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<p>[QUOTE="RomaniGypsy, post: 7916692, member: 49234"]Keep it simple. Do pennies. They're cheap, and there's a lot of cool stuff you can find if you're looking. Wheaties are fairly common, and by that I mean one every three rolls or so. Sometimes you find a really nice-looking, shiny old Memorial. S mint marks are also fairly common. And when you find a valuable penny, it's always worth several times face value. A common wheatie is 5 cents - 5x face. A pre-1930 wheatie even in worn condition is 25 cents. Yesterday my wife hit an Indian head penny worth $3 in worn condition - 300x face. To get that same multiplier with a dime, you'd have to hit an uncirculated 1996W, and good luck with that. Quarter? Even an uncirculated W won't be 300x face or $75.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, if you're looking for total dollar value increase on what you hit, pennies are probably the worst. They're just a lot of fun, in my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you have a lot of money to spare, go for dollar coins. There are a lot of NIFCs ("not issued for circulation") out there, and it feels kind of cool to score a coin that had a mintage below 2 million.</p><p><br /></p><p>I find dimes to be bipolar. Most likely to be boring (all 50 go back into the roll because there wasn't a "keeper" among them), most annoying to search because their dates are tiny, but also the most likely to generate a silver coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Halves - they're hit or miss, hits are uncommon, and when you miss, you miss by a mile. Since nobody spends halves, you're pretty much hoping that you hit a collection dump or even an old change jar dump, but recognizing that you're far more likely to hit a "searcher dump". Rolls of all one common date are common in halves searching.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nickels bring me an average of 1-2 "keepers" per roll. Same with quarters. And that's when I keep a lot more than what people on this forum seem to keep. I've never once found a silver quarter, and in the hundreds of nickel rolls I've searched, I've only come up with two silvers, three old Buffaloes, and six 2009's. I find myself keeping a lot more pennies.</p><p><br /></p><p>I read an article that said 98% of all silver coins ever minted have been melted down in times past for bullion. So, mintage figures are no indication of likelihood of hitting silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="RomaniGypsy, post: 7916692, member: 49234"]Keep it simple. Do pennies. They're cheap, and there's a lot of cool stuff you can find if you're looking. Wheaties are fairly common, and by that I mean one every three rolls or so. Sometimes you find a really nice-looking, shiny old Memorial. S mint marks are also fairly common. And when you find a valuable penny, it's always worth several times face value. A common wheatie is 5 cents - 5x face. A pre-1930 wheatie even in worn condition is 25 cents. Yesterday my wife hit an Indian head penny worth $3 in worn condition - 300x face. To get that same multiplier with a dime, you'd have to hit an uncirculated 1996W, and good luck with that. Quarter? Even an uncirculated W won't be 300x face or $75. Of course, if you're looking for total dollar value increase on what you hit, pennies are probably the worst. They're just a lot of fun, in my opinion. If you have a lot of money to spare, go for dollar coins. There are a lot of NIFCs ("not issued for circulation") out there, and it feels kind of cool to score a coin that had a mintage below 2 million. I find dimes to be bipolar. Most likely to be boring (all 50 go back into the roll because there wasn't a "keeper" among them), most annoying to search because their dates are tiny, but also the most likely to generate a silver coin. Halves - they're hit or miss, hits are uncommon, and when you miss, you miss by a mile. Since nobody spends halves, you're pretty much hoping that you hit a collection dump or even an old change jar dump, but recognizing that you're far more likely to hit a "searcher dump". Rolls of all one common date are common in halves searching. Nickels bring me an average of 1-2 "keepers" per roll. Same with quarters. And that's when I keep a lot more than what people on this forum seem to keep. I've never once found a silver quarter, and in the hundreds of nickel rolls I've searched, I've only come up with two silvers, three old Buffaloes, and six 2009's. I find myself keeping a lot more pennies. I read an article that said 98% of all silver coins ever minted have been melted down in times past for bullion. So, mintage figures are no indication of likelihood of hitting silver.[/QUOTE]
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