Why do you roll hunt?

[coinfinder]

I began collecting coins when I was a kid in the mid 70s. Most of my hunting then was restricted to pennies and dimes, which was a much as I could afford on a five dollar a week allowance. I started searching rolls again around 2006 when I read on line that it was still possible to find silver halves from the bank. It goes without saying that I jumped back in feet first.I truly enjoy looking through rolls. I still get the same thrill when I see a silver edge in a roll as I did when I was a kid. Heck, I even enjoy finding wheat pennies which is where it all started!

I have read on other posts that people are searching to augment their retirement, or strictly for the profit involved. I have jokingly said that I would use my silver finds put my kids through college. However, in the end I am really just a collector at heart.

Why do you roll search?

 

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[palidin20603]

To build a bigger bank roll to search more boxes and to find really old coins like Barber halves and WL.

 

[Piledriver]

I CRH because silver is the last true money still left in circulation.

CRH'ing makes me feel like I am vaccuming the money supply; culling the true money and throwing the rest back for the unsuspecting populace.

Being concerned about the economic betrayal we have suffered at the hands of our leaders, I am doing what I can to invest in something that will hold value.

I started by buying silver ounces at the coin shops. Only after I stumbled across this forum did I realize there was a far better, cheaper, more productive way to obtain silver.

So I CRH. Silver only, no other collecting.

Someday Gold will be to the moon and Silver will be where Gold is now.

Get it while you can !

Keep on Rollin' !

 

[mlayers]

I started years ago. Somewhere around in the 70's. I have a very n ice collection back in the 80's but fell on hard times and i had to sell my collection. I gotten back into collecting again around 10 yrs ago with the coins that I have found detecting. I started CRH a little over a year just wish I would have gotten in it earlyer when there was more silver out there to find. I do it to past the time and to get my 8 yr old intested in coins and to make sure she will have a small nest egg when she gets older......Matt

 

[dougbfromnorthga]

Quite simply....the thrill of the hunt. Silver @ face value is a huge bonus though. HH Doug

 

[That Canadian Guy]

To add to my rapidly growing collection of coins, make some friends at the bank and to pass what spare time I have.

 

[clovis97]

Why do I roll hunt?

There is something weird going on in my brain.

I can't really put my finger on it though. I love finding old coins, made from silver, still in circulation. The thrill of finding one, even a single dime, triggers the thought "HA!!!! I find one...a coin that anyone else could have pulled, but I got it!!!"

And getting silver at face is a true pleasure.

I also subscribe to the thought that silver is going to sky rocket in value, so I am holding all my finds for the very long term.

I too, am behind in retirement savings. I hope that my silver supplements my old years.

 

[SilverFace]

My reasons are pretty much the same as what most of you have already said. I also like the thrill of the hunt and being able to still find silver @ face these days makes it even more thrilling for all the reasons Pd stated. I have been hoarding silver for the last 4 years or so (again for many of the same reasons Pd stated) and I used to try and buy it as cheap as I could on eBay (rounds or junk or even modern silver proof sets that I was buying for less than spot price a couple of years ago) but now I get all my silver CRHing @ fv.

I also remember getting rolls of pennies (cents) & nickels to search when I was a kid that my dad would bring home for me sometimes if he happened to stop by the bank after work. I also remember when I was a kid that my great grandmother used to "boil pennies" (to kill the germs & clean them for me to search) when we would stop by her house for a visit. Then she would dry them off and I would search them on the living room floor while we were there. Seems kind of funny to think about now but I guess she believed "cleanliness is next to Godliness" I suppose.

And as I've stated in previous posts on this forum I only really got back into coin hunting/searching when I found a solid cwr of BF halves @ a bank in Sept. of '09. But I didn't think I would ever have that kind of luck again but since then I've had some other nice scores as well and since I've discovered this forum and I've been increasing my efforts, my passion for this hobby has really increased even more.

Anyway HH all - and esp H$H!

 

[StevoCBR]

Well again like most I got into CRHing 4 years ago after I started buying silver and was searching the interweb for silver coins and boom my life changed for ever I have quit looking for silver as the $15 in silver found for every 5K searched just stopped being fun. I had quit all together and was just buying AG, but missed the thrill of the hunt. So....I just started back up doing pennies only, it's fun and amazing how many wheat's are out there, and I hand sort copper for fun but have continued to hoard more of that. I personally wouldn't be surprised if copper CRHing is the next AG CRHing....so I'm getting a head start

 

[jarlbartar]

Why CRH?

