New member here few questions

[Eminem]

I've been coin roll hunting for about 9 months now and I have a few questions:

1.) How many boxes of pennies does it usually take to find any 1909 wheatie? I've found about 3,400 wheats and no 1909 dates yet

2.) I'm in the chicago area - who is the man who colors in the 'B' in liberty on the half dollars? I get atleast a few handfuls of his dumps every box (MWR). I wonder if he is a member on this site...

3.) How many silver dimes/halves did you find before you found your first barber? I've found lots of coins but no barbers yet.

4.) How do you guys get large dollar coins ordered?

Thanks

 

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[mercury1]

Pick up large dollars loose from tellers. 4 silver Ike's and one silver Canadian so far for me.
HH

 

[fistfulladirt]

Welcome to the hobby. I'm not into hunting cents, so can't help you much there.
I think that marking coins has become a trend, probably no way to know who's marking what.
I found a Barber half (1894) in my first $500 in halves ever searched, my first Barber dime(s) about $5,000 into dime hunting.
You will have to do your legwork in order to find a joint that will order large dollars. There is no hocus-pocus involved.
Good luck.

 

[jnb1994]

Haven't found a 1909 either yet so can't help you there. Also haven't found any barber yet with a couple thousand halves and dimes searched. And the only way I've gotten the big dollars is the occasional teller find. Had some luck and got 8 morgan and 10 peace at one time a couple months ago

 

[Eminem]

Sounds like i just need to continue my volume thanks

 

[jnb1994]

Sounds like i just need to continue my volume thanks

Yup that always helps. The more you search the more you find

 

[BillyOceansEleven]

I'd estimate I searched about $40k on halves before finding my first (and only) Barber. Never found a barber dime, but I haven't done nearly the volume of dimes as I have halves.

I've never been able to order large dollars. Most places will tell you they can't. There are a couple of folks on here that have been able to order them, but they have been very tight-lipped on their sources.