Coin Roll Hunting is done! Silver is gone!!

CincinnatiKid · Jul 26, 2015

Sure, every now and again, some lucky crher gets a long lost roll. Usually noticed in a teller tray.
But buying boxes n boxes of any denomination is now fruitless.
C'mon, everybody and their mamma have been doin' this since '64.
If you're happy with an occasional proof, mis-strike, etc., continue.
Not me...
Peace ✌

kingskid1611 · Jul 26, 2015

We must diversify. lol

Doubter in MD · Jul 26, 2015

Move on to another form of treasure hunting if you are convinced this one is tapped out. I personally never tried CRH but it seems like a fairly labor intensive form of treasure hunting. As most are. Regardless of what you decide to do, good luck to you.

FormerTeller · Jul 26, 2015

Boxes have been remarkably dry lately.

Styfflin · Jul 26, 2015

Kbye.

Zomotion · Jul 27, 2015

CincinnatiKid said:
Sure, every now and again, some lucky crher gets a long lost roll. Usually noticed in a teller tray.
But buying boxes n boxes of any denomination is now fruitless.
C'mon, everybody and their mamma have been doin' this since '64.
If you're happy with an occasional proof, mis-strike, etc., continue.
Not me...
Peace ✌

You'll be missed

baddbluff · Jul 27, 2015

Obviously CRHing isn't for everyone. Especially not for the guy who searched like 2 boxes then gave up.
News flash...
Silver dried up in circulation on Jan 1, 1965. All the silver we've been pulling is silver that people put back into circulation. And as long as we can still buy boxes, we'll find silver in it. Maybe not a dream box every time out, but enough to keep it fun and enough to wonder if the next box IS the dream box.

gordon and tanner · Jul 27, 2015

Coin Roll Hunting is not dead, it will not die until they change the size and color of coins in circulation. When they do that coin roll hunting is dead. It may be getting more difficult now, but know one said it was ever easy. Most of our coins have been the same size and color for over 125 years!
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Our finds are down this year, but we do have finds. We just scored a Ben Franklin from a teller tray last week. The Ben was the same size and color of other halves she had. Last year we scored a solid roll of Indian Head cents. They were the same size and color of cents still in circulation. With 50 rolls in a $25 box of cents, in the past 6 years we have searched approx 400 boxes of cents or 20,000 rolls to find one solid roll of Indian cents. (this aint and easy hobby to get rich on)

We think there is a difference if you start to CRH to collect coins or if you start to get rich. We average about 7 wheats per box of cents, we still get a thrill when we find a wheat, it might just be one needed to fill a hole in our "Found in the Wild" book. The longer you do this the harder it is to fill a hole. So far this year we have filled just one hole, I think it was a 1934 D. (Which I picked out of the garbage can next to the coin machine at our bank).

Keep on Searching
Dad and Tanner

MIhunter · Jul 27, 2015

The volume of circulated coin is HUGE!
Any single CRHer is searching a very small amount.

My experience in dimes (and it hasn't change over the last 4 yrs) is that most boxes have between 0-2 silver dimes in them. The occasional box has 3-10. Rarely I will find 11-25 (once a year).
This is why high volume is the key!

But if you love silver, work a little harder, a little overtime, or a moonlighting job.
Take that money and buy silver. You will end up with more silver than you would CRHing.
CRHing is about treasure hunting.

usandthem · Jul 27, 2015

This weekend, out of two boxes, I pulled six 40%ers. One of those was a 1968 proof in great shape. I also pulled two clad proofs, one of which I needed for my book, and a 2008 commemorative. I don't expect to get rich from this but it does add to my stack and is enjoyable. :cat:

mxh5891 · Jul 27, 2015

CRH is not dead nor will it ever die. The thing that died was the OP patience. I find my CRH goes in cycles of lots of searching and then periods of only searching a small amount every few weeks.

enamel7 · Jul 27, 2015

usandthem said:
This weekend, out of two boxes, I pulled six 40%ers. One of those was a 1968 proof in great shape. I also pulled two clad proofs, one of which I needed for my book, and a 2008 commemorative. I don't expect to get rich from this but it does add to my stack and is enjoyable.

What 2008 commemorative did you find!

CincinnatiKid · Jul 27, 2015

All points taken and my apologies if I offended anyone.
I know most crh as a passion and not to get "rich". But its continually sad to read the meager silver finds of late. And it'll worsen daily.
Do what you do...
Peace ✌

Greastart · Jul 27, 2015

MIhunter said:
The volume of circulated coin is HUGE!
Any single CRHer is searching a very small amount.

My experience in dimes (and it hasn't change over the last 4 yrs) is that most boxes have between 0-2 silver dimes in them. The occasional box has 3-10. Rarely I will find 11-25 (once a year).
This is why high volume is the key!

But if you love silver, work a little harder, a little overtime, or a moonlighting job.
Take that money and buy silver. You will end up with more silver than you would CRHing.
CRHing is about treasure hunting.

Perfectly said!

Spartcom5 · Jul 28, 2015

I still find silver. I've never really had a skunk streak for a long time..... My area is good I guess? I have been going to estate sales and thrift stores to find sterling and other treasures a lot more so I haven't really been crh that much, but when I do it's still good.

usandthem · Jul 28, 2015

enamel7 said:
What 2008 commemorative did you find!

Bald Eagle. The obverse has a Bald Eagle head with the American flag in the background and the reverse has two baby eagles in a nest with an unhatched egg.

GarouLady · Jul 28, 2015

In the past 2 months without CRHing just checking the spare change holders at our workplace and the coinstar I have found 2 quarters and nine rosies. Not much but its something to find. the 2 quarters came from a guy paying for food and internally I was warring with myself to tell him to keep the coins and inform him silver. But then I was also telling myself to shut up, constantly, that it was SILVER! The silver song was too hard to resist and I kept the quarters. One was a standing liberty that was pretty worn down and the other was a 1934. but the pickings are getting really really slim. No coins at all in any of my rolls for the past 5 months. ugh!!

Sincerely, Garoulady

enamel7 · Jul 28, 2015

usandthem said:
Bald Eagle. The obverse has a Bald Eagle head with the American flag in the background and the reverse has two baby eagles in a nest with an unhatched egg.

That was a nice find!

Rustystcloud · Jul 28, 2015

usandthem said:
Bald Eagle. The obverse has a Bald Eagle head with the American flag in the background and the reverse has two baby eagles in a nest with an unhatched egg.

Found same commerative over a year ago still my fav non AG commerative. Very nice find I think only a handful of CRHs have this coin from the wild.

StevoCBR · Jul 29, 2015

MIhunter said:
The volume of circulated coin is HUGE!
Any single CRHer is searching a very small amount.

My experience in dimes (and it hasn't change over the last 4 yrs) is that most boxes have between 0-2 silver dimes in them. The occasional box has 3-10. Rarely I will find 11-25 (once a year).
This is why high volume is the key!

But if you love silver, work a little harder, a little overtime, or a moonlighting job.
Take that money and buy silver. You will end up with more silver than you would CRHing.
CRHing is about treasure hunting.

That is what i did, the time, effort, and energy needed, it's worth it to me these days just to buy.