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Pillar of the Community
United States
1130 Posts |
1. Cents 2. Nickels 3. Dimes 4. Quarters
Haven't searched anything else so only 4.
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Valued Member
United States
216 Posts |
Currently:
1) Nickels 2) Cents 3) Dimes 4) Dollars 5) Halves
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Valued Member
United States
142 Posts |
1. Quarters 2. Quarters 3. Quarters 4. Quarters 5. Pennies
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Pillar of the Community
United States
592 Posts |
1. Halves - my favorite denomination, and while pickings are slim when they're there they're good. 2. Cents - Always going to find something in a box, so disappointment is not a problem. 3. Nickels - Seems to be a bunch of interesting stuff in them from what I've found, and I enjoy them. 4. Dimes - Not too much excitement, but delicious delicious silver. 5. Small dollars - small chance of a wounded eagle, Cheerios reverse, or SBA variants (This space represents just how far down my #6 is) 6. Quarters - way at the bottom. Nothing to be found in my experience. I check every roll I get for laundry money, but I don't go out of my way to search them.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
519 Posts |
1. Nickels 2. Pennies 3. Quarters 4. Dimes
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Pillar of the Community
United States
556 Posts |
1. Nickels - So far my best in varieties and generally old finds. Have gotten quite a few classic designs such as buffaloes and even a V nickel. Plus, nickels have yielded quite a bit of silver. 2. Pennies - Cheap to search in volume and like nickels offer quite a few old finds. Almost always get a few wheats and Canadians per box 3. Dimes - Usually don't get anything worthwhile, but I've gotten a few silvers, which aren't that hard to come by. 4. Halves - Very scarce where I live but I've gotten quite a few great finds with these. 5. Large Dollars - Ikes are pretty cool, but I'm not a huge fan of them and getting any silver from them is near impossible. 6. Quarters - Over 3 years of searching laundry quarters and all I've gotten was a 2006 Nebraska Clad Proof. 7. Small Dollars - Yes, I could find a wounded eagle, SBA '79 wide rim or a Cheerios dollar someday, but the chances of that happening are looking pretty slim. So far, my only special find has been a 2012 NIFC.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2805 Posts |
0. Silver dollars - Don't I wish!!
1. Nickels - Easily available, not expensive to keep, lots of American and .999 nickel to pull... plus, a good chance of George... 2. Quarters - I've had the best luck with silver here. Also, we have a nice variety of key dates and older commemoratives - there's always the slightly challenging 1970, the 1973 RCMP commemoratives that I keep by the roll-ful, the valuable 1991, and of course, the satisfaction of swapping out a Provincial or Millennium commemorative for a slightly shinier one :D 3. Pennies - Almost 50% copper guaranteed, and easy to sort (1 - Machin bust? Copper. 2 - Not Machin bust, but 12-sided? Copper.). Unfortunately, they're almost impossible to find now, and I'm too attached to the non-coppers to ever cash them in. At least it's always pretty easy to find George (although V still eludes me...). 4. Loonies - A few nice commemoratives, and even XF loonies from the 80s and 90s are starting to become grade rarities thanks to the loonie's extreme levels of circulation. Also, there's the rare 2012 old-style variety to look out for, which I lucked out on once. The only problem is that keeping loonies adds up pretty fast! 5. Dimes - I know you can find silver, but I have yet to do this. I think Canadians are a bit more on-the-ball when it comes to silver hunting - or else the sheer volume of American posts here make American CRH sound better than it really is. Plus their dates are really tiny!! 6. Toonies - Pretty boring. A few errors and varieties exist, but none of them are valuable (except the German planchet, but it's almost impossible to attribute). Once I find a nice Shannon without any stains or blotches, I'll swear off toonies forever. 7. Halves* - Ugh! Halves are incredibly boring!! Our only commemorative was 2002, and it's incredibly common. And since the nickel half is smaller than the silver half, finding silver is literally impossible (except for proofs). Plus, a low availability means that even searching halves is near-impossible to do. However, what they lack in excitement they make up for with their classy design. If I ever do come across a roll of halves, I'll spend each and every one, in the hopes that one day they'll circulate again.
* Some lucky folks find halves (or even better - voyageur dollars!) in unrolled bins that have been carefully avoided since the 50s. In this case, you'll hopefully come across a couple silvers.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
979 Posts |
ikes when possible, but that's not searching, I toss only the uglies back
1. Halves 2. Pennies with Rydale 3. Dimes 4. Quartes 5. Nickels 6. Gold dollars (did a few rolls before, got a few mint set dollars)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2759 Posts |
1. halves 2. dimes 3. pennies 4. nickels.
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Valued Member
United States
75 Posts |
Wow I am really shocked at some of the answers here. So far, here is mine: 1.) Pennies - as others have stated, I have gotten a decent ratio of wheats and coppers. Also there are a lot of potential money makers to look for like the double die obverse ones, Wide AM in America, etc on certain dates. 2.) Quarters - not very productive so far but quick and easy and I'm hoping I'll start hitting on some silver. 3.) Dimes - not productive either but a quick search as I really don't know of too many valuable dimes out there other than silver; there are a few dates I scan for to check for error coins. 4.) Nickels - holy crap how do you guys like searching nickels?!?! Am I doing it wrong? I have never found a 1942-1945 nickel. What else are you pulling out of nickels that is valuable? (Please note I mean valuable in terms of being able to sell it for $$ if you wanted to, not just valuable like yay I completed a set of coins.)
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2805 Posts |
In Canada, you find nickels that are actually made out of pure nickel, worth about 7 cents each.
There are also 12-sided (1942-1962) nickels, brass nickels (1942-1943), steel nickels (1944-1945, Korean War years), and two commemoratives (200th anniversary of nickel, 1967 Centennial) to look out for. And I love Canadian roll hunting because coins with old monarch portraits actually look old. A 1940 nickel has George VI on it, and actually looks different than a 2000 nickel! If I was American, I'd hate nickels too...
Plus, there are four rare dates to find - 1970 (5,726,010), 1991 (10,931,000), 2000-P (~5,000,000), and 1999-P (20,000, ha ha good luck).
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New Member
United States
12 Posts |
1. Halves 2. Dimes 3. Nickels 4. Pennies 5. Quarters
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Pillar of the Community
United States
836 Posts |
1. Nickels (working on a full set from circulation, plus the occasional buffalo and foreign are nice) 2. Cents (lots of wheaties, and copper) 3. Halves (Love the clank of silver) 4. Quarters (ATBs are sweet) 5. Dollars (Small size 99% of the time, but the large ones are real awesome to fine)
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