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Message:: [QUOTE="BigsWick, post: 264059, member: 3534"]Good advise. Tonight I went through a box of halves. I found a '63-D Franklin, a '64 Kennedy, two '67 Kennedys, a gold-plated '89 Kennedy, and four '04-D Kennedys. Probably my most unusual box I've had in close to two years. Ever use "sound" to detect silver? Last week I searched a box of halves by simply looking at the edges, a "fast" search if you will. I pulled 6 silvers on sight alone, but missed 3 visually. I located them by "shuffling" each roll before dropping it into the returns bag. Visually checking each coin is by far and away the best strategy to follow. As your experience grows you'll be able to develop time saving methods, but there is always a chance that a keeper will slip past you. Roll searching can be a lot of fun. It is an inexpensive way to stay involved in the hobby of coin collecting and searching rolls can be very rewarding at times. My best pull so far is a 1949-S Franklin that would probably garner MS-64. I've put together an almost complete set of Franklins pulled exclusively from rolls.I'm missing just 2 coins. Proofs are always a welcome find from the usual. To date I've found 20 Kennedys. Most are very circulated, but a couple still look almost still proof-like with just a nick or two here and there. Kind of makes me wish I'd bought a Dansco album with slots for proofs.....[/QUOTE]