FDR Dimes Roll Hunters: Silver And Other Finds

Patrick that's a lot of dime for 2 silver ones but the thrill is the hunt!

I went thru 30 rolls of dimes two days ago and came out with two silver rossies. It's not a silver mine, but they are still there. The nice thing's about dimes, is the quickness you can go thru them. I don't collect them, so all I look for is silver. I would say I can do a box in 20-25 minutes. While edge sorting, you can see the nice color of the AU clad coins, and I look at them for older date coin's in good shape. The other nice thing is my bank has a coin machine, I can go buy a box, and sit in the parking lot, and go thru them, and then go dump them back in, and go home with my silver.

My best box of dimes included 27 rolls of 90% silver dimes! I was a commercial teller and cracked open a sealed box of dimes that was shipped from a local branch of the bank that I worked for. Well, I gave out a few rolls here and there to commercial customers during the day. Towards closing time, another customer came over for his weekly coin order. I squatted down to go into my coin vault and started pulling rolls of dimes out. Out of the end of the roll a dime falls on the ground. I bend over to pick it up and it was a silver Roosevelt. While I was down there, just for kicks I looked into the roll and see a Mercury dime and then looked at the end of two other rolls and they had mercuries as well. Ooops I said to the customer, it looks like these are all canadian dimes, let me get you some more. It was a GREAT SAVE on my part! Anyways he left and I opened one roll out of the 27 and found 32 mercury, 15 roosevelt silver and 3 regular. All in all, I went through them with my father that night, he was in shock, and came out with roughly 1000 Mercury dimes and 300 silver roosevelts, all of varying dates. Its too bad I gave the other 23 rolls out, but I would not have had any if the silver dime didn't fall out the roll and I didn't take a second look. You truly never know what you will find these days. I will never forget that day.

I found a sacagawea in a box of cheerios in 2000

I thought I would give the dimes a try since I find silver dimes at work on occasion. I did 1 box ($250) and found 4 rosies, a 64d, 53s, 50d, and a 50p. It took less than 45 minutes to work the entire box.

While you're roll hunting roosevelts...

A couple of things to look out for in addition to silver...

Any 82 and 83 P and D's in AU or better... these sell at a pretty good premium.
And while you're looking at 82's be sure to keep an eye out for the no P variety. These go for around $200 in circulated condition.

I'm still looking for frosty whites for all of the 82-83 examples and have the feeling I'm going to end up spending around $10-15 for each which just makes me sick.

You folks make roll hunting dimes sound interesting. I may have to try it. Perhaps my bank would be happier to see me walk in with them as apposed to halves. Merc's have always appealed to me.

Roosevelt dimes would be much more likely......occasionally they'll turn up in "pocket change".....(haven't my pocket, but others they have)
The ONLY way I find any Mercs.......is to buy them sadly.....