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Pillar of the Community
United States
757 Posts |
does anyone here search quarter rolls? or is that really not worth it anymore?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
850 Posts |
i search quarter rolls every other year to pick up the state/territory/America Beautiful quarters. It just isn't wort it to me. That is just me. They make so many quarters now it is not even funny.
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Valued Member
United States
182 Posts |
Yes, as a matter of fact. I just started searching for a quarter variety that appears in odd years, where the leaf to the left of the arrows on the reverse has the left point higher than the right. Once I saw the variety, I thought 'Huh, I wonder if it is scarce or hard to locate?" Turns out it is VERY difficult to find, and worth looking for-because no one else looks for it. I can get a 2000 dollar bag at face, and that has me looking for days. The quarter set is overlooked as all get out. Some of the early issues are scarce even in lesser grades. I think the clad issues put so many at odds to collecting, and abandoned it. Now that we are returning-and I am talking just about me- we find some issues hard to get. Shame on me for losing interest. Now once the State Parks issues ore over, the Washington series may look very much like the Morgan VAM dollars in variety, scarcity, and worth. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3592 Posts |
I lost interest when they started with the State Quarters, kind of what coincollector123 said "just too many" |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
757 Posts |
interesting.
so is there any hope of still finding silver quarters in there?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
757 Posts |
"Yes, as a matter of fact. I just started searching for a quarter variety that appears in odd years, where the leaf to the left of the arrows on the reverse has the left point higher than the right. Once I saw the variety, I thought 'Huh, I wonder if it is scarce or hard to locate?"
are these worth something now, or are you more hedging it'll be valuable in the future?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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there's some, but not much. when I think of finding silver in quarter rolls, I think of impaired proofs or huge finds with rolls worth-or at least 10 or 20-at a time.
there are the occasional silvers I would think.
ive never searched quarters before but this is just my understanding from all of those roll searching threads.
EDIT: this is my answer for the 1st question.
Edited by Adam_E
10/05/2010 07:47 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
850 Posts |
i used to go through them (out of about 3000 dollars I have only found one S coin and no silver). I occasionally ask banks if they have any "odd", old rolls in the vault. Old dime rolls are usually a sick/light green color instead of dark green. I have no idea of what old quarter rolls look like.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If you want to do it, only go with customer wrapped rolls. I think searching NF String or Brinks boxes will be a huge waste of time. I'd bet you could go through $5k or even $10k of quarters and find 0 silver very easily - perhaps more.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
524 Posts |
Why do you professional roll hunters think all the silver is gone in quarters but not the other denominations? Hunters constantly find silver in dimes,nickels and halves but no quarters. Are the quarters just not popular to search or did the silver get taken out long ago so there's nothing to find?
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New Member
United States
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Probably because of the content. People probably use to not bother with the lower denominations because of less silver.
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Valued Member
United States
368 Posts |
I have had some luck finding I think 5 or 6 American silver quarters in change at my work all on different nights
also a few canadian silver pieces from the 50's
I always wanted to get a box of quarters to look for silver and maybe proofs
I have found 3 clad proofs (clad not silver)
the problem for me is that I get out about 475-600+ dollars of change at a time and getting a box of quarters would restrict what else I could take out.
I think it would be worth a try...if you get a dream roll how great would that be!!
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Valued Member
United States
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Why do you professional roll hunters think all the silver is gone in quarters but not the other denominations? Hunters constantly find silver in dimes,nickels and halves but no quarters. Are the quarters just not popular to search or did the silver get taken out long ago so there's nothing to find?
In my opinion, a lot of the silver quarters were removed when the State Quarters Program kicked off and a rush of new collectors joined the ranks. |
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Valued Member
United States
182 Posts |
To answer the question of potential worth of these oddities: There are so few known that even most modern collectors don't know what their values should be. That works in favor of new joinees into the collecting pool. I love to be one to jump on a collecting bandwagon, as my WAM experience broke me in quite handily into how coins can increase in value. I hope to have a few of these inside a year or so, then I will have satisfied my itch to feel like a "lucky" collector. |
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Valued Member
United States
127 Posts |
I only search cents,nickels,and dimes. I only did quarters to get my set of State Quarters.  |
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Valued Member
United States
487 Posts |
Not much of a quarter searcher, but I'm gonna try my hand at dimes.
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Posted 10/04/2010 10:39 pm
