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<p>[QUOTE="spy88, post: 9542, member: 968"]Searching for silver coins from bank rolls these days can be a disappointing and time consuming prospect. I will not say it's impossible to find any, but it may take you many rolls to go thru before you do.</p><p><br /></p><p>My suggestion would be to attempt your search in Jefferson nickels---not for silver but for the older dates/mm. With pennies, dimes, quarters and halves, there are easily noticed "tells" (wheat backs, silver rims). But with the Jeff series, you must check every coin for the date/mm.</p><p><br /></p><p>I recently went thru 50 rolls as a test and found dates from all 8 decades that Jeffs has been in circulation. About 6 months ago, I did the same thing with over $500 worth of rolls. Found a 1939 DDR, quite a few silver war years, and a pretty good start of other dates/mms for an album. </p><p><br /></p><p>Would be VERY hard pressed to do this with any other series![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="spy88, post: 9542, member: 968"]Searching for silver coins from bank rolls these days can be a disappointing and time consuming prospect. I will not say it's impossible to find any, but it may take you many rolls to go thru before you do. My suggestion would be to attempt your search in Jefferson nickels---not for silver but for the older dates/mm. With pennies, dimes, quarters and halves, there are easily noticed "tells" (wheat backs, silver rims). But with the Jeff series, you must check every coin for the date/mm. I recently went thru 50 rolls as a test and found dates from all 8 decades that Jeffs has been in circulation. About 6 months ago, I did the same thing with over $500 worth of rolls. Found a 1939 DDR, quite a few silver war years, and a pretty good start of other dates/mms for an album. Would be VERY hard pressed to do this with any other series![/QUOTE]
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