GA, I worked at my local grocery store during HS and college. I ended up working the office where I counted all the checker's tills (also smoozed one young checker into 22 years of marriage and 4 kids). Anytime a silver came through you better believe I traded a quarter for a silver quarter. Great video, thanks.
You're Right. It's getting tougher to find silver halves roll hunting. That being said, I hunt all coinage 1¢, 5¢ 10¢ 25¢, 50¢ recently I have been skunked on 9 boxes of halves. Until a couple weeks ago when exchanging 2 boxes of quarters, and a brick of $1 Dollar bills. I asked if they had any half dollars, the teller said I have $54 dollars in half dollars in 2 envelopes. I said I'll take them and 2 boxes of quarters. He proceeded to count them, once He pulled them from his drawer I heard that oh so familiar sound once he sat them on the counter. Man in total there were 16 Benji's, 3 1964's, 5 -1966, 8- 1967's, and 4- 1968's I went to the car and had to record it.
I’m a retired 30 year route salesman and you touched on the desperation people have when using silver coins. Food, gas, tobacco, booze-if you need it bad enough you’ll spend silver. I used to see it daily in gas stations and liquor stores.
Yep... stay away from most pawn shops. A lot of LCS can be pretty bad too. With silver premiums now they are pretty good to at least by at spot... but back when it was like 15-16X based on spot, my LCS was buying at 12X.
Hunting for “treasure “ is a hit or miss. Usually a miss. But, I have put together a complete Lincoln cent set. Missing only three coins. 1909 s vdb, 1909 s, and 1914 d. I did find a 1922 extremely week d , as well most of the coins are pretty descent coins. All roll hunting! But I went through hundreds of rolls of pennies..probably at least a thousand… takes lots of time. I save the copper pennies to make it worthwhile. Great video Sir!!
Really enjoyed your comments. I have explained to many people exactly the same as you were saying. I hunt 8 boxes of halves weekly as well as 2 boxes of quarters. Almost every week , 7 of the 8 boxes have nothing, I almost always find some silver and proofs in ohe of my Brinks half dollar boxes. Quarter boxes haven't been very good as of late, an occasional W or NIFC s mint or proof and sometimes an error but only picked up 17 silvers thus far in 2023. BTW, I asked about a 1983D half that I found in a different video that had a silvery edge. Took it to my local coin dealer in South Florida.....turned out to be an over-coppered planchette he told me. I sold it to him for $4. It was a find! I was happy to sell it to him! An interesting find, perhaps because it was a 1983 high grade. Subscribed and enjoying your channel! Ty!
That’s great on the quarter. My LCS would be like… I’ll give you a nickel. You do a ton of volume. When I had access to coin machines I was doing 4-8 boxes a week as well. Now that I have to rewrap I just don’t have the time to do more. Thanks for watching and thanks for your support.
@@GASilverHunter That's so interesting, I never thought about the possibility that some coin hunters wouldn't have to reroll their coins. That's wild! We don't have any coin machines in our banks locally, so just never ever thought about it. That's awesome for those folks!
GA SILVER HUNTER- Awesome explanation to quiet the skeptics. 👏🏼 Since I last posted on one of your videos regarding my cold streak on finding silver, I am on 15 straight half dollar boxes without even a sniff of silver. I bought box 16 and 17 today from my local Chase so I’m hoping I can break the streak bc it does get very frustrating.
It is really hard on you mentally... especially when you can go on youtube or facebook and see people finding silver every day. You just have to remember that every region is different, coin providers, etc. You just never know when silver will make its way back through the system. The other thing you have to be conscious of is that in some areas the coin providers may (and I say may because I have no hard evidence) be pulling silver. I switched from Loomis to Brinks rolls for that reason. I got sick of going 10-20 boxes between finding 1 beat up silver piece. Brinks, while still very very streaky due to the nature of how coins flow through the system, have produced way more for me. I see others, Like 1 Roll at a Time, find silver in Loomis boxes all the time. But he is somewhere up north (or north-ish) and I am way down here in Atlanta.
@@GASilverHunter - Thanks for the feedback. I’m in Cleveland, OH and I’ve noticed that the hobby of searching bank rolls here is pretty big. All the sealed boxes I get are from the federal reserve bank of Cleveland, and I just think that the coin roll hunters here have stripped the city clean of silver over the years. It’s just my theory. I’m thinking about going out of state to get boxes, question is which state/city is notoriously known not to be a “coin collecting” region. My guess would be a region where the major demographic is younger. I would love to see another $1 coin hunt. The Sacagawea/SBA/Presidential coins are a fun hunt especially when filling books. I love your channel and would love to be a member. I will look for the join button on your next video. 🙏🏼
I think your analysis on everything is spot on. Excellent vid on the realism of the hobby. Hopeful some silver and other goodies finds your boxes soon.
