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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 26450196, member: 4626"]It's not impossible... but I've found, on average, about 2 silver dimes per BOX (2500 dimes. I felt incredibly lucky the one time I found 5 silver dimes in the same box, and some of them were dates I already had. So... finding them all for face value isn't impossible, but it would take a long time lol. I may try to get some bulk lots of random silver Roosevelts some time but that's kind of pricey (but still cheaper than buying them individually).</p><p><br /></p><p>Silver war nickels were surprisingly not that hard to find and only had to resort to buying one of them (1944-S) to finish the set. I find not as many people seem to care about those, if they even know about them. (Ironically silver war nickels actually have the most silver content per dollar of face value of any circulating US silver coin, but silver stackers seem mostly not interested in them and my local coin store didn't want to buy my extras. So I'll hang on to the extras of those.)</p><p><br /></p><p>P.S. Lincoln cents are almost finished too, but the 4 I'm still missing are basically the rarest ones: 1909-S, 1909-S VDB, 1914-D, & 1922 plain.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 26450196, member: 4626"]It's not impossible... but I've found, on average, about 2 silver dimes per BOX (2500 dimes. I felt incredibly lucky the one time I found 5 silver dimes in the same box, and some of them were dates I already had. So... finding them all for face value isn't impossible, but it would take a long time lol. I may try to get some bulk lots of random silver Roosevelts some time but that's kind of pricey (but still cheaper than buying them individually). Silver war nickels were surprisingly not that hard to find and only had to resort to buying one of them (1944-S) to finish the set. I find not as many people seem to care about those, if they even know about them. (Ironically silver war nickels actually have the most silver content per dollar of face value of any circulating US silver coin, but silver stackers seem mostly not interested in them and my local coin store didn't want to buy my extras. So I'll hang on to the extras of those.) P.S. Lincoln cents are almost finished too, but the 4 I'm still missing are basically the rarest ones: 1909-S, 1909-S VDB, 1914-D, & 1922 plain.[/QUOTE]
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