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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2529192, member: 12789&quot;]If your machine wrapped rolls are coming from different sources your chances go up.&nbsp; I have found dimes in cent rolls, British and Irish sixpence in cent and dime rolls, British 5 pence coins in dime rolls, 20pence in nickel rolls.&nbsp; Mexican pesos in nickel rolls.&nbsp; I have also found .800 fine Canadian 10 cent coins, a Philippines 10 centavos from 1944.&nbsp; Some of my more unusual finds in MWR are plastic play coins!&nbsp; Now a lot of coin machines don&#039;t take silver but even those I know won&#039;t usually sometimes let stuff slip through because it gets caught in post audit at the credit union when they have problems with the machine.</p><p><br /></p><p>From what I have observed Coinstar machines tend to kick out silver, but older credit union and bank machines take it - which is why it gets into MWR through armored car companies rolls.&nbsp; I know that one of my banks machines doesn&#039;t weed out coins by electronic signature, but only by dimensions and weight - which is why in a bag of $1000 worth of dimes you can find anywhere from 4-10 silver dimes.&nbsp; I have seen the machine and a good guess is that it dates from the 1970s and continues to soldier on because it doesn&#039;t get heavy use anymore - the transit authority that had an account with the bank was the major source of coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>So finding silver in rolls or bags has to get a bit more analytical, you have to figure out within a reasonable degree what the sources of your coins are.&nbsp; If they are all coming from Coinstar machines you can nix finding most silver unless it is a bit worn and underweight.&nbsp; If it comes from bank machines or credit unions that have machines that sort by weight, dimensions and not electronic signature like Coinstar machines your chances of finding silver go up.</p><p><br /></p><p>The same applies for CWR - customer wrapped rolls.&nbsp; You never know what your going to get until you open every last one of them.&nbsp; Sometimes treasures come out of the woodwork.</p><p><br /></p><p>Above all patience and persistence is the only way to insure you find stuff.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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