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$870 in Canadian customer wrapped dimes and quarters yielded $6.70 in US coins. A lot of rolls were marketed with an X and a few checks showed they were already sorted by a coin roll hunter. Silver is very rare but I'd hoped to see more US coins I could make a spread on. Not too be.

Dano wrote:600.00 bwr dimes = skunk
5.00 loose halves = 1964 Kennedy!

So I've been complaining about my poor luck with dimes lately. While dumping today a coin was rejected about halfway through.
Out pops a 1911-D Barber!!!!! Oops! Good thing I got my first pair of glasses earlier this week. And good to know that this machine rejects silver.

Also, 10.00 cwr halves & 250.00 BWR dimes = skunk.

$40 CWRs halves
- skunk

$140 CWRs dimes
1 - 1946 silver
1 - 1964-D silver
1 - Great Britain 5 pence (2001)

$20 CWRs quarters
1 - 1930 Standing Liberty
70 - silver Washington quarters

one each of the following (1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1940-D, 1941, 1941-D, 1941-S, 1942, 1942-D, 1942-S, 1943, 1943-D, 1943-S, 1944, 1944-D, 1944-S, 1945, 1945-D, 1945-S, 1946, 1946-D, 1947, 1947-D, 1948, 1948-D, 1948-S, 1949, 1950, 1950-D, 1951, 1951-D, 1952, 1952-D, 1952-S, 1953, 1953-D, 1953-S, 1954-D, 1955, 1956, 1956-D, 1957, 1957-D, 1958-D, 1959, 1959-D, 1960)

two each of the following (1960-D, 1961, 1961-D, 1962, 1962-D, 1963, 1963-D, 1964, 1964-D)

When I was picking up the halves, the teller told me she had two rolls of silver quarters that were mostly silver. I didn't hesitate to scoop those up at face value.

TwoAndAHalfCents wrote:$40 CWRs halves
- skunk

$140 CWRs dimes
1 - 1946 silver
1 - 1964-D silver
1 - Great Britain 5 pence (2001)

$20 CWRs quarters
1 - 1930 Standing Liberty
70 - silver Washington quarters

one each of the following (1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1940-D, 1941, 1941-D, 1941-S, 1942, 1942-D, 1942-S, 1943, 1943-D, 1943-S, 1944, 1944-D, 1944-S, 1945, 1945-D, 1945-S, 1946, 1946-D, 1947, 1947-D, 1948, 1948-D, 1948-S, 1949, 1950, 1950-D, 1951, 1951-D, 1952, 1952-D, 1952-S, 1953, 1953-D, 1953-S, 1954-D, 1955, 1956, 1956-D, 1957, 1957-D, 1958-D, 1959, 1959-D, 1960)

two each of the following (1960-D, 1961, 1961-D, 1962, 1962-D, 1963, 1963-D, 1964, 1964-D)

When I was picking up the halves, the teller told me she had two rolls of silver quarters that were mostly silver. I didn't hesitate to scoop those up at face value.

Woooohooooo!!!! What a score!!! WTG!!!

Where is the best place to get boxes/rolls? Big city or small town? Or does it matter?

When we were in Sacramento I went through many boxes of all denominations and never found anything except for a few wheat pennies, a few buffalos and a couple war nickels. Every box of quarters, dimes and halves were skunks. So now were in rural Texas where most banks are small and local. I've been thinking about trying again.

Sounds like somebody popped grandpas quarter collection out of the coin books and took them to the bank.

tt

TXSTARFIRE wrote:Sounds like somebody popped grandpas quarter collection out of the coin books and took them to the bank.

tt

Where's Thogey when we need him!?!

Wow - that is phenomenal!!! Congrats!

Also - that teller deserves a bonus!

