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Message:: [QUOTE="theshoegazer, post: 2036641, member: 69354"]Halves - upside is sometimes you can have a big score, downside is that they can be tough to get and possibly already searched by others. Quarters - they seem pretty picked through, though in the past year I've gotten 1 silver in change, and another one from a bank teller. I live in the city, where there's always the need for quarters for parking meters, laundry, etc. Dimes - upside is that they're so small that a silver one will pass through many hands unnoticed. I check my change religiously and I nearly spent a silver dime a few weeks ago. The big downside to dimes is that they're tedious to look through: tiny dates and not a lot to look for outside of silver, proofs, and a couple of rare errors. Prepare to get your hopes dashed finding silver-edged coins that turn out to be foreign. Nickels - fun to search, lots of possible treasures (war nickels, buffaloes, early key date Jeffersons, low-mint 2009's). Probably your best shot at finding something interesting, though finding a coin worth more than a buck or two is rare. Pennies - also fun to search, and wheaties are still common enough that you'll get 1 every couple of rolls. There's also a lot of errors that can be valuable if you've got a good eye. You can get a lot of them for a small amount of money, obviously.[/QUOTE]