Silver Dime in Customer Return Bag of Pennies - Question

[camtender]

Purchased a customer return bag from bank machine, had two dimes, one was a 1964.

Question, should I go back and get the full dime bag too or is there a history of silver dimes being rejected and end up in the penny bag?

[PennyPauper]

Go back and get it.
Some machines reject silver,but when they get dirty or need servicing they don't work as good rejecting silver.
Low risk,high reward possible. If you have $1000 to buy it,go Nike-just do it.

Same thing happened to me about a year ago.Found 5 silver dimes in one bag.(2 mercs,2 barbs,and 1 rosie)
I went back to grab the dimes but it didn't fill yet,still on machine.
Few days pass and spent most of it on cent bags,I always wonder what was in there.

[PennyPauper]

Did you go back and get it?

Funny thing happened to me when I picked up some cent bags today.
Teller asked me if I had $1000 dollars.She usually sorts the halfs herself but she offered them to me.
Said she could see some in there.Well after a little hustle I got the cash and went back.
Going to sort them now,hope I have something good to report.
First time I have been lucky enough to get one. Boy am I excited!

[camtender]

Yes I did, how effective is it to side check the dimes? They are so small for someone who needs new glasses and has a hard enough time reading the halfs.................

[NotABigDeal]

I've found several silver dimes in my penny bags, but I've NEVER searched a bag of dimes. Try it though, if you have the time and patience, you never know....

Deal

[camtender]

I've found several silver dimes in my penny bags, but I've NEVER searched a bag of dimes. Try it though, if you have the time and patience, you never know....

Deal

I have never done it either, seemed like way to much work - like a bag of halves X 5................

[thedrifter]

[quote="camtender"]Yes I did, how effective is it to side check the dimes? They are so small for someone who needs new glasses and has a hard enough time reading the halfs.................[/quote

It is very effective to side search dimes. Take about 10 copper/nickel dimes between two fingers and put a silver in the middle, the silver will jump out screaming at you.

[camtender]

I did find a few more, but I don't think I will ever search dimes again by hand...................however.............

On a side note, I spent about an 1.5 hours working with the Ryedale and the silver dimes. I am 99% sure I have figured away to sort the dimes using the Ryedale. First issue I had to address was the dimes being thinner and getting stuck under the penny wheel (since I do not have a dime wheel - do they make one?), In order to remedy this, I found that if you apply a small amount of pressure to the center of the wheel - not enough to stop or hinder the wheel circulation, but enough that you are pressing the coin wheel closer to its base. I first used my index finger, then I machined a 1/2 inch wooden dowel with a concave face to match the center of the wheel, placed the Ryedale inside my drill press and applied a consistent amount of pressure - this worked good as long as I did not drop a bunch of dimes at a time, I would drop them about ever 1/2 second. Obviously putting this level of pressure on the wheel is not good for the machine, but I did it to work for my experiment.

I played with a combination of BU dimes, circulated dimes and found way to get the Rydeale to accept all the silver and reject all the clad.

Correct me if I am wrong, but it seem I have read that the Ryedale will not sort silver???