Need Advice.

[jnicholes]

I'm going to get straight to the point. I'm about ready to give up on u.s. coin collecting. For a while, I have been exchanging cash for coin rolls at Banks, hoping to find something. Today, I just learned from my dentist that they always take out silver coins, precisely what I'm looking for.

Well, if my current method doesn't work, how the heck am I supposed to look for silver coins?

Silver coins are quarters and dimes dated 1968 and earlier. Nickels are 1942-1945 are silver.

I am so frustrated!

 

[jnicholes]

Edit to my last post. 1964 and earlier, not 1968.

 

[ToddsPoint]

Buy nice coins from a reputable coin shop. Or, get a metal detector and search high and low like the rest of us for that elusive silver coin. Gary

 

[Loco-Digger]

If it was too easy, it wouldn't be worth collecting them, thus the harder to find or rarer, the more value they have. There are coins shows that happen all over on occasion, these are great placed to pick the brains of others and to find some coins to fill some slots in your coin folders. I only collect coins that I dig, find, or those that are given to me.

Good Luck J

 

[releventchair]

I'm going to get straight to the point. I'm about ready to give up on u.s. coin collecting. For a while, I have been exchanging cash for coin rolls at Banks, hoping to find something. Today, I just learned from my dentist that they always take out silver coins, precisely what I'm looking for.

Well, if my current method doesn't work, how the heck am I supposed to look for silver coins?

Silver coins are quarters and dimes dated 1968 and earlier. Nickels are 1942-1945 are silver.

I am so frustrated!

Folks been searching coin rolls since 64 for silvers. Many folks. (!)
No reason for you to be frustrated about it.

Mixing up your sources might help.
Tenacity and luck can too.

Then there is doing things everyone else is not doing. Though some one else probably thought of each idea too...

 

[jnicholes]

Thanks, guys. I appreciate it. I actually found one, (a 1942 silver nickel,) shortly after posting this. I found it at a thrift store for 2 dollars.



Thanks for all the help.

Jared

 

[teleprospector]

Or get a job at a bank? I don't think they snag all of them, especially the nickels, they all look alike to a quick search with bank people. You may consider opening a small savings account at various banks/credit union and you can get rolls from different directions. Try the larger establishments and smaller. Or have some friends with accounts get/order the rolls. It's hit and miss at banks where you don't have an account. With an account you can have them order them for you and you may find more that way. You may also want to get into looking for errors, that may prove very lucrative.
Jon