check this site out

[mistergee]

stumbled on this site on crh. check out thier stats on the odds of finding a silver quarter in circulation.
http://www.cointalk.com/t46623/

 

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[AGCoinHunter]

Why I decided that quarters are not worth the time to do. Have more luck with finding silver in nickels than quarters and they are ~20 years older than the last silver quarter made.

 

[GMan00001]

I read the link... their stats are a little off, but not too far.

I am at 30 silver washingtons this year (although I twice found 10 in one shot for 2/3rds of them). I typically expect a silver quarter about every $2000 or so which is roughly every 8,000 coins..not quite the 20,000 in the link but not too far off either.

The good thing about quarters is that they are extremely fast to search so although you need a decent bank roll to search them, the time spent per find is not really all that high.

 

[mistergee]

Gman..when i read this you were the first person to come to mind. i knew you probably had better stats.

 

[Rich Hartford]

I think I picked up 45 Quarters this year, two of which are Canadians and one SLQ. Got 23 Washingtons, the SLQ, and a Canadian in an envelope from a teller. Found 9 Washingtons in a $500.00 bag. Got two in a $1000,00 bag. The remainder in handrolls.

That was an interesting forum you posted. Happy to hear that those folks don't know about us and our finds.

HH

Rich

 

[Fredness]

Those folks have posts about cherry picking AT THE COUNTER and ASKING for silver - sheesh....

 

[Ju8vP3t]

How many have been melted? ...if any?

 

[Coins4Cheese]

How many have been melted? ...if any?

During 1979-1980, countless silver coins were melted. I read an article about a guy selling 100 bags of 1963 BU Ben halves to a smelter... Just because the silver content was worth more. Mabey it could of happend to quarters also... Who know?!