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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 8230509, member: 105098&quot;]My opinion, with &quot;junk silver&quot; or 90% and 40%, it was picked through for better dates by 1950, and by 1964 onward when silver was removed, this is where the hoarding really happened. Better dates just really aren&#039;t going to appear in most cases. BUT I&#039;d say to go through them anyways because who you sell it to probably will and it might as well be you that finds something!</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyways, I&#039;d say to definitely sort it by</p><p>1. quarters, dimes, half dollars from 1964 or earlier (90%) 10 dimes, 4 quarters, two half dollars, all works out the same.</p><p>2. half dollars from 1965-1970 (40%)</p><p>3. any silver dollars from 1878-1935 you might have, (they should pay more for that regardless.)</p><p>4. anything earlier dated or foreign which would need to all be calculated at different rates.</p><p><br /></p><p>my opinion if you do this, the person you are dealing with will recognize it was sorted and you aren&#039;t some rando that doesn&#039;t know what they have and wants them to sort through it. it will go a lot quicker.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d also say if you have BU uncirculated, you might try to get a little premium on that. there really isn&#039;t a &quot;AU&quot; qualifier for junk silver, but absolutely there is Average Circulated, and then BU and BU sells for about $30 more for quarters or halves than an average circulated roll.&nbsp; this &quot;should&quot; apply to you if you do the sorting for them and it&#039;s clear it&#039;s BU. if they won&#039;t I&#039;d say sell the BU stuff on Ebay, the people there will pay the higher price for it. Even as roll of 1964 BU dimes they will sell for $20 more than a roll of average circulated coin.&nbsp; I mean you can&#039;t nickel and dime them too much before they are like &quot;leave my store!&quot; but they will sell like walkers at a different rate than franklins, and franklins at a different rate than Kennedy&#039;s ect. same goes with dimes and quarters.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I sell my wheat cent accumulation as a pile, I will get like 2 cents each, maybe 3 cents each. maybe like $2 a roll even, , but if I sort them, and have rolls at 1909-1919, 1920-1929, 1930-1939 and the rest as &quot;common&quot;, I can get a better price for the sorting on the earlier date rolls because the dealer doesn&#039;t have to do the sorting work and can sell them for a higher price, like the 1909-1919 roll for $15, the 1920-1929 for like $10 and the 1930-1939 for maybe $8 so clearly he can pay more once it&#039;s verified it&#039;s as represented.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>pretty much as far as junk silver goes, if it&#039;s not BU it&#039;s all average circulation until it&#039;s &quot;culls and damaged&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess it matters if you decide the effort is worth it or not really to squeeze out a few extra dollars.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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