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Is It Just Me? Or Have Pickins Gotten Slim?

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 Posted 04/18/2014  7:37 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add fistfulladirt to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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Wow , that` s awesome ! How did you get into it ? Have you been roll hunting at the same pace since then or did you take a break from hunting during some of the years ?
Grandma worked at the USPS small town USA. She gave me Mercury dimes from her finds at the counter. At 15, I thought, "hey - at the bank I can get as many rolls as I'd like!" Well, 1980 comes along and a silver price blast-off, cant find silver halves, let alone silver dimes, believe me I tried.

I took a break from about '81 to 2007. Picked up again and rolls were loaded with silver. I found my first Barber half in a customer roll the first week back. $20 rolls of halves half-full of silver. Took road trips and spent thousands at random banks, no account needed. I noticed a slack in finds two years later and ever since.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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 Posted 05/04/2014  2:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ASLAN TVorlon to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I finally found one, a 1943-P nickel my first silver find in almost TWO months
also came up with a 1939-S in the same box
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 Posted 05/04/2014  2:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DaytR to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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I finally found one, a 1943-P nickel my first silver find in almost TWO months


Its been a long time coming , Well done !
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 Posted 05/04/2014  4:22 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add WVBlueandGold to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
My numbers from Loomis boxes have actually gotten a little bit better. One of the drivers told me that the local Loomis was now rolling their own coins instead of sending them off and that I may end up with a lot of coins I've already searched. That's true, but I could also get all of the silver that's dumped into the local pool. I order 4 boxes per week and since the change, I have found silver every time.
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 Posted 05/06/2014  09:48 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add trent to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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1. use end crimped rolls to fill your searched coins with. Seal them with a roll crimper on the other end. Most people are impatient and will simply rip a roll open vice try to reuse a roll. This should scatter the coins you already searched.

I'm not understanding that. I'm not seeing how having both ends of the roll you just searched crimped helps you. ?
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 Posted 05/07/2014  2:22 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add NJcoinhunter to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Went to a gas station today got a roll of dimes, 3 dime rolls, and 4 penny rolls.
I have yet to buy a box of anything but I think I'm going to aim for a box nickels.
Found (2) 1940 jeffersons different mint marks. Nothing else out of the lot. A Canadian penny and nickel I thought it was nice to see foreign change I always hold onto it. Anything pre-60 nickels and copper Penny's. I don't even bother holding onto the 82s since I don't have a scale and can't tell the difference between the zinc and copper ones. But I got a good amount of them out of the four rolls. No wheats. -PK, NJ,USA
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 Posted 05/11/2014  4:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Mr Click to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
You have good boxes and bad boxes. Here are my averages where I live.

Penny Box: 12-15 wheats like clock work with occasional 25-30 wheats in a box.
Nickel Box: You either get a War Nickel or you get one buffalo. Good box you get both.
Dime Box: 1-2 silver dimes a box
Quarters: don't do enough to know the average
Halves: Hit or miss... You may have nothing for 8 boxes, then the last two boxes have 34 different variations of silver

I've only click clacked in the big city I live in now, I don't really know what the averages would be in a smaller town.
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 Posted 05/11/2014  4:34 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CoinCollector2012 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
My finds have been pretty steady. Last box I did was halves and I got almost a whole roll of NIFCs
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