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<p>[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 467399, member: 13650"]If you're looking for silver, don't get your hopes up. As I've stated many times here, everybody and their brother, (besides collectors and banks), have sifted through our circulating change for the last 44 years pulling out the silver! There's been thousands before you. Not to mention that the change is getting diluted with billions of newly minted coins every year. </p><p><br /></p><p> One guy on here has posted his findings out of the halves he's searched over the years in his sig line. Over 1100 rolls. That's over 22,000 halves!!! He says he's found *1*- 90% silver and 20- 40% silvers. So you're looking at roughly 1 in 1000 you might find a 40%. </p><p><br /></p><p> Key dates or die errors......your chances are even less. I'm just saying, there's no point in being disappointed about not finding anything after searching 1 roll. </p><p><br /></p><p> Over the last several years, I've saved up several hundred dollars in quarters in a change bank and never had one silver show up. I look at all the change I get. I get 65s, 66s and 67s in change on almost a weekly basis. It is not a coincidence that a 64 or earlier never shows up. </p><p><br /></p><p> In 1964, they minted 1.2 BILLION silver quarters total. And yet it's nearly impossible to find one that's not in a 2x2 selling for $4. Or any of the other billions that came before it. Yet there's an abundance of similarly minted 65s, 66s, and 67s still in circulation everywhere I go.</p><p><br /></p><p> Personally, I would have found a $150 coin I liked, talked the seller into letting it go for $100, kept it forever, and been done with it. But that's just me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 467399, member: 13650"]If you're looking for silver, don't get your hopes up. As I've stated many times here, everybody and their brother, (besides collectors and banks), have sifted through our circulating change for the last 44 years pulling out the silver! There's been thousands before you. Not to mention that the change is getting diluted with billions of newly minted coins every year. One guy on here has posted his findings out of the halves he's searched over the years in his sig line. Over 1100 rolls. That's over 22,000 halves!!! He says he's found *1*- 90% silver and 20- 40% silvers. So you're looking at roughly 1 in 1000 you might find a 40%. Key dates or die errors......your chances are even less. I'm just saying, there's no point in being disappointed about not finding anything after searching 1 roll. Over the last several years, I've saved up several hundred dollars in quarters in a change bank and never had one silver show up. I look at all the change I get. I get 65s, 66s and 67s in change on almost a weekly basis. It is not a coincidence that a 64 or earlier never shows up. In 1964, they minted 1.2 BILLION silver quarters total. And yet it's nearly impossible to find one that's not in a 2x2 selling for $4. Or any of the other billions that came before it. Yet there's an abundance of similarly minted 65s, 66s, and 67s still in circulation everywhere I go. Personally, I would have found a $150 coin I liked, talked the seller into letting it go for $100, kept it forever, and been done with it. But that's just me.[/QUOTE]
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