re: Is collecting silver worth the time?

Jerry Selbee was a regular guy who was sharp at math, which allowed him and his wife to make millions off of flaws in two state lotteries. He had other sharp ideas, most of which required a lot of work but paid off.

One thing he did to make money:

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Knowing that people rolled up their spare change and cashed it at the bank, it had occurred to Jerry to buy these rolls at face value, hoping that the bank hadn’t opened and checked them. Jerry’s idea was that maybe bank customers, by mistake, had included certain rare and valuable coins along with the normal ones. Father and son would sit in front of the TV at night and rip open the rolls, searching for buffalo nickels and silver Mercury head dimes; they made about $6,000.

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