2024 CRH results

[CJ9]

I found a total of 105.75oz of silver in 2024 compared with 83.46oz in 2023. I have also summarized my CRH data below since 2019 (since I began keeping records). What is interesting is that while there is variation over the years, excluding finding silver hoards (which I define as solid or nearly-solid rolls), the hit rate in terms of finding silver in rolls has been more consistent than I would have imagined (excluding quarters, which I dont really search, and most of the finds there have been from Coinstars). For example, if you exclude solid rolls, I have typically found one dime per $150, 1 nickel (war, buffalo, and V) per $75, and 1 half (40% or 90%) per $15. The higher amounts of searching in 2024 was the result of being semi-retired vs. prior years. I also include Coinstar finds as found in rolls in these statistics.

Here are the details:

Nickels: searched $10,428, and as shown, found 182 WW2, buffaloes and V nickels. Averaged 1 per $57.30 searched. It was a good year for nickels.
- 123 war nickels
- 37 buffaloes with a readable date (pic below) and 19 with an unreadable date (no pic)
- 2 V nickels (1908 and 1910)
- 1 Mexican 25 centavos from 1950 (size of a nickel) and has 0.032oz of silver. This was from a Coinstar machine
- 208 Canadian nickels
- 3 1950D nickels
(the steel cents at the bottom of the buffalo nickel pic were found in dime rolls over the course of the year)

DIMES: Searched $40,610 and found 1,095 silvers. This included finding 17 solid rolls (pic below), so found 245 silvers excluding those. While the average was 1 silver per $37.09 searched, excluding the solid rolls, it was $165.41, which is more in line with the historical range I have had for the last 6 years.

Found 1 solid roll in February, 8 solid BU OBW rolls of 1958/1960 (with only one opened) in August, and then 8 more solid rolls on 10/19. These were from different banks and in different geographic areas (there are prior posts on these).

- Nickel 3c piece from 1865 (prior post on this when found in Feb 2024)
- 1,007 FDR dimes (7 from Coinstar). Includes the 8 BU dimes in the pic below and the 1 1962 proof.
- 73 Mercs
- 1 Barber (1909)
- 11 Canadian 80% silver and 2 50%
- 1 silver Swiss 1/2 franc from 1958
- 213 regular Canadian dimes
- 76 British 5p coins
- 16 regular Swiss 1/2 francs

QUARTERS: Searched $560 and found nothing in the rolls. The 2 quarters came from Coinstar.

HALVES: Searched $998 and found 101 silvers. 44 of these came from nearly-solid rolls. So while the hit rate was 1 silver per $9.88, excluding the nearly-solid rolls, it was 1 per $17.12 searched, which was within the historical average I have had for searching for the last 6 years.
- 80 40% (1965 x4, 1966 x8, 1967 x39, 1968D x21, 1969D x8)
- 14 1964 JFK 90%
- 2 Franklins
- 5 Walkers
- 1 1987D NIFC (not pictured)

Breaking it down further:
CWR: searched $480, found 32 40%, 4 1964 JFK 90%, and the 2 Franklins and 5 Walkers
MWR: searched $40 and found nothing
Loose: searched $478 and found 48 40% and 10 1964 JFK

DOLLARS: Searched $101 and found 1 Ike 1978S clad proof, a SBA 1979S clad proof, and a SBA 1979P near-date type.

COINSTAR: In addition to the silver mentioned above, Coinstar coughed up:
- $25.96 in US clad
- C$2.01
- 2.41 British pounds
- 4.44 Euros
- 24 Mexican pesos
- $1.06 Bahamas
- Italian pay phone token (pic below) - I thought this was one of the neater finds.
- other various foreign coins.

Thanks for looking, HH, and hope everyone finds good stuff in 2025.

 

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[BennyV]

How do you redeem the coins after you search the rolls? Coinstar charges a vig so I guess that’s out. Do you re-roll them?

 

[CJ9]

How do you redeem the coins after you search the rolls? Coinstar charges a vig so I guess that’s out. Do you re-roll them?

Yes I re-roll them. There are a ton of banks around here so I can dump coins without any problem.

Most of my searching is dimes and nickels, so banks take them without any issue vs. large volumes of halves.

For the halves, given that I dont search large volume (I dont search boxes), I just spend those at stores. The self checkout at 2 large supermarket chains here, as well as at Home Depot take them, so most of my half dumps go there.

Also, I focus on searching CWR so re-rolling is not much of a pain in the neck.

 

[BennyV]

Yes I re-roll them. There are a ton of banks around here so I can dump coins without any problem.

Most of my searching is dimes and nickels, so banks take them without any issue vs. large volumes of halves.

For the halves, given that I dont search large volume (I dont search boxes), I just spend those at stores. The self checkout at 2 large supermarket chains here, as well as at Home Depot take them, so most of my half dumps go there.

Also, I focus on searching CWR so re-rolling is not much of a pain in the neck.

Cwr?

 

[CJ9]

Cwr?

customer wrapped rolls (vs. MWR = machine wrapped rolls)

 

[blueberra]

I found a total of 105.75oz of silver in 2024 compared with 83.46oz in 2023. I have also summarized my CRH data below since 2019 (since I began keeping records). What is interesting is that while there is variation over the years, excluding finding silver hoards (which I define as solid or nearly-solid rolls), the hit rate in terms of finding silver in rolls has been more consistent than I would have imagined (excluding quarters, which I dont really search, and most of the finds there have been from Coinstars). For example, if you exclude solid rolls, I have typically found one dime per $150, 1 nickel (war, buffalo, and V) per $75, and 1 half (40% or 90%) per $15. The higher amounts of searching in 2024 was the result of being semi-retired vs. prior years. I also include Coinstar finds as found in rolls in these statistics.


