NintendoAge http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner How Often do you still find pre 1965 quarters half dollars and dimes http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=30241 2010-03-13T11:57:57 -05.00 zach18451 32 How Often do you still find pre 1965 quarters half dollars and dimes http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=30241 2010-03-12T16:04:47 -05.00 zach18451 32 Originally posted by: catfriedrice

Originally posted by: arch_8ngel

Originally posted by: catfriedrice

I find lots of silver coins. Some of them are worth almost 10x their value.
My collection's fairly decent.  I've got a 1920something Walking Liberty Half, A Franklin 1950something half, plenty of steel pennies (I'd love a 43 copper one), a few Mercury dimes, and my favorite of them all, a 1893 Columbian Exposition Half


Dimes, quarters, halves and dollars are 90% silver and all worth exactly the same multiple of their face value, since they contain silver in direct proportion to their face value.

it also depends on the price of silver at the time.  Anything 90% silver is valued at $17.15 an ounce right now, and that's higher than normal (I believe a 64 half was valued less than $5 last summer, and it's currently $6.20 right now).  


I think you misunderstood what I was saying.  The coins contain silver in direct proportion to their face value.

A quarter had 2.5x as much as a dime.
A half-dollar had 5x as much as a dime.
A dollar had 10x as much as a dime.

Because of this, if the price of silver was high enough that any coin was worth 10x face value in melt...ALL silver coins would be worth 10x their face value.

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When I left that job and started working at a winery, I would only occasionally find wheat pennies, and I never pulled them out, as the managers were assholes and it didn't seem worth it to ask them about it.

In change, it goes in spells. I remember a few months back, when I find three silver dimes in the matter of a week and a half, but there has been a dry spell lately. ]]> How Often do you still find pre 1965 quarters half dollars and dimes http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=30241 2010-03-11T23:10:55 -05.00 zach18451 32 Originally posted by: arch_8ngel

Originally posted by: catfriedrice

I find lots of silver coins. Some of them are worth almost 10x their value.
My collection's fairly decent.  I've got a 1920something Walking Liberty Half, A Franklin 1950something half, plenty of steel pennies (I'd love a 43 copper one), a few Mercury dimes, and my favorite of them all, a 1893 Columbian Exposition Half


Dimes, quarters, halves and dollars are 90% silver and all worth exactly the same multiple of their face value, since they contain silver in direct proportion to their face value.

it also depends on the price of silver at the time.  Anything 90% silver is valued at $17.15 an ounce right now, and that's higher than normal (I believe a 64 half was valued less than $5 last summer, and it's currently $6.20 right now).  

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People raiding their change for booze = people spending pre-'65 coinage.

People spending pre-'65 coinage = Me buying pre-'65 coinage.

Me buying pre-'65 coinage = me happy. ]]> How Often do you still find pre 1965 quarters half dollars and dimes http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=30241 2010-03-10T03:10:42 -05.00 zach18451 32
I come across them quite infrequently...occasionally a silver dime or a WW2 nickel, though I have scored a couple silver quarters (one, I believe, was dated 1939 or something along those lines), and I even scored an Indian head penny one day (the date on it was 1888 o_O ). That doesn't mean I don't have a healthy collection of silver coins, though...I've been collecting coins for *much* longer than I have collected video games, and I've probably 20 ounces of silver in coins (including an 1885 silver dollar, some large silver 20-franc coin from Tunisia, and several silver half dollars dating from 1900 forward, and silver dimes dating as far back as 1830). ]]> How Often do you still find pre 1965 quarters half dollars and dimes http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=30241 2010-03-09T13:10:12 -05.00 zach18451 32 Originally posted by: AllYourBase

They may be more common in Canada, but I come across silver Canadian quarters quite often... a few times a year at least, and I don't work with cash at all.


What years were silver coins used in Canada?  I'm not familiar with them. ]]> How Often do you still find pre 1965 quarters half dollars and dimes http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=30241 2010-03-08T20:15:56 -05.00 zach18451 32 How Often do you still find pre 1965 quarters half dollars and dimes http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=30241 2010-03-08T20:04:53 -05.00 zach18451 32 How Often do you still find pre 1965 quarters half dollars and dimes http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=30241 2010-03-08T19:36:08 -05.00 zach18451 32
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