Roll-searchers, post your results!

On a side note, I am pulling a lot of VERY attractive coins out of circulation, and am thinking of buying a few books to fill with them.

Do y'all think it would be worth my time to fill a few extras of each book, and see if my local coin shop will buy full books at a premium? Or does that not tend to sell?

 

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Below are my 2011 totals for boxes and BWR of halves. Note that I started only edge searching mid-year.

# of boxes: 180.7 (9037 rolls)
Value: $90,370
Silver coins per box: 3.663

Walkers: 31
Franklins: 42
90% JFKs: 75
40%: 514
Proofs: 31

Best box #1: 12/12/2011, 1 Walker, 2 Franklins, 3 90%ers and 41 40%ers = 47 silvers
Best box #2: 3/9/2011, 3 Walkers, 2 Franklins, 3 90%ers and 30 40%ers = 38 silvers
Best box #3: 2/16/2011, 3 90%ers, 26 40%ers = 29 silvers

Good luck to everyone in 2012!

 

Just finished 2 boxes of halfs.
40% 2
Franklin 1

The interesting find for me was the 12 74D doubled die obv, all AU+.

 

BOO i have the day off and all the banks are closed!

 

Nice silver totals!

 

2011 ended with a dud for me. On Saturday, box of dimes: Skunk. Box of halves: Skunk.

I did find 1 40%er at another bank which had 4 halves so I did find a little silver.

Happy New Year everyone.

 

Over the weekedn did 1 box of dimes, got 1 64.

also a tellers tray '67 half.

 

Great job 'shine!

Since I can't find the totals thread, I'll post here as well.

for 2011:

Dimes:

558 Roosies, 64 Mercs. Total dimes = 622

Plus a few 80% Canadian, & 1 50% Can.

Quarters

87 Washingtons, 1 '66 Canadian

Halves:

483 40%
104 90% Kens
7 Frankies
2 Walkers

7 Proofs

Dollars:
1 '71 Ike 40%
1 '27 Peace Dollar
1 '01O Morgan

 

Very impressive Inquisitive. How did you find so many Quarters?

 

Nice tellers!

Here is my best find (for quarters)

http://www.cointalk.com/t10176-797/#post1162386

 

hi! im new to the forum. i purchased $40 dillars in nickels last week from a bank. i found a 1942-S war nickel 3 canadian, a sweedish nickel and at least a dozen pre 1960. what do you think?

 

Not too shabby!!


For me...I picked up a box of halves. SKUNK!

 

Box of Dimes - Solid 2011 P again
Ughhh, not a good way to start the new year
I did manage to order two boxes of halves for Thursday and hopefully this will keep my 3 box streak alive.
HOTN

 

2011 Totals

179 - 40% Kennedy
24 - 90% Halves (19 Ken, 3 Frankies, 2 WL)
2 - Washington Quarters
156 - Roosie's
11 - Mercury Dimes
5 - War Nickels

Searched around $45,000 total dollars worth.
$25k in dimes
$15K in halves (I had one major score with 100 x 40%er's)
My average halves per box is just over 2.
The other 5K is assorted dimes, nicks, loose halves.

I'm hoping to search more halves this year and a goal of mine would be to collect $200 face in silver (40% and 90% combined)

HOTN

 

Hello fellow coin roll searchers. I am new to the forum, but have been searching rolls for a couple of years now (mostly nickels and pennies). I have a question for all you silver hunters out there. What do you do with your finds? Do you keep everything (ie hoard), or do you sell it off?

Today, I picked up 10 rolls of halves and $9.50 in loose halves. In the loose halves, I got 9 1968 Kennedy's. I haven't opened up the 10 rolls yet, but can see that there are 3 more 1968's.

My initial thought, was to put what I need in my book (completing the Kennedy set), keep a few extras for myself and sell the rest. Not sure if this is the best idea, and this is why I would be interested in hearing what you guys do.

Thanks

 

It's been a couple of years and about 12 boxes of halves since I have found any silver. Over the Holidays I thought that I would get a box of halves just for kicks and giggles. I found a nice proof on the end of a roll. When I opened it up it was a 1970 S. I've never got one of them from searching so it was a great surprise. They only hits on it of course were from the rolling machine.

 

$40 of CWR halves

64, 68x3

 

I didn't have a chance to chime in on this. If there is any weight to the theory that people cash in old coins this time of year to pay for gifts, etc. you are doing yourself a disservice by not hunting at least through the end of the month. If time is a factor, just cut down your volume for awhile and don't put any pressure on yourself to do more.

 

First dime box of the year = 1 Roosie.

In addition to halves, I am going to keep stats on my dime searching.

 

2 boxes of Halves...2 more SKUNKS! The past 3 weeks have been really bad for Halves. This is about 14 out of 16 skunks!

COME ON....I NEED SILVER!!!!