Posted: 8/6/2013 2:52:53 PM EDT
| What year do I want to look for? My girlfriend works at a bank and I am thinking of asking her to bring change home. |
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I'm just going to assume you want junk silver quarters (and dimes)... your post is very vague...
That would be pre-65 quarters and dimes... dimes are much more common because the quarters often got fed into vending machines then kicked back out and people would inspect the coin and realize it was silver. The easy way to identify them is by looking at the edge. If you see the copper sandwiched in the middle it's not silver. If the color is silver all through the edge it's silver... 
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Screw the year, your poor gf will be there all day.
All you do, and what I do, is scan the coin tray they keep next to them. You look for a coin WITHOUT the copper wafer in it. It's really obvious when you do it. Also, get a silver coin of each denomination and let her hear the sound from it. I've already spotted silver three tellers over when I hear it clanging around. It's VERY distinct. Again, don't waste time with the dates, although as has been stated the pre-65's are what you want...teach her to spot the non-wafered coins and listen for the sound. -Emt1581 |
| you aren't going to find much in the way of silver coins working in a branch. You'll find some, but the real place that those suckers getting filtered out is in the big coin processing sites (usually contracted out to armored couriers). Some of those SOBs lose money on the rest of their operation and only turn a profit because they leech mad amount of silver out of the system and only credit the customer $0.25 for a silver quarter. I guess in a way it's a genius business model, especially when silver was $40+/oz... |
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Save up the 15-grand and buy the $1000 face value bags.
Peter Schiff started his own coin business. I still order from JM Bullion. No Complaints whatsoever. Your poor girlfriend will be hammered by her supervisor for trying to sort silver during work hours. I'm sure they've seen every trick in the book by now. |
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Screw the year, your poor gf will be there all day. All you do, and what I do, is scan the coin tray they keep next to them. You look for a coin WITHOUT the copper wafer in it. It's really obvious when you do it. She'll bring home a bunch of Canadian quarters if that is all she looks for. 
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Screw the year, your poor gf will be there all day. All you do, and what I do, is scan the coin tray they keep next to them. You look for a coin WITHOUT the copper wafer in it. It's really obvious when you do it. She'll bring home a bunch of Canadian quarters if that is all she looks for. But this is where the sound comes into play and is actually easier in my experience. -Emt1581 |