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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I love that feeling when I find them! I showed everyone at work. Most of them didn't care though. I'll offer to go through their change if they don't care!!
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New Member
 United States
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 The very afternoon I posted this my computer crashed! You know how crazy that made me! Arrgghhh! I am addicted and I am already slowly building up my coin money for rolls. I purposefully park farther away in parking lots to give me more ground to cover hoping to find some change. Getting gas I take a peak under the soda machines. Used to never use cash now I find myself using cash so I can get change back. This Friday my husband was half snoozing on the living room floor and I noticed that a penny and a dime fell out of his pocket. So being the sweet loving mother that I am I hurried and snatched them up before my four year old could get them before me and as was walking to the kitchen I noticed the dime felt different-another silver dime! This one looks almost uncurculated and you know I ran in there and woke my husband up my digging in his pocket for the rest of the change. He just doesn't get it and went back to sleep while me and my son did the sliver dime dance.  |
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Valued Member
United States
117 Posts |
Silver dimes and quarters are super-rare in circulation. I don't search these denoms, but as a cashier, I have opened hundreds upon hundreds of rolls, and in the past 5 years, have found 2 quarters and maybe 3 dimes.
Joe
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Valued Member
United States
323 Posts |
Silver dimes are that rare? The first time I tried them I got ten rolls and found a 1956 dime! I was really happy as well
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4870 Posts |
I used to be a cashier and when I busted open rolls I always found goodies in there and I would set them aside and buy them. It really is amazing what you can find!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2589 Posts |
i search dimes on a regular basis, id say in the long run you adverage around 1 per 2 boxes, although only 1 out of every 3 or 4 boxes will have them in them. I think its still possible to complete business strike dimes from circulation (without the 1996w of course). Quarters on the otherhand are absolutely abismal. In two years working as a bank teller I've only ever found 2 in rolls, although I've plucked 20 or so from coin machines in the same time period.
Happy Hunting,
-XoG
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2521 Posts |
About 15 years ago I worked as a Mgr. in a grocery store and we used alot of change. I made it a point to put it in trays and in the safe when Brinks left. It was very common to find 3 or 4 silver dimes, and 1 or sometimes 2 silver quarters in a box. (I loved the fact that Brinks switched to Shrink wrapped rolls) About 7 years ago at a different job that involved me handling the change  A box of dimes would yield 1 or 2 in a good box, maybe 1 silver quarter in every 2 or 3 boxes. The last 2 boxes of dimes I got had no silver. I don't bother searching boxes of dimes or quarters for silver. I buy rolls searching for album needs and any silver is an unexpected surprise! I search half dollars for the silver. One 40% silver half has more silver than TWO 90% silver dimes and are alot easier to pull from circulation! Edited by ratman4762
09/06/2009 11:44 pm
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Valued Member
United States
296 Posts |
I too search dime boxes on a regular basis. In the last year I have pulled 179 of them CRH, along with 9 Canadian silvers. I am also averaging 1-2 per box. My record is 5. Gotta love this sight when you crack open a box.  |
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United States
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Valued Member
United States
57 Posts |
Recently, I bought 8 rolls of dimes from a nearby bank to search. I figured I might be lucky to find one silver Roosie at best but I was pleasantly surprised when my expectations were exceeded with this find.   |
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Moderator
 United States
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Nice find! That looks similar the 1911 Barber dime I found in a roll about 17 years ago. It is still in my 7070 album; I can't seem to part with it!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2541 Posts |
Holy smokes! A Barber dime! That's an awesome find!! Congrats Coin Sleuth!! |
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Valued Member
United States
161 Posts |
The only silver dime I've ever found was in a roll of cents. Go figure.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6326 Posts |
It's easy to keep excited "when you're finding em'".....but when ya have an INCREDIBLE drought of BIBLICAL proportions and you score ZERO Silver finds out of THOUSANDS of dollars worth of looking.......well......then you find yourself where "I" am with Silver huntin'......just "reading" about "other" peoples finds ! |
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New Member
United States
8 Posts |
I had the in-laws bring back some rolls in their RV from the East Coast so I could search for P mint coins and I got one silver dime in 5 rolls and 1 silver quarter in 10 rolls. I was very pleased.
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Posted 09/06/2009 10:57 am