Once again sir, you have produced another great video, both educational and fun. I used to watch another TH-camr when I started the hobby, but was very disappointed in how he treated people that were just wanting to ask questions. I have had a few questions for you and was very pleased when you answered them on a professional level. Keep up the great work sir!!!
I still watch Danny at the Coin U.......but will never like or comment there, he ripped me a new one when I asked a question, GA is a great guy and this is a great channel.
@@PaulLorenzini-ny2yw I take a whole "learning" approach to my videos as I feel like I am constantly learning myself... so if I have or had the question in the past, its fair for others to have it. Don't want to speak for Danny but I would guess he gets flooded with the same questions over and over again both in his shop and on youtube and he's put a lot of time into his online forum, website, and years and years of content. Still no excuse to snap at viewers... but I can get where he is coming from. The only people that I snap at are the ones that come on my channel and call me a liar or a faker... drives me nuts. I have ZERO patience for it.
This is an awesome video. Even without a silver found. You hit on so many points that I have encountered. A lot of bank tellers are young and just don’t know what they are looking at. Unfortunately, I have educated a couple. lol. I’m in a bit of a dry spell myself right now too, but I’ve had some fantastic box’s this year. For the nay sayers….. watch a fishing video or something you’re interested in. And thank you GA SH for the info you have given me personally. Merry Christmas.
Thanks for all the info and thoughts you gave us while opening your rolls. CRH is surprisingly still worth it if it's a hobby and fun to open rolls and go through coins, which it is for me. Silver is rare, but still there here in Canada on 10 and 25 cents. My last finds are a 1959 80% and a 1968 50% in about 75 rolls (1 box and a half). I try to get customer rolls, which are in average the best. I get used to what kind of rolls the banks I go have, and can sometimes guess which will have silver. Some banks tell me they roll some coins themselves, and sometimes they can roll silver, but not all the banks. One bank always uses the same paper wrappers, and 100% of their rolls so far have exactly 40 quarters. I never found a single silver in these for over a year, so when I get thes I have not much hope...Yes, we all want 40 not to get shorted, but sometimes getting a bunch of rolls where a copule are missing one, but some have extras makes me feel we can get anything, and in these I found silver. Branches of my main bank (Banque Nationale du Canada) uses see-through plastic wrappers, and much of the time they roll coins in a "Double" plastic, so they don't even have time to carefully grab exactly one plastic, and in these I already found silver! On top of have an extra empty dime plastic wrapper, I got a 1965 80% dime in one of these rolls. I'm glad in Canada the "Tiara" effigy replace the Queen's "Young Head" in 1965 while silver was still at 80%. I find quite more often silver from 1965 to 1968 than older, probably because tellers miss them because that effigy has been there until 1978 and many don't know there was silver at the beginning of this effigy. Many people think silver as Young Head and older. And you're right that many young people, including tellers, don't even know what a silver coin is or looks like, and I think that's a reason why the hobby is still living. I wish it will live long in both of our countries, so that we can continue to enjoy doing it...
Thank you for sharing your experiences. Glad to hear that CRH up in Canada is not all that much different than here in the US. You do start getting an intuition about certain rolls or types of rolls... or banks that have good rolls vs bad rolls. That said, I spread out when and where I get rolls just to make sure I don't miss anything. Of course I only hit up banks 1-3 times a week so I am sure I am missing things as I have a full time job on top of CRH and building the youtube channel and can't be everywhere. Take Care!
Great video! Always love stopping by to catch your half dollar hunts. Honestly though, I’m not sure why people want to say the rolls are stacked, bought, etc, because I don’t feel like there would be any gain from that; except maybe views. But why? I just don’t feel it’s worth it to even think about doing that. Great video as always my friend! Thanks for keeping it real! 👽🤙🏻
I've found that many tellers in the credit unions, small banks, etc. do search customer wrapped rolls for silver in the metropolitan area where I live, especially if some of their customers are coin roll hunters and they realize what they are doing. Some tellers, as you say, do not. I've found it becoming more prevalent, however, since I started in 2020.
Very true. It definitely depends on where you live and if you have savvy tellers. I can tell you where I live there are a few that are "in the know" but most are not.
The bank where I get the boxes of coins, the tellers I deal with actually didnt know all the different coins there are there. I taught them and showed them. This is the most answer I get of them.
The time put into it vs the value of the finds means it really isnt worth doing unless you enjoy it, which is why people have this hobby. This is what I tell people who ask about it at my coin shop, it isn’t realistic to think there’s a bunch of rare coins out there because there really isn’t.
Good video, GA, thanks for the information how the silver ends up in rolls and why the tellers don't search. All comments are 100% spot on. I would add that proof clad coins are relatively common, some end up in circulation the same way as silver does but I think some of coins are small coin dealer rejects. A few too many marks, hairlines, haze or other handling to be sellable but bought as part of a larger collection. Or they are rejects bought by a wholesaler in lots of hundreds or thousands for TV and print media ads.
