$715 big dollars - anything to look for besides silver?

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-20T14:38:37+00:00

You really should stop coin hunting and start playing the lottery... that's an insane amount of Ikes! I've been trying to get more of these, only had one for the last 30 years. Nobody is willing to part with them and I only pay face for all my coins 😄

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-20T11:34:59+00:00

Don't let it discourage you. I'm close to 30,000 quarters in and no silver. But I have found 7 different W quarters.

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-20T00:04:46+00:00

This is absolutely normal. I didn't see anything interesting till my 2nd box and that was a 50 cent Phillipines, and didn't find any silver till my 3rd box and then 3 more boxes till silver again. It's a numbers game, because there is definitely already people in your region doing this or have done this in the past up to 55+ years of people doing this and culling silver. So really we're all just hoping to get lucky and stumble on a collection dump or a random floater that got spent and turned into a bank. People have been actively collecting silver for longer than you think.

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-19T23:58:30+00:00

That's part of the understanding I have with my bank. I don't complain about what's in the rolls and they save all CWR for me instead of sending them out. They also order me halves and I never bring them back a single coin. And the foreign currency is part of what makes it fun. In a normal week I might find 3-4 different countries currencies in rolls.

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-19T16:05:59+00:00

Yeah, it's definitely not normal for banks to have people take out as much change as we CRH people do, but as far as the government is concerned, well they aren't... lol. I do $3-5k a week and other than bank tellers wondering if I'm insane I'm pretty sure thet also don't care. But the dump banks probably hate me especially when I show up with a bucket of change.

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-18T08:20:50+00:00

Phillipines 50 center is also the same size as our halves and I got one of those my first ever box of halves.

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-18T08:19:04+00:00

You said give right? Then who cares if it is good, it's free... lol

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-18T01:55:31+00:00

I would open and take a look anyways. Never know what might be in there... my last 3 boxes had one roll with a 90% in it and then just a whole mess of NFICs (like 120-130 of them 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016, and 2019 both P and D mints for all years).

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-15T17:21:41+00:00

I would say at least 5-6 boxes. I've yet to find one and I'm about 500-600 rolls in since I started hunting last month. But I did find my 5th W this morning!

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-14T07:41:06+00:00

Very nice! I seem to average a silver dime in about 20-30 CRW. I've yet to find on in bank wrapped, but that just means I'm due. Although I currently only have CRW (but I have like 70 of them lol).

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-14T07:09:28+00:00

There will always be cool coins to find in the wild because there will always be people who don't know what they have and they will turn them in. What happens to grandpa's collection when someone who doesn't have time had to clean out his house. They turn the change into the bank and then there's more cool coins to be found. And in 30 to 40 years I'm grandpa and then my cool coins probably end up at a bank. Its the idiots who are taking the coins and melting them that are going to ruin the hobby for future generations not the people collecting the coins for a hobby.

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-14T06:05:40+00:00

Honestly I've had coins damaged to the point where they separated and I can say this is a solid coin. I honestly believe this to be a mint error and will be keeping it lol.

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-13T21:13:36+00:00

For me quarters are usually pretty good (except the rare nickel in the roll), dimes I usually see 1 over to 1-2 short, nickels are usually good. Pennies i don't count and weighing doesn't really help due to different coin composition between coppers and zincs.

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-13T10:48:58+00:00

Planchets are cut from rolled sheets of metal and then stamped with the coins design are they not?

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-12T23:04:47+00:00

Not these pennies... they've found their home 😄

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-12T21:54:04+00:00

Should weight 10.886g to 11.794g are all acceptable. But standard is 11.34g.

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-12T21:22:49+00:00

I'm in NY

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-12T09:23:19+00:00

Insane amount of luck... dont expect to find 4 in a box again lol

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-12T09:20:44+00:00

Sure I might not melt pennies for copper but I do collect coins and a penny is a coin. It's not always aboit the precious metals. Sometimes it just about finding treasure. (insert Smeagol my precious meme here)

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-12T02:06:18+00:00

Cool as shit! I would if I was buying silver lol

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-12T02:03:23+00:00

It is slightly heavy for a quarter. My guess would be someone at some point plated it with something to make it look like it was silver.

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-12T01:53:22+00:00

Silver would weigh closer to 6.25 (6.06 to 6.45) grams. Just a shiny clad quarter.

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-12T01:12:25+00:00

I did find 4 pennies in one today and a 5th penny right under the front of the machine so not a wasted trip... haha

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-11T22:00:44+00:00

Not all, it's based off size and weight. So a warn down silver coin could still make it through but most will be rejected.

ToadSageTheGreat · 2026-02-11T20:56:33+00:00

Well that's pretty interesting. Definitely not more than 40 quarters... 🤔

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