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I want to try halves and dimes. not only do I want to get silver, but I need a change. cents are getting boring for me so I need some change. and I can start circulated sets for halves and dimes since I have none so far.
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Dimes, dude. There isn't as much as a rush to search them and they don't get recognized as often because of their size.
Other than that, nickels. I have 19 from 12 boxes and various rolls of searching, although it seems as though they are getting scarcer.
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murrellington, I average about one dime for every $100 searched here in OHIO. It seems that it is a modern day gold rush (silver) everyone is getting into coins.
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Do post your results. Curious to see how you do on the left side.
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i bought a box today. i'll post what I get. it's my first box so I have no idea what to look for besides silver. any good dates, or other things to look for?
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i usually just look for silver. If a DD catches my Eye I will grab it.
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Dont know all the varieties, 67 DDO and 70D DDR off top of head |
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cool, thanks. and after 4 rolls I got a 1957 d
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74 D DDO is another Also you can set aside any coins from 87 or 2002 - present.. Those are all NIFC dates 4 rolls in and already scored a Frankie, pretty nice! Edited by Deltron
05/23/2011 9:15 pm
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If you think cents are boring be prepared to be REALLY bored with dimes. Until you find your first merc or barber. If you search long enough you will find mercs and barbers. Dimes are consistent producers, when I was actively searching them I was pulling around 1.5 dimes per box. Rarely do you skunk with dimes and if you're lazy they're easy to edge search. The biggest problem with them is, however, that you're much more likely to be short changed by coin counters when you feed them dimes. It's a problem and it's annoying. Nickels produce 1 war every 55 rolls or so for me - less than dimes but more than quarters. I like nickels better because they're more fun and you have a chance to complete the entire set. 35% War Nickels are a lot harder to sell for full melt value though - especially considering that it's technically illegal to melt them. Halves are the biggest "gamble" - you have a better chance of hitting the big score (a big load of silver) than you would in a dime or nickel box. If you're in a low pressure area, they can produce. I'm in a high pressure area. I average 1 40% every 50 rolls and 1 90% every 250 rolls. You really gotta do 10 boxes or so to get a feel for it. I'm more in it to complete the set, so it's still worth it for me. Much higher percentage of proofs in half boxes and some of the DDOs are pretty easy to find if you like those. I haven't searched enough quarters to comment too much on them, but the general feeling is that they were tapped out long ago. I'm not sure anyone is searching them enough for reliable statistics. Oh and I'm in Chicago. Edited by RollHunter
05/23/2011 9:42 pm
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First of all, you will find it hard to get silver nickels as the only ones that were produced using silver were minted from 1942 to 1945 and are only 35% silver.
As to the dimes, you can still find them but you would need a lot of them to sell for silver value. Half dollars are much the same, most people have kept them or already sold them.
Here is a simple tip to save time searching through rolls of coins looking for silver. As in the old days, every cash register had a marble shelf above the cash drawer, this was not simply for looks but a way for the merchants to check a coins silver content. If you tap a silver coin on a piece of marble it makes a distinctive sound.
I have a friend who constantly buys rolls and rolls and he simply slowly dumps a roll on a large piece of marble and if there is a silver coin, you will hear it once it bounces on the marble. Or as another poster mentioned you can view the edge to spot the silver coins.
Good luck in your hunting.
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i was looking through all of the dimes because I want to also possibly get a 1965 to present complete set, but this got boring. 1/3 through the box I just started looking at the edges of the coins. in all out of this first box I got 3 silver dimes.
1947
1957 d
1958
i was happy with my haul from this first box.
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Murrellington, NIFC is Not Intended for Circulation - they were minted for Mint Sets only.
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