Here is the 1 million dollar question. If I go to a bank and buy a 1k dollar box of dollar coins, they will all be Sac, SBA, or Presidential dollars, without exception. Why?, because IKE dollars are not the same size, they are larger. So, what does Brinks/Loomis do with all the IKE dollars?
No idea. Most banks get very few of them (Ike’s) in and people are always asking for them. They probably don’t survive long with the tellers. 9 out of 10 times if Ike’s rolled through the teller tells me they were picked up by a customer earlier in the week.
There are tellers and bankers who look out for me who are at competing banks calling me when they get silver, old bills, 50cent/dollar rolls come in. Especially older customers. It’s unfortunate however people cash in change to make ends meet nowadays.
That's awesome when they will do that for you. I have a few that do the same for me. They don't always know what they have... they will just call and say a guy dropped off XYZ and the coins where in plastic tubes... you want them. Stuff like that.
How do you know which BW coin wrappers are what “name” loomis for example. Is it strictly based on the bank on what coin wrappers and box style you receive when requesting coins? How many styles are there and which ones are they? Is a certain style of bank roll better than another for any denomination in terms of silver or finds in general?
No idea on how many styles because some banks and credit unions roll their own coins or there may be regional distributors that I am unaware of. For most of metro Atanta, there are 3. Loomis - Rolls or box typically says Loomis and the rolls are yellow. Boxes are also long and flat for half dollars. NF String and Son - Boxes have holes in them and the rolls are yellow as well. Resemble the Loomis box but have two flaps on top instead of 1. Brinks - Half Dollar boxes are cubes and come with Black Rolls.
I find very few silver quarters. I know a lot of TH-camrs in metro Atlanta area believe Loomis is plucking silver. I have no evidence of it but don’t doubt it. I still find silver regularly in Brink boxes.
I normally search 4 boxes of halves per week from my local CU. Two weeks ago they ordered no coins at all so I had to skip a week. To make up for it they ordered me 8 boxes. I found 2 Benji's, 10 64 Kennedy's and exactly 50 40% silvers. Pretty good haul for 8 boxes. Also one of the boxes had 22 rolls of UNC 1997 D's. That was a first for me in 15 years. I looked on variety vista and found no varieties for 1997 so there was no monetary value in the coins.
My local tellers don't care and don't want to know more about the coins that are coming and going through the bank. The paper bills are maybe more obvious and they might exchange some of them, but I imagine it's a pain in the butt to do it for them, while for the customers it's much easier. Every teller that I've gotten familiar with at my banks just do not understand why I do it. They have very little time to look at the coins. On the "is it viable?" track of thought also have to include the expenses for this hobby: scale, scope of some sort, wrappers, if you buy a coin counter machine, if you buy storage for the coins, I mean the list can go on and on. Have I made money from searching through the many mountains of coins that I've searched? absolutely not. Have I tried to make money from it? No. I should, maybe, but I haven't. I just enjoy it. It's the same as any other hobby that one has.
I live in a very small town, too. So I mean..even if you live in a podunk town like I do, these tellers are still being asked to do more work than they should be just like any profession in today's times is currently being told to. I couldn't agree with you more that tellers look at you like you're speaking greek when you ask if they have any old change or money. They are just incredibly busy and aren't being trained on the intricacies of the values of coinage and paper money. If people don't believe it, then that's on them but it's the truth for a lot of tellers. The tellers aren't going to look up is it valuable because yes they know it's federal coinage that has an assigned value and to the bank that is all that matters.
Thank you for your experience and thoughtful comment. I do have 1 bank where the teller told me flat out... I do pull all the old bills from my till, and If I know a coin is silver I will buy it. She told me she doesn't have time to go through rolls and she would probably get fired if she did. She told me flat out... "if you want to search teller trays go to any one of the other ladies in here... they have no clue about old coins or currency." I had one other branch of wells fargo that when I turned in 2 boxes of halves the guy/teller actually asked... "any silver in here?" I replied no. He said he asks whenever full boxes come back. He then told me he too pulled old bills but only dabbled in coins in his spare time. These are probably my only 2 experiences of a teller having any clue or desire to know.
@@GASilverHunter I understand that all too well...A lot of keyboard warriors out there with nothing better to do. You have a great channel, don't give the haters the time of day
Thats the million dollar question. I rarely come across customer wrapped halves that aren't sitting at the bank in a full box. If the full box is the same wrap type its most likely another hunters returns. I have found way more silver in bank wrapped rolls over the years, but I have hunted 500X more bank wrapped rolls than I have customer rolls. My best single roll score came from customer rolls. So my advice is... hunt everything you can find.
