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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Each week, I search 4 cents, 4 nickels,1 dime and quarter. In general, I find a Wheat penny, some 09 cents(3-4), and never anything in dimes. |
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Ratman, out here in Cali, dimes give it up. I agree-silver halves ARE easy to find, but first you got to FIND the halves. Now THERE is a problem. Out here in Cali, halves don't circulate much. Actually, I was using halves to buy some jigs and other tackle in a K-mart, and the clerk had NO idea what halves were! She asked me if they were legal tender and had to call her manager over to make sure they were real. Also, you don't get skunked much with dimes, and plus the bank I'm going to know won't even order halves. So I'm satisfied with searching dimes and nickels. You can't go wrong with dimes. My bud Fistfulladirt made me a big believer in them. Good luck! - coincrazed Edited by The return of Coincrazed
12/05/2009 12:01 am
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Valued Member
United States
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Tumbleweed, what do you mean?
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Valued Member
United States
171 Posts |
Yeah, Wornslick. You have GOT to do some dimes. Buy a box or 2 along with your usual penny habit.(a box is $250) You'll be surprised at what you find. Be sure to edge search. Good luck! - coincrazed
Edited by The return of Coincrazed
12/05/2009 12:02 am
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Valued Member
United States
171 Posts |
3 buffalos in one roll is quite a haul Unknown. Keep it up! - coincrazed
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Valued Member
United States
297 Posts |
thanks I doubt it will happen again I usually only search halves for silver but its hard to get my parents to take me to the bank
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2269 Posts |
I used to search rolls of nickels and dimes. I always hoped to find a Buffalo nickel or a Mercury dime. Unfortunately I never did. Ironically after I stopped roll searching I found a Mercury dime on the ground and another one I received in change. |
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United States
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Ratman, out here in Cali, dimes give it up. I agree-silver halves ARE easy to find, but first you got to FIND the halves. Now THERE is a problem. I don't see the problem. It probably means you don't have a "dumper". If that's the case, you may not have another Searcher nearby. Just keep checking, some will show up. As for dimes, I've done my fair share of "edge" searching rolls. I used to work at a fairly large store that would get in 3-4 Brinks boxes of dimes a week. Back then I regularly pulled 2-3 Silvers out of a box. Found me quite a few Mercs too. Mostly completed 2 sets of Rosies that way and put together over a dozen rolls. That was over 15 years ago. I've seen the # of silver dime finds greatly dwindle since then. I edged search 2 boxes not long ago and nothing. I've found more silver in half dollars during the last 10 months than I have found in silver dimes since I started collecting 37 years ago!Edited by ratman4762
12/05/2009 4:15 pm
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United States
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With nickels, I average about 1 buff a box (50rolls). I really can't give a number for the mercs, I have found quite a few, but never paid attention to how many rolls it took between finds.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I just finished searching 50 rolls of nickels and found no buffalos or silver (actually, never have found any buffalos). I did find about 15 pre 60's. I lack about a dozen jeffersons to finish a dansco.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2521 Posts |
Jprine, what part of the country are you in? I'm in western NC and the Brinks plastic wrapped rolls have been really good here lately. I try to get boxes but I'll take what I can get. This past week alone I've probably found 15 War Nickels (6 yesterday out of 200 rolls), 8 Buffalo (3 yesterday including a vg 1913 type2) and a 1911 Liberty. I've only found 1 Buffalo in customer wrapped rolls and none in String rolls. I've been searching Brinks heavily while the gettings are good! |
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United States
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I find a ton more Buffs then Mercs, if you call about .4 Buffs per box a ton. Mercs usually about 1 merc per 15 silver dimes in the midwest, and about 1 silver dime per $250.00
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Pillar of the Community
United States
625 Posts |
Usually find a buffalo in every 2 boxes I do. War Nickels usually are 1 per box, been slow on those lately. I dont do dimes much, too small to look at dates. Hate rim searching because I know I miss a lot. I have found 2 rosies in 1 box ($250) and 1 bag (1k) since I started. Really glad my father gave me his dime collection, I dont have to find too many mercs to complete it... |
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 United States
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I am able to offer some current nickel searching data to this discussion .......
Over the previous 18 months I have searched 130,000 circulated nickels from rolls (that's 3250 rolls so far) and have kept detailed records of my finds .......
I have found two (2) Liberty V ..... so on average I find 1 every 1625 rolls.
I have found eighteen (18) Buffalo .... so on average I find 1 every 180.6 rolls.
I have found thirty nine (39) War Silver ..... so on average I find one every 83.3 rolls.
David
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