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| An Ethical Issue When Hunting For Silver Coins
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TomM
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United States
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 Posted 05/01/2025 8:29 pm
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On one end of the spectrum, like DOCC mentioned, one could consider cherrypicking to be unethical. I recently cherrypicked an 1871 Shallow N Indian Cent from a well-established national dealer. I certainly didn't feel bad about it - just the opposite!
On the other end of the spectrum, if someone meant to pay me $100 and gave me two $100 bills stuck together by mistake, it would certainly be unethical not to return the extra $100 if feasible.
Circumstances and details would determine the right course of action. When I found four rolls of silver dimes - including many better date Mercurys - I asked the teller if she knew who brought them in. She said she did not know the name but would recognize the face, so I firmly suggested that if the same depositor brought in more "old coins" that the teller suggest she takes them to the LCS, the location of which I described. That was enough for me.
Had the depositor been in front of me in line, I would have said something only if the circumstances met my cost-benefit analysis. A young male depositor with neck tattoos acting aggressively would not qualify for my advice. A pleasant elderly widow would exceed my requirements. Maybe discriminating in that manner makes me unethical, but so be it. |
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| Quarter Roll Searching
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TomM
Valued Member
United States
99 Posts |
Posted 04/10/2025 12:20 pm
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Hi everyone. My last twelve boxes were a little below average, but still productive:
Box 1 (mix CWR/Brinks): nothing
Box 2 (Brinks): nothing
Box 3 (Brinks): 1 2019-W War in the Pacific, 1 2020-W Weir Farm, 1 2020-W Salt River Bay
Box 4 (Brinks): 1 2019-W River of No Return, 1 2019-W Lowell
Box 5 (Brinks): nothing
Box 6 (Brinks): nothing
Box 7 (CWR): nothing
Box 8 (Laundromat): nothing
Box 9 (Titan): nothing
Box 10 (Brinks): 1 1964-P silver
Box 11 (Brinks): 1 2019-W San Antonio Missions, 2 2019-W River of No Return
Box 12 (Brinks): nothing
One silver in 12 boxes isn't great, but eight W mintmarks is about average. |
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| Quarter Roll Searching
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TomM
Valued Member
United States
99 Posts |
Posted 03/16/2025 10:22 am
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Hello, everyone. My surgery went well and I recovered enough to search some quarter boxes when I was stuck at home. My last twelve boxes contained:
Box 1 (Brinks): 1 2020-W Salt River Bay
Box 2 (Brinks): nothing
Box 3 (Brinks): 1 2019-W War in the Pacific, 1 1957-P silver
Box 4 (CWR): 1 2019-W San Antonio Missions, 1 2019-W Lowell, 2 2020-W Tallgrass Prairie
Box 5 (Titan): nothing
Box 6 (CWR): 1 2020-W American Samoa
Box 7 (Titan): nothing
Box 8 (Brinks): 1 2020-W American Samoa
Box 9 (Titan): 1 2019-W River of No Return, 1 2020-W Weir Farm
Box 10 (CWR): 1 1964-P silver
Box 11 (Titan): 1 1964-P silver
Box 12 (CWR): 1 2020-W Weir Farm
This was a pretty good batch, 11 Ws and 3 silver (pictured below). I hadn't found a Tallgrass Prairie W quarter in about 5 months.
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| 1906 Barber Quarter Found CRH
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TomM
Valued Member
United States
99 Posts |
Posted 02/25/2025 6:33 pm
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Wow, that's the find of a lifetime! Congratulations, arby96.
Obviously this coin just came out of someone's collection. How it did is anyone's guess. But it looks fantastic and is very well struck. |
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| Quarter Roll Searching
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TomM
Valued Member
United States
99 Posts |
Posted 02/09/2025 8:09 pm
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Nice find, pound_foolish. I still haven't found a 1943 quarter, it's probably the highest mintage date I'm still missing.
Thanks, Errers and Varieties. One day at a time! |
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| Quarter Roll Searching
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TomM
Valued Member
United States
99 Posts |
Posted 02/08/2025 07:58 am
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Nice finds, everyone. My last 14 quarter boxes have yielded slightly below average results, but much better than nothing:
Box 1 (Titan): nothing
Box 2 (Brinks): nothing
Box 3 (CWR): nothing
Box 4 (Laundromat): nothing
Box 5 (Brinks): 1 2019-W Lowell, 1 2020-W Weir Farm
Box 6 (Brinks): nothing
Box 7 (Titan): nothing
Box 8 (Brinks): nothing
Box 9 (CWR): 1 1964-D silver
Box 10 (Titan): nothing
Box 11 (Brinks): nothing
Box 12 (Laundromat): nothing
Box 13 (Brinks): 1 2020-W Marsh-Billings
Box 14 (Titan): 1 2019-W River of No Return
My roll searching will be on a hiatus for a bit. I'm having surgery on Monday, and the recovery will take about a month. I've accumulated plenty of rolls to keep me occupied once I feel up to it, but no lifting >10 lbs will keep my bank runs limited. |
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| Dime Roll Searching
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TomM
Valued Member
United States
99 Posts |
Posted 01/24/2025 09:37 am
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My last four CWR dime boxes, gathered from different banks from different parts of town, contained zero silver dimes. Definitely disappointing, until my most recent box: three rolls contained a total of 33 silver Roosevelts!
In a different batch of CWR, I also found an excellent VG/F 1936 Canadian dime.
That's how it goes in coin roll searching: some days are productive, some aren't.
