Silver Coins From Banks

Welcome Jwin, The answer to your question has been written about many times and their are just as many opinions on where to go and what to say. So I'll just try and point you in the right direction. My advice is to pick a coin and start reading the hunter threads for that coin. I will say that if you go in and ask a teller for silver coins, they'll look at you with a blank stare for one of two reasons: a)they have no idea which coins are silver or b)they know exactly which coins are silver and have no idea why you would think they want to give you a coin that's worth 10, 20, or 30 times its face value, when they can keep it for themselves. You probably won't have much luck asking a teller for silver. I personally ask for half dollars, silver dollars, and sometimes will ask if they have anything "interesting or old". Sometimes ask if anyone has brought in rolls of coins as I believe there's a better chance of finding collectible coins in customer returned coins.

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, j-win!

If tellers pull silver, they almost always keep it or sell it for a premium.

and good luck with the roll searching.

You can also search for error and variety coins. They are found much more often than silver and they are worth the while to search for them, since most bring a premium.

Don't expect to get rich off of this - you have to enjoy it. Yes, every once in a great while you hear about somebody getting a stash of a hundred silver half dollars, but that's the exception. Most of the time you find nothing, or one silver coin in a box. I usually find 1-2 silver dimes in a $250 box, and they're worth a couple bucks a piece for their silver content.

Considering the time it takes to search, you'll be working for like 10% of minimum wage, assuming you're pretty efficient at it.

I searched $30,000 in bank coinage last year, and found the coins in my signature. Quantity silver. My dirtfishing finds produce the quality silver.
Someone once coined the phrase, "it's still out there".
Good luck!

sorry for the second post.... accidental press of the submit, for american banks, I dont do coins cause I dont have time, but I've got some nice star bills and 2 dollars 1976, for Canadian banks, try RBC royal bank or TD tronto dominion banks, they tend to have some older coins (halves and voyageurs) but I havent got silver yet, the closest to silver I've ever gotten is a 1968 dime, 1969 50c piece, and 2 1969 quarters...... not rlly lucky

As many have stated, the tellers at your bank will be your best friends if you work at developing those relationships. I have several different tellers from several different banks that save and hold all of the CWR's of dimes for me and I pick them up each week. I am finding on average 1 silver dime for ever $200 searched. It may not seem like a lot but that is pretty good for dimes and I search around $1,000 worth a week. They also order me all the boxes I want and I am very good about being very thankful. They save all of the loose halves for me as well, even when it is obvious that the halves are clad I take them anyways and always thank them. I picked up some gift cards for Starbucks this weekend and plan to hand them out to show my thanks this week.