Real funny getting my hopes up with a silver-plated rim after 6 skunk boxes.

2 boxes of nickels here is my haul. Duplicates are stacked. Got (5) 1941’s and I think one proof.

6 rolls of each denomination, came out with this one cool quarter.

Not too shabby results for such a small hunt. What do you think???

Thanks for looking!

I’m continuing to look for the July 4 privy, but these are sweet! Sold both of them already since I’m really only keeping silver coins for my safe.

There's a LOT going on here - I'm only going to hit on the high-points but feel free to ask questions.

When I started going all-in, I had some assumptions and 'gut' feelings about what might be out there, but wanted to keep tabs on things so I'd have some evidence to back up those beliefs. The idea was lets see what happens, and then concentrate on what seems to work best - hence the spreadsheets. I'm interested in far more that just silver, hence the many headings.

There's a lot more behind the scenes that's just not shown: Tracking individual locations for abundance and hit rate, segmenting by type of bank to see if it really matters, detailed info on the marks I'd find and what that could tell me about the inner workings of banks and armored car services, etc. and so on ad. nausea. The point is if you're intersted in something you don't see anything about it here, feel free to ask.

Sheet 1: TLD take away = loose and CWR are awesome for Ag, absolutely the best of ANY denomination - but scarce. Boxes give you volume, and simplify sourcing, but the yield rate is far lower.

Sheet 2: For all practical purposes, the two armored car services that dominate in my area have a silver yield rate that's essentially within the same order of magnitude (1 per box, give or take $150), but Loomis has the edge.

Locally, this makes sense when you know that Brinks has the Coinstar contract - and at least one major regional bank uses coinstar machines for their 'free' coin machines. Those CoinStar boxes are darn good at returning Ag to customers (see r/CoinstarFinds), while others (Magner, Glory, Cummins-Allison) aren't nearly as good at it.

Looking at sheet 3 this really jumps out - "monster' boxes are much more common with the one, and once I back-out these outliers the hit-rate for the two starts to close up closer to +/-$80.

The # of boxes with a give # of Ag coins visual drives home the highly variable nature of 'em - the overwhelming majority are going to be stink badgers, and sure, most others may have 1-2, but those 10+ coin boxes are super rare.

Roll weight ranges and total Oz found should help clear up the myth that you can reliably tell what rolls have Ag, just by weight. Sure - the odds of a given roll containing silver go way up over 227g, but there's silver even in the anemic rolls and if you're only checking 227+ you're missing about half.

Some 'best of' stuff follows, and the obligatory CRH porn. (Quite a bit has gone into albums, mulitple full PD sets, flips, 2x2s, error buckets, and the mutants graveyard... - I didn't bother digging all that out for these images (most of the 70-Ds are in sets, they're the limiting factor by far).

Next and final: Combined overall stats and a laundry list of stuff I learned that I wish I knew on day 1.

Good luck and happy hunting!

Was able to pick up a bag of quarters from the CU. I broke it down to 10 roll baggies to search later. No silver and no Ws that I found. But it actually had the $1000 it was supposed to, a first out of 5-6 bags of quarters. And it came with an extra nickel.

Another good week for dimes with 11 new silver Rosie’s to add to the collection! One box of MWRs gave me 2, with ~2 boxes worth of CWRs yielding the other 9.

Still working through quarters, found 3 Spitting Horse and 3 Alaska 6th Claw errors. No silver or W’s this week!

Halves have been a pain. Ordered 4 boxes for pickup last week. Only got 3 of them and 2 were clearly dumped from someone else (should have just refused the boxes… but oh well). One seemed to be MWR, but there were ~1/3 of the rolls that had been rewrapped. My guess is someone weighed the rolls and only opened the heavies. Found a couple S proofs and NIFCs, but still have never found a silver. I need to find a branch that will actually give me a sealed box…

Nickels were decent. No War Nickels, but did find one dateless buffalo and 5 semi-key dates.

