How do you hunt dimes? Looking for input from the masters!

[SilverHoarder07]

Hey everyone, I have the option to volume hunt Dimes if I want and bought a single box this evening to test out. I am wondering if edge checking is feasible? If so, how do you do it? I think I am about half way through the box doing the edge check and have found 1 canadian, 1 unidentified foreign (figure it out later) and a 1951. I am trying to hold the rolls by the ends as I unroll as I do with halves but I keep making them slip apart and fly everywhere from the pressure and small surface area of the dimes. Is there a simpler way?

Several months ago I had searched 4 boxes ($1000) and came out with a single 44 Merc. I used this Merc as the example coin in my ryedale sorter and bought the correct wheel to double over the boxes I had purchased at that point in hopes to catch anything that I had by chance missed. Nothing in addition came out. At that point I was having pretty good luck with halves so I didnt push the dimes again. Will the 44 Merc work to sort out other years of silver or is there a better way to go about using the ryedale for dimes?

Looking forward to your responses!

 

[fish on!]

I don't have a ryedale, but I would think you would want to put a clad dime in and your keepers will be in the rejects. That way you won't accidentally miss 50% and 80% canadians. Really what you are looking for is anything that isn't a clad US dime. I could be totally wrong though.

As for edge-checking dimes: I search about 4-8 boxes of dimes a week. I search the edges and I quickly look for the brown/silver contrast on each coin. On any coin that I can't see the brown/silver line I check it. Most silver dimes are gleaming white, but some are so dirty that the whole edge is black and can just look like a dirty clad.
To keep the dimes from slipping away from me, I open the rolls by tearing the wrapper close to the crimp and unrolling. This way the crimps stay in place and keep the dimes from slipping all over the place. HH and good luck!

 

[OtlFrutiger]

I edge and sound check dimes. I usually do $1K at a time. If I hold the roll, or a quantity in my hand, outside of the paper or plastic, I find more. You have to really listen to sound check dimes.

 

[SilverHoarder07]

Alright so I finished doing the edge check and only had the 1951 I had mentioned previously. I used a 2010 example coin in the Ryedale and ran the whole lot through the machine. Nothing in the reject tray. I proceeded to put the two silver dimes I have(44, 51) through the ryedale and they came through the clad shute as well!

I switched the example coin t the newly found 1951 and ran the Merc and some clad through and it all came through as clad! Is there a way to calibrate the ryedale for silver?

 

[MentalUnrest]

Do you have the #22 dime wheel? You will need this to run the dimes.

However....I had terrible luck with dimes that were run through the Ryedale. There is the adjust dial on the front of the comparator. It is recessed inside the hole and you need the precision screwdriver to adjust it.

I could never get it set just right as many test runs were all over the place- sometimes the same silver was accepted, then rejected on next run. My comparator was messed up after I went back to pennies. I had to ship it back to Andy as it truly messed up something when I ran dimes through it.

 

[gmrestoparts]

edge check..pay special attention to the dirty ones!

 

[TheMastermind]

Edge check, just like I do halves.

 

[rckymtn]

I am trying to hold the rolls by the ends as I unroll as I do with halves but I keep making them slip apart and fly everywhere from the pressure and small surface area of the dimes. Is there a simpler way?

I always work from a coffee table, peeling the edge of the wrapper then unrolling the roll. As I get to the last part I set it on the table so it doesn't go flying everywhere. Then I can edge check and then dump the roll.

Would be nice to use a calibrated ryedale on those things.

I've gotten to the point where I just buy my boxes from banks that have clear plastic rolls. Those can be edge searched in a fraction of the time, and deposited as is.

 

[SilverHoarder07]

Do you have the #22 dime wheel? You will need this to run the dimes.

However....I had terrible luck with dimes that were run through the Ryedale. There is the adjust dial on the front of the comparator. It is recessed inside the hole and you need the precision screwdriver to adjust it.

