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Valued Member
United States
58 Posts |
In my experience, I have only searched through rolls of pennies, nickels, and halves. Would it be worth one's time to search through dimes? To expand on that question, what is the average amount of pre-64 coins found in a box (50 rolls) of dimes?
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Valued Member
United States
286 Posts |
I search rolls of dimes every day, this is what I have found to be my experience. I search only CWR's and am averaging 1.5 silver dimes per $250 searched. I have only had one instance where I searched CWR's of dimes and did not find a silver dime. Then on the other side of it I have an experience on Friday where I searched $300 in CWR's and found 4 silver dimes.
I hope this helps
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4132 Posts |
That's similar to my averages. About 1/7th of my silver dime finds are Mercury dimes, which is nice. I get more silver from dimes and nickels than I do from halves lately. |
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Valued Member
United States
208 Posts |
I have had similar experiences as well. However, I do not find Mercury dimes very often. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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To answer your question Fred, yes, it is a waste of MY time searching dimes, or any other coin for that matter. My time would be better spent chasing my other hobbies, or errands around the house, etc. Only you can decide if it's worth your time. Personally, I am hooked on the hobby and will probably never give it up. There is no profit involved, if that matters. My find rate is one silver rosie per $120 searched. Last year I searched $20k in dimes.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Valued Member
United States
255 Posts |
It's up to you to decide if it is worth your time. Here are my averages out of 553,650 searched if it helps:
Silver Roosie: 272--1/2035 coins--1/0.81 boxes
Silver Mercury: 23--1/24,071 coins--1/9.63 boxes
80% silver Canadian: 21--1/26,364 coins--1/10.55 boxes
50% silver Canadian: 4--1/138,413 coins--1/55.37 boxes
Total silver dimes: 320--1/1730 coins--1/0.69 boxes
That's almost 23 ounces!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I find more silver dimes at my local convenience store on a weekly basis than searching boxes. Dude handed over 23 last Thursday that he saved for me last week, and I got them at face. He had none this morning, but it is only Monday. Week before last I scored 6 silver quarters and a 40% half.
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Valued Member
United States
163 Posts |
Think it really depends on you, you like the search or you like the finds
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1770 Posts |
yes its definately worth it, I've done around 15 dime boxes or so and I've found at least 1 dime in every box ok except once haha but then the next box had 2! so yep 1 per box
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Valued Member
 United States
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Thank you all for your comments. I really enjoy the search, but I wasn't sure if I wanted to up my withdrawal from $125 a week (a box pennies and nickels), to $250 a week (box of dimes). Thanks again.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If I pick up 2 boxes, and find 2 keepers, those 2 dimes have cost me:
Pickup/round trip=$7 (w gas @3.50 gal)
Dump/round trip=$7
LOL so those two silver dimes have cost me only $14 and my time, before any sale profit.
Just sayin...
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Valued Member
United States
286 Posts |
I have 6 banks all within a 3 minute drive from my office, I go out for lunch everyday so I stop off at the banks while on my lunch hour so by combining running by the bank and getting my lunch costs almost nothing extra. Besides not very many hobbies don't cost very much to enjoy like this one does, but personally if I have to worry too much about the cost then it isn't a hobby I should be involved in.
Just my $.02
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4132 Posts |
It takes two gallons of gas to get to and from your bank?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4333 Posts |
Two gallons of gas to do banking, round trip. Gotta have that good 'ol V8 F150, anything less just doesn't cut it, besides, it's paid for  I live outside the city. No natural gas, no catv, no land line phone, no next-door neighbors, truly wonderful! When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
Edited by fistfulladirt
02/09/2012 02:52 am
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Rest in Peace
United States
9104 Posts |
Is it worth ten bucks to go to a movie? Not to me.
General consensus is about a silver dime per box, not worth the cost of getting and getting rid of.
Is it worth doing for fun and a few bucks out of pocket? That's your call. I know a guy who did 35,000 miles of joyriding a year, because he enjoyed it.
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Valued Member
United States
466 Posts |
I find 3 silver dimes per box
odds are you aren't gonna get rich searching boxes of coins
if you want to put together a circulated set of roosies its doable
I found all but 6 from circulation in 2 years
I suggest dimes a million times over
but everyone in every area has different find rates
do what you love, thats what hobbies are all about
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Posted 02/06/2012 2:58 pm
