What Rolls Are Best For Searching ?

Halves can be very good for silver...or very bad. If you have alot of other searchers in the area you can be working against the other peoples dumps. (today I ran into $1500.00 worth of 1990D unc halves in customer wrapped rolls). But I wont give up. I also search nickels. I've had alot of luck with silver War Nickels and Buffalo and also found a few V nickels. (as well as proofs and keydates)

I have done that before myself. Picked up $2000 worth at one stop last summer, ended up with less than 10 keepers.

halves first, nickeld second imo. halves are tougher to find but easier to go thru and somewhat easy to find 40% coins. I went to 6 banks today and only found $5 total in halves with no keepers, and one of them was sharpeed. But I did ask @ 4 of them if they had anyone who ever orders halves, and they all said no. I am the only one ordering them (from 2 of the banks, both of which have $1000 in halves coming in for me next week). so it depends on who else in your area is looking for them since I know that the 2 banks I ordered from have others who come in and ask for halves. I guess I will find out next week if they are searched well already or not. Nickels are much easier - not as many searching them and def easier to find 40-60 yr old coins on a regular basis if you keep with it. I even found a few buffaloes last week.

Got to be the dimes. Too much competition here for halves. Last year I searched $25k in dimes and averaged 1 silver per $150 searched, including 15 silver canadians and 15 mercs. The year before I pulled 6 Barber dimes from a 12-box order. Dimes never disappoint. Next would be halves, but then again, too much competition between the tellers and other hunters, boxes are hit and miss.

I gotta learn how to reply to a quote here, sorry newbie to this forum.
I searched $18k in halves last year and found maybe 10 90's and 130 40%'ers. Halves to me are just boring, way TOO much competition and searching thru dumps....wish it was different, even 3 years ago it was the same way. Dimes just give me more variety, and I'm more of a collector than a hoarder.

Not sure, perhaps someone else reading can answer this. Both of the banks I use takes abt 2 weeks to get them, so they may actually come from the fed when all is said and done. I do not know if the armored carriers keep a stock of coins or just transport whatever the customer orders from the fed. I would think in some cases they keep a stock as sometimes you can hit the jackpot, esp if you are in a smaller town, which makes it sound as though the coins did not come from the fed, b/c if they all did we would always be searching thru some coins that have already been searched if we order them.

Hope this makes some sense.

Generally the cash handling services (which what most people see are the armoured car side of it) have there own reserves of coin and cash upon which they use to service the various banks. When these reserves run low, they order coin and cash from the Fed. If they feel they have to much coin or cash they deposit it in the Fed. Most cash services (such as brinks) here in the east get their coin from banks that have coin counting machines. With the bad economy more and more coins are being returned to the cash services and less and less ordered from the fed. Since the current coin supply at the fed is sufficent to meet the demand for orders, the mint is recieving less coin orders hence last years lower than normal mintages.
-XoG