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Many of us here started opening rolls at some point in time regardless of denomination(s) or reasons. Some of us still do. Some a little bit while others a lot. Therefore, I ask, what was your first year of roll searching? (AKA your ROOKIE season). You are welcome to include details if you wish.

My rookie season was 2011. I started small, only buying small amounts per trip. The first day was late April as I bought 10 rolls of pennies and pulled six wheats. (Hard to do that ratio today!). Took the copper back to the bank as I did not start doing the copper thing until July.

My rookie season was decades ago and I can’t really pinpoint a year. That said, the first year where I actually documented roll search results in my Excel spreadsheet was 2004.

My rookie season was the late 1970’s, if I had to pin down a year I’d say 1978. I would bike down to the neighborhood bank with a nylon drawstring bank bag that they gave me to pick up rolls of cents. I remember the time at the bank when the new small dollars were about to arrive. I bought a couple just to have, I have always preferred the Ikes.

hirbonzig wrote:My rookie season was the late 1970’s, if I had to pin down a year I’d say 1978. I would bike down to the neighborhood bank with a nylon drawstring bank bag that they gave me to pick up rolls of cents. I remember the time at the bank when the new small dollars were about to arrive. I bought a couple just to have, I have always preferred the Ikes.

I hate to hijack my own thread, but I must agree with you on the Ike's because I feel they are SUPERIOR to all dollar coins that have followed them.

They are unique and Fun. To spend. Like $2 bill's

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Being born in 1960. I have hazy memories of age ???5-6. I do know. With the coin, I could count before kindergarten.

I think it was 1958. I lived in a small NJ town and a new bank was built about 1/2 mile from my house. I had no money, but my mom lent me $10 so I could go and get 20 rolls of pennies. It was all wheaties then, and you could find some good ones too - like a 1909-s and others in the rolls. I would go to the drive-in window and get rolls over and over again. Just pennies, I couldn't afford searching through silver - too expensive for me then.

1960-61 I would take a few dollars to the bank and buy pennies and/or nickels. The bank was about a mile from my home so I would buy the rolls and sit at the tables they had and search. I would spend an hour or two there just searching(with my coin books spread out) and rerolling until I ran out of $$. All wheatie roll search. Nickel rolls still had many buffalos in them. I didn't know how good I had it at the time.

1966 was my 1st year. I would take birthday money and buy rolls of pennies and then take then refill the ones I didn’t want back to the bank and buy more.