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Is their an easy way to identify silver nickels or must we look at the dates?

mint mark above the dome. (on the back)

late 42-1945

reddirtcoins wrote:mint mark above the dome. (on the back)

late 42-1945

thanks! that means zero silvers after looking through $16 worth of nickels.

Look thorough $84 more and chances are you will find one

I find about 1 per box.

If you're new to this, the easiest silver to find on a budget is dimes:

• You will find them more frequently than silver nickels
• A box of dimes weighs 10lb less than a box of nickels
• A silver dime is worth more than a silver nickel
• Most importantly, dimes in boxes are usually rolled in clear plastic, and you can quickly check the edge of the entire roll to see if any of the dimes are silver. That means you don't even have to check them one-by-one, which is a huge time saver.

Silver edge on left, clad edge on right:

brian0918 wrote:If you're new to this, the easiest silver to find on a budget is dimes:

• You will find them more frequently than silver nickels
• A box of dimes weighs 10lb less than a box of nickels
• A silver dime is worth more than a silver nickel
• Most importantly, dimes in boxes are usually rolled in clear plastic, and you can quickly check the edge of the entire roll to see if any of the dimes are silver. That means you don't even have to check them one-by-one, which is a huge time saver.

Silver edge on left, clad edge on right:

Great! thanks a lot. How many dimes in a box?

Dimes: $250 per box.

Careful when you dump dimes. Many coin counters tend to accept a bunch as pennies. You can quickly get into the negative if you are just finding one silver per box and then losing out on a few bucks when you dump the clad.

which is why I only bulk dump dimes back to BoA where the vault has to double count them.

mint mark is huge above the dome