Another Silver Quarter

[Fropa]

I've been checking my change and looking through rolls off and on for almost 45 years and had never found a silver quarter until 3 weeks ago (1964). Well today I found another one, a 1943. All those years with nothing and now 2 in about 3 weeks. Also found a 1944 and a 1958-D Wheat cents today.

Thursday I stopped at the only bank I know of around here that has a counting machine in the lobby. They order me halves when I ask so I had them order me 2 boxes for next week. I also asked about bags of coins out of the machine. They had a $50 bag of cents, $500 bag of dimes and a $500 bag of quarters so I bought them. The quarters had no silver, but I found most of the quarters from the last 2 years for my 2 albums. The split was close to 50/50 between Statehood ($244.50) and non-statehood ($255.75). The cents had 17 Wheaties, nothing special with the oldest being 1935. Also had 25 Canadian and a plastic play cent. The dimes had 3 silver: 1961-D, 1964, and 1964-D. My weekly $500 box of halves was my first skunk of the year.

 

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[golden silver]

Good job when it rains it pores. Are you a forecaster by any chance?

-Golden Silver

 

[seger98]

Sounds like ya did alright!

 

[treasurefiend]

Cool!!!

 

[Ju8vP3t]

Maybe someone here can correct me, I think I'd heard one time that the success rate for finding quarters was below halves and dimes were on the bottom of the food chain

 

[coltdavis]

Congrats on the silver quarters! i have found 1 in my short time CRH. lol Beginners luck i guess. grats on the wheats and rosies as well great finds and best of luck in the future

 

[treasurefiend]

Maybe someone here can correct me, I think I'd heard one time that the success rate for finding quarters was below halves and dimes were on the bottom of the food chain

You got that right!!!!! This is what was reported on last years silver finds for CRH:

90%'ers found = 9152 (3310.18688 ounces of silver, 40.90% of total);
40%'ers found = 29958 (4430.7882 ounces of silver, 54.74% of total);
Quarters found = 238 (43.27792 ounces of silver, 0.53% of total);
Dimes found = 2658 (192.2797 ounces of silver, 2.38% of total);
War nickels = 371 (22.90138 ounces of silver, 0.28% of total);
Dollars (90%) = 23 (17.78912 ounces of silver, 0.22% of total);
Dollars (40%) = 18 (5.6898 ounces of silver, 0.07% of total);
Silver Eagles / other US coins = 66.9738 ounces of silver, 0.83% of total;
Non-United States coins:
Totals foreign coins: 3.702 ounces of silver, or 0.05 % of total.


Here is the link to that thread that LJ started:

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,158562.0.html

 

[Fropa]

Thanks everybody.

Most people avoid quarters because of the very low keeper rate. This is only the second time I've searched a bag of quarters. I mainly look through them because it's something different and for some reason the Philadelphia state quarters have been almost impossible to find in change here so I was looking for them also. After this bag I only need 3 state quarters to have 2 complete sets.

golden silver - I am a weather forecaster. 20 years active duty Air Force and 7+ years for the Air Force as a civilian. Are you in the weather field by chance?

 

[Bank Runner]

Congratulations on the quarter find.

 

[mistergee]

Maybe someone here can correct me, I think I'd heard one time that the success rate for finding quarters was below halves and dimes were on the bottom of the food chain

sorry but quarters are at the bottom of the food chain

 

[crazyjarhead]

I'd have to say the same.