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I put my Bu coins in coin tubes. I'm afraid I will leave a fingerprint on the coin or the air will change it.

 

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Has anyone found any silver quarters roll hunting? Is it worth searching for them? Has anyone filled up a Roosevelt silver dime book off of roll hunting?

 

The figures I've seen quoted most recently are about one silver quarter in 10,000. Dimes are a bit more common, but you'd search a LONG time to fill a book.

Edit: People have surely done it, but probably not recently. (I still have a few dime books that have spots labeled for 1965-D...)

 

Quarters are definitely the hardest thing to find in circulation. I've found 5 (4 in rolls, 1 in a Coinstar) in 5 1/2 months.

Dimes are slightly easier to find. I don't know of anyone trying to fill up a Silver Dime book, but I'm sure there are people out there. I know it would be pretty hard, given that the 1955 coins are pretty much next to impossible to find in circulation. I still remember going through my Grandpa's hoard of dimes many years ago, and finding a single 1955-S (no other 55s) among 1,000 or so coins.

I have heard of people trying to complete books of Jeffersons, Wheat Cents, and even Buffalo Nickels out of circulation. I'm working on a Jefferson set (missing 38S, 39D, 43D, 50D, and 55) and a Lincoln (1934-1958) set at the moment.

 

Same here. Either them, or Dansco albums (which are in my safe). My folders only go up to XF/AU.

 

That must look funny!

 

All of the silver quarters I've found in the past 3 years have come from customer wrapped rolls, though I've only bought the equivalent of 3 and a half boxes of BWRs in that time. I don't get more than 10 rolls of quarters at a time, usually, and some are always customer rolls. Quarters and dimes are boring if you have all of the post-silver coins in your collection.

 

I use a good quality album that won't "tone" them. When I press the coin into the slot, I use a clean sheet of paper between my finger and the coin. Keeps the finger prints off. Some still don't like the fact that the plastic cover has to slide over the coin but these are business strike coins, and not grade 69 or 70. I don't think I have ever lost a grading point to the albums.

 

agreed that silver in quarters is almost never
you could fill a quarter album from circulation starting with 1965 no problem, but the silver years would be really really tough.
Pretty much the same for dimes. there are 3 that are very low mintage and so were very hard to find even when I was a kid and starting to collect (the late sixties)

 

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/finished-my-frankie-set.112495/page-2

I stopped updating this, but did finish the dimes a while back, all from the wild.

 

From junk silver I have pulled out #128 55P; 10 55D; and #14 55S's

 

Cool! What years did you spend searching (last update was from 2011, not sure when you started), and what rough amount of change did you go through? $1K, $10K, $100K...?

I would guess we've reached something of a "steady state", where silver coins are being deposited or spent by thieves or heirs about as fast as collectors are pulling them from circulation. Events like the silver spike in 2011 might shift the balance for a while, but I'd expect the longer-term decline to be pretty slow at this point. (Although I did pass a pawn-shop-type place this morning with a big electronic sign saying "SILVER IS UP, TIME TO SELL"...)

 

I don't keep track of how much I search, but probably closer to 100K. May even be closer to 500K. Started in 2010, was done March 2013 (IIRC I bought the 50S at a show, but found it in a roll soon thereafter).

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/roll-searchers-post-your-results.10176/page-1339#post-1664188

 

I left a couple of silver coins in 2×2s on a dresser that gets daily sun for a month and they yellowed. :-/

Should've put them right in my Dansco.

I would've thought the 2×2s were protection enough, but I guess coins hate sunlight. Sigh.

Do you guys use desiccant with your coins? I'm trying to figure out if it's air or sunlight or both that's toning my coins. I know that old flip books can hurt coins (acid paper). I've already replaced my old Whitmans with Danscos for my primary collection.

 

Danged... congrats! You must have gone through some "unsearched" hoards then. Everytime I go through the "junk silver" at my local coin shop, the 55s are rarely found. I know a lot were put away in higher grades.

 

It's both. Always try to keep your coins in a cool, dry place. I keep the main part of my collection in a safe. Humidity is the biggest enemy. Some silica gel packets are essential as they absorb the moisture. I keep like 5 of them in my safe.

 

Actually, some of the low mintage 2009-2012 dated coins are extremely difficult to find in circulation. Since I'm out on the West coast, the Philly coins are quite a challenge. I still am one short - 2009-P North Mariana Islands.

 

Awesome!!! Out of curiosity, how many silver dimes did you have to find before you completed it?

 

That's the same thing I do with Quarters. Never more than $100 at a time. I've found 2 in MWRs, 2 in CWRs, and 1 via Coinstar.

 

Approx. 1300.