I can't get boxes of halves where I live. Just pennies and nickels.. even then about 1/2 the time I get customer rolls. That said, after $8000 in nickel hunts last week I got a really good nickels score... 2 rolls were 77 coins 1947 to 1957.. every date and mint mark for those 11 years except 1950D. In fact they were all VF to BU 63 and all dates were upgrades for my collection... included proofs for 1954, 55, 56, 57, and many of the semi-keys. 5 from 1950, 4 1948S, 4 1949S, 3 1951S and a BU 55 as well. Several months ago my bank called with 150 rolls of BU nickels 1959 to 1990... yes $300 tied up in them. Beautiful coins
I coin roll hunt in Canada. I have found 108 silver quarters from over 300 boxes. Not many dimes though. My banks also call me up if something interesting comes in. Keep hunting people.
I get the greater majority of my silver from this type of roll. Loomis typically produces nothing for me, but occaissionally I do get lucky and find 1 or 2 in the yellow rolls.
Had a roommate years ago, he went through exactly 2 boxes and found nothing. He didn’t last a week. I’ve been doing this my whole life and will continue to do it until the bank stops ordering for me. Also so many tellers don’t have the knowledge of what is silver is not do they understand how a duel currency works.
Sounds about right. I had some friends do the same thing. Got all excited from hearing about what I was doing. They ordered 2-3 boxes. Didn’t find anything and quit. I don’t blame people that do this. As I said in the vid. If you are doing this thinking you are going to strike it rich. Don’t. Or go throw your money at the lottery. At least with coin roll hunting you don’t ever lose.
@@GASilverHunter Interestingly my grampa taught me how to hunt and everything he knew about coins. His philosophy was the same as yours, “unlike gambling you still have your money afterwards. All you lose is time and gas.”
@GA Silver Hunter you should mention the following: In 2026 the US Mint is going to be changing our coinage to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of our United State. The John F. Kennedy Half Dollar will also be reinvented/redesigned!!! The market will be flooded with the new coinage!!!
Couldn't some coin roll hunters roll their own rolls with silver in it , I have seen a plastic tool people use to seal them up like coin rolling machines do? I am not saying you do that ,but its possible isn't it?
It is possible. And I do sell the crimpers in my online store… but., They do not roll as well as a bank crimper. And you would have to source bank boxes and bank paper which is, again, possible but costly. So the reality is that you could fake it but it would cost you more in time and money than it’s worth in TH-cam revenue. People think every TH-camr makes a fortune. Some do. Some eke out a basic living. Most that are monetized make $100-300 a month on ad revenue. Cheaper to just buy the coins rolled from the bank for face value and hunt them for real.
I have yet to find a single silver coin outside one dime and a few nickels, but I have absolutely no doubt that your videos are genuine. I think part of my issue with no silver halves is that most of my main banks ONLY have fed-wrapped rolls, as they have coin machines and don't accept customer rolls except for Ike dollars that the machine can't take. I need to stop in at some banks sometime that don't have machines and ask for customer halves. But I actually prefer fed-wrapped rolls for denominations other than halves. I get 15 to 25 wheats per box of pennies, at least one war nickel or buffalo in every nickel box, and I've only found a W quarter in fed rolls. Customer wrapped rolls of denominations other than pennies have been complete busts for me, but they do probably have a better chance of hitting a "jackpot" in the long run. I may not have found any silver halves yet, but I've found a ton of NIFCs haha. No 1987s but I filled up half a book of 2002-2020 halves in just 20 rolls.
GA, I worked at my local grocery store during HS and college. I ended up working the office where I counted all the checker's tills (also smoozed one young checker into 22 years of marriage and 4 kids). Anytime a silver came through you better believe I traded a quarter for a silver quarter. Great video, thanks.
Nice. You were one of the savvy ones. Sounds like you married a good one! Take care.
You're Right. It's getting tougher to find silver halves roll hunting. That being said, I hunt all coinage 1¢, 5¢ 10¢ 25¢, 50¢ recently I have been skunked on 9 boxes of halves. Until a couple weeks ago when exchanging 2 boxes of quarters, and a brick of $1 Dollar bills. I asked if they had any half dollars, the teller said I have $54 dollars in half dollars in 2 envelopes. I said I'll take them and 2 boxes of quarters. He proceeded to count them, once He pulled them from his drawer I heard that oh so familiar sound once he sat them on the counter. Man in total there were 16 Benji's, 3 1964's, 5 -1966, 8- 1967's, and 4- 1968's I went to the car and had to record it.
That is awesome. Love when you get silver from the tellers.
What a wonderful stroke of blessing this was to you!!! Congratulations. I wish that could happen for me!!!
I’m a retired 30 year route salesman and you touched on the desperation people have when using silver coins. Food, gas, tobacco, booze-if you need it bad enough you’ll spend silver. I used to see it daily in gas stations and liquor stores.
Pawn stores too. They'll actually try to offer you less than spot price. Sort of a negative premium.
Yep... stay away from most pawn shops. A lot of LCS can be pretty bad too. With silver premiums now they are pretty good to at least by at spot... but back when it was like 15-16X based on spot, my LCS was buying at 12X.
