Today I picked up a couple half dollar boxes. They were stamped with a Feb 28, 2012 certification date. Something new for me I haven't seen them stamped certified before. So, needless to say, I didn't have much hope these boxes would have anything worth keeping. I figured the boxes were newly wrapped and full of recent dumps from searchers. I got about 1/3 the way through my first box and the searching was going as I figured. These were going to be el-skunkos. Then I thought, OK, I will try my 'trick'. I went to my car and got a '64 dime I found earlier today and placed it on the table where I was searching. I have this superstition that I need to have some silver on the table nearby to 'attract' silver. Two rolls later I found a dirty '67. That box gave me two 40% and a nice '64. I opened the second box and immediately saw a silver ender and I thought it would be a great box. It ended up giving me two 40% and a really nice '84 proof. Not great, but better than the old el-skunko. I have been doing this for awhile and it seems to work more often than not. Anyone else want to admit to any quirks while they roll search? I thought this might be an interesting topic.
I like to have silver on me while searching for silver...not that I legitimately think it does any good...but it's kinda funny.
Every time my roommate used to come home while I was searching - just as he walked through the door and yelled "HELLOOOOOOOO", I'd find something. The first time it was a buffalo nickel, the second, a 1968 proof. So one day I was just getting skunked, and I asked him, "hey, can you walk outside then walk back in again?" We joked about this for a bit, and just as I opened my next roll, war nickel!!! Guess I'll have to get him to come home more often
When I'm searching I'll grab loose change of whatever I'm hunting as "roll fillers" for when I pull silver out of the rolls. One coin out, one coin in. As far as figuring out if it works, I'm pretty sure that 50% of the time it works everything time... (That may be an exaggeration...)
For some reason I always feel like this is bad luck, whenever I go to pull loose change to fill spots in rolls that I found a silver in...so I usually just wait until I find some silver, then go to my loose change jar and grab one to replace it.
Well, believe it or not, I was doing a box of halves a few weeks ago and was down to my last 10 rolls and did not find anything. So I got up, got a pen, and on the side wrote "SILVER!!!" and when I opened it I recieved a BU 1964 Kennedy, suprised I did it on my second to last roll, with the other also still being skunks. I wrote again "SILVER!!!" and of course, got 3 40% Kennedys! I decided not to do it on the last roll because I did not want to abuse my new found power
