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Pillar of the Community
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Hi all!  Well, I decided to do some roll searching today. Picked up close to $540.00 in quarters. I only found ONE silver!  I guess I'm wanting to ask. What gives? My wife and I were discussing it, and the only thing we could figure is that maybe the place that rolls them has a separator for silver. What do you think?  Below is the box I got from PNC.  |
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In my personal experience, and from reading the forum here, "Quarters" are not very good silver producers NO MATTER WHERE YOU GET THEM FROM OR WHO ROLLS THEM !......  In fact, consider yourself lucky that you actually found 1 Silver in that box ! And with Silver hoovering around a record $30.00 an ounce.....and having been going up steadily for quite some time..... You gotta figure that A LOT OF PEOPLE are "Silver Huntin'." The "pool" to search from, is only so big. And eventually you're searching through others "dumps". Edited by eaglefoot
02/11/2011 3:32 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I can tell you from my own experience that I receive hundreds of dollars in quarters every week (where I work) and I average about 1 silver quarter a month.
The way to get more is buy a LARGE quantity. I ordered $5000 in nickels from the bank one time. That naturally had to come from the Fed and it had a lot higher ratio of collectible coin in it than the average find in circulation.
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That makes sense. The one I found is a 1948. Also found a Foreign coin. (Philippines) and a few National Parks that I hadn't found before.
I'm guessing it took a while to sort through $5000 in nickels?
Edited by Jaymon74
02/11/2011 3:43 pm
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I'm guessing it took a while to sort through $5000 in nickels? Yeah, 50 boxes kept me off the streets for a while |
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Quarters produce the least silver out of all denominations (except cents and small sized dollars of course). Halves are your best bet (ive hit a box that was more than 50% silver), then dimes, then nickels (i adverage about one a box on nickels). Out of the 1500 or so large sized dollars I've gotten from banks 6 have been silver (2 40% ikes, 1 Peace dollar, 2 morgans and a silver eagle). |
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Quarters are extremely difficult. That is a sweet Silver!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Been roll-hunting consistently for 3 years. In terms of silver consistency, first would be dimes, next halves, last quarters. Quarters on average produce one per $1k-$1.5k searched. My dime ratio is 1/$140 with boxes, better with hand-rolled. Like others have said, VOLUME is the key.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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In one of my other post, I mentioned that the banks around my area will not order Halves. I do ask to see the ones they have, but haven't found any silver yet.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hard to find banks anymore without cherry-picking tellers. The worst are the ones that pick out the silver right in front of you. In my area, I can't find any banks that won't order halves....too weird!
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I've talked to many "tellers" and most do tell me that they get "first dibs" on the silver. Makes sense, and I don't blame them. Doesn't make me feel any better though! Wish my job had perks like that.
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Pillar of the Community
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I've gone through so much change and found nada! Silver in rolls/change is getting scarce!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Silver in rolls is not scarce. Matter of fact, I'm finding more now than I did 30 years ago.
I've searched about $5,500 in change this year and have found 55 silver dimes and almost 30 silver halves.
Last year I found almost 400 silver coins from circulation.
All depends on how much effort you want to put into it.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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New Member
United States
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I'm new at sorting and was wondering, once you sort through your change, do you roll it back up and dump it at a different location or does the bank accept loose change?
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Banks usually want rolled coins to save them the labor cost. Many will insist on name and phone on the rolls.
A few years ago, a local bank took in a bunch of rolls of dimes which were filled with cents. No excuse for not catching them.
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United States
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My post from yesterday under "finds from circulation"
Excellent day for me today, went through $260 in halves brought into the bank where I work by two different clients, found 9 1964's and 12 40% silvers. Now if I could only figure out which one brought in the silver?
I find the best odds are searching through rolls of halves. I rarely find any quarters or dimes any more but I consistently find silver halves. As the economy is souring more and more people are rolling up the change in their change jar at home and bringing it in. The longer the hard times, the deeper into the jar they go. A member of the coin club I belong to who is always searching boxes of halves found a 1918s last month, what a great find.
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