Junk Silver

If you are looking to get them cheap you could always go through rolls. Takes time and patience tho. I have found 3 silver Rosevelt dimes in three days. Not typical because I've been searching for 4 months and this is the first I have found any.

persistent has a good idea about checking out relatives. I recently got some Mercury and Roosevelt dimes from my wife's uncle at $1.00 each (10x face). He only wanted 2x face but I didn't feel right about that so I suggested the easy math 10x. He said he'd get me more after the holidays. He has been collecting a long time and he says they are all coins he pulled from circulation and didn't pay any extra for.

I also go to a few coin shops and 'we buy gold' shops. I have a couple that will let me search through their junk silver for the dates I need. Doing it this way may cost a little higher per coin than buying $100 face bags but at least you won't be getting lots of duplicates. Right now I'm paying 15x face for Canadian silver and 18x for U.S. silver.

If you have LOTS of time, aren't discouraged easily, and have a decent sum of money that you can 'float', you CAN try coin-roll searching. As mentioned, success comes very infrequently using that method, so don't expect to find more than a handful a year.

+1 w/ what atticguy said about CRH.

When I started into coins/PM's a while ago, I started with coin roll hunting bank boxes of circulating coin. My experience was dismal. The silver coin yield I got
was nowhere near worth the time and effort. If I'd spent that amount of time working at McDonald's for minimum wage, my payout would've been far richer.

Check the CRH forum for lots of info about and experiences with CRH.

My take on US junk silver is that if I wanted any, I'd just buy it and I know that my LCS sells it as reasonably priced as any vendor. Above all else--remember
what atticguy said about CRH--"...success comes very infrequently using that method, so don't expect to find more than a handful a year." That says it all.