Where to Find Silver Coins??

[Erican95]

Hi, I'm a new Silver Coin collector but haven't had much luck.....

I would go around banks asking if they have half dollars but they all say they don't have any! I was just wondering does anyone have tips on finding silver coins

Also Is it true that banks sort out the silver coins a machine so there are basically no silver quarters in circulation?

Anytips would help!!!

 

[Tom_in_CA]

yeah, you're hardly going to find any silver coins in circulation. Oh sure, you can try. Oh sure, and you can occasionally find a silver roosie or kennedy half still there. But .... hardly worth the time in my opinion. Faster just to metal detect Hunt yards of old homes, as they're usually virgin and never hunted. (as opposed to the obvious parks and schools, which ... depending on your area, are often-time hammered and worked hard by now).

 

[wvwildman]

get you a metal detector and hunt old yards and farms

 

[fella]

^^that^^

 

[Erican95]

Does anyone know where to get a cheap and good metal detector?

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Which is it? Cheap or good? Any detector will detect a silver coin. The good ones will be a little deeper and get around, beside or even under trash and scrap iron or mineralized soil and still let you know there is a coin down there . . . or at least something that conducts electricity and creates eddy currents like a coin.

Tesoro Compadre
Garretts 150
Fisher F2

All entry level and all will find you something. Used detectors are also a good alternative. I have a Minelab Musketeer Advantage that is a darned good unit I got relatively cheap. Not the best choice for trashy sites, though.


The key is to look where someone would have reached in their pocket or made change in the time before 1964.

 

[SusanMN]

Go on out with your detector and dig a bunch of clad. Then cash it in and buy some quality silver coins from a coin dealer.

 

[NCcoinDigger]

I tried the whole asking banks if they have any half dollars or rolls of halves and dimes.... Its really not all that its cracked up to be...you will end up spending more in gas going to and from the bank than you would "most likely" get in silver if you get any at all. Grab a detector! I find silver coins just about every 2 or 3 hunts, probably more frequent than that... ive been doing really well with silvers lately