Over the last 5 years, I've been fortunate enough to fill my time doing the things that inspire me and bring me joy. Life's more simple delights.
One of those things is coin roll hunting. You can learn more about it on the Reddit sub /CRH. Coin Roll Hunting junk silver can be extremely profitable and a whole lot of fun when a silver shiny shows up.
Basically, you buy rolled coins from a bank using cash, search through those rolls for coins containing silver. Replace the silver coins with normal clad coins and return to the bank for your cash. Rinse & repeat every week.
The coins have a face value (4 quarters = $1), but what you're after is either melt value or numismatic value.
I just added the last 5 years up and have over $3400 in melt value for the coins I found at face value. 893 silver coins costing me $221.00 USD for $3445.25 worth of silver (as of Mid-Feb 2021). That's a pretty good return.
It usually only takes a little bit over an hour to sit down and hunt through the coins. I've created a process to speed things up and usually sit down and watch a show, listen to podcasts, or learn a language through listening. I don't look for strike errors or rare years, that would take way too long. I just cut the roll open, look at the edges (called reeding), and look for the greyish white bands.
The silver ones on the end of the stack are creatively called "enders". I got a few enders this week.
Coins minted from 1970-1965 are 40% silver and coins made 1964 and before are 90% silver.
Here's what I was able to find this week buying $1000 in rolled half-dollars. That's almost $50 bucks of silver for $5.50.
Here's what I've been able to find the last few years.
