So what exactly is a coin roll hunt (or CRH)? The name itself is a bit misleading as at its heart CRHing is nothing but the practice of searching change pulled from circulation for collectable coins. The coins don’t have to come from wrapped rolls. They can come from piggy banks, ashtrays, cup-holders, you name it.
Avid CRHers though soon run out of unsearched stashes of coins around the house and so tend to end up heading to a local bank to buy coins from circulation (I don’t like the term buy though. Nothing is being purchased; cash in one form is being exchanged for cash in another form.) These coins from banks are generally, but not always, received wrapped in rolls.
And that should help explain where the term Coin Roll Hunting comes from. The fun part of the hobby though comes from the second half of the definition, specifically that part about “collectible” coins.
What exactly is a collectible coin? The answer to this question is fairly straight forward, but infinitely varied. At its heart a collectible coin is nothing more than a coin which is worth more to an individual than its monetary value. The important thing here though is that once we start ascribing value to coins other than their monetary worth, opinions on those values often (usually) vary quite a bit.
One person might decide that they want to collect a certain type of cent, say one minted in 1968 (website now defuct). To most of us these cents are worth somewhere in the neighborhood of… well a cent. But I’m willing to bet you’d be hard pressed to get the owner of that website to sell his pennies for face value! To him 1968 cents are worth well more than their face value.
Ever here of the phrase “One man’s trash in another man’s treasure”? Very often collectible coins can be described as such.
This brings us to a crucial decision that you the reader need to make. Without getting into the specifics, do you want to collect coins? If you don’t then that’s fine, but you really don’t need to bother with the rest of this article. At this point you know everything you need to about coin roll hunting and can consider yourself more enlightened than the vast majority of your compatriots. So long and thanks for visiting…
I have read them all, twice.. and really enjoy them. It has given me more and better idea's, than in the past 12 yrs' i have detected.
I thank you very much for all the info'
MANY-THANKS;;;
I enjoyed reading the articles and it is all pretty much common sense, but I do have one concern…you will not find long term CRHer's putting their documented finds on the internet with their actual names…like on facebook or such sites..on it..Why?
Let's say you have a phenomenal hunt and you find 20 90% sliver halves in a $500 box of halves. So you brag…people see the brag…criminals see the brag…realize…hey, they got a bunch of silver coins! and they keep a lot of coins at their place…have your id and one night you come home and your place is burglarized….who's fault is it? the bragger or the criminal??
Don't set yourself up to where you can easily be taken advantage of! Just be careful…I always am.