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| Quarter Roll Searching
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TomM
Valued Member
United States
99 Posts |
Posted 01/05/2025 1:25 pm
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Nice finds, everyone. My last twelve boxes contained:
Box 1 (Brinks): 1 2019-W River of No Return, 1 2019-W American Memorial Park
Box 2 (Bag): 1 2019-W War in the Pacific
Box 3 (Bag): 1 2019-W San Antonio Missions, 1 2020-W Salt River Bay, 1 1963-D silver
Box 4 (Brinks/CWR mix): 1 2019-W War in the Pacific
Box 5 (Titan): 1 1957-D silver
Box 6 (Brinks): 1 2020-W Marsh Billings, 1 2020-W Weir Farm, 1 2019-W River of No Return
Box 7 (Brinks): nothing
Box 8 (Brinks): nothing
Box 9 (Brinks): nothing
Box 10 (Titan): nothing
Box 11 (Brinks): nothing
Box 12 (CWR): 1 2019-W War in the Pacific
A little above average, but hopefully I'll come across more silver in the next dozen. |
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| Have You Found A 2024 Nickel CRH?
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TomM
Valued Member
United States
99 Posts |
Posted 01/05/2025 10:37 am
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Nice, johnsoalris. I've only found two so far, both P. I'm in Kentucky, so I usually get about 75% Philadelphia coins.
Yeah, John77, I was pretty disappointed, but I'm sure I'll find more. I did see a post on another site from a man in Puerto Rico who had found dozens of 2024 nickels in change, and also some solid rolls from a bank. Seems like a repeat of 2009. |
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| Have You Found A 2024 Nickel CRH?
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TomM
Valued Member
United States
99 Posts |
Posted 01/04/2025 1:20 pm
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I received a BU 2024-P nickel and quarter at the grocery store today in change. I asked the cashier if I could buy a roll of nickels, and he sold me one with shiny, BU nickels at each end. What luck!
I got home and opened it, and all were indeed new, brilliant, uncirculated *2023-P* nickels. But hey, at least I got one 2024! |
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| Dime Roll Searching
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TomM
Valued Member
United States
99 Posts |
Posted 12/21/2024 06:03 am
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Nice finds, everyone.
I recently searched my 800th box of dimes. Box number 799 was spectacular, containing two rolls of solid silver dimes, my first big find since this summer. It was welcome after a period of many boxes in which I found relatively little silver - and, like pound_foolish, many short rolls.
One roll was all silver Roosevelts, the other all Mercury dimes - mostly from the 1940s, with two 1939s, one 1936, and one well-worn 1918. All the Mercury dimes were Philadelphia coins.
While the next box - number 800 - was not as spectacular, it was well above average, containing three Mercuries (1925, 1944, 1945, all P) and two silver Roosevelts, including a BU 1964.
My average is holding steady at about 1.2 silvers per box without the big finds, and 1.8-1.9 silver per box when the occasional hoard of silver coins is included in the total.
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| Quarter Roll Searching
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TomM
Valued Member
United States
99 Posts |
Posted 12/06/2024 2:16 pm
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Excellent find, arby96!
My last twelve boxes have been decent for Ws, but only one silver quarter. Hopefully that picks up soon.
Box 1 (Brinks): nothing
Box 2 (Brinks): 1 2020-W Salt River Bay
Box 3 (Brinks): nothing
Box 4 (Brinks): 2 2020-W Salt River Bay
Box 5 (CWR): 2 2019-W River of No Return
Box 6 (Brinks): 1 2020-W Salt River Bay
Box 7 (Titan): nothing
Box 8 (CWR): 1 2020-W Salt River Bay, 1 1964-D silver
Box 9 (Brinks): nothing
Box 10 (Titan): nothing
Box 11 (Brinks): 1 2019-W San Antonio Missions
Bo 12 (Titan): nothing |
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| Any Stat Keepers Here
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TomM
Valued Member
United States
99 Posts |
Posted 12/03/2024 2:35 pm
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I keep stats on all my searches in a Microsoft Excel file. I update my results to the quarter and dime collecting threads every 100 boxes or so. However, I only track silver finds (by date/mint) and W quarters: not proofs, non-silver foreigns, 2009s, or NIFCs.
I also keep track of the sources of each roll (customer wrapped, machine wrapped by distributor, or bagged coin) so as to compare the finds by source. |
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| Quarter Roll Searching
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TomM
Valued Member
United States
99 Posts |
Posted 11/13/2024 3:26 pm
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Nice finds, John77. Silver Canadians are always fun, and are more common here in Cincinnati than one might think.
My last twelve boxes have been way below average. I had a good mix of sources, too, from different banks. But we all know how it goes: you win some, you lose some.
And I at least did snag an American Memorial Park W quarter, which is one of my tougher ones to find.
Box 1 (Brinks): nothing
Box 2 (Brinks): nothing
Box 3 (Brinks): nothing
Box 4 (Brinks): nothing
Box 5 (Titan): nothing
Box 6 (CWR): nothing
Box 7(CWR): nothing
Box 8 (Brinks): 1 2019-W American Memorial Park
Box 9 (Titan): nothing
Box 10 (Laundromat): nothing
Box 11 (CWR): nothing
Box 12 (Laundromat): nothing
Hopefully the next dozen will be more productive. I just picked up a new box today. |
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| Do Coin-Counting Machines At Banks Reject Silver Coins?
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TomM
Valued Member
United States
99 Posts |
Posted 11/07/2024 12:34 pm
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I agree, jbuck. The reason I do not search half dollars at a large scale is that there is no place to effectively dispose of them in my region. Thus I'm restricted to the occasional roll or what I can spot in a teller's tray.
That's OK with me, though, since there is plenty of silver to be found in dimes, quarters, and nickels. |
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| Dime Roll Searching
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TomM
Valued Member
United States
99 Posts |
Posted 11/02/2024 1:45 pm
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| Nice, John77. Across 781 boxes of dimes, I've only found two 1955-S and two 1955-P dimes. The only dime I still need to complete my collection is the 1955-D. |
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