What Am I Doing Wrong?

powderpuf20

powderpuf20

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I bought $250 in quarters, dimes and nickels for my first time CRH. With my computer by my side and CAREFULLY checking every coin I ONLY found a Cayman Island dime! I bought these coins from our small town bank and teller wasn't very nice to me.

Took these coins back to a different bank in a neighboring small town the same day and exchanged the rolls for some $30 in halves (all they had), $260 quarters, and 10 rolls of dimes. Tellers were super nice. But found NOTHING at all.

Took those rolls to a different bank in a large town and exchanged for all quarters and a few rolls of nickels just for the heck of it. Teller was not nice. Again, NOTHING.

I was very careful. Did I not buy enough? Is this normal? I did read several threads but I didn't see anyone having as bad of luck as me. :(
 

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smokeythecat said:
Also, try giving a half dollar to someone under 25 and check out the look you get. They don't know what they are.
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I have been spending some Ikes i got recently all over town. The reactions are quite funny with most people. Bought some girl scout cookies today and the kids were amazed by them, parents too. One dad though had to be Debbie Downer and say "OH those aren't worth anything". I said they are worth a dollar!! To which his daughter replied "Yeah dad, can't you read!!". All in all people love seeing them.
 

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I would hold onto those Ikes. In my area they have been much harder to come by lately, and the tellers say that lots of folks ask for them. I sold off 50 for $60 a little while back but will ask more if and when I sell another batch. I have been trying to build a stash of Ikes but only have 4 now after asking all over the place (and no luck ordering any from banks).
 

If i knew a local place to sell them to without tons of hassle of dealing with fleabay i would sell lots of them =)
 

Update:

So I finished my box of dimes and a box of pennies. (I know, they are called "cents" but I've been calling them pennies my entire life so I'm going to call them pennies.)

Dime box: I ended up with finding a total of 2 silver dimes in this box. A 1963-p and a 1964-p. I'm very happy with my finds. I got through the entire box and then read a thread about Canadian dimes.

Canadian dimes were still being made from silver all the way up to 1968 which I didn't know. So I went back through all the dimes again since I remember seeing several in the box. I found one 1968 Canadian dime. However, if I understand what I'm reading correctly, the Canadian dimes from 1968 were made of 90% AG at the beginning of the year, 50% around the middle of the year, and by the end of the year 0%. So, I'm not sure if the coin I found is AG or not.

Pennies: I don't know why but I LOVE finding wheats even more than AG dimes. I think its because I have a small collection of wheats from when I was a kid. I'm happy to report I found the following:

'54-D
'50-D
'53-D
'34-P
'41-D
'45-P

Along with the wheats I also found 40! Canadian pennies. I know they are not special, besides the copper content, but I thought that was a lot for a box of pennies. However, I do live in Michigan. One Canadian penny was a '52.

In that same box of pennies I noticed a large amount of super shiny '73-D. I started pulling them out and set them aside. At the end of the box I counted 30. I may have missed some from the first several rolls. I'm not sure why so many in one box???

Thanks to everyone who offered advice. I learned a lot from this thread.

I'm going to try to post some pics. One of the pics shows all the coins I pulled out. The pile of pennies are all the Canadians I found. The pennies all lined up are the pretty shiny '73-d pennies. I don't know what I'm going to do with them yet. The others are my dimes and wheats.

Thanks for looking!!!! 2013-03-03_20-07-53_834 small.jpg2013-03-03_20-08-00_48 small.jpg

I'm going to try to attach a picture. Hope it works.
 

powderpuf20 said:
Update:

So I finished my box of dimes and a box of pennies. (I know, they are called "cents" but I've been calling them pennies my entire life so I'm going to call them pennies.)

Dime box: I ended up with finding a total of 2 silver dimes in this box. A 1963-p and a 1964-p. I'm very happy with my finds. I got through the entire box and then read a thread about Canadian dimes.

Canadian dimes were still being made from silver all the way up to 1968 which I didn't know. So I went back through all the dimes again since I remember seeing several in the box. I found one 1968 Canadian dime. However, if I understand what I'm reading correctly, the Canadian dimes from 1968 were made of 90% AG at the beginning of the year, 50% around the middle of the year, and by the end of the year 0%. So, I'm not sure if the coin I found is AG or not.

Pennies: I don't know why but I LOVE finding wheats even more than AG dimes. I think its because I have a small collection of wheats from when I was a kid. I'm happy to report I found the following:

'54-D
'50-D
'53-D
'34-P
'41-D
'45-P

Along with the wheats I also found 40! Canadian pennies. I know they are not special, besides the copper content, but I thought that was a lot for a box of pennies. However, I do live in Michigan. One Canadian penny was a '52.

In that same box of pennies I noticed a large amount of super shiny '73-D. I started pulling them out and set them aside. At the end of the box I counted 30. I may have missed some from the first several rolls. I'm not sure why so many in one box???

Thanks to everyone who offered advice. I learned a lot from this thread.

I'm going to try to post some pics. One of the pics shows all the coins I pulled out. The pile of pennies are all the Canadians I found. The pennies all lined up are the pretty shiny '73-d pennies. I don't know what I'm going to do with them yet. The others are my dimes and wheats.

Thanks for looking!!!!<img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=755533"/><img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=755534"/>

I'm going to try to attach a picture. Hope it works.
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1968 Canadian dimes contain either 50% Ag or 99.9% Ni, 1967 contain either 80% Ag or 50% Ag and you cannot discern a difference between the amount of Ag in the 67'. As far as telling whether it is silver or nickel, easy. Nickel is magnetic and silver is not.
 

Don't mind Gordon. He is equally as much of a $@&)& in every forum :)
 

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