i got a few questions

[d2arcing]

one more question

can a bank charge a fee for coins, if you don't have an account with them?

 

[capy325]

$500.00
$250.00
yes
Quarters are circulated more and easier to identify as silver (my opinion).

 

[golden silver]

welcome to the crazy addiction! Quarters come in a 500 dollar box dime in a 250 dollar box. Quarters are harder to find than dimes because they are easier to notice. Dimes are smaller and therefore harder to notice. Most average 1or2 silver dimes per box. Any more than that you are having a great day. It happens quite often though. Good luck

Golden Silver

 

[Diver_Down]

Q: If the box of cents is from Brinks, will the dimes, (etc.) also be from Brinks?

A: Yes. There is a chance that the different denominations will be from different sources. I discovered this one small bank. Recently built about a year ago. Apparently the vault was stocked by some corporate decision-maker without understanding the current market and their clientele. They were stocked by Loomis, originally. Recently, they changed to Brinks. They still had boxes of cents from Loomis in the vault whereas the dimes were from Brinks. But the above scenario is more the exception than the rule.

 

[coolpix9]

The great silver meltdown in the 80s decimated a ton of silver quarters. Bags and bags of silver quarters were smelted as silver approached $50 per ounce. One of the big reasons that folks are still finding silver halves is that they have been taken out of circulation due to vending machine compatibility and retailers who hate to mess with them.(there isn't a slot for them in most cash registers). Silver quarter hunters are a strange hardy breed who measure their success in ones and twos instead of bunches.
IMHO, the biggest problem with finding silver quarters are the guys who service these machines. They have had 44 years to siphon silver quarters and they do a helluva good job.
I also think that those pesky 50 state quarters get in the way also. Good luck, Jim

 

[coinmojo]

I would have to agree with coolpix on this. Especially on the state quarter series, it had people looking at Quarters a lot closer than dimes for a long time now and people simply filtered them out over the last 10 years. Don't forget the Bicentennials. Those also had people looking closer at the quarters.

There hasn't been any design changes to dimes since the Roosevelt dime started back in the late 40's so no one is really looking at the Dimes.......

IMHO

Mojo

 

[d2arcing]

thanks a bunch guys

yea bicentennial quarters i think are just as rare as silvers... of course i exaggerate a little but rarely find them

 

[golden silver]

oddly enough the bicentennials had higher mintages but people still hoarded them.

Golden Silver