Roll hunting silver

Just gauging HOW everyone hunts silver with this thread...
I feel like a lot of people just 'edge check' dimes, quarters, and halves for that tell tale silver.
I'm more of a cent and nickel hunter myself, but whenever I delve into the larger denominations I always go coin by coin obv and rev to at the very least take a quick look for varieties, errors, NIFCs, etc.
I was just curious if edge checking is a more common method than I assumed or if the majority of fellow CRHers look at each individual coin...
Let me know, I'm interested in the feedback

 

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I am not a heavy hitter like other people, but I look at every coin. Although I only do a few rolls at a time so it is easier for than than a person with a box.

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I've done roll hunting quite a bit, and been rather successful some years back. Today though, not so much. I've hunted mostly halves but done dimes, nickels, cents as well. By far, halves were the most successful. (about $180.00 90% and around $300.00 40% to date). I gave up searching a while back though due to repeated 'skunks' box after box. I think some can still be had but not like a few years back. Hardly worth he effort anymore. To answer your question though, I looked at everything out of roll. Pulled a lot of NIFC's and many 'oddities' throughout. It was fun when I was finding stuff but, it's dried up badly. I say to always look at them out of roll. You never know what you might run across.

 

For halves I go through so many that i edge check and tone test

 

I understand completely, and I used to do that but you miss a lot of NIFC's (particularly), among others that way.

 

I edge check. I really could care less about NIFC and Panamanians.

 

Edge check. You can tell proofs and NIFCs by the edges. And if you can't, they aren't worth pulling.

 

That's correct I suppose. Kudos. I put a few sets together too so I was looking at every one religiously.

 

I used to look at each coin when I was fillingmy dansco with the common clad stuff. But since the easy ports have been filled, I've only edge checked. And I'm not a variety guy.

 

Okay. Yeah, it gets cumbersome staring at coin after coin and roll after roll but, I enjoyed the jackpots that I occasionally ran across. Biggest one was over a hundred face in Frankies and lotsa 64's. I figured that since I had to look at them anyway, may as well put a couple of primo sets together so, I did. Tired of it now though as I haven't found lots like I used to for some time. Good luck to you though!

 

Edge check Halves. Silver sticks out like a sore thumb usually. Every now and then you get a dirty rim but even then you can see that it is somewhat different than the copper clad. When I first started I looked at every date and checked varities. Not into that anymore it's all about stacking silver. I used to do dimes and I looked at all the dates on those. There were a lot more dirty rims on silver so I didn't want to accidentally toss those into my dump.

 

Yeah, I did edge check almost exclusively at the beginning but the more I read, the more I looked for 'oddities'. I did what you did, only in reverse. Started only edge checking and then thought I might be missing something so, hence the two sets I was able to put together. Someone, somewhere along the way pointed out that you miss stuff so, I looked at them all, painstakingly. I consider it part of my continuing education in this (sometimes painful) hobby.

 

Edge checks are not a guarantee, I have found silver plated 70s dates Kennedies and also dark toned edges on silver halves.

 

I guess if you're volume hunting silver going coin by coin can be futile. I go coin by coin with dimes but have yet to find anything of interest that is non silver

 

Well after you find a silver edge, you look at the coin. Fixing the plated problem. I have missed two dirty edges in my career, but both were caught dumping.

 

I missed a war nickel a while back and caught it in the dump. I felt like a real loser, almost letting silver slip away.

 

Well nickels and cents I look at every coin. I was talking halves. But yeah makes you think.

 

I look at every single coin... This is especially important in Halves, because you can miss varieties like the 74-D motto doubling, 82-P no FG, stray 1987 coins, etc...

 

You mean you haven't found one of these?

 

No. Not yet atleast, hopefully in the near future! I've yet to develop a good eye for errors. So far I've found just one of enough significance to hold onto, a 1970 cent with a clipped planchet