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Valued Member
United States
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Hi, as you might know dimes and quarters circulate alot and mostly get picked through but if there anybody who goes through dime boxes? I go to the bank alot to get pennies, nickels, halves etc. Never tried dimes before. Would like to know what kind of luck you guys have with these. I have got wheat pennies, buffalo and liberty head nickels, walkers and franklins from circulation. I am just dieing to get a Mercury dime I think its a really cool design. Thanks. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have never bought a box of dimes or quarters myself to search through. I feel it is a very large layout of cash and time for very minimal return. I say this because for 15 years at 2 different jobs I handled the change orders that we received. We were getting in the shrink wrapped coins (and could see and easily remove silver). The last two years a silver quarter might be found in every 2 or 3 boxes. Silver dimes were more common, usually one a box, sometimes 2. If you are buying shrink wrapped rolls you can search a box in minutes, cut the roll, remove and replace silver and tape the roll. quick and easy. (I have found a few Mercs this way. However, I was swapping coins out of company change and never laid out cash of my own. If you go with the traditional shotgun type rolls, there is alot of time involved in rerolling.
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Valued Member
United States
118 Posts |
dimes are definitely more common than quarters...
then again, I've only found 2 silver dimes in change before, lol -- no quarters though
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Valued Member
United States
121 Posts |
I've had pretty good luck on dimes this year. Probably found 150 total via roll searching. I mostly do customer rolls and can go through $100 in about five minutes. Best find was ten in one roll last week. I have nine left to fill my roosevelt folder. Not worth it for the money but is pretty quick and I'll grab them when the bank doesn't have any halves available. I have pretty good eye's...so that is a plus.
Maine_Jim
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Valued Member
United States
248 Posts |
I've started doing dimes, today was a good day, I got $105 in customer rolls and scored 2 64s and a 51. With my experience, boxes are either a hit or miss, no averages really, I either get 3-4 or none, and it's mostly none. with customer rolls however, I usually get one silver per $150. Today was lucky though!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Maine Jim, What year does your Roosevelt folder start at?,9-left to fill, nice, do you collect from circulation or sets or ?. 150 that is sweet, nice finds....
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United States
632 Posts |
I say unless your a serious roll-searcher and not bothered by hours of strenous and monotonous searching and possibly re-rolling, then stay away from dimes. Silver is very few and far between, especially if your doing fed wrapped rolls. Customer rolls your going to have better luck with in whatever denomination you search but getting them just adds to the amount of work your dedicating to the search. Heres a little story I've shared on the forum before. I work as an assistant manager at a drive-in fast-food resteraunt known as Sonic. Employees there that work as "carhops" deliver the customers order and wear coin changers at their side for give out change quickly. These coin changers have slots on the side which show the coins reeding, and I've found a lot of silver this way. I've found seven quarters, 27 dimes (24 roosevelt, 2 mercury, and 1 barber) and not to mention I've plucked out 2 Buffalo nickels, 2 silver nickels, and one liberty head, plus a 1969 Kennedy half that a customer bought their food with. I've been searching all these changers everytime I work for almost a year now. I think I've had a lot of luck with my searching, but I would never search dimes or quarter rolls. That just sounds like a horrible experience. |
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Valued Member
United States
121 Posts |
My set starts at 1946 and I am only referring to the silver in this series here up to 1964. Not sure if I will move to complete the post 64s. I have an older 70s style blue Whitman book with the plastic sleeves and a folder for a second collection. I have found one post 64 silver proof, a 95-s. That would be pretty crazy to get all the silver proofs....I was surprised to get that one. I have found quite a few of the silver Kennedy proof halves. I did have a good run of luck earlier this year on Mercury dimes where I got multiples out of a couple boxes. That was a nice! No dream rolls on the dimes yet but my goal is to get one this year. Maine_Jim |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I realize the OP is talking about silver, but of all the circulating coins, you are most likely to find Choice or GEM dimes. They are very small and light. They tend to get nicked up a lot less than other denominations.
I have a couple of almost complete post-1964 sets pulled from circulation and they are beauts. Value? Not as much as if they were silver, but I guess I'm looking at how shiny they are!
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Valued Member
United States
121 Posts |
Oh yea - this is mostly from circulation. I did buy one large collection of junk silver and large cents earlier this year. There was one dime that went into the books from this. That silver was fairly well mixed with all denominations. I am not counting the dimes into the CRH finds total. This collection did include a group of Chinese counterfeits that didn't pass the magnet test...which was "ok" I guess as they were part of a large stack which was thrown in as "extra". I'll post pictures of these when I get a camera that can take decent pictures.
Maine_Jim
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Valued Member
United States
121 Posts |
I may just start that post 64 collection soon. I have noticed how shiny and minty new they look. I've pulled a few to preserve them also in the pursuit of 2009 coins. We don't get many up here...I've only found the DC quarter and dollar coins. I've been checking the dimes - has anyone seen a 2009 dime in circulation?
Maine_Jim
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Valued Member
United States
171 Posts |
I haven't seen a 2009 penney, nickel or dime in circulation this year. Looks like it's true that mintage figures are down. As for the dime question, I am not going to do any roll searching. My suggestion is to buy a few graded dimes by PCGS or NGC and concentrate your roll searching for set building with nickels or half dollars. You could also start a set for the Presidential dollars as they just started recently. Mark |
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I was a Dime collector for 15+ yr's. But now all sets are complete and all I have to update is my Roosevelt
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2589 Posts |
I'd say you would adveradge around 1 dime a box, but if you go through several boxes you'd probably find a few collections dumped in machines like you would with halves so in the long run it would probably adveradge a bit higher. Mercs can be found with a bit of effort, and I have found a couple in rolls. Due to there small size fewer non-collectors can easily tell the difference between a silver dime and clad without closer inspection, so as a result they tend to stay in circulation longer than silver quarters do. I even have a Barber dime given to me by a bank teller who found it in circulation. I would think that fininishing the entire Roosevelt dime set of business strikes without the 1996 w is still possible. In fact its probably easier to put together a Roosevelt dime set from circulation than a Jefferson nickel set. -XoG |
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Valued Member
 United States
100 Posts |
thanks for the help guys I will be getting some dimes as soon as I can  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2270 Posts |
If you're just looking for rare coins and don't care about silver dimes are one of the best coins to search. These are not heavily picked over for varieties and high grades so you can put together a pretty nice set. It's a little more challenging every year to even complete it much less find nice coins with light wear.
If you're only looking for silver the only worse place to look is quarters (or cents).
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