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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;juice, post: 124269, member: 5333&quot;]This is my first time posting here obviously&nbsp; but I&#039;ve been lurking reading over the forums for a bit now and I&#039;m glad I have found this site. I wanted to get some oppinions on searching large bags of silver from local &#039;mints&#039; or metals dealers.. </p><p><br /></p><p>My father recently decided to pick up a few half bags of silver to search. They were out of full bags so we ended up with 1 each of (500$ face all 90% silver) quarters and dimes. We had done this once before and had a large number of mercs in our dimes but we were not quite sure what to expect.. </p><p><br /></p><p>Though we havent gone through them with a loope yet to look for varieties .. from simple date/type sorting we seem to have a very excelllent variety.. The dimes bag was nearly 50% mercs (70% being 40s) and nearly all of them had visable dates.. there were some very nice condition mercs in there.. we even found 7 barber dimes.</p><p><br /></p><p>From the quarters we pulled about 40 barber and standing liberty quarters and a ton of&nbsp; 30s and 40s quarters. </p><p><br /></p><p>I will post more details on the bags/finds as we do more searching..&nbsp; I was just curious about others experiences with this and if the high number of older type coins was typical of such a purchase or did we luck out? </p><p><br /></p><p>The place we purchased these bags from was a high volume metals exchange that just buys/sells bulk coinage .. I would think that if they were searching them on any level that a lot of the really old coins would have been removed so I&#039;m wondering if there is a high likelyhood of finding something of even modest value in these bags.. ideas?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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