Havnt Had Any Luck On Silver?

Silver in circulation is getting harder to find. I have no idea where you are, but if other coin roll collectors are in the area, they have probably already gone through a lot of the coins that are in the rolls you are looking at.

As you have found out, it is not likely every box of halves will contain silver. Until my source of halves dried up (and the money I was using had to be put to a more legitimate use ) I was doing around 1K (less often 2K) a week. I could go through eight boxes sometimes w/out finding silver.

I also was searching for DDOs, RPMs and other variants though, so it was still fun. But something else to help gauge the reality of the situation. My bank aslo started charging 5.00 per box. Besides the aforementioned money going to more legitimate uses, I found that the majority of the time the 5.00 cannot be made back from the value of the coins found.

You just have to keep trying and eventually you'll hit some and it'll be even sweeter than you imagined!

I went to the flea market today, I'm starting to see new vendors coming in just selling junk silver above the asking price. This one guy had a container filled with old Mercury dimes in pretty bad shape. I overheard him complaining about money problems. I felt like saying to the guy, "How about you dump all of that old silver back into the banks because it's not worth hoarding it." Most people in area aren't into coin collecting or hoarding silver and copper coins. I'm one of those collectors I keep coins that have a certain year on it.

I have been thinning out my hoards of extras and have put together this roll (see attachment) of Mercury dimes.
Would you take this roll to the bank, or to the local coin dealer?

Done.

Franklin, you cant average out over 1 box. as been mentioned above people who have success search many boxes a week. to be successful at roll hunting there is only 1 rule: volume.