Dime Roll Searching

And in today's $100 search of all CWR except for one, a rough 63 P, nice 63 D and a 49 D. Think I'll head back next week and buy whatever CWR they have left.

Since we started searching for silver dimes this year, that's 23 so far! If we keep it up we should be on track for 75 or more in 2024.

Nice finds, especially the 49-S. I've only found two in almost 700 boxes.

$560 searched and only two silvers to show for it - 60 D and 51 P. CWR been rough lately!

Absolutely! Still enjoyable and there's always something fun mixed in - foreigns most times.

I recently searched my 700th box of dimes, totaling 1.75 million coins searched.

This milestone was met with a bang! In my 700th box, I found these two rolls, containing 34 Mercury dimes and 5 silver Roosevelts. There was a single clad 1981 dime, the rest of the clad were from the late 60s and early 70s.

The Mercuries included some late 1920s in VG-F, and a few AU coins from the 1930s-40s. Of course, many earlier dates were AG-G.

The breakdown was: 1923, 1926, 1927, 1929x2, 1935x2, 1936, 1937x2, 1939, 1940-D, 1941x5, 1942, 1942-D, 1943x3, 1943-Dx2, 1943-Sx2, 1944, 1944Sx2, 1945x2, 1945-D, 1945-S, 1946x2, 1947, 1950-Dx1, 1964-D.

My total rate of silver dimes per box is currently 1.86. Without hoards (25 silvers or more in a single box), it would be 1.17. I've found a total of 1,053 silver Roosevelts, 224 Mercuries, and 25 silver Canadian dimes. Still just two Barber dimes, from last year.

A few months back I found my oldest Canadian dime, a well-worn 1909 (Edward VII). The raised dates wore away fast on early 20th century Canadian coins, so I was happy to see the numbers.

At this point I am not searching Brinks wrapped coins at all as my records show them to be almost totally unproductive. CWR are 80% of my coins, Titan (a local coin distributor) wrapped are the rest.

Holy bananas!

Thanks, everyone!

One other strange find I came across was two solid rolls of pre-1980 Canadian dimes. I'm not near the border, so this was unusual, and a little undesirable as I can't easily dump two solid rolls of foreign coins.

Fortunately there were three 80% silver dimes among them, and I have a plan to redeem the others.