Good vid. Thanks for sharing the fun 🧑🎄🎄🦌
Hunting for “treasure “ is a hit or miss. Usually a miss. But, I have put together a complete Lincoln cent set. Missing only three coins. 1909 s vdb, 1909 s, and 1914 d. I did find a 1922 extremely week d , as well most of the coins are pretty descent coins. All roll hunting! But I went through hundreds of rolls of pennies..probably at least a thousand… takes lots of time. I save the copper pennies to make it worthwhile. Great video Sir!!
Thank you!
Really enjoyed your comments. I have explained to many people exactly the same as you were saying. I hunt 8 boxes of halves weekly as well as 2 boxes of quarters. Almost every week , 7 of the 8 boxes have nothing, I almost always find some silver and proofs in ohe of my Brinks half dollar boxes. Quarter boxes haven't been very good as of late, an occasional W or NIFC s mint or proof and sometimes an error but only picked up 17 silvers thus far in 2023. BTW, I asked about a 1983D half that I found in a different video that had a silvery edge. Took it to my local coin dealer in South Florida.....turned out to be an over-coppered planchette he told me. I sold it to him for $4. It was a find! I was happy to sell it to him! An interesting find, perhaps because it was a 1983 high grade. Subscribed and enjoying your channel! Ty!
That’s great on the quarter. My LCS would be like… I’ll give you a nickel. You do a ton of volume. When I had access to coin machines I was doing 4-8 boxes a week as well. Now that I have to rewrap I just don’t have the time to do more. Thanks for watching and thanks for your support.
Exactly. I mentioned to you earlier about VyStar credit union coming to Atlanta....free coin machines with an account...it's great...keep an eye out
I still haven’t seen one but am always on the lookout.
@@GASilverHunter That's so interesting, I never thought about the possibility that some coin hunters wouldn't have to reroll their coins. That's wild! We don't have any coin machines in our banks locally, so just never ever thought about it. That's awesome for those folks!
Great video, always entertaining and teaching newbies to the coin community.
A teller recently told me “I look at money all day long… the _last_ thing I want to do with my spare time is search through more money.”
100% truth!
GA SILVER HUNTER- Awesome explanation to quiet the skeptics. 👏🏼
Since I last posted on one of your videos regarding my cold streak on finding silver, I am on 15 straight half dollar boxes without even a sniff of silver. I bought box 16 and 17 today from my local Chase so I’m hoping I can break the streak bc it does get very frustrating.
It is really hard on you mentally... especially when you can go on youtube or facebook and see people finding silver every day. You just have to remember that every region is different, coin providers, etc. You just never know when silver will make its way back through the system. The other thing you have to be conscious of is that in some areas the coin providers may (and I say may because I have no hard evidence) be pulling silver. I switched from Loomis to Brinks rolls for that reason. I got sick of going 10-20 boxes between finding 1 beat up silver piece. Brinks, while still very very streaky due to the nature of how coins flow through the system, have produced way more for me. I see others, Like 1 Roll at a Time, find silver in Loomis boxes all the time. But he is somewhere up north (or north-ish) and I am way down here in Atlanta.
@@GASilverHunter - Thanks for the feedback. I’m in Cleveland, OH and I’ve noticed that the hobby of searching bank rolls here is pretty big. All the sealed boxes I get are from the federal reserve bank of Cleveland, and I just think that the coin roll hunters here have stripped the city clean of silver over the years. It’s just my theory. I’m thinking about going out of state to get boxes, question is which state/city is notoriously known not to be a “coin collecting” region. My guess would be a region where the major demographic is younger.
I would love to see another $1 coin hunt. The Sacagawea/SBA/Presidential coins are a fun hunt especially when filling books.
I love your channel and would love to be a member. I will look for the join button on your next video. 🙏🏼
I am almost done with a video I think you might like.
I think your analysis on everything is spot on. Excellent vid on the realism of the hobby.
Hopeful some silver and other goodies finds your boxes soon.
I hope so too! I’ve been running so warm to hot all year it was bound to turn eventually.
Once again sir, you have produced another great video, both educational and fun. I used to watch another TH-camr when I started the hobby, but was very disappointed in how he treated people that were just wanting to ask questions. I have had a few questions for you and was very pleased when you answered them on a professional level. Keep up the great work sir!!!
Thank you so much for the feed back and thank you for continuing to visit the channel! Take Care!
Ditto
Double ditto. GA Silver Hunter has always been great.
I still watch Danny at the Coin U.......but will never like or comment there, he ripped me a new one when I asked a question, GA is a great guy and this is a great channel.
@@PaulLorenzini-ny2yw I take a whole "learning" approach to my videos as I feel like I am constantly learning myself... so if I have or had the question in the past, its fair for others to have it. Don't want to speak for Danny but I would guess he gets flooded with the same questions over and over again both in his shop and on youtube and he's put a lot of time into his online forum, website, and years and years of content. Still no excuse to snap at viewers... but I can get where he is coming from. The only people that I snap at are the ones that come on my channel and call me a liar or a faker... drives me nuts. I have ZERO patience for it.
