Roll Hunting For Silver, What's Up?

That makes sense. The one I found is a 1948. Also found a Foreign coin. (Philippines) and a few National Parks that I hadn't found before.

I'm guessing it took a while to sort through $5000 in nickels?

Quarters produce the least silver out of all denominations (except cents and small sized dollars of course). Halves are your best bet (ive hit a box that was more than 50% silver), then dimes, then nickels (i adverage about one a box on nickels). Out of the 1500 or so large sized dollars I've gotten from banks 6 have been silver (2 40% ikes, 1 Peace dollar, 2 morgans and a silver eagle).

Been roll-hunting consistently for 3 years. In terms of silver consistency, first would be dimes, next halves, last quarters. Quarters on average produce one per $1k-$1.5k searched. My dime ratio is 1/$140 with boxes, better with hand-rolled. Like others have said, VOLUME is the key.

Hard to find banks anymore without cherry-picking tellers. The worst are the ones that pick out the silver right in front of you. In my area, I can't find any banks that won't order halves....too weird!

I've gone through so much change and found nada! Silver in rolls/change is getting scarce!

I'm new at sorting and was wondering, once you sort through your change, do you roll it back up and dump it at a different location or does the bank accept loose change?

My post from yesterday under "finds from circulation"

Excellent day for me today, went through $260 in halves brought into the bank where I work by two different clients, found 9 1964's and 12 40% silvers. Now if I could only figure out which one brought in the silver?

I find the best odds are searching through rolls of halves. I rarely find any quarters or dimes any more but I consistently find silver halves. As the economy is souring more and more people are rolling up the change in their change jar at home and bringing it in. The longer the hard times, the deeper into the jar they go. A member of the coin club I belong to who is always searching boxes of halves found a 1918s last month, what a great find.

Today I went through $110 in halves and found 1 1964 and 1 1969. That brings the week total to 10 90% and 11 40% silver halves. Not bad for less than 1 hour of actual time spent checking coins.