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Here are the details:

Nickels: searched $10,428, and as shown, found 182 WW2, buffaloes and V nickels. Averaged 1 per $57.30 searched. It was a good year for nickels.
- 123 war nickels
- 37 buffaloes with a readable date (pic below) and 19 with an unreadable date (no pic)
- 2 V nickels (1908 and 1910)
- 1 Mexican 25 centavos from 1950 (size of a nickel) and has 0.032oz of silver. This was from a Coinstar machine
- 208 Canadian nickels
- 3 1950D nickels
(the steel cents at the bottom of the buffalo nickel pic were found in dime rolls over the course of the year)

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DIMES: Searched $40,610 and found 1,095 silvers. This included finding 17 solid rolls (pic below), so found 245 silvers excluding those. While the average was 1 silver per $37.09 searched, excluding the solid rolls, it was $165.41, which is more in line with the historical range I have had for the last 6 years.

Found 1 solid roll in February, 8 solid BU OBW rolls of 1958/1960 (with only one opened) in August, and then 8 more solid rolls on 10/19. These were from different banks and in different geographic areas (there are prior posts on these).

- Nickel 3c piece from 1865 (prior post on this when found in Feb 2024)
- 1,007 FDR dimes (7 from Coinstar). Includes the 8 BU dimes in the pic below and the 1 1962 proof.
- 73 Mercs
- 1 Barber (1909)
- 11 Canadian 80% silver and 2 50%
- 1 silver Swiss 1/2 franc from 1958
- 213 regular Canadian dimes
- 76 British 5p coins
- 16 regular Swiss 1/2 francs

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QUARTERS: Searched $560 and found nothing in the rolls. The 2 quarters came from Coinstar.

HALVES: Searched $998 and found 101 silvers. 44 of these came from nearly-solid rolls. So while the hit rate was 1 silver per $9.88, excluding the nearly-solid rolls, it was 1 per $17.12 searched, which was within the historical average I have had for searching for the last 6 years.
- 80 40% (1965 x4, 1966 x8, 1967 x39, 1968D x21, 1969D x8)
- 14 1964 JFK 90%
- 2 Franklins
- 5 Walkers
- 1 1987D NIFC (not pictured)

Breaking it down further:
CWR: searched $480, found 32 40%, 4 1964 JFK 90%, and the 2 Franklins and 5 Walkers
MWR: searched $40 and found nothing
Loose: searched $478 and found 48 40% and 10 1964 JFK

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DOLLARS: Searched $101 and found 1 Ike 1978S clad proof, a SBA 1979S clad proof, and a SBA 1979P near-date type.

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COINSTAR: In addition to the silver mentioned above, Coinstar coughed up:
- $25.96 in US clad
- C$2.01
- 2.41 British pounds
- 4.44 Euros
- 24 Mexican pesos
- $1.06 Bahamas
- Italian pay phone token (pic below) - I thought this was one of the neater finds.
- other various foreign coins.

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Thanks for looking, HH, and hope everyone finds good stuff in 2025.

That is some meticulous record-keeping -- outstanding effort.

Of particular note were the three 1950D nickels. When I was a teenager in the sixties, that date / mm was almost never found in circulation (I struck out despite working in a convenience store and getting roll upon roll of nickels from the bank) because it was a recognized 'rarity' from day one and pulled before it hit circulation. I see one of yours is tagged as 'BU' which I would expect.

Jefferson nickels were an easy Whitman folder to fill from circulation save for the 1950D which had a Red Book value in the late '60s of around $50 (think of what $50 would buy you sixty years ago). It's a LOT less now.

Even as other silver coins started to disappear from circulation, war nickels did not -- perhaps due to the fact that their 'notoriety' was not well-known to the general public.

 

[CJ9]

That is some meticulous record-keeping -- outstanding effort.

Of particular note were the three 1950D nickels. When I was a teenager in the sixties, that date / mm was almost never found in circulation (I struck out despite working in a convenience store and getting roll upon roll of nickels from the bank) because it was a recognized 'rarity' from day one and pulled before it hit circulation. I see one of yours is tagged as 'BU' which I would expect.

Jefferson nickels were an easy Whitman folder to fill from circulation save for the 1950D which had a Red Book value in the late '60s of around $50 (think of what $50 would buy you sixty years ago). It's a LOT less now.

Even as other silver coins started to disappear from circulation, war nickels did not -- perhaps due to the fact that their 'notoriety' was not well-known to the general public.

Thanks

So for the nickels, I have found 4 1950D in total (the 3 from this year and one in 2017). Two of the 3 from this year came from the same bank - there was a post I made on March 29th where I found some sort of nickel collection - lots of older nickels, a few key dates and a few silvers and buffaloes. I went back to the same bank a few weeks later in April and found some more nickels (same type of wrappers) - and this is where I got the second 1950D. The third one that is well worn, I got in September, but I don't remember from where.

The one I marked BU is really close to uncirculated, and the other one next to it in the picture is probably AU or AU+. The one I found in 2017 is also AU or BU. Interestingly, the third one in the picture under the 2 that are together is pretty well worn. I agree, most of these are close to BU condition because they were hoarded. Pity the person who paid $50 in the 1960s for one of these in the collecting hype of the time (like you said think what $50 would get you in the 1960s vs. today - and plus the coin isn't even worth close to $50 today). Not only did the purchasing power of the dollar decline since then (as one would expect) but the value of the coin itself also dropped significantly from then.

I think the same on war nickels. People don't know about them so they weren't really pulled from circulation.