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there's some, but not much. when I think of finding silver in quarter rolls, I think of impaired proofs or huge finds with rolls worth-or at least 10 or 20-at a time.
there are the occasional silvers I would think.
ive never searched quarters before but this is just my understanding from all of those roll searching threads.
EDIT: this is my answer for the 1st question.
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10/05/2010 07:47 am
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i used to go through them (out of about 3000 dollars I have only found one S coin and no silver). I occasionally ask banks if they have any "odd", old rolls in the vault. Old dime rolls are usually a sick/light green color instead of dark green. I have no idea of what old quarter rolls look like.
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United States
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If you want to do it, only go with customer wrapped rolls. I think searching NF String or Brinks boxes will be a huge waste of time. I'd bet you could go through $5k or even $10k of quarters and find 0 silver very easily - perhaps more.
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United States
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Why do you professional roll hunters think all the silver is gone in quarters but not the other denominations? Hunters constantly find silver in dimes,nickels and halves but no quarters. Are the quarters just not popular to search or did the silver get taken out long ago so there's nothing to find?
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United States
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Probably because of the content. People probably use to not bother with the lower denominations because of less silver.
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United States
368 Posts |
I have had some luck finding I think 5 or 6 American silver quarters in change at my work all on different nights
also a few canadian silver pieces from the 50's
I always wanted to get a box of quarters to look for silver and maybe proofs
I have found 3 clad proofs (clad not silver)
the problem for me is that I get out about 475-600+ dollars of change at a time and getting a box of quarters would restrict what else I could take out.
I think it would be worth a try...if you get a dream roll how great would that be!!
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Valued Member
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Why do you professional roll hunters think all the silver is gone in quarters but not the other denominations? Hunters constantly find silver in dimes,nickels and halves but no quarters. Are the quarters just not popular to search or did the silver get taken out long ago so there's nothing to find?
In my opinion, a lot of the silver quarters were removed when the State Quarters Program kicked off and a rush of new collectors joined the ranks. |
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United States
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To answer the question of potential worth of these oddities: There are so few known that even most modern collectors don't know what their values should be. That works in favor of new joinees into the collecting pool. I love to be one to jump on a collecting bandwagon, as my WAM experience broke me in quite handily into how coins can increase in value. I hope to have a few of these inside a year or so, then I will have satisfied my itch to feel like a "lucky" collector. |
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I only search cents,nickels,and dimes. I only did quarters to get my set of State Quarters.  |
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United States
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Not much of a quarter searcher, but I'm gonna try my hand at dimes.
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United States
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I don't search quarters ever. I went through a good 5-6 boxes and found them all containing like 50% State Quarters and the rest 65-98.... No silver, and I didn't come across any proofs either. |
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can anyone tell us what the situation was like back in 1964? or 1965 when we went off the silver standard? did people rush to banks and hoard? what happened? how long did it takae before little to no silver was being found in circulation? obviously the gov didnt issue a buy back program?
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So many collectors turned in, or are turning in, or will turn them in, in the future, that you can find BU examples of the State Qtrs., all over the place while searching rolls. It can definately help you complete some folders !
I've only found a couple Silvers while searching though.....and they are a rare find from circulation anymore.
So, it depends on what you're wanting ......your objective.
If you're just looking for Silver, it's a lot of work with very little reward.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I remember reading somewhere that silver quarters wouldn't get accepted in a coinstar machine. If this is the case, it's probably why they'd be difficult to find via roll searching. Unless you only search customer wrapped rolls.
I think another reason is the fact that quarters are very highly circulated and handled. Much more so than cents, nickels, and dimes.
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SD coinguy.....When I started collectng in 1968, silver quarters and dimes and even halves were still fairly common in circulation...maybe 10% or so. But in 1964-65 I remember my dad coming home with Morgans, Peace, Libertys from daily purchases and also remember seeing him and other use them in daily affairs. This was in Minneapolis. When we went to Cody Wyoming in 1965 for a family trip you would spend paper and only get Silver Dollars in change.
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