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How often do you find silver in change?

NewParadigmNewParadigm Posts: 1,322
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Dimes? Quarters?

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    WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    Now days, once in a blue moon.
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    MercLovinMercLovin Posts: 123
    Once a year or so.

    If you count my other change, daily. image
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    tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭
    Roll searching aside, it was about a year ago during a 2AM run to a 7-11. Cashier was too lazy to open the safe to break open a roll of quarters so he gave me a half dollar instead. Just so happened to be a 1964.

    On average, I'd say once or twice a year. I've never gotten a silver quarter, only dimes and a half dollar that one time mentioned above.
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    mkman123mkman123 Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭✭
    extremely rare like 1 silver coin in change every few years
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    stealerstealer Posts: 4,044 ✭✭✭✭
    Got a dime 2 years ago.

    Snowballed and got me into collecting. Now I get my silver fix from coin roll hunting image
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    secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭
    extremely rarely. on average once every few years.
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    derrybderryb Posts: 38,651 ✭✭✭✭✭
    got a 1961 D Washington in change last week. I'm seeing more silver in change - sign of hard times?

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    SONOMOSCASONOMOSCA Posts: 430 ✭✭✭
    For 11 years I'd find silver quarters on a weekly basis due to having a bulk candy vending business. I still remember my best find was $3.75 in one location and that was almost 20 years ago. I miss that sound the silver quarters would make when I'd dump the coin bags into the coin counter. Over the 11 years I've acquired almost $240 in silver quarters. Then 7 years working for a video game company I've picked up almost $60 in silver quarters. I'm $1.25 short of completing my 30th full roll and it's been that way for the last 3 years since quitting that job.
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    michiganboymichiganboy Posts: 1,247 ✭✭✭
    I got a 1961 dime two days ago and a silver quarter about 2 weeks before that, and before that is was another dime like 4 or 5 months before that but I go through all the change in my till at work. I can here a silver coin if it justs bumps something when one shows up.
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    JedPlanchetJedPlanchet Posts: 910 ✭✭✭
    About once every couple of years ...
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    fiveNdimefiveNdime Posts: 1,088 ✭✭
    its been over a year since i found any.
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    LowBudgetLowBudget Posts: 383 ✭✭
    over a year, before that, maybe once a year the last few....long dry spell.
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    ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,743 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I haven't found a silver coin in change in over a decade.
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    JmiamiJmiami Posts: 51
    a few months ago i got a holed mercury dime in some change
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    GrumpyEdGrumpyEd Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭
    From actual change only one dime last year at McDonalds, other than that in the last 10 years I've only got a few war nickels.

    From some half dollar rolls I got to search I found some 40% halves and 2 90% halves.

    Ed
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    PinkFloydPinkFloyd Posts: 1,762 ✭
    Usually it's a silver dime....I'd say one or two a year. Not sure if I've found any in 2011 though....been using the 'ol CC a lot.
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    droopyddroopyd Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭
    Hardly ever these days, not for a few years probably. I did find 2 war nickels this past year.
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    tydyetydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭
    Once every month or two. I have a cash register at work though so I have more opportunity than most
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    SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Last week doing roll searching I got two 40% halves and 13 war nickels. Last time I got silver in change was this summer, my son begged me to drive him to 7-11 after work to get a drink and I relented. When he handed me the change a 1961 dime stuck out.
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    MookMook Posts: 27
    Roll searches aside, getting silver coins in change is extremely rare in my neck of the woods.
    In the last several years I got exactly 1 - a Washington quarter.
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    JJMJJM Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Once or twice a month. I have a cash register at work also
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    OnlyGoldIsMoneyOnlyGoldIsMoney Posts: 3,589 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Its usually one or two dimes a year from change. My wife is tuned into the look of silver (if not the 1964 date) and spots as many as I.

    My best suceess has been checking the discard bin of coin counting machines. That will net one silver quarter most years.
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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,295 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Rarely. Soon we might be asking how often anyone finds copper cents.

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    LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't remember getting any in the last ten years or so.
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    philographerphilographer Posts: 1,383 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Every couple of weeks. I have a method.

    Sorry, I can not reveal it here. image

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    DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭
    Every couple of years.
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    messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,883 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Two coins over the last 5 years -- a dime and a war nickel.
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    botanistbotanist Posts: 524 ✭✭✭
    Not a single one in the last 35 years, that's since 1976, until last week, when I got a 1943P war nickel among supermarket change.
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    AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 25,053 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Never it seems. I'm sure I have but I cannot remember when the last time was. Have to depend
    on wife for finding silver!

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    MVCMVC Posts: 277
    It's been several years since I got any silver in change. And I look religiously
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    IHC08IHC08 Posts: 100
    I found a silver dime about a month ago. Was very excited.

    I always check my change for silver, esp. hoping for a silver quarter. No luck on that score in a loooong time.

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    FullCameoFullCameo Posts: 492
    For some reason I always have dreams about finding silver in change, so I can't remember if I ever do find any or not.
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    GBurger717GBurger717 Posts: 575
    bought an ice cream at McDonalds for my daughter 2 nights ago. It cost me 1.06 with tax and I got a 64 quarter back in change......YA BUDDIE
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    kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,636 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Last time!? 2002..
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    LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,705 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very seldom, since 90% of my purchases involve plastic and no change.
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    tjc2120tjc2120 Posts: 714 ✭
    4 times in the past decade.
    "spot on my UHR, nevermind, I wiped it off"
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    ChangeInHistoryChangeInHistory Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭✭✭
    4, maybe 5 times a year. I do have the advantage of looking through the register at the family businesstwice a week. War Nickels & dimes, but rarely quarters.
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    Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Two or Three times a year.


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