So quarter are supposed to be bad right?

[Easy]

Well when was exchanging my halves and picking up some dimes the teller said I should try quarters. I explained how I thought they were supposed to be terrible. She insisted she saw more silver quarters than anything. And this was after a conversation about how she got 6 Morgan's once and sold them for 1k. So I think she may know her stuff. Maybe it's worth a shot?

 

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[Mrs.CRH]

Either that or she wants you to stay away from the halves & dimes by diverting your attention to quarters.....

 

[maverick]

^^^^I was thinking the same thing^^^^^, maverick.

 

[maverick]

Though I am going to try a box this week that a branvh is going to hold for me from a vendor that brings in boxes every week, just to see what if anything happens. I have seached 4 boxes total ever and never found any though. Maverick.

 

[CoinFetcher]

She sounds like a huge bull shiater.

1 k for a few Morgan's? Sounds the same kinda person who thinks Ike's are worth big money.

 

[boristhespider88]

Either that or she wants you to stay away from the halves & dimes by diverting your attention to quarters.....

^^^^I was thinking the same thing^^^^^, maverick.

I would be even more suspicious if she told you to look for silver in gold dollar rolls.

 

[cooper36]

Well when was exchanging my halves and picking up some dimes the teller said I should try quarters. I explained how I thought they were supposed to be terrible. She insisted she saw more silver quarters than anything. And this was after a conversation about how she got 6 Morgan's once and sold them for 1k. So I think she may know her stuff. Maybe it's worth a shot?

she might be trying to throw you off track!!!

 

[Generic_Lad]

Its quite possible that she sees more silver quarters simply by virtue of quarters being:

1) Large
2) Frequently used
3) Easy to edge search

And the Morgans could have easily been worth 1K if they were key dates. If they were 1921s naturally they wouldn't be worth much, but a couple of Carson Cities (especially with the right VAM and sold to the right collector) could fetch $1K+

 

[Coppercrazy]

She sounds like a huge bull shiater.

1 k for a few Morgan's? Sounds the same kinda person who thinks Ike's are worth big money.

I mean if she had 4 CC's in MS I guess it's possible.

 

[CoinFetcher]

I mean if she had 4 CC's in MS I guess it's possible.

The more obviouse answer is that she is a liar.

Rare things are rare. Thousand Dollar Morgans are one in 100,000,000

 

[BuffaloBoy]

it only takes 1 good mint state CC to break a few grand.

I mean if she had 4 CC's in MS I guess it's possible.

 

[BuffaloBoy]

1889cc morgan dollar has a 350,000 mintage and is worth $3500 in EF40, based off of my redbook of course so prices might vary considering my redbook is from 2010.

 

[Mr. Silver Stash]

I have done 15 - 20 boxes of quarters and found 3 silvers + 1 silver canadian. I have found 4 silver quarters sitting in a teller tray at the bottom all shiny, im like what are those? And got em for $1. As many have said before, quarters are easy to notice with that shiny silver edge in a teller tray. I am sure all tellers know to grab those, and they hardly make it back to rolls/boxes. Also, John Q Public will spot that old quarter & snipe it in pocket changes easily.

I have had much better luck in bags of quarters from machines that typically do not reject silver, finding also 4 or 5 in my best bag. By the time those bags get mixed together with everything else at the coin carrier, we get that 1 silver per 5-10 box average.

That being said quarters are easiest to obtain & dump.

As far as dimes go, I have had tellers tell me "Are you looking for silver? You aren't going to find silver here" asking for halves, and then I'm having her fork over all those shiny dimes (silvers). People don't look/know about the dimes.

 

[Easy]

She said it was 6-7 Morgan's I can't remember now

 

[Coppercrazy]

Yeah my uncle didn't know about silver until he got it in change, threw it into his coin tray in his car and heard it. He kept it, not because of it's silver content/value, but because he thought it was cool.

 

[MrSchulz]

I agree with Mrs. CRH. The teller wants you to hit quarters, so she has more oppurtunities for halves.

 

[Diver_Down]

The more obviouse answer is that she is a liar.

Rare things are rare. Thousand Dollar Morgans are one in 100,000,000

Ockham's Razor (or for us commoners - Occam's Razor). The likelihood is that she is indeed a liar. Even if she had culled key dates or CC's, 99% of tellers don't know crap when it comes to coins no less numismatic values. How many times when asking for large dollars that they go and fetch small dollars? If they can't tell the difference in size, most likely they can't tell the difference between a mint state 1921 and a slick 1893-S.

 

[Coppercrazy]

Everytime I ask for large dollars the teller says "You mean the gold ones? Yeah I have a few."

 

[Local_coins]

Heres what you do: Take in all of your silver quarters found to date and plop them on her desk and say "Wow! You were right!" Maybe she will be the one diverted to the pipe dream of quarters.