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Since we already have roll hunter-specific pennies, nickels and halves threads running, I thought I'd start this thread on Dimes. I personally don't search dimes as I feel it is a waste of time, but maybe those of you who do search could share your finds, especially if you find silver. Edited by mycrob
07/27/2009 5:52 pm
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i pulled a 63 d out of a roll a few days ago, I usually dont search dimes but I decided to go through a couple rolls just for the heck of it. I think dimes are better than quarteres in terms of the amount of silver that can still be found, but its still not nearly as good as halves, nickels are probly even better as well
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went through a box from the bank today..NADA. I'm curious...the easy way would be to just look at the edges of teh coins for silver, but are there other dates or errors I could be looking for that would force you to actually look at every coin? OF course that's too much time if there isn't much to find.
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Truely becoming a waste of time. Due to the recent coin collecting boom, many, many people have gone to roll and bag searches. This means you are nowadays looking at coins that have been looked at, taken back to a bank, pulled out by someone, looked at, taken to another bank, etc., etc., etc.
This is now becoming something like when VHS tapes first came out and stores for selling and renting poped up everywhere. Now most have gone out of buisness since everyone did it. Same with roll searching for rare coins. Chances are the rolls you look at today have had the coins looked at many, many times.
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For the most part I agree with Carl. The only silver dimes I've found were dropped into the reject chute of the CoinStar machine I use. They didn't come from the pennies I dumped in, I'm not sure how it happens, I hope it happens some more  |
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The silver coins have been completely and utterly out of circulation since about 1971. Since 1971 when you see a silver coin it's not because it has been overlooked all these years, it's because it was inadvertantly returned to circulation. Or maybe someone knew it was worth a premium but not worth a trip to the coin shop.
The dimes are a great frontier for collectors because most people don't look at the dimes more than to ascertain it's a clad.
By the way. There's more silver in with the dimes than with the quarters. I recently went through about 25 rolls and found 3 silvers though this was a fluke. I found several desirable clad dimes and that wasn't a fluke.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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the more used a denomonation is, the less likelikely you are to find silver in a roll of it, i.e halves have the most and quarters have the least
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I search around 1000$ in dimes a week and usually find 8 silver per thousand. Lots of mercs and rosies but no seated liberties yet.
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I've searched $1000 in dimes last week (4 sealed boxes).. 15 silver rossies and 2 silver canadian dimes.
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Well, that's really awesome to know that you still can find silver in the Dimes. Those success stories might get me interested in doing dimes again.
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Reading all of these roll-searcher threads has me tempted to do the same. I have not searched rolls in over fifteen years, but I had a lot of good finds back then.
As long as there are non-numismatists that inherit collections or their grandparent's change jars, there are bound to be good finds.
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About 6 months ago I searched 4 boxes of dimes. One box was all new, one box had 3 silver Roosevelt, one box had 1 silver Roosevelt and one box had 0 silver.
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I am still averaging 4-5 silver dimes mostly rosies and mercs per box. I hope I find a barber or seated
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I just went through my first box of dimes. I got two 1964Ds. I also ended up with a Fiji cent and two English 5 pence pieces.
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