TwoAndAHalfCents wrote:$40 CWRs halves
- skunk

$140 CWRs dimes
1 - 1946 silver
1 - 1964-D silver
1 - Great Britain 5 pence (2001)

$20 CWRs quarters
1 - 1930 Standing Liberty
70 - silver Washington quarters

one each of the following (1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1940-D, 1941, 1941-D, 1941-S, 1942, 1942-D, 1942-S, 1943, 1943-D, 1943-S, 1944, 1944-D, 1944-S, 1945, 1945-D, 1945-S, 1946, 1946-D, 1947, 1947-D, 1948, 1948-D, 1948-S, 1949, 1950, 1950-D, 1951, 1951-D, 1952, 1952-D, 1952-S, 1953, 1953-D, 1953-S, 1954-D, 1955, 1956, 1956-D, 1957, 1957-D, 1958-D, 1959, 1959-D, 1960)

two each of the following (1960-D, 1961, 1961-D, 1962, 1962-D, 1963, 1963-D, 1964, 1964-D)

When I was picking up the halves, the teller told me she had two rolls of silver quarters that were mostly silver. I didn't hesitate to scoop those up at face value.

$14 loose halves........skunk

$250 box of dimes.........skunk

TXSTARFIRE wrote:Sounds like somebody popped grandpas quarter collection out of the coin books and took them to the bank.

tt

That's what I was thinking too as I was compiling the list. What really amazes me is that the teller knew the rolls were full of silver and just had them sitting in her drawer. Someone picking up a roll of quarters to do their laundry could have wound up with them before too long. But I saved them from that fate.

If you are looking for big scores like this, skip the boxes and bank wrapped rolls and just go for the customer wrapped ones. Find out the policy at different banks regarding how they handle the coins customers bring in. Do they just ship them off or do they hold on to them all? None of the banks around here have coin counters so that option doesn't come into play. If their policy is to hold on to them, find out which branches have tellers that know the value of the good stuff and which ones don't. This should narrow the search down to the branches in the area with lots of coins to search through that tellers can't wait to get out of their drawer/vault. It also helps when one of Thogey's widows lives in the same area.

$80 CWRs halves - skunk
$50 CWRs quarters - skunk
$50 CWRs dimes - skunk

$50 CWRs halves - skunk

$35 BWRs dimes - skunk

$145 CWRs dimes
1 - 1947 silver
1 - Canada (2007)

10.00 CWR dimes and 11.00 loose halves = skunk

First box of halves in a while - skunkeroo.

250.00 bwr dimes =1953 Roosie
100.00 bwr nickels = 1943-P, 1945-P war nickels

$2 large dollars - skunk
$130 CWRs halves - skunk
$40 BWRs dimes - skunk
$100 CWRs dimes - skunk

TwoAndAHalfCents wrote:$40 CWRs halves
- skunk

$140 CWRs dimes
1 - 1946 silver
1 - 1964-D silver
1 - Great Britain 5 pence (2001)

$20 CWRs quarters
1 - 1930 Standing Liberty
70 - silver Washington quarters

one each of the following (1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1940-D, 1941, 1941-D, 1941-S, 1942, 1942-D, 1942-S, 1943, 1943-D, 1943-S, 1944, 1944-D, 1944-S, 1945, 1945-D, 1945-S, 1946, 1946-D, 1947, 1947-D, 1948, 1948-D, 1948-S, 1949, 1950, 1950-D, 1951, 1951-D, 1952, 1952-D, 1952-S, 1953, 1953-D, 1953-S, 1954-D, 1955, 1956, 1956-D, 1957, 1957-D, 1958-D, 1959, 1959-D, 1960)

two each of the following (1960-D, 1961, 1961-D, 1962, 1962-D, 1963, 1963-D, 1964, 1964-D)

When I was picking up the halves, the teller told me she had two rolls of silver quarters that were mostly silver. I didn't hesitate to scoop those up at face value.

Congrats BIG TIME, TwoAndAHalfCents!!! Finding silver in quarters is so tough, that must have felt great. Best I ever had was a $500 bag w/ 21 silvers back in 2010 or 2011. Yours is just a fantastic find.

Jeff

A little late but thought i'd post my yearly numbers for 2015. My best year yet.

Searched 492 boxes, yieled:
797 40%
109 90%

average per box was 1.78 keepers per. Hoping to improve of this this year again.

100.00 bwr nickels = 1943-S war nickel
185.00 bwr dimes = 1944 & 1959 80% Canadians
1 lone 1967 half from tellers tray
10.00 cwr halves = skunk

Weekend box of dimes......skunk......