Results of my first full month of roll searching

[bill dilly]

I have now been addicted to this for 1 month. I started with pennies...bought $50 worth. It was fun but tedious. So I tried dimes...only 1 Rosie and a 5 pence piece out of $250...again, a lot of labor putting those dimes back in the rolls. I then spent a week on a cruise where I searched the nickel slots...now that was fun! I got 87 nickels older than 1960 (2 were war nickels). Then I bought my first rolls of halves...bingo! That was it for me. Easier to search, not as time consuming to re-roll and the potential payoff is good...perfect. In the month that I have been searching half dollar rolls, I have found about 390 silver halves. The large majority are of the 40% silver variety. But there has also been a nice amount of those that are 90% silver. I have found 2 Franklins, 1 Booker T. Washington, 3 proofs and an assortment of unusual halves. During this month I have also found out that a cousin works as the vault teller at a bank (nice contact there).
This has been a lot of fun. Now that I have roll searching and metal detecting as hobbies...I have decided to stop collecting and selling sports cards. I bought and sold cards for 20 years and I am now having much more fun with the rolls and md.
I look forward to many more roll finds and hopefully some more metal detecting goodies.
Good luck to all

 

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[jersey junkie]

390 in a month? How many coins did you go through?

That is excellent!!

HH

mark
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[Charlene]

WTG, I checked out some old tokens this past week I had collected and was really surprised at what they sell for on ebay. Welcome to the hobby, be sure to share some pictures of the interesting finds you make.

 

[bill dilly]

390 in a month? How many coins did you go through? I $3,000+ in halves

That is excellent!!

HH

mark
www.gas50.com

 

[Immy]

That says something when you're willing to give up a 20-year hobby for roll hunting & MD-ing. There almost needs to be better words than "addictive" or "obsessive." Those tend to have negative connotations. I'll stick with "fun" for now.

My $100 in halves produced a big zilch today. I'm starting to lose faith in my casino as a source for silver. Feels like I'm searching the same stuff all the time. Of course the minute I find a 40% I'll change my tune!

$10 in pennies yesterday coughed up a couple of wheats (1955D & 1956), a shiny, heavily polished 1964 Canadian and a 1979 Lincoln with a hole in the middle. I love coins with holes!

 

[Pennyworth]

Back in 1995 I was hooked on buying baseball cards,spending a lot of money on them. I'm glad I got sick of that hobby after about a year; packs of cards were about $5.00 each. lol I love metal detecting and coin roll searching much more. I also get more of a thrill finding an old coin than a nice rookie card, or insert card.

Keep up the roll searching Bill, and find that silver. Hi ho silver away!