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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The_Cave_Troll, post: 140765, member: 1674&quot;]Well, the bottom line is what GD said, It&#039;s blind luck&quot; but there are some things you can do to avoid unneccessarily handicapping yourself and decreasing your luck.</p><p><br /></p><p>IMO, all silver in half dollar rolls is new.&nbsp; When silver skyrocketed in the early eighties the last remnants of silver were removed and with only very rare exceptions all the silver out there has been placed in circulation by collectors trying to peak the interest of someone down the line or by people who don&#039;t know any better and they just spend their own coins (or someone else&#039;s coins).&nbsp; This means there are basically 2 ways for you to locate silver.&nbsp; 1: Be the first one to request halves after someone has cashed in their hoard and get the coins right back or 2: order boxes from the FED that have been made up of coins that were returned to them from numerous banks (some banks dump returned coins into their counting machine and the tellers are not allowed to extract coins once they are in the machine and counted, which guarantees that the coins will make it back to the FED).&nbsp; The biggest finds will be rolls that are turned in by hoarders, but the odds of finding those hoards are very slim!&nbsp; The harder work (but more consistant method) is to search boxes.&nbsp; My success rate fluctuates from 0.5% to 1.5% for silver in a box and almost all boxes fall into that range, although occassionally I will find a great box or a pointless box.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a bank that will hold any halves that are brought in and will also order boxes for me, so it is the best of both worlds.&nbsp; I then sort the coins and return the rejects to my regular bank as a deposit (so that I&#039;m not charged a counting fee).&nbsp; I&#039;ve done a little research to be sure that the two banks are not only different companies, but they are also serviced by different armored car companies, since this is one more step apart so that I reduce my chances of sorting the same coins more than once.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like GD said, it all boils down to blind luck, some rolls are good and some are totally a waste of time.&nbsp; Just have fun because if you were in it for the money you&#039;re better off getting a part-time job, there just aren&#039;t enough coins out there for it to be as lucrative as a job is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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