I could never get it set just right as many test runs were all over the place- sometimes the same silver was accepted, then rejected on next run. My comparator was messed up after I went back to pennies. I had to ship it back to Andy as it truly messed up something when I ran dimes through it.

I had read this in a post you had in a different thread MU. I do have the #22 dime wheel but have not went about adjusting the sorter at all. Based on what you are saying I think I will just leave the ryedale for the copper pennies and edge check the dimes. It took practice, and I am still not perfect, but I have worked out a semi-efficient way to open the rolls and edge check.

Thanks for all the help and input everyone!

 

[Joe777Cool]

I own a ryedale, it would take me more time to run dimes through it than edge check

 

[MentalUnrest]

I own a ryedale, it would take me more time to run dimes through it than edge check

Agree 100%. Even if the rydedale was 100% accurate, it may have saved me a few seconds. I am able to get bags at times, so this would have saved a lot of time.

However, I usually can get through a paper wrapped strings box in 7-8 minutes. The Ryedale may have shaved off 2-3 seconds.

The Ryedale needs to be left for pennies.

 

[CardsNCoins]

....The Ryedale needs to be left for pennies.

Mike (MentalUnrest) and I have had shared more than one PM about this, and knows I disagree since I love using my Ryedale for dimes. Unfortunately we could not get his Ryedale tuned in just right, but mine hums along like a dream for dimes. 672 found since Since Jan 1, and I dont even have to move the sensitivity dial when I do pennies.

 

[MentalUnrest]

I wish mine would have had the luck and accuracy as cards. With my access to 1K bags, I could have plowed through a huge volume with just dumping them in the hopper.

 

[Joe777Cool]

If I bought bags of dimes I would consider using the ryedale, but rolled? The time and effort is in unwrapping, not checking

 

[MIhunter]

I edge search with dimes. I check 8-15 boxes a week
I spend a few seconds looking at each roll
I look for silver, black and the absence of brown
Face searching wont help, it is easier to see a silver dime by its edge than its face
Date checking would be VERY slow and not worth the effort.
You could try edge searching 10 boxes and then date check them to see if you missed anything good.
I will bet if you measure the time invovled it will not be worth the effort.

The slow part of dime searching is opening up the roll, and a Ryedale won't help with that.

 

[cooper36]

I use a magnifying glass when edge checking dimes. It is lot easier on the eyes.

 

[BCD11]

IF your Ryedale uses a CMI (Coin Mechanisms Inc.) comparitor there are a couple of things that can help when sorting dimes.

Use the best condition SILVER dime you can for the sample coin. The techs at CMI worked on this using different sample coins (mercs, clads, silver roosies, worn dimes, good condition coins) and found the best results were obtained using an excellent condition silver roosie.

Don't expect the same results sorting dimes you might get from sorting pennies. I'm not an expert in metallurgy so I'm merely passing along what I was told. The compositions of silver dimes and clad dimes is closer to one another than that of high copper cents to that of zinc cents. Because of the smaller difference in the signatures of the types of dimes it is harder for the comparitor to tell them apart.


On a CMI comparitor, 99 times out of 100, you HAVE TO ADJUST THE POSITION OF THE SAMPLE COIN HOLDER in addition to the sensitivity setting. It is very important that the coins going through the comparitor align as perfectly as possible with the sample coin. On a CMI comparitor the sample coin holder adjustment is on the side of the comparitor and takes a VERY small hex head wrench. Leaving the sample coin holder in the same position used for cents could very likely throw the sorting way off because dimes are smaller than pennies and won't "mirror" properly.


Keep in mind I build my own sorters and have not used a Ryedale so I'm not sure if Andy uses CMI comparitors. If his comparitors are CMI's, and were set up to sort pennies, you will be one VERY LUCKY person if yours effectively sorts dimes without any adjustment.

 

[sagittarius98]

1 unidentified foreign (figure it out later)

Did you figure it out?