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Poll Question
My choice would be pennies. Affordable, they don't take up Lots of space, and there is a whole lot of things you can search for. Even in LSCs you can find things.
Collector of U.S. Coins, Varieties, and Colonial Coinage
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Yes the pennies is the best to hunt unless you are a silver stacker , but in this day and age hunting 90 % silver is like spitting against the wind . With pennies at least you can find lots of errors and varieties , also some wheat cents and high grade Memorials .  |
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That's funny you say that, because I'm a pretty big silver stacker. I just don't hunt those rolls a lot for some reason. I should start though. Thanks for your reply! Happy hunting!
Collector of U.S. Coins, Varieties, and Colonial Coinage
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United States
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As a retailer I'd say if wheaties interest you go with cents. I find a handful (or palm full at least) every week. But for the thrill, for me personally the much rarer silver find in the dimes is great! Better yet a quarter or half dollar but those are very rare these days.
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The advantage with nickels is that you can complete the set. Can't really do that with cents.
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Nickels to build a set.
Half dollars to stack silver.
Cents for errors and varieties.
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Your right jbuck. I'm a huge error and variety collector. That's probably why I hunt only pennies most of the time.
Collector of U.S. Coins, Varieties, and Colonial Coinage
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Halves for errors and varieties. DDOs, DDRs, etc, are generally overlooked by silver hunters.
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I like nickels because it's the only denomination where you can get coins above face easily in Canada.
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Back in 1979 I was a roll hunter. It was pretty tough to find silver then. I found silver so much easier and abundant when I started back up in 2008.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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fistfulladirt, why do you thing that is? Seems counter-intuitive.
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Back in 1979 I was a roll hunter. It was pretty tough to find silver then. I found silver so much easier and abundant when I started back up in 2008. fistfulladirt, why do you thing that is? Seems counter-intuitive. The Hunt brothers. |
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I primarily look for silver so dimes are the best for that I also do cents sometimes in search of wheats and copper memorials however they are very time consuming to search and cumbersome to return
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fistfulladirt, why do you thing that is? Seems counter-intuitive. JB was right, the Hunt Bros. They drove silver prices to a peak in '79-80, at a time when the country was going through a recession, high unemployment and interest rates approaching 20%, there were many roll hunters. Full page ads in the local newspapers, BUYING SILVER. Good money, when adjusted for inflation, $45/oz then is $150/oz today. When it all crashed, many still held their hoard. Silver prices dropped to a tenth of the previous high, and collections were later dumped, to end up at the banks for future roll hunters to find, and wow were they plenty! When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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For me, nickels and halves are the best to crh. With nickels, there is just so much variety to the possibilities of what you can find. They are like pennies, which are also fun to hunt, but you can find silver in some. With halves, silver is more abundant and coming in larger sizes, it makes me excited as a stacker. Happy Hunting!
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1.Nickels 2.Halves 3.Cents 4.Dimes 5.Quarters 6.Dollars Quote:
The advantage with nickels is that you can complete the set. Yup... And actually, you should be able to take that nickel set all the way back to 1934 without too much trouble if you're persistent. CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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11/29/2018 3:30 pm
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