Well, kind of a long story but I've been a roll searcher for a while, normally just pennies. I separate for the copper and pull out the wheaties and anything else interesting such as my au 1863 Baden 1/2 kreuzer coin I found a few months ago- and I've been a lurker on all the coin forums for awhile, this is my first post in a forum ever. So the other night i was reading the coin roll hunting forums and decided I would try a box of quarters- skunked, so then I tried 2 boxes of nickels- skunked! $100 in halves- skunked! So, I told myself I wouldn't try for silver anymore (I know I gave up without much of a fight) because the penny boxes yield a lot of wheaties and each one feels like a little score. So now on to my dime story- after reading some posts the other night about cwr's and dime searching it seemed like people were having better luck with dimes, most posters say 1silver every couple boxes on average so I thought I would try my luck and I'm so glad I did! I went to one of the banks on my regular route and they told menthey didn't have enough on hand so no luck there- then I went the 2nd bank on my route, now this is the first time I've ever asked for cwr's and the teller says he has two rolls of dimes and 6 rolls of pennies (cwr) he then says and I quote " I put this roll of dimes to the side because I noticed some old ones in there" so I told him "sure I will take whatever you got and a box of dimes!" as he went to the vault to get the box of dimes I dumped that cwr in my hand and whaddya know,50 mercs-some of them in ms!
I was trying not to smile as I walked out of the bank with my box of dimes and my roll of mercs, when I got home I sliced open the box of dimes and I couldn't believe my eyes I wish I would have got a picture! I could see at least 1 silver in each roll of the top of that box! I ended up getting 59 roosevelt dimes from the box plus 50 mercs in that roll all in one bank. Needless to say I was hooked, but I can see that it was a fluke because I've searched 6 boxes since, 1 from that same bank and I have only found 1 silver since. I was bummed after searching my second box but now I just consider myself lucky for having been in the right place at the right time on my first dime hunting adventure!
I was trying not to smile as I walked out of the bank with my box of dimes and my roll of mercs, when I got home I sliced open the box of dimes and I couldn't believe my eyes I wish I would have got a picture! I could see at least 1 silver in each roll of the top of that box! I ended up getting 59 roosevelt dimes from the box plus 50 mercs in that roll all in one bank. Needless to say I was hooked, but I can see that it was a fluke because I've searched 6 boxes since, 1 from that same bank and I have only found 1 silver since. I was bummed after searching my second box but now I just consider myself lucky for having been in the right place at the right time on my first dime hunting adventure!
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