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Hi All, A little late on the update here but week 3 netted nothing to talk about. I thought about what you said fistfulladirt and I agree. My step dad now 67 years old, keeps any silver coinage he has netted over the years and will keep it to the end. I think I will try a different bank for round 4 of this experiment for myself.
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Dirt, that may be true in general, but sometimes wives don't know/care about the husbands collection. My wife (a teller) was brought a silver canadian dollar (1966 80%) by an old lady. Also, would NEVER have known the value of coins if it wasn't for an old man who paid exact change at my register with a Mercury dime, about a year and a half ago. (and no, it didn't seem like he was doing it on purpose because I looked at the coin and he said nothing) It was my summer at Walmart that changed my life forever! And my bank was given a solid 64 kennedy roll which they gave me for face. They said an old man brought it in. I'm surprised that most older folk don't actually seem to know about silver/gold. My own grandparents who grew up in the 30s and 40s don't know or care about silver. |
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My own grandparents who grew up in the 30s and 40s don't know or care about silver. Bro, then it's up to you to start a trend...My grandparents on both sides saved US silver and gold, and many of my relatives. In fact, they are responsible for my start in collecting at the young age of 10. Growing up in the 70's, many of my friend's parents had small hoards of silver stashed away (holdovers from the mid 1960's after the end of silver composition), and my mother recently inherited her mother's silver stash, which she passed to me. When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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I seem to also average 1 silver per $1000-1500 in quarters I get from vending. It is random and you never know, but I know other coin is more productive. Most seem to know more about quarters than cents, nickels, dimes. Most times with other coin they are harder to spot also. Halves and Dollars are less circulated so that could explain why more finds are made there.
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Week 4 and tried a different bank. All rolls were bank rolls and I netted nada, zippo, zilch. Amamzing how out of the millions and millions of silver quarters minted not one is silver. After week 6 I have decided to try my hand at a box of halves. I opened an account at a bank with a coin counting machine to make dumping easier for me. And get this, I always go through the drive up at every bank in my neighborhood and yesterday 1 teller has 2 jfk halves and 1 turns out to be a 1968.
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If its any consolation I did two full bags ($2000) and found zilch this week
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Yes John, quarters are the most picked over coin for silver, they are larger, and heavily circulated. So, finds are slim. You may have better luck w/halves.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Fistfulladirt has a point. If you're going to do quarters, do a massive, industrial-scale search covering dozens of bank branches over a long period of time.
Without that, your data may turn out insufficient. I agree with giving halves a try.
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Well I finished up weeks 5 and 6 and as expected I netted nothing. I went to bank and got a box of pennies. See you all in the cent serching thread.
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Why is it so much harder to find silver quarters than to find silver nickels or dimes?
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I think its because people can recognize a silver quarter because of its size. The dime is small and has a greater chance of escaping detection and the silver nickels I think is because it does not have reeded edges to tell if it contains silver.
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