Dime Roll Searching

Never give up the ship guys when it comes to searching for silver coins.

I see this temporary lull in discovering anything worthwhile like playing 18 holes of golf.

The first nine holes may have been a bust but if you keep your head down (a must in both golf and roll searching) and continue the fight most likely the back 9 holes will be more productive. It all averages out in the long run.

Plus another motivational factor to always keep in mind is that if you cease to search, some other lucky person is inevitably going to benefit from your feeling down on your luck.

Do not be caught off guard.

I never give up on any pursuit in general until the battle or contest has been formally ended.

Sometimes, however, I will quit a pursuit if I feel that my ROI (return on investment) of my time vs. perceived pleasure in a hobby has diminished beyond the point of no return.

mdpmedia

The first rolls I ever searched were dime rolls and found a 60 and a 63 immediately. I've searched probably $5,000 worth since then and not a thing. The only reason I get discouraged is that I know I could get 2 boxes of nickels or a bajillion boxes of pennies instead and find everything I want almost every time. I've been thinking about going back to dimes but not sure. What you said about never finding if you don't look is so true that I might pick some up tomorrow haha

I've done about 15 boxes of nickels and found less than 10 War Nickels. I found a good amount of AU and BU nickels, even some 82/83 AU/BU but I can't find any buyers won want them.

Called the bank today, and now have $250 waiting for me tomorrow morning to pick up, can't wait! I am new to roll searching (about a month) and have been cycling through dimes, nickels, and pennies to keep myself from becoming bored or annoyed at the lack of finding anything. Dimes not paying off? I search some nickels...if they get boring, I go to the pennies, they can always be counted on to find wheats and plenty of copper to pull out, just in case. So, I find that keeps me excited...nothing like the excitement of finding a silver dime though! Even though they are only worth a couple bucks, makes it much more enjoyable to know that it only cost me a dime!

You guys are going to hate me for saying this, but I swear being in an area where we get a lot of coinage from an ethnic, immigrant, depressed part of town yields more silver. Virtually every time I go to the bank for $50-100 of dimes, I come away with at least one hit, and there were more a few times last year where I picked up two silver dimes per hunt.

mdpmedia

I think you might have missed the point of the other post. What I got from the post is what I have already discovered. The economy is bad so it seems that people in lower areas are cashing in their change jars. They are not aware that some of the coins might be silver and have a little more value than face. I have hit up the change machines in some of the laundry mats in the depressed parts of town and scored two silver quarters two weeks ago.

I know where I live the people in the poorer areas are always hanging around doing nothing and have all the free time in the world, maybe its just where I live I dunno!

Picked up another box today and used TD's penny arcade to cash out the rest. After putting in the first $650 in coins they had to change the bag. She asked if I had much more and I timidly responded "another thousandish." She let me just pour them right into the machine instead of the tray, saving about 15 minutes. Going back tomorrow with another grand in dimes.