What You Should Have Found By Now But Have Not

Welcome to the club. Over the last two decades I found eight or nine silver quarters (in one customer wrapped roll) while searching thousands of rolls over that timeframe. Without that one roll, I'd be batting .000. Have yet to find a silver dime in a roll. Only a few silver halves in a teller's change tray five or six years ago.

Out of curiosity, some questions:

1. Do you always get all of your coins from the same bank(s)?
2. Are the rolls you go through all machine wrapped?
3. Have you ever received a Steel Cent in a machine wrapped roll?
4. What part of the country do you live in?

One reason for this is you may be doing business with banks that get their coins via Coinstar machine bags - provided by whatever vendor(s) services your bank(s). As most of us know, any and all Coinstar bags will be completely devoid of silver Dimes and Quarters (and Halves too, but these aren't often fed into them) as these always are rejected due to the heavier than normal weight.

John77's questions are good ones. I can imagine Coinstar distorting roll finds. My searching has been from all around the country and predates Coinstar. Yes, I've found steel cents, as well as an entire Lincoln set less 6 or 7 toughest dates. Silver dimes and quarters remain elusive though.

Thanks! Your silver dime drought in particular is baffling. I can see the quarters though - those have been a tough pull since I got into the hobby. I like to try to get to the bottom of things
- I've asked so many questions lately about the so-called "coin shortage"... One bank to the next, even within the same bank sometimes, you get different answers.

Interestingly, not too long ago in a group of five or so rolls, I found almost an entire set of 1938-1961 Jeffersons, less all of the key dates other than the 38-S. Every War Nickel other than the '43-D was also included. Proof that "collection dumps" are still happening.

I almost feel bad now with my 450 silver dime hoard I found CRH earlier this year... I've found 17 other silver dimes via CRH this year to date, and also 6 in Coinstar reject bins. That's 473 more silver dimes than I started 2021 with. I've also found 2 silver quarters via limited CRH this year (looking for Ws - I've found 3).

Back when I was a kid, we would find silver dimes and quarters all the time, even spend them at the local store, of course, back then silver coinage was normal

I was walking by Wally World ( Walmart) and found a silver dime on the ground.


One day while walking the dog I found 3 wheat cents.

Those are great tips; I have never gotten bags before, I usually get boxes, but I do find silver dimes in the machine wrapped rolls from the boxes; usually I get 1 silver dime per box ($250); it sounds like I am very lucky, as it seems others here have a tougher time finding silver.