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Dan52
Penny Collector Member
USA
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 Posted - 10/31/2008 : 20:20:30
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I bought another box of dimes today and the first roll had a 1941 mercury dime. Thats my third mercury and my eighth silver dime. I know a lot of folks don't fool with dimes but I dig em'. Right now I'm sorting nickels, dimes, and halves. I've never bought any quarters. I read on here that quarters rarely yield any silver. I had to have a break from sorting halves. Been getting lots of skunks. Anybody here sort dimes?
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 10/31/2008 : 20:25:11
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Congratulations on the Mercury find. Any silver find is awesome, let alone one of those. How well are the dimes treating you? I've never bought dimes to search personally.
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Live free or die.
Plain and simple.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your council or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
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TenBears
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1021 Posts |
Posted - 10/31/2008 : 22:05:43
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| Silver in the first roll is always good. Searching after a silver find is pleasurable because you have already had success. |
"Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got." Robert Ruark
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...-----still taunted
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ME CO
Penny Pincher Member
USA
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Posted - 10/31/2008 : 22:18:43
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I get a box of dimes from time to time. Sunday I got a box, 1 Merc and 2 Rosies. Half of my halves didn't come in this week so yesterday in desparation I scrounged 3 boxes up- total 2 Rosies for my trouble. In August I was burnt out on halves and searching perion so I was gonna quit when I took vacation. I switched a couple of large orders from halves to dimes right before then. On Thursday I bought $3K, then Saturday $6K, I think I got just over 60 out of that 9K. My theory was that I had grown accustomed to spending large amounts of cash daily and if I didn't buy $$$ with it I may just pi$$ it away- so hey I kept the money and got more silver for the hoard. Dimes are a nice diversion but on average 1/box, at least I'm not blowing the money.
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Bluegill
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 11/01/2008 : 09:04:36
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I lost track of how many skunks in a row I've gotten with halves. The nickels are starting to peter out on me again. I bought 10 boxes of dimes. Finished sorting them this morning. Scored 13 Ag, no mercuries though.
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JerrySpringer
Penny Hoarding Member
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Posted - 11/01/2008 : 10:09:10
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On Thursday I bought $3K, then Saturday $6K, I think I got just over 60 out of that 9K.
Do dimes go as fast through the coin counters like pennies do? It may provide an alternative to searching half dollars. With dimes, you just open the rolls and look on the edge. You can sort them swiftly and then just take them to the coin counter and have them run through like pennies. I dumped a few hundred dollars in halves yesterday and it took a while for them to clunk through. The 700+ pennies I dumped in there went through like butter. Sorting halves is fun but the dumping of them is erratic right now. I dump some in the counter and bring rolls back to banks all around the area. I try to mark some of them to see if they come back to me. |
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oober
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 11/01/2008 : 13:17:41
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Originally posted by JerrySpringer
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On Thursday I bought $3K, then Saturday $6K, I think I got just over 60 out of that 9K.
Do dimes go as fast through the coin counters like pennies do? It may provide an alternative to searching half dollars. With dimes, you just open the rolls and look on the edge. You can sort them swiftly and then just take them to the coin counter and have them run through like pennies. I dumped a few hundred dollars in halves yesterday and it took a while for them to clunk through. The 700+ pennies I dumped in there went through like butter. Sorting halves is fun but the dumping of them is erratic right now. I dump some in the counter and bring rolls back to banks all around the area. I try to mark some of them to see if they come back to me.
My dump bank has the teller do the cointing, hence a better counter. THis is why I use them, It took about 1min to count up a box of dumped 1/2's this morning.
Dimes I have been avg a little over 1 90% per box. Takes me about 30min to sort looking at the sides. |
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JerrySpringer
Penny Hoarding Member
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Posted - 11/01/2008 : 21:50:46
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It took about 1min to count up a box of dumped 1/2's this morning.
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1941 Mercury dime + a 1951
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