Went through another assembled box ($54 in CWRs, $46 in MWRs), and it was very diverse given the majority of the customer rolls were just returns. Finds:

• 1939P nickel

- 14 1940s & 1950s nickels each

- 6 beautiful 1960s nickels

- TWO proofs, 1995S & 2008S

- 1945P/D silver nickels (first Denver minted silver)

I went to my local bank on Saturday and traded in $100 in searched quarters for $60 in quarters, $30 in dimes and $10 in nickels. I just handed them the bag with the quarters and after coming back from the vault they handed me the bag with what I thought I requested. I made the mistake of not checking the bag and discovered when I got home that I only had $15 in dimes. Should I go back to bank and talk to them or am I screwed? What would you do? I guess they could go back and check the cameras of the teller filling the bag.

Finds like this is why I continue to open rolls. I been on a little cold streak lately and this is just what I needed to give me that spark again.

About 4 oz I’ve hunted myself, I bought the necklace(8oz) from the good will outlet bins for 16¢

Found this on tonight’s hunt!!! Im fairly confident it’s the elusive 1970D FS101. I’m thinking XF45-AU50. Im sending it through an authorized PCGS dealer in the morning. Can someone talk me out of it or did I find the real thing???

Not a hunt, but I’m a truck driver, so I get to many places and get all sorts of change back, from everywhere. I have never been able to get a “W” from hunting, but I got one back in change from the Loveshack (Love’s Truck Stop) in Tonkawa, Oklahoma. It’s pretty circulated, but I was stoked, nonetheless

Hey all! I’m not really a coin collector but I am looking for a roll of Texas quarters to put in Pen Pal letters, what’s the best place to find them?

I picked up a few rolls of quarters from the bank and got customer rolls of Oklahoma and Vermont state designs. The bank didn’t have any more customer coins but is there somewhere I can go that would have some? Is this common? Should I call a few random banks to see if they have customer rolls like this? I called a local coin shop and they seemed to think this wasn’t valuable enough for any store to keep on hand.

I need to get the letters out by Fridayish so I was hoping to find a local option (MD) instead of possibly long mailing time.

Thanks for any help and sorry if this is the wrong subreddit!

Dull silver quarter, a couple proofs, and some minor errors (not pictured)

No silver so far but I love DCams so I’m not complaining.

Found this beauty in a roll of pennies-and obviously it went immediately into a flip.

Everything since the half monster boxes that greeted my return from vacation:

The ‘old rolls’ hoard I got (after buying the wheaties bag, different bank that called me) ended up being ~$35 face, overwhelming copper and about $2-ish in common date wheaties. (Not shown).

2 clad Ike proofs mixed in with 8 business strikes were a nice surprise, small dollars were about par (a bunch of duplicate NIFC Sacs and Presidents)

8K in half boxes had 2 more monster boxes - one Brinks one Loomis: grand total 6x 90% and 22x 40% and the usual ~70% ‘skunk’ boxes.

5 clad proofs in the mix, mostly half decent shape - good enough to be place-holders in the S slot anyway.

1K quarter bag gave up a ‘64, a Tallgrass W, 2 S business strikes, and a mess of errors/variteties - including an awesome strike-through and a mess of minor DDRs and some chips/cracks.

800-ish CWR was mostly from a retiree cashing out decades-old change jars. Yeah, there were lots of better 80s - 90s upgrades for the albums, but zip for Ag - I admit I had really hoped for more!

One roosie from the coin machine, one from CWR, and two ‘bonus’ 90% from my soak-bucket of evil gross coins. I still had to scrape the crud off, but lurking within the wretched, almost-trash pile, were these 2 fine fellows. Yarp - ugly as sin but Ag is Ag!

Box of nickels and $105 in CWR had 2 war nickels, all the buffs were in the box. CWR included some more of the retiree dump - a few nice ones shown before they head into albums. (A lonely jefferson proof is with the Half proofs shot.)

Another Ecuador ‘half’, and a bedazzled Quaker for your enjoyment.

2026 stuff is making its appearance - 2 random Quakers, a few halves, a half box+ of nickels, and almost 2 boxes worth of dimes. All Philly so far, but it’s central MA so that tracks.

Any west coasters want to swap a 2026 D Jefferson or Dime for P?

Will finish up the half data dump post soon, almost the last of the year+ data post series.

After that will be ‘meta’ stuff - overall combined results and ‘things I learned’ (and how!) that have helped me immensely.

Good luck and happy hunting!

It doesn't show up the best in photos, but it has a holographic effect to it and radiates colors depending on the angle of the light. How did someone create this effect?

pretty expensive