Thanks for answering all of those questions. I thought the theft of coins and the turning in of someone’s collection were very valid explanations.
Thanks MoMoney!
Great roll hunt. I enjoyed the Q&As.
Thanks for watching and the feedback.
This is an awesome video. Even without a silver found. You hit on so many points that I have encountered. A lot of bank tellers are young and just don’t know what they are looking at. Unfortunately, I have educated a couple. lol. I’m in a bit of a dry spell myself right now too, but I’ve had some fantastic box’s this year. For the nay sayers….. watch a fishing video or something you’re interested in. And thank you GA SH for the info you have given me personally. Merry Christmas.
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for sharing your experience.
I enjoyed this video with your questions & answers.
Thank you for the feedback!
Just went though 4 boxes of dimes and on the very last roll of box 4 I found a 1959. Still a win in my book! Happy hunting.
All hunts that result in silver are a WIN!
Another great video, thank you for taking the time to answer questions that a lot of us want to know about
Any time!
Thanks for all the info and thoughts you gave us while opening your rolls. CRH is surprisingly
still worth it if it's a hobby and fun to open rolls and go through coins, which it is for me. Silver is rare,
but still there here in Canada on 10 and 25 cents. My last finds are a 1959 80% and a 1968 50% in about 75 rolls (1 box and a half). I try to get customer rolls, which are in average the best. I get used to what kind of rolls the banks I go have, and can sometimes guess which will have silver. Some banks tell me they roll some coins themselves, and sometimes they can roll silver, but not all the banks. One bank always uses the same paper wrappers, and 100% of their rolls so far have exactly 40 quarters. I never found a single silver in these for over a year, so when I get thes I have not much hope...Yes, we all want 40 not to get shorted, but sometimes getting a bunch of rolls where a copule are missing one, but some have extras makes me feel we can get anything, and in these I found silver. Branches of my main bank (Banque Nationale du Canada) uses see-through plastic wrappers, and much of the time they roll coins in a "Double" plastic, so they don't even have time to carefully grab exactly one plastic, and in these I already found silver! On top of have an extra empty dime plastic wrapper, I got a 1965 80% dime in one of these rolls. I'm glad in Canada the "Tiara" effigy replace the Queen's "Young Head" in 1965 while silver was still at 80%. I find quite more often silver from 1965 to 1968 than older, probably because tellers miss them because that effigy has been there until 1978 and many don't know there was silver at the beginning of this effigy. Many people think silver as Young Head and older. And you're right that many young people, including tellers, don't even know what a silver coin is or looks like, and I think that's a reason why the hobby is still living. I wish it will live long in both of our countries, so that we can continue to enjoy doing it...
Thank you for sharing your experiences. Glad to hear that CRH up in Canada is not all that much different than here in the US. You do start getting an intuition about certain rolls or types of rolls... or banks that have good rolls vs bad rolls. That said, I spread out when and where I get rolls just to make sure I don't miss anything. Of course I only hit up banks 1-3 times a week so I am sure I am missing things as I have a full time job on top of CRH and building the youtube channel and can't be everywhere. Take Care!
Great video! Always love stopping by to catch your half dollar hunts. Honestly though, I’m not sure why people want to say the rolls are stacked, bought, etc, because I don’t feel like there would be any gain from that; except maybe views. But why? I just don’t feel it’s worth it to even think about doing that. Great video as always my friend! Thanks for keeping it real! 👽🤙🏻
Extremely informative.
Glad it was helpful!
I've found that many tellers in the credit unions, small banks, etc. do search customer wrapped rolls for silver in the metropolitan area where I live, especially if some of their customers are coin roll hunters and they realize what they are doing. Some tellers, as you say, do not. I've found it becoming more prevalent, however, since I started in 2020.
Very true. It definitely depends on where you live and if you have savvy tellers. I can tell you where I live there are a few that are "in the know" but most are not.
The bank where I get the boxes of coins, the tellers I deal with actually didnt know all the different coins there are there. I taught them and showed them. This is the most answer I get of them.
The time put into it vs the value of the finds means it really isnt worth doing unless you enjoy it, which is why people have this hobby. This is what I tell people who ask about it at my coin shop, it isn’t realistic to think there’s a bunch of rare coins out there because there really isn’t.
Good video, GA, thanks for the information how the silver ends up in rolls and why the tellers don't search. All comments are 100% spot on. I would add that proof clad coins are relatively common, some end up in circulation the same way as silver does but I think some of coins are small coin dealer rejects. A few too many marks, hairlines, haze or other handling to be sellable but bought as part of a larger collection. Or they are rejects bought by a wholesaler in lots of hundreds or thousands for TV and print media ads.
