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So I bought a few $250 boxes of dimes the other day and finally found time to start going through them . Opened 4 rolls before my girls took my attention away. In the first 4 rolls I found 2 Rosie's. Can't wait to go through the rest!$

oh, oh... now you're hooked

Not to jinx you but I have done that before and then found none in the rest of the box.
Hope you hit it though

Good luck with the rest!

silverstacker wrote:So I bought a few $250 boxes of dimes the other day and finally found time to start going through them . Opened 4 rolls before my girls took my attention away. In the first 4 rolls I found 2 Rosie's. Can't wait to go through the rest!$

I guess the rest of them were Mercury dimes

Cent1225 wrote:Not to jinx you but I have done that before and then found none in the rest of the box.
Hope you hit it though

Well almost... 4 silver dimes in the first $250 box. I'm happy it could have been zero

0-1 unusual
2 is average
3-4 great
5+ awesome

That's my own unscientific analysis from local experience. Mostly String boxes, but last week I even found 2 in one of those normally awful clear tube boxes (from Brinks maybe?)

Morsecode wrote:0-1 unusual
2 is average
3-4 great
5+ awesome

That's my own unscientific analysis from local experience. Mostly String boxes, but last week I even found 2 in one of those normally awful clear tube boxes (from Brinks maybe?)

I'm semi-new to opening these boxes and searching for 90% but I have to say that if 0-1 is unusual then that's better then I expected. Thanks for your analysis

Cu Penny Hoarder wrote:

silverstacker wrote:So I bought a few $250 boxes of dimes the other day and finally found time to start going through them . Opened 4 rolls before my girls took my attention away. In the first 4 rolls I found 2 Rosie's. Can't wait to go through the rest!$

I guess the rest of them were Mercury dimes

Ha! I see what you mean. My bad

I used to search for them lil slivers. I can tell you its a volume game, in three years I pulled almost 3,000 of the lil buggars. Guess I got them all as last time I tried it took 10 boxes to get one sliver- get them while you can. HH Mark

ME Co. wrote:I used to search for them lil slivers. I can tell you its a volume game, in three years I pulled almost 3,000 of the lil buggars. Guess I got them all as last time I tried it took 10 boxes to get one sliver- get them while you can. HH Mark

Wow I would be very disgruntled if in ten boxes I got one shiny one. Any luck with quarters?

Forget quarters. No-one has much luck with those.

Dimes fly under the radar because of their size, and who besides coin people look at dimes anyway? Halves don't circulate at all, except between bank vaults and the random old hoard cashed in at face value. Enough to keep Half Hunting alive.

Silver quarters ring out and are handled by too many people. Along the way, chances are high someone else will pull them out of circulation before you do.

Morsecode wrote:Forget quarters. No-one has much luck with those.

Dimes fly under the radar because of their size, and who besides coin people look at dimes anyway? Halves don't circulate at all, except between bank vaults and the random old hoard cashed in at face value. Enough to keep Half Hunting alive.
Silver quarters ring out and are handled by too many people. Along the way, chances are high someone else will pull them out of circulation before you do.

Makes sense. Thanks for the advice. I will stick with the dimes. My grandfather had old Whitman books that he started but didn't complete before his death. While going through looking for the silver I'm also trying to complete the dime collection. I vowed not to purchase the dimes to fill the spots that are missing. Makes the process much longer because I'm now looking for dates and mint marks but I enjoy it. Thanks!

silverstacker wrote:

Morsecode wrote:Forget quarters. No-one has much luck with those.

Dimes fly under the radar because of their size, and who besides coin people look at dimes anyway? Halves don't circulate at all, except between bank vaults and the random old hoard cashed in at face value. Enough to keep Half Hunting alive.
Silver quarters ring out and are handled by too many people. Along the way, chances are high someone else will pull them out of circulation before you do.

Makes sense. Thanks for the advice. I will stick with the dimes. My grandfather had old Whitman books that he started but didn't complete before his death. While going through looking for the silver I'm also trying to complete the dime collection. I vowed not to purchase the dimes to fill the spots that are missing. Makes the process much longer because I'm now looking for dates and mint marks but I enjoy it. Thanks!

I met a guy at the coin counter several years ago who told ME he did quarters and usually found 1/box so when I cashed out I got a box, sure enough I got a sliver. Next day I got another box with 2 silvers. Then I went on a 10 box skunk streak and quit. Several weeks or months later I tried again but they could only spare a rack which is $100, got 19 out of that and for the next 2 weeks I bought every box this banks branches could spare ending with another long skunk streak, all told I got 250 silvers, most in one box was 58.
There was a lot of stuff showing up in boxes when the economy fell and the change jars got cashed in, glad I was a CRH, it kept ME afloat HH all, Mark

Quarters are well picked over.

Its pretty much the exact same thing with nickel metal quarters in Canada now - 25c are being mechanically sorted and removed much faster than any other face value. It almost feels "planned" like there is some greater power out there that leaves dimes with some value in circulation to keep the masses happy for decades beyond when the other coins have run dry.