What Are The Odds Of Encountering Silver In Circulation?

IMO if you approach searching for wild silver as a lark you will have fun and be more successful that if you go looking heavily into rolls. In the past two weeks, as I was out and about I always ask the tellers if they have any half dollars. One teller was aggravated with my question but she did say that she had some rolls and how many did I want. I told her I'd take all she had. She had 3 rolls. Out of one those rolls I got 4 1964 Kennedy halves (90%) and 10 40% of various years (that was a very good roll). Many times the teller says that she has only one and I would take it and find out it was a '64.

I haven't found any Franklin's or Walker's yet, but who knows.

When I would order 2 boxes of halves at a time I'd find nothing, so I don't do that any more. I just rely upon randomness for my finds and have been having a lot of fun that way. So far I have accumulated 4 rolls in the past year and I keep on asking.

There is one bank teller that I see quite regularly that says that she is the queen of funny money. Her term for half dollars, Ikes, Susan B's, Sacs and $2 bills. I have a lot of luck with finding stuff with her. In fact one time I got a hundred $2 bills in sequence from her, I also got $50 in Ikes, and a whole lot of silver.

So yes there is still a lot of silver out there. I haven't found any dimes or quarters yet but I belive that there is and waiting to be found.

Off topic, last night I found 2 Indian head coins from 1874 but they are in a heavily circulated condition but the dates are readable.

You just have to be persistent and you will find good things out there.

Your not going to believe this but my brother-in-law got 14 Morgan dollars at his store yesterday.
I haven't seen them yet but he is going to sell them to me. And no it wasn't some kid who stole his dad's collection. It was an elderly gentleman making a purchase. My father-in-law who works at the store called me after he looked at the coins and realized they were not Eisenhower dollars. My Brothers-in-law said he would have just banked them with the rest of the cash and receipts had it not been for his Dad. I told him to keep them but he said he's not in to that kind of stuff so I guess I'll be stuck with them.:)

1951 Rosie last year from a guy who needed change for the soda machine...it wouldn't take the silver dime. 1996,my last Walker in change. 2003 my last Morgan in change. More common Washington quarters and Roosevelt dimes, maybe one a year. Though since the price of silver skyrocketed it has been less and less likely. it wasn't that long ago that most Antique stores had jars of Mercs for a buck apiece....with no takers. Lol, all long gone now.

Outside of roll hunting, I have found $.35 of silver coins in the last 5 years.

As far as actual received-in-change silver (not roll-hunting), during the "Great Coin Jar Dump" of late 2008-early 2009, I was getting at least one 90% silver coin a month in my change.

My wife is manager of a convenience store. With just picking out silver from the change they get from customers and from the bank, no roll searching. In the past 4 years she has brought home 73 silver dimes, 17 silver quarters, 8 90% halves, and 21 40% halves. It has been thinning out lately. A couple years ago, she was averaging 1-2 dimes per week. The silver is definitely still out there. I have gotten a couple myself just in change at stores.

Depends on what part of the country you are in. My aunt in California finds stuff every once in a while. My wife found a quarter. She ended up keeping it because she thought it was counterfeit and was worried about passing it on. I never find much of anything even though I look.