I have never oficially collected coins, I would just stash my silvers and wheats in a big pilsner glass to go through at a later date. Then I read an article about culling the copper from penny rolls, did a little research and just started tearing into boxes. I loved the thrill of coming across almost 100 year old coins, so I sorted out the copper to sell for profit and then started sorting out the wheats, then the good looking ones, the 2009's to look for DDs on the back, then the 2011 that were in really good condition. So yeah, an addiction was born.

So I do it for the thrill, for fun, for profit. And it is a self sustaining hobby, costing virtually nothing overall

 

[Dok Holliday]

I search through the coins to save the silver to make bullets to kill zombies when the Great Zombie Apocalypse comes. I save the errors and rare dates to sell and buy silver bullion with. I save the coin boxes to build a fort that I will arm and use as my Alamo when the Great Zombie Apocalypse comes.

 

[SFBayArea]

I search through the coins to save the silver to make bullets to kill zombies when the Great Zombie Apocalypse comes. I save the errors and rare dates to sell and buy silver bullion with. I save the coin boxes to build a fort that I will arm and use as my Alamo when the Great Zombie Apocalypse comes.

You know boxes of copper cents might make great blocks for stopping bullets if and when the Mad Max era arrives. Just use them for bricks in your home.

I search cause it's basically a great way to build a coin collection for free.

 

[fistfulladirt]

I started 35 years ago, but slacked off thru the 80's and 90's when you couldnt give away a 40%.
I've always liked metal and did a lot of copper and alumininimum scrapping when I was a kid.
Crhing for me, is all about the thrill of the chase.

 

[conpewter]

I search all denominations of coins because I keep trying to build coin sets from circulation. Ikes are the only one I've completed so far, though I hope to finish a nickel album someday, and I'm really close on my P&D set of Kennedy halves (need 70D) though I am doing a proof set from circulation as well, don't know if that one will ever get finished. Finding silver is great too though. I also search cents and keep the copper, but not all that often.

 

[sultan of silver]

To see how black my hands can get!

 

[Generic_Lad]

Because fiat currencies are going to collapse eventually. If the choice is between paying ~$32 for an ounce of silver, and paying less than $2 for an ounce of silver, which one would you want? That was my initial motivation to roll hunt, however, lately it has been more of the thrill of the hunt. I don't really collect US coins with the exception of a few higher-grade slabbed coins I've bought simply to diversify my investments and standing liberty quarters, so I more or less just hoard them rather than build a collection with them because I really have no interest in US coins (especially not the ones you find CRHing). I sell a few of my finds to fund my buying of British coins (which I do collect) and other miscellaneous things. But most of them simply go into my bullion hoard.

 

[oxbowbarefoot]

Treasure!

 

[GMan00001]

I am just a collector as well, enjoy the thrill of the hunt, and use CRH as the only economical way to fill my "over the top" collection goal of finding one of each US coin denomination/mint/intentional variety (such as small date/large date) from circulation as well as accumulating a roll of each too. I started the roll concept with pennies back when in the early 80's when I was about 10 by having my mom occasionally buy $10 worth of pennies from the bank for me. Although I always kept old coins when I found them, I didn't really focus on filling out the rest of my collection until I was about done with college in the mid to late 90's and even then it would be a few rolls here and a few rolls there. I really started to pick up the pace about 8 years ago. Originally I focused on pennies and nickels and then started doing other denominations more frequently around 5-6 years ago.

As a separate answer to why, I also use some of the silver found at face value as a hedge against the economy completely going in the tank as the price of silver is also a relative indicator of the strength of the dollar... Hoping I never have to sell any for that reason though as personally I'd rather have a strong dollar and low silver/gold price than the other way around.

 

[cooper36]

I search through the coins to save the silver to make bullets to kill zombies when the Great Zombie Apocalypse comes. I save the errors and rare dates to sell and buy silver bullion with. I save the coin boxes to build a fort that I will arm and use as my Alamo when the Great Zombie Apocalypse comes.

dont forget to save food and ammo!

 

[Gilmore Happy]

Coin Roll Hunting reminds me of my single days!

1.) It's the thrill of the hunt
2.) You never know what youre going to find inside the roll until you get intimate with it
3.) No matter how dirty you get, you always want more
4.) Although the same coin...sooo many variations, colors and smells
5.) When youre done with the roll, and gotten what you need, dump them and move on to the next roll

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