Good call on dealers and LCS possible dumping damaged stuff from coin collection buys. Hadn’t thought of that. Thanks!
I think mint also dumps some unsold proofs, returns, quality defect proofs, etc. Same is true for NIFC, probably. @@GASilverHunter
Nice!
Here is the 1 million dollar question. If I go to a bank and buy a 1k dollar box of dollar coins, they will all be Sac, SBA, or Presidential dollars, without exception. Why?, because IKE dollars are not the same size, they are larger. So, what does Brinks/Loomis do with all the IKE dollars?
No idea. Most banks get very few of them (Ike’s) in and people are always asking for them. They probably don’t survive long with the tellers. 9 out of 10 times if Ike’s rolled through the teller tells me they were picked up by a customer earlier in the week.
There are tellers and bankers who look out for me who are at competing banks calling me when they get silver, old bills, 50cent/dollar rolls come in. Especially older customers. It’s unfortunate however people cash in change to make ends meet nowadays.
That's awesome when they will do that for you. I have a few that do the same for me. They don't always know what they have... they will just call and say a guy dropped off XYZ and the coins where in plastic tubes... you want them. Stuff like that.
How do you know which BW coin wrappers are what “name” loomis for example. Is it strictly based on the bank on what coin wrappers and box style you receive when requesting coins? How many styles are there and which ones are they? Is a certain style of bank roll better than another for any denomination in terms of silver or finds in general?
No idea on how many styles because some banks and credit unions roll their own coins or there may be regional distributors that I am unaware of. For most of metro Atanta, there are 3. Loomis - Rolls or box typically says Loomis and the rolls are yellow. Boxes are also long and flat for half dollars. NF String and Son - Boxes have holes in them and the rolls are yellow as well. Resemble the Loomis box but have two flaps on top instead of 1. Brinks - Half Dollar boxes are cubes and come with Black Rolls.
Never can I find silver I brinks quarters. Different story with the boxes in the holes on the bottom. Convinced they keep the silver.
I find very few silver quarters. I know a lot of TH-camrs in metro Atlanta area believe Loomis is plucking silver. I have no evidence of it but don’t doubt it. I still find silver regularly in Brink boxes.
I normally search 4 boxes of halves per week from my local CU. Two weeks ago they ordered no coins at all so I had to skip a week. To make up for it they ordered me 8 boxes. I found 2 Benji's, 10 64 Kennedy's and exactly 50 40% silvers. Pretty good haul for 8 boxes. Also one of the boxes had 22 rolls of UNC 1997 D's. That was a first for me in 15 years. I looked on variety vista and found no varieties for 1997 so there was no monetary value in the coins.
It’s a volume game for sure. Glad you landed some silver. Great score though.
My local tellers don't care and don't want to know more about the coins that are coming and going through the bank. The paper bills are maybe more obvious and they might exchange some of them, but I imagine it's a pain in the butt to do it for them, while for the customers it's much easier. Every teller that I've gotten familiar with at my banks just do not understand why I do it. They have very little time to look at the coins. On the "is it viable?" track of thought also have to include the expenses for this hobby: scale, scope of some sort, wrappers, if you buy a coin counter machine, if you buy storage for the coins, I mean the list can go on and on. Have I made money from searching through the many mountains of coins that I've searched? absolutely not. Have I tried to make money from it? No. I should, maybe, but I haven't. I just enjoy it. It's the same as any other hobby that one has.
I live in a very small town, too. So I mean..even if you live in a podunk town like I do, these tellers are still being asked to do more work than they should be just like any profession in today's times is currently being told to. I couldn't agree with you more that tellers look at you like you're speaking greek when you ask if they have any old change or money. They are just incredibly busy and aren't being trained on the intricacies of the values of coinage and paper money. If people don't believe it, then that's on them but it's the truth for a lot of tellers. The tellers aren't going to look up is it valuable because yes they know it's federal coinage that has an assigned value and to the bank that is all that matters.
Thank you for your experience and thoughtful comment. I do have 1 bank where the teller told me flat out... I do pull all the old bills from my till, and If I know a coin is silver I will buy it. She told me she doesn't have time to go through rolls and she would probably get fired if she did. She told me flat out... "if you want to search teller trays go to any one of the other ladies in here... they have no clue about old coins or currency." I had one other branch of wells fargo that when I turned in 2 boxes of halves the guy/teller actually asked... "any silver in here?" I replied no. He said he asks whenever full boxes come back. He then told me he too pulled old bills but only dabbled in coins in his spare time. These are probably my only 2 experiences of a teller having any clue or desire to know.
Great video....I see a lot of comments on several channels that the rolls are rigged. Quite ridiculous if you think about it.
It’s is. I need to learn to just let it go. But I work hard to bring all my hunts to TH-cam and to have people crap on it irks me.
@@GASilverHunter I understand that all too well...A lot of keyboard warriors out there with nothing better to do. You have a great channel, don't give the haters the time of day
What rolls are better for finding silver, customer or bank wrapped ?
