Best practice for Coin Roll Hunting Halfs, Quarters, & Dimes

[JobIII]

Hey All,

Just wanted to open up a debate over Coin Roll Hunting best practices. This is totally opinion based. Each style has it's merits. Just curious how popular each happens to be right now.

If you vote or if you find there's another way to go about CRHing. Please comment below.

 

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[fistfulladirt]

When I quit CRH in 2015, I could sit down with $1,000 in customer-rolled dimes, search and reroll each roll easily in less than 10 seconds, by edge searching. Not interested in errors, only stacking. Roll hunting off and on since 1975.

 

[JobIII]

When I quit CRH in 2015, I could sit down with $1,000 in customer-rolled dimes, search and reroll each roll easily in less than 10 seconds, by edge searching. Not interested in errors, only stacking. Roll hunting off and on since 1975.

Wow,

Please tell me what it was like to roll hunt coins in the 70's and 80's. What were the percentages like back then?

~ JobIII

 

[fistfulladirt]

The percentages were lousy 'cause of 18% interest rates and high unemployment. Lots of roll hunters, finds weren't great.

 

[JobIII]

The percentages were lousy 'cause of 18% interest rates and high unemployment. Lots of roll hunters, finds weren't great.

Ok yeah with bank accounts at 18%. I don't know if I would be putting lots of money into CRHing for silver stacking. Still it's funny you say that the finds weren't great. I am willing to bet that the finds were better then they were over the last 20 years.

 

[fistfulladirt]

Ok yeah with bank accounts at 18%. I don't know if I would be putting lots of money into CRHing for silver stacking. Still it's funny you say that the finds weren't great. I am willing to bet that the finds were better then they were over the last 20 years.

They weren't, at least not in my case. 40% halves were pretty much worth face value, (the Hunt Bros. didn't want them, they wanted close to .999 silver as possible) unlike today, so there were millions out there. 90% halves were hard to come by because of the hoarding from 1965-1980 and the 'great melt'. Lots of folks held onto their 90% silver for years after, hoping for another price spike like 1980...later, low silver prices in the 1980's and 90's contributed to the "great dump" of silver hoardes.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Other. You can miss Mercs if you only check the edges. Paper thin Mercs are easy to miss, especially since they're usually black on the edge. I always check every coin. You can also miss out on a lot of errors by being lazy by just checking the edges. It's not a race, relax and have fun.

 

[Bodkin]

I agree. Better than TV, at least for me. (that's a sad, unintentional rhyme wasn't it) My sister used to work in Atlantic city at the casinos. Her and my father used to pull the slots there while I would be going over all the quarters with my loop. Crazy what we find fun!

 

[fistfulladirt]

I used to sit down with a couple grand at a time, with a limited time frame to search. What I did was look for the clad edges...then, the thin, white or discolored edges stuck out like a sore thumb. For me, the key to successful roll hunting is searching volume.

 

[pepperj]

Most of the branches up here charge to deposit change, so it's not worth it.

 

[fistfulladirt]

Most of the branches up here charge to deposit change, so it's not worth it.

That's why I fizzeled right out. Fees, fees and fees on top of fees (even though I paid nothing to dump). Kudos to all CRH'ers still in the game.

 

[JobIII]

I believe there are still a lot of banks that offer fee free accounts. My main issue is simply having return locations. Those weren't fee issues, they just stopped allowing deposits.

 

[Argentium]

What has helped me stay in the game is Credit Unions ! Around here (Santa Fe) they almost all have customer accessable coin counters . I have a standing order for a box of half dollars a week ,, one at a bank ,the other at a CU . Sometimes i can pick up a third box at a bank where I don't have an order. This kind of volume is not a problem with 5 or so coin counters available. I did join all the CU's (free accounts) so to avoid non- member charges at the coin counters .

 

[JobIII]

Credit Unions in my area are not so friendly to the CRHer. Luckily some of the major banks (BoA, Citizens, TD) let me return the box. It's faster then the coin counter, but you don't get to check the reject bucket. Also I feel this method is more like to result in recirculating your returns in your area. Though I could be wrong.

 

[Slingshot]

I hunt for errors, which tend to be 1/30 of modern coins, and remove copper cents. Sell them and buy the silver metal. Yo ho ho & a roll of clad quarters, dimes, nickels, or cents!