Dimes and quarters edge checking question?????

[Jyorsky]

I usually go for halves and came across 18o in dimes and 250 in quarters....
If I just edge check will dimes and quarters silver really pop out like 90 percenters

 

[Joe777Cool]

only 1 way to find out!!!

 

[Dozer D]

However, you may be passing up some very dark stained coins, of which many a times I have found. That's why I date check all my coins., also might miss some proofs.

 

[Joe777Cool]

IMO there is no need to date check every coin. pull out the silvers, pull out the "questionable ones" and date check those, immediately dump the other 98%. I really don;t care if I miss circulated proofs, they arent worth much, if anything over face.

 

[fistfulladirt]

It's up to you. $180 in dimes isn't much to date search. I usually search between $600-$1200 at a time, so edge only for me.

 

[fish on!]

I've always just edge checked dimes and quarters. There is definitely a technique too it, though. I never rely solely on seeing the bright white silver even though that is how most of them show up. I open the roll and then look at each edge. I then do a closer inspection on any coin where I can't see the edge between the "silver"/brown clad edge as a distinct line. Honestly, though, the dirty silvers are a small percentage of the overall silver that I have found out of those denominations. I do have a few silver quarters that I found that have pretty dirty looking edges, though.

 

[sjlund]

I edge search dimes. The coin counter I dump at rejects silver, so if I miss one I'll know. Over the past few years I've searched over $130,000 in dimes and only missed 2 darkly stained silvers.