look hard and long enough. I don't search dimes because I don't collect Roosevelts, and too slim of a chance at finding Mercurys. I don't search quarters anymore, because I threw in the towel after the territories. The small dollars, I have to wait for them to be released. As far as specifically what I'm looking for is hole fillers and upgrades to my collections. But while I'm doing that, I am also keeping an eye out for varieties, errors, and low mintage coins. If you collect Lincoln cents, I would suggest giving those a shot first. They are cheaper and easier to get and to dump. If you decide to do halves, you will probably have to have your bank order them for you.

Pennies through quarters for me. I switch between them when I get bored or tired of looking at a certain one.

I just do nickels ever since I bought a box of pennies and found three wheats out of 1250 pennies. I've had a lot of luck with nickels from BofA: Lots of silvers, a 1936 Buffalo nickel in excellent condition and even an 1899 Liberty Head five cent piece.

Depends on amount of cash you have to play with. I liked half dollars because it seemed to have better odds of finding a silver AND each silver half (90%)is worth 5 times that of a silver dime!