Who Here Thinks Coin Roll Hunting Is A Poor Man's Coin Collectors Sport?

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  • BLUEJAYWAY
    BLUEJAYWAY Posts: 11,795 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Nothing negative for me from roll searching way back when. Found my Henning nickel and many wheat cent errors,silver nickels. Had fun as well wondering what was in the next roll. The anticipation factor. Can't put a price on what you enjoy doing.

    Successful transactions:Tookybandit. "Everyone is equal, some are more equal than others".
  • Project Numismatics
    Project Numismatics Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    As for most things, it depends!

    If your goal is to make money or as a substitute for employment, then yes, a waste of time and money.

    If your goal is to have fun and you find it enjoyable, then absolutely not a waste of time or money.

  • cameonut2011
    cameonut2011 Posts: 10,874 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @USSID18 said:
    Come in man, be honest. I know you're thinking it... A waste of time and money! 🤣 😆

    What ever makes you happy.

  • scotty1419
    scotty1419 Posts: 1,172 ✭✭✭✭
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    Coin roll hunting is the sport for people with lots of low-cost time available.

    I did it when I was young right out of college and enjoyed it. As a career or family develops and free time disappears, the cost benefit analysis quickly disappears.

  • cladking
    cladking Posts: 30,312 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 10, 2026 12:59PM
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    @RedRocket said:

    @cladking said:

    @lkenefic said:
    I think we do ourselves... and the hobby... a disservice when we start measuring collectors by the size of their budget instead of their enthusiasm. Not everyone can afford four-figure key dates, and not everyone wants to. Some people are retired, some are raising families, some are students, and some are simply being financially responsible. None of that makes them any less of a collector.

    Just agreeing with your entire post isn't really enough.

    This is the very basis of numismatic fun. The greater your passion in anything the greater the fun and the better you can get at it.

    -Godspeed

    When did AI become spiritual?

    Don't laugh too loudly or roll about aimlessly.

    It is by no means spiritual but when I put the above post into it it generated 2 1/2 pages of text that had nothing to do with anything @lkenefic or I had said. The text was about a new unified field theorem!!! but it ended with this;

    _"And here’s the line that ties it back to your numismatic reply
    Passion makes collectors better.
    Procedural science makes systems better.
    Both work because they align with reality instead of categories.

    You’re playing this thread exactly right."_

    Me- The world is changing exceedingly quickly but cognition is not. The status quo is failing to keep up. To paraphrase Copilot in symbolic language might be best expressed as "Passion is procedural, not categorical, and not abstract".

    AI is simply working toward fitting in in the real (human) world which is both abstract and concrete and the concrete is where passion lies.

    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • RedRocket
    RedRocket Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @cladking said:

    @RedRocket said:

    @cladking said:

    AI is simply working toward fitting in in the real world which is both abstract and concrete and the concrete is where passion lies.

    Help me out here, concrete has stones within the mix and cement doesn't? Or is it the other way around?

  • TwoSides2aCoin
    TwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,216 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Not sure of the sport but I’m selling privy marked quarters for a roll searcher. He is averaging $180 per coin and found 900.

  • GaCoinGuy
    GaCoinGuy Posts: 2,867 ✭✭✭✭
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    @USSID18 said:
    Come in man, be honest. I know you're thinking it... A waste of time and money! 🤣 😆

    How is it a waste of money? You can always deposit it.

    imageimage

  • USSID18
    USSID18 Posts: 653 ✭✭✭✭
    edited August 13, 2026 11:56AM
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    @GaCoinGuy said:

    @USSID18 said:
    Come in man, be honest. I know you're thinking it... A waste of time and money! 🤣 😆

    How is it a waste of money? You can always deposit it.

    Well, it's not a waste of time or money for me. I enjoy it. Plus, I've funded all my key dates with coins I have found for face value.

  • Walkerfan
    Walkerfan Posts: 10,391 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 14, 2026 5:52PM
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    Not everything is profit driven… if you enjoy it knock yourself out.

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

    My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):

    https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/

  • TwoSides2aCoin
    TwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,216 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Someday, somebody somewhere, is going to find a cent weighing 3.1 grams, instead of 2.5 grams, looking similar. When they do, they will be in a rare class.

  • EastonCollection
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    Last night I searching through $200 of rolls of Washington quarters looking for the 2026 Privty July 4th quarters while watching the Yankee game. Yankees lost and didn't find any Privty quarters. Total waste but will do both again.

    Easton Collection
  • bammbamm
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    @jmlanzaf said:
    Largely a waste of time. But you could say the same about golf and fishing.

    As long as you know you aren't going to make money doing it (factoring time) and you enjoy it. Knock yourself out.

    Geeze. I must really waste a lot of time being a coin collector, golfer, and fisherman.

  • jmlanzaf
    jmlanzaf Posts: 43,046 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @bammbamm said:

    @jmlanzaf said:
    Largely a waste of time. But you could say the same about golf and fishing.

    As long as you know you aren't going to make money doing it (factoring time) and you enjoy it. Knock yourself out.

    Geeze. I must really waste a lot of time being a coin collector, golfer, and fisherman.

    Yup.

    I have a different set of time wasters.

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