Roll Hunting For Silver Coming To An End?

I'll worry when Coinstar starts pulling silver.

This would not surprise me. I just posted in the JFK roll search thread my most recent results. The last month or so my box roll searching has completely fallen off. In my last 20 boxes (20,000 coins) I have found only 1 silver half dollar. Given my experience prior, the fall off is amazing.
I use Garda. Let us hope they are not following Loomis' lead.

And this is why I have largely avoided getting any boxes of halves. I think I should stick with trying to find customer-deposited rolls. My success rate at finding silver the last two years was 1-2% of the coins being 40% silver. Obviously, the drawback is finding any rolls at all at the bank and getting to those rolls before another roll hunter gets to them.first!

I have expanded away from my home bank this year because there just wasn't enough halves coming into the bank from customers. Every once in awhile (maybe 1 out of 7-8 banks) they will ask me if I have an account. Usually I start out by asking if there are any halves at the branch and then say I give them out to kids as gifts and at that point, most will nicely go out of their way to find them among all the tellers.

Coinstar and many other coin sorters reject silver already. Thats why so many find silver just sitting in the reject tray.

Non of the couriers are pulling silver. This rumor has been circulating the last couple years since I've been roll hunting. Shoot it down. Not happening. They are not in business to cull silver, they make WAY too much money delivering currency. Until someone provides solid proof of this, it's rumor plain and simple.

Guys...why is it so inconceivable for an armored car company to be pulling silver? They make contraptions that separate silver from clad. I doubt they pay the people who sort the coins much money and putting it through a silver sorter wouldn't slow them down much. I guess I am going to have to try and call Loomis. Even if there official answer is no, it's still not definitive.

What is probably happening is that consumers, at $30 per ounce silver, are pulling more coins out of circulation. I've got my wife looking for silver at the bank and she regularly finds me 40% Kennedy's, the occasional 64, occasional Franklin, and recently even 3 US Silver Eagles that someone deposited for face. Also got a 64 quarter and 60 dime in high mint state.

I still think silver searching is not worth the time unless you get one of those rolls that 50% of the coins are silver. Usually the ones that people take to the bank. Just basing this on how much you can make an hour vs how much silver you find and how long it takes. I feel like the longer you search for silver the less money you actually make off of it.

I did buy 6 rolls of nickels yesterday and got 2 War Nickels from it. So not saying I'm against this completely, but something I'd rather just do a few at a time rather then designate 2 hours of my night to searching.