Quarter Roll Searching

Thought they had shots for bugs?

1) 25 cent, 100 nickel, 250 dime, 500 quar-half, 1000 brass buck.
2) other banks
3) no, because having that many together in one place makes them easy for someone else to search first.

I haven't had good luck finding any of my bank branches to have half dollar rolls. Most I was able to get was 2.50 in halves. So I have put halves on hold for now, I am thinking about getting into nickels. Seems there are many early dates still being found.

Fred,
I agree you with almost completely on halves, except for the point you make about the coins being searched at a centralized place. Brink's doesn't not pay their people to search for silver coin. When coin is rolled at a branch of a bank, it usually is done by tellers who are in need on work to do, thus they have the time to casually look for silver. Also tellers are usually hand rolling thus seeing and most importantly hearing the coin, whereas Brink's system is all automated counting and rolling. Also I'm not even sure that Brinks employees are allowed to "trade" for any silver coin. I think they keep it pretty locked down.

I mean no disrespect to you. Your end point I agree with . I get bags from the coin machines, and I highly recommend it.

Bernied, A little info on quarter roll searching...
Quarters, more so than any other silver coin, was hoarded after silver was removed from it metal makeup in 1965. As quarters are probably the most circulated coins we have, they were the most common one to be pulled from circulation by people. Also a silver quarter has, in my opinion, the most distinctive sound when compared to it's clad brothers, more so than any other coin, thus making the silver ones much easier to spot. But you can see on this forum, that quarter are probably the least searched coin anymore, just look at the number of responses.

One nice thing about quarters is every once in a while you will hit a mother load. I have had it happen twice where I found over $20 of face value silver quarters in a $500 bag.

I have personally be finding about 1 silver for every 2-3 bags recently. That has actually increased in the past year or so. It used to be a pretty big gap between silver quarters.

There's a big difference between "doesn't pay" and "doesn't forbid". If a machine operator can catch the silver in a box in a minute or two, it's like bending over and picking up $10 bills--they'd be foolish not to do it unless forbidden.

Hmm.. that's interesting, because our Brinks guy said their people are not allowed to pull any coin they find other than mutilated or foreign. Guess it must depend on location. He claims the only time boxes of halves go out is for searching and they come back in equal amounts in a week or two, and that's why all the silver is gone. I guess either way it doesn't matter, I never have luck with boxes of halves either. Coin machine bags are the way to go!

Anyway googoo is right, this is not a Brinks discussion page or halves discussion page, this is the quarter forum. So as you can see Bernied, there is no best overall method for getting silver. You have try out different things and see what works best for you. Every area is different. Good Luck!

$500 bag from Friday, zippo!

Is it just the Brinks people who can pick out the silver, or is it any other place that wraps coins?

I still recommend to try different strategies and see what works best for you. Some people have very good luck with Brinks boxes. Just read through a few pages of the halves roll searching topic. People like Chuckster do very well with Brinks (etc) boxes. While others are consistently skunked.

Trial and error. If something doesn't work move on to something else.