Silver Has Really Dried Up. Hunters Are Going Home.

I still look because there still is that obscure chance of finding some. Besides, it is fun to search and you never know what else you can find other than silver!

I haven't got any boxes lately, but there has been a lot turning up at the convenience stores and banks here lately. Walked into the bank today to deposit my check, looked at the tellers change tray and there it was staring me right in the face. I asked the teller to break a 20 for me, I asked for 19 dollars, 2 quarters and 5 dimes. Luckily the silver was 3rd from the top. 1962 silver dime.

Finds for me are the same as they were 3 years ago, and better than my finds in 1979-80, (although as a teen I had less cash to spend then crh'ing).
My finds this year are 172 silver pieces in $13,000 searched, cwr's, because boxes have always been lousy for me.

I went through a box of halves this weekend. Found: two 1969's, a 1967, a 2001S, and several newer NIFC coins, that was to be my last box, as I just got done going through two or three boxes, finding nothing. Still, just as exciting (to me anyway), was getting a 1964 quarter in change Saturday night. I wish I knew how to find CWR's, no bank or CU that I know of will have anything to do with those. I do like the the smaller independent banks that wrap the coinage people bring in, and would like to open account at one.

I don't even try. I live in a town of 40k. I personally know of 10 roll searchers that go to every bank, every day, and ask for rolls of halves. And if they don't have halves, they search rolls of Quarters, or Dimes. I know one of the Bank Managers and she told me that they are now refusing to order boxes of halves UNLESS you are a business and promise you will keep them! She told me a lot of the banks are adopting a similar police, especially to non-account holders. On the other hand when my son bought a Kennedy Dansco; he went to our bank and told them why he wanted rolls of halves, well they actually went out of their way to help him ( he's 16). He started out with 4 rolls and every week he takes in two full rolls and swaps for two more. One of the tellers actually keeps her eyes out for the newer, and harder to find dates for him! As an amusing aside, the tellers in our bank are so frustrated with the roll searchers, that a few weeks ago my son called me while at the banking making his weekly "deposit". It seemed they had received 10 rolls from a customer that were "interesting". When I got there I found that all were full of silver. The Bank Manager told me that the Tellers were fighting over them and it was creating a morale problem. BUT they did not want to hand them out to a Roll searcher for fear that it would only ignite another feeding frenzy. Thats when they remembered "the Kid", and decided to offer them to my son. The only stipulation was that he keep it quiet!

I haven't got any boxes lately, but there has been a lot turning up at the convenience stores and banks here lately. Walked into the bank today to deposit my check, looked at the tellers change tray and there it was staring me right in the face. I asked the teller to break a 20 for me, I asked for 19 dollars, 2 quarters and 5 dimes. Luckily the silver was 3rd from the top. 1962 silver dime.


Those are some good eyes...typically BofA keeps their trays in locked drawers so no go with that...

I don't actively search specifically for silver, but for whgat it's worth, I bought a customer-wrapped roll of Kennedys from a local bank the other day and found a 69-D in it, also recently (about a month ago I think) actually got a 1954-D Roosevelt dime in change from a vending machine. My daughter also showed me a 1964-D Washington quarter that she picked up somewhere.

I really think that many people nowadays do not realize that "older" coins like that have silver, especially 65-70 Kennedy halves.