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You check your change and find a silver coin? xD

This time around it was a 1942 nickle. Only worth about 1.50 at the moment, but thats still 30x face value. :cool:

Also my first time finding a silver nickle. They were only minted 1942 - 45 in think.
 
Nice.

When I worked at a truck stop I ended up with quite a few silver quarters. I also got some silver certificates, which are like dollars, but their value was in silver not gold.
 
yea, I never find silver quarters, but quite a few Dimes.
Its just always fun when you're paying somewhere, glance at the change and go WOO silver haha. always makes my day.

I know several cashiers, and they get idiots paying with silver all the time. Like 1920 silver dollars.
 
Since you started a thread about it, what years for what coins are silver? And what do you actually do with them?
 
[quote name='Yamato']Since you started a thread about it, what years for what coins are silver? And what do you actually do with them?[/QUOTE]


http://www.coinflation.com/silver_coin_values.html

That site gives you a list of (US) coins and years that are silver, and the current market value (which can change daily)

People buy and sell them for the scrap value as investments.

Last time I sold a coin, I did to the pawn shop,
and bought a CIB Snes game. lol
 
[quote name='Yamato']Since you started a thread about it, what years for what coins are silver? And what do you actually do with them?[/QUOTE]

Any dime/Quarter/half dollar minted 1964 or earlier is silver. If you look at the side of one of these coins, it's completely sliver colored. A newer one will have a band of copper in the edge from the filler metals.

I love seeing the weird coins that turn up in my change... I've gotten many silver quarters and dimes- seriously, there's a fair number of dimes out there, although I haven't had one recently- plus buffalo nickels, mercury dimes, many wheatback pennies... the best was the 1893 indian head penny.

I read an article ages ago about a coin collector who purposely spent 2 coins worth a few thousand each, to try and get people to pay more attention to their change. I don't know if anyone ever found those...
 
Kennedy halves from 65-70.are also 40% silver. Also only nickels with a large mint mark above Monticello for 1942' are 35% silver there are some regular 42' nickels.
 
I hoard my silver coins lol.

I figure if I ever get in a pinch I could sell them for scrap value at the worst, but I like having silver.
 
I've been checking the years on my coins for quite a few years now. Unfortunately, it hasn't yielded much of anything in terms of real silver. I have a couple silver dimes and a silver half dollar, but that's it. Although, my best currency-related find was getting a $1 silver certificate bill as change from a cashier.
 
For sure they make a seriously different sound. More like a higher pitched almost musical quality, rather than the clang of normal coins.

That was actually how I found my first silver quarter.

FYI--silver quarters do not work in vending machines, at least in my experience, found another that way.
 
Most of my precious metal coinage has been bought from pawn and coin shops, since I haven't been that lucky to find those really old coins in my spare change.

Although I HAVE at times received bills with very old dates on them, including at least 1 $20 from the 1950's or so, one $50 bill from the 1920's(rough, rough shape though) and at least 1 $100 bill from the 1960's.

Unfortunately since I'm also a broke ass gamer I didn't keep ANY of those bills and just respent them like you would normal cash.:cry: But just like the clang of the silver coinage making a different sound than the modern coins you can tell the difference between a recent bill and a vintage one almost immediately. The color of the ink on some of them is off compared to recently minted ones. It's usually the green ink on the back of the bills that's lighter or darker depending on the age of the bill.
 
My dad has been collecting silver coins for at least 20 years. With the price of precious metals going the way it is, seems like it turned out to be a pretty good idea.
 
I got my first silver quarters from a blockbuster that ended up closing. I was shocked by how they felt/looked/sounded the first time I had them, kept them since. Might go see how old they are, also almost spent a nickel I found that was similar to them.

I would keep those Olympic style quarters, the torch and the drummer boy on the back instead of the eagle. Hope those will be worth something someday. Edit: Seems they're not worth more than their face value. Oh well, they seemed uncommon in my area.

Burned through all my state quarter collection, been trying to hoard the horse one (Delaware?), ended up using them most of them since I'm so broke.
 
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Being a CSR for a convenience store had its perks. I loved looking at all the money when I was supposed to be counting it. Never found a lot that way, but my coworkers would hang onto the uncommon stuff for me. I'll check on what I have and post again.

My wife still works for a convenience store, so she's always looking for us and my mother.
 
[quote name='anotherpoorgamer']I would keep those Olympic style quarters, the torch and the drummer boy on the back instead of the eagle. Hope those will be worth something someday. Edit: Seems they're not worth more than their face value. Oh well, they seemed uncommon in my area.[/quote]
You mean the bicentennial ones that say 1776-1976 on them? Yeah. They're not worth anything over face value really.
Burned through all my state quarter collection, been trying to hoard the horse one (Delaware?), ended up using them most of them since I'm so broke.
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Unless you bought the proof set ones from the mint the state quarters are probably one of the most collected coin sets out there right now. That's the main problem with coin collecting nowadays though, in that EVERYBODY frickin' collects them.

With everybody collecting them the value remains kinda low. The same can be said for old comic books and baseballs cards. The reason an item gains value is because the number of perfect specimens out there of it are relatively low.
 
[quote name='The Lord of Awesome']You must be trolling[/QUOTE]

Silver is worth-less . It was like what $60 last year and now it is $30. Thats half off. Then what will it be next year $15. Sure it is pretty to look at, but that's about it.
 
[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer']You mean the bicentennial ones that say 1776-1976 on them? Yeah. They're not worth anything over face value really.
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My dad got me in the habit of keeping those. Once I had over 20 dollars worth of them then some kid came by selling chocolate bars and I bought ten dollars worth with them.

Its been at least 10 years since I have come across a silver coin though.
 
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