Roll hunter long absence

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

I just got bit by the bug again! I had been roll hunting until late 2008 but now I got bit again, I came to the forum to learn about New England prospecting and saw the CRH column and that did it!
I took a walk around Cambridge at lunch time, it is city not a suburb or town and got 3 bank rolled rolls at one bank (skunked) and 5 single halves at another and got a really nice 40% 1969!

 

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[Wickaboag]

Another Ma Member :] You keep Ole Cambridge spilling silver!
Keep Stackin'
Wicka

 

[FormerTeller]

Glad to have you back, but if you haven't hunted since 2008, you're probably in for a rude awakening. Average finds per box will likely be way, way down from what you were used to.

Good luck and HH!

 

[SilverForBrains]

yea let us know what you think if it's harder than it used to be. you might want to hunt for a bit though to get a good average

 

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

I guess it is the same as metal detecting, the finds are few and far between as the ground is worked out. I had never done dimes or quarters in the past only halves so I can see how I do there. Also roll hunting in the past I only did it for about 2 years and have no idea what my averages were, if I had to guess I would say I went through about 300 or so rolls of halves to get what I have as a total, it was fairly good, the 2 rolls of Walkers was an aberation or a bonanza (pardon the pun) the 4 90% was more average but I got a lot of 40%
ON the 40% they were buying them for 55 CENTS apiece back then but I kept them and glad I did!

I would guess that most finds today are coming from older people cleaning out drawers and rolling them up.