Thats the million dollar question. I rarely come across customer wrapped halves that aren't sitting at the bank in a full box. If the full box is the same wrap type its most likely another hunters returns. I have found way more silver in bank wrapped rolls over the years, but I have hunted 500X more bank wrapped rolls than I have customer rolls. My best single roll score came from customer rolls. So my advice is... hunt everything you can find.
Last teller I bought half dollars from didnt even know how to read the date on the coin.
This is ooooooh so common.
I can't get boxes of halves where I live. Just pennies and nickels.. even then about 1/2 the time I get customer rolls.
That said, after $8000 in nickel hunts last week I got a really good nickels score... 2 rolls were 77 coins 1947 to 1957.. every date and mint mark for those 11 years except 1950D. In fact they were all VF to BU 63 and all dates were upgrades for my collection... included proofs for 1954, 55, 56, 57, and many of the semi-keys. 5 from 1950, 4 1948S, 4 1949S, 3 1951S and a BU 55 as well.
Several months ago my bank called with 150 rolls of BU nickels 1959 to 1990... yes $300 tied up in them. Beautiful coins
That’s incredible. I would struggle to hang on to all of them, but it’s a nice haul. Especially if you are really into nickels.
I coin roll hunt in Canada. I have found 108 silver quarters from over 300 boxes. Not many dimes though. My banks also call me up if something interesting comes in. Keep hunting people.
Where in Canada?
Black and white wrappers bad luck
I get the greater majority of my silver from this type of roll. Loomis typically produces nothing for me, but occaissionally I do get lucky and find 1 or 2 in the yellow rolls.
Rural banks haven't used their. 50 boxes and have old stock. It's worthwhile.
I would love to find one of those. Too much volume within 25-50 miles of where I live to have anything sitting in a vault that long.
Had a roommate years ago, he went through exactly 2 boxes and found nothing. He didn’t last a week. I’ve been doing this my whole life and will continue to do it until the bank stops ordering for me. Also so many tellers don’t have the knowledge of what is silver is not do they understand how a duel currency works.
Sounds about right. I had some friends do the same thing. Got all excited from hearing about what I was doing. They ordered 2-3 boxes. Didn’t find anything and quit. I don’t blame people that do this. As I said in the vid. If you are doing this thinking you are going to strike it rich. Don’t. Or go throw your money at the lottery. At least with coin roll hunting you don’t ever lose.
@@GASilverHunter Interestingly my grampa taught me how to hunt and everything he knew about coins. His philosophy was the same as yours, “unlike gambling you still have your money afterwards. All you lose is time and gas.”
I think I would like your GrandPa!😀
@GA Silver Hunter you should mention the following: In 2026 the US Mint is going to be changing our coinage to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of our United State. The John F. Kennedy Half Dollar will also be reinvented/redesigned!!! The market will be flooded with the new coinage!!!
Will do!
Couldn't some coin roll hunters roll their own rolls with silver in it , I have seen a plastic tool people use to seal them up like coin rolling machines do? I am not saying you do that ,but its possible isn't it?
It is possible. And I do sell the crimpers in my online store… but., They do not roll as well as a bank crimper. And you would have to source bank boxes and bank paper which is, again, possible but costly. So the reality is that you could fake it but it would cost you more in time and money than it’s worth in TH-cam revenue. People think every TH-camr makes a fortune. Some do. Some eke out a basic living. Most that are monetized make $100-300 a month on ad revenue. Cheaper to just buy the coins rolled from the bank for face value and hunt them for real.
Why do they even produce 50 cent coins, where are they used on a daily basis?
Vegas and anywhere that has casinos uses them daily. The mint produces them for Collectors as well.
Just add a few 90% rolls from sd bullion to each box hahaha jk
Haha… never on my channel. Still kinda funny though.
I have yet to find a single silver coin outside one dime and a few nickels, but I have absolutely no doubt that your videos are genuine. I think part of my issue with no silver halves is that most of my main banks ONLY have fed-wrapped rolls, as they have coin machines and don't accept customer rolls except for Ike dollars that the machine can't take. I need to stop in at some banks sometime that don't have machines and ask for customer halves. But I actually prefer fed-wrapped rolls for denominations other than halves. I get 15 to 25 wheats per box of pennies, at least one war nickel or buffalo in every nickel box, and I've only found a W quarter in fed rolls. Customer wrapped rolls of denominations other than pennies have been complete busts for me, but they do probably have a better chance of hitting a "jackpot" in the long run.
I may not have found any silver halves yet, but I've found a ton of NIFCs haha. No 1987s but I filled up half a book of 2002-2020 halves in just 20 rolls.
Thanks for sharing your experience. It’s not an uncommon one.
I have a conspiracy theory that Brinks and Loomis are selling the coins to the online dealers!
Ha. In some regions it’s possible.