Anyone ever search quarters, dimes?

Has anyone here ever searched quarter or dime rolls? I can't remember ever getting a silver quarter or dime in change, and today I got $50 at the bank to look through for kicks. The oldest thing I found was 1965 and all the 60's stuff was really worn. Anyone done this and had success recently with quarters or dimes? By the way, they didn't have half dollars!

 

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Sure. I filled out a lot of my pocket change collection (in Harris folders) this way.

 

I used to search dimes when I first started collecting(6 months ago ), but rarely found anything. Plus they are tiny and a pain to deal with, for me. Don't like quarters personally, so I have never searched quarter rolls.

Mostly I search cents. I would like to search halfs but they are difficult to find around these parts.

Good luck!

 

I have...but if you really want to find much of anything, you have to get a very large amount from your bank. For example, I ask my bank to order $1000 in Kennedy halves from the Fed and I might find a handful of silver. I also look for coins in very good condition to replace the ones already in my folders. Quantity is usually the key to finding anything.

 

my friend found 10 40% halves in 2 rolls. wow! 2X face

i tried halves ( thats why he did) and i didnt find anything. i've also done dimes and quarters (lot easier when you play poker every week) and not found anything in over a year.

i like dime they look like little pirate treasures.

 

I never had much success searching for silver in rolls other than half dollars, and rolls of halves are hard to come by around here for some reason. But I have some fun filling folders with circulated clad coins to relax. My newest technique is to search antique shops. Many of them have small selections of old silver coins. While on vacation last week, I found a box of pre-1965 Roosevelt dimes listed for $0.35 each. The woman who ran the shop told me she didn't know much about coins. After verifying the dates [all have easily readable dates], I just said I'd take them all without counting. It turned out that there were exactly 100 dimes. So basically I bought 7 ounces of silver for $35 dollars. I haven't searched them yet for any key dates or coins in better than average condition.

 

My best result was when I drove a few miles out of town to buy from a bank two rolls of half dollars. The bank was recommended by one of the posters at Coin Talk. At the time I only had two Kennedy halves in my pocket change, so getting two rolls was a bonanza. I added about 13 halves to my pocket change out of the 40 coins in the rolls, I had about six coins I gave to my sister who needed them for her collection, and I had about another four or five I gave to my son-in-law for his startup coin collection. The rest were duplicates.

I have enough holes in my pocket change halves collection that when I buy two more rolls, I should be able to plug quite a few holes again. (Note to self: get more rolls of halves).

 

I buy dimes because I’m collect Roosevelt die verities. I average about 1 silver dime every 10 rolls though. . I also get a few rolls of quarters ever 2 weeks to make vending machine change. At least I never have to take the rolls back to the bank. In two mouths I’ve found $1 in silver coins and someone gave me a $2 dollar bill to brake.

 

interesting I didn't even have to search a roll last week to find a silver dime all I had to do was clean my car, lol though it's a 1964 it looks almost flawless the reverse has no wear or even toning however the front is a little black. My buddies girlfriend works at a pizza shop and she just passed up a 1932 quarter said some lady saw it and asked her if she could give her 25 cents for it, well my buddies girl friend told me that she sold it to her for 25 cents and told me that the lady must have been dumb or something lol then I told her what the metal was worth alone. I think she would have picked up on it if someone was asking to have it for face value, guess not.

 

This morning I stopped at a bank and asked if they had half dollar rolls. No, I was told, a customer comes in twice a week and searches them, he's a coin collector. "One of those yahoos from CoinTalk is stealing my thunder!" I thought. Not to be deterred I brought home $40 in nickels. One of the rolls was apparently straight from the mint -- in 1987! A whole roll of BU 1987 Ds!

 

How can you tell whether its silver? Is it by the year it was minted?

Just curious, If the coins are really worn and has no value as a collector item can you sell it for the value of silver?

 

Pre 1965 dimes are 90% silver. I rounded down a bit to account for wear and assumed each dime has .07 ounces. Another way to do it is to figure out the multiple of face value that they should sell for based on the silver content. This would be about 5X face value, but probably a bit less if you tried to sell to a dealer since they have to make a profit too. The ones I bought aren't really that worn and all have readable dates, but probably have minimal collectors value [I haven't checked them carefully yet]. I don't think I would have much trouble selling them at a small profit on Ebay based on the silver content, but I plan to keep them for now. Silver is currently underpriced in my opinion and I love silver coins of all types when they can be purchased for less than bullion value. This particular transaction wasn't as good as finding them in rolls, but I couldn't pass it up.

 

I have $2, so I can't afford to get any

 

I've finished searching $1,500.00 in Kennedy halves this week and the first $1,000.00 yielded nothing other than a 2004-P. The last $500.00 turned up 3-'69's, 7-'68's, 5-'67's, 2-'66's, and 2-'64's. The boxes are hit or miss and sometimes you strike gold(well silver) and sometimes you find nothing.

I don't have any problem finding banks that have boxes of 50 rolls. Many people in my area search halves and the banks around here order a couple of boxes a week from the Fed. You just have to ask your bank to order a box and the Fed truck comes every week.

 

Pacc76, well you are too, right ? If the bank would do that for the other customer, I don't see why they wouldn't do that for you; unless, maybe, you don't have an account there.

 

I only have one bank in town here that is snippy about having an account with them before they give you any large quantity of rolled coins. So I got around this by having my three sons keep their savings accounts there. They still look up the kids accounts before they do any transactions.

 

That'd be fun ! Were they actually in a U.S. Mint wrapper or in a bank wrapper ?

 

It was a bank wrapper, but the kind you can only open by peeling it open. I was surprised to see those beautiful coins in there.

 

I guess it would have to be. I think the Mint sells coins in bags for redistribution, and then the coins get wrapped by the distributors or banks. Others here can be more definitive.

 

I've had some success there, but only because one of the best local coin shops is inside an antiques store. The dealer has a fairly small area within the shop, but still manages to have more interesting coins than the other two shops I sometimes go to here in town. And, he seems to be constantly buying and selling AGEs, which the other two shops seem to have no interest in other than selling off their existing inventory.

I think I've read somewhere (probably Coin Talk) that some collectors have done well with certain pawn shops. The pawn shop owners aren't coin-savvy, and so their posted prices can be way too high or way too low. Steer for the latter.