How do you search rolls/bags?

jessewvu

Do you search one coin at a time, stack by date then search, or stack by date, mm then search?

JBK

Less than a second per coin.

Look for obvious errors, check date and if it's one that has a potential variety then can scrutinize later.

ricko

When I searched rolls of halves and quarters, I opened the roll and dumped them on my soft mat, quick scan for silver, then coin by coin - both sides. Cheers, RickO

Kliao

Like JBK, Scan of rims for silver, then a quick look for obvious errors and date for varieties. Everything else in the bin for the bank. Takes me like 30 seconds for a quarter roll.

johnny9434

@ricko said:
When I searched rolls of halves and quarters, I opened the roll and dumped them on my soft mat, quick scan for silver, then coin by coin - both sides. Cheers, RickO

+1

WAYNEAS

One coin at a time with full inspection of both sides.
I am retired so I can take my time doing so.
Wayne

Steven59

one coin at a time also with my cheap Plugable 2.0 microscope that provides the view on the PCs monitor.........dump the roll, search date, errors, varieties, if nothing then back in the roll.

jessewvu

For silver, I usually sort through the entire bag and make piles by dates. Then, for each date, I sort via mint mark. Then I get my handy reference books and my dinolite and go to town. I don’t have all the various errors memorized for all the dates/denominations/mm to be good enough to do them one at a time.

I have a $100 bag of dimes I’m about to tear into.

rec78

One at a time with a 3X magnifier, If a variety is known for the date of the coin that I am looking at, I switch my magnifier to a 10 Loupe. I put any possible finds on a stack for later examination with a digital magnifier. I then put any finds in a 2x2 or coin tube and mark accordingly.

jesbroken

Not a super enthusiast, I do not search all the coins. I search by coin type, look for known interesting dates, place any in stacks of about 20 and then look individually at each coin.
Jim