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Valued Member
United States
136 Posts |
I was wondering what coin would be best to search for silver. Nickels , dimes, quarters , halves ? Which have you had the best luck while searching?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2120 Posts |
Dimes and halves are likely your best bet. Sometimes you can get lucky with nickels and quarters, but it seems that since dimes are so small, the ones made of silver go unnoticed easier, and half dollar don't circulate as much.
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Valued Member
United States
130 Posts |
I have done all denonminations and my best luck has been with dimes and nickels. Totally skunked on Quarters. Only 1 half.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3345 Posts |
Probably Customer wrapped dimes, than nickels. Not quarters, they circulate far too much. Halves I have never tried.
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New Member
United States
38 Posts |
Nickels. Paper machine wrapped rolls.I've found 7 silver nickels in the past five months. Never found any silver dimes or halves when roll searching. The only silver dime I've ever found was sitting on a Coinstar machine, along with a five-cent euro.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1348 Posts |
your better off saving your gas. you'll make more money not driving to the bank and back than you would finding sivler.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
842 Posts |
But whats the fun in that, w1a9c8k5?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2168 Posts |
I've searched about 1200.00 in nickels and found 22 silver nickels as well as many buffalo and a few canadian 99% nickel nickels. I've searched 1500.00 in halves and found 1 Franklin, 1 standing liberty and 4 40% halves. Just my experience in the past few months. Most machine wrapped from the bank. (all halves)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4333 Posts |
I've searched $14k in change and have found 191 silvers this year. Halves have been the best producers, and these are all customer rolls. Dimes second best.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Valued Member
United States
397 Posts |
I've only done nickels and have found 4-5 silvers out of $150.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2661 Posts |
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your better off saving your gas. you'll make more money not driving to the bank and back than you would finding silver.
 With silver getting harder and harder to find in rolls I would not even get into the car and waste the gas or my time to get a $1000 worth of anything to search. I will stop by one or two on my way home from work from time to time but they never seem to have anything these days. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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i have had the best luck with 1/2s just this last week I have found 7 40% in customer wraped rolls I dont bother w/ boxes of halves and I just stop at banks that are on my way to and from my job site
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Valued Member
United States
161 Posts |
If you plan on buying boxes, and if it makes any difference to you, then boxes of nickels are less expensive than boxes of the other denominations. I don't have the budget to buy more than $100 at a time.
I have found 20 silver nickels in the last 19 boxes I have searched.
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Valued Member
United States
259 Posts |
I agree. Halves seem to be the best way to find silver, and after that, dimes.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
687 Posts |
Dimes then nickels then halves. Quarters are generally considered to be too rare to be worth the hassle. Many will claim halves produce more silver, but that really depends on your regional supply and how many other people are searching. Halves are certainly more lucrative, but it's REALLY easy to go for long streaks finding nothing and that can be very discouraging. Start with dimes. You'll find 1-2 dimes on average per box and skunks are rare. Once you get your process down and get a little taste of silver, then move to halves. Unless you like nickels (and I *love* nickels) they won't produce better than dimes. You get around one silver nickel a box, but 1 90% dime is more valuable than a 35% nickel and much more easily sold. 1.5 dimes per box and 1 nickel per box seem to be the average that's consistent for most people - please don't chime in with your averages if you've only been through a couple boxes (that's not enough to compare). Halves are all over the place. Some people pull silver all the time, some people rarely pull any.
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Valued Member
 United States
136 Posts |
Thanks for all the help! Iv'e been searching dimes and getting about one per box. Seems to be about average. I'm doing better with dimes than nickels. But I've been to 4 different banks (main branches) and nobody carries halves!  Do you ask banks to order halves? |
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Posted 06/15/2011 12:05 pm
