I have been searching half's for some time for silvers and low mintage. I am ready for a change. What's your choice between quarters and small dollars? Curious what others think.
quarters. small dollars are just... meh. it's something to do, but there isn't much to find really. except to try to put a set together and many are NIFC. I'd do quarters and some occasional small dollars once in a while personally.
That is they way I feel about it. Not over joyed by either. As many quarters as I have searched I have yet to find anything prior to 1965 and all my books are full for state quarters. I hate the Presidential dollars. I do keep some Sacagawea and Susan B Anthony and look for the errored coins.
You will have a hard time finding anything from circulation in a quarter dated prior to 1965 because those coins are made of 90% silver and are worth, currently 18 times their face value. The only way you can get them is to buy them unless you get very lucky. The older nickels should be around from time to time. Even the prior to 1982 Lincoln cents, that are made of solid bronze are getting pulled because of their metal content.
You sure?quarters are sweet for the frog.He always seems to find a few silvers and around 5 W's per box.
I have probably gone through 10 boxes of quarters and have found nothing older than 1965and no proofs. Only 2-W's. I must be in the wrong area.
I'm not lucky as well,you should look at what @Amberlarry22 finds.One time if I recall found a total of 100 or so silver quarter searching through one box.
For me at least, roll- or lot-searching is all about the occasional lucky find. If you want the lab rat to keep mashing that button until it's exhausted, reward button presses with a treat every once in a while, unpredictably.
I searched about 30-40 boxes of quarters in 2019. I had many finds, no silver though, some Ws, a few rim cuds, a couple proof coins. I don't do half dollars or dollar coins, mostly because my banks won't deal with them. hahaha. I have a bank that I can go to get get their turn ins from customers, usually $10-$20 in halfs, and $80 or so in small dollars once a month. I don't find much silver in half dollars either and when I do find some it's the 40%, not the 90%. for me, quarters are just as good as halfs if looking for silver, it's not turning up. Dimes, dimes are good for looking for silver still, not crazy good, but the silver dimes get overlooked if it's a roosevelt. for me it would be quarters, for the chance of silver or W mint mark quarters which are an easy $5 bill or better on the Ebay. there's quite a few quarters that are an easy $5 bill on ebay for stupid reasons, but people buy them. I'll be honest here, back in the 1990s, I came across whole rolls of silver quarters or dimes occasionally. it's been a LONG time since anything like that has happened. but back then there were some opportunities left. Youtube and the roll hunters social media sctick has everyone and their brothers searching change for silver nowadays, when most folks in the early 90s had no idea it was even there. finds are few and far between in any denomination, unless you want the low hanging fruit of the 40% halfs, or the 35% nickels. Even dimes are harder now than back then.
Most of my silver actually comes from dimes I think I have around 20 total within a year period including a few mercs.
yeah, I usually found 1 or more per box (a couple years ago). I think if someone stayed at it on dimes for a year a box or two a week, they could probably find 100+ maybe even 300+ of them. lol small potatos, but it adds up over time. dimes are pretty boring though, I would grab a box here or there, hunting for that elusive 2009D, again before I got cut off from it all. boohoo
I only have about 50 90% silver quarters. I really don't make an effort on any coins after 1964. I bank at a state credit union and they don't have halfs. I use to have a couple of tellers that my wife taught in high school and if they found anything odd, they would save them for me. Even if they weren't worth anything, I would take them, so that they would keep on a look out. One of the tellers caught me when I went to make a deposit. A customer had a deposit with a gold quarter. The teller held it for me. I told her it was plated..not real gold. I gave her a dollar for it anyway. Both have now retired. I really never got anything from them.
My father used to say; climb the latter but don't fall. Silver dollars would be a step up. Just my thought, good luck.
