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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:18:55 AM EDT
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I'd notice right away if I was handed an actual silver coin in change. Nothing magic, but it's rare enough that I'm sure lots of people have never had occasion to notice.
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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:19:02 AM EDT
[#2]
I can't even remember the last time I used cash to buy something...
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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:19:28 AM EDT
[#3]
I look for it in all my change.
It's been years since I found any silver coins. |
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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:20:01 AM EDT
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I always check. The only silver I've ever found was a pre-'64 dime in a Coinstar return tray.
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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:20:11 AM EDT
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Never. Not even once. Been looking since I worked at a Piggly Wiggly in 2002.
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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:22:35 AM EDT
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I heard when the price of silver skyrocketed people would get rolls of quarters form the bank, sort out the silver, then return the remaining quarter for cash. Rinse and repeat.
You could also try rolling some old lady for her silver coins. |
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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:24:52 AM EDT
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Haven't noticed any since 1998. Got change from a vending machine and noticed on of the quarters sounded different than the others.
I look every time I get quarters, but haven't seen one since. |
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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:27:51 AM EDT
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I found a 1894 Barber quarter yesterday while out metal detecting. Does that count?
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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:29:06 AM EDT
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No silver but I just found a 1946 Penny in my pocket.
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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:31:08 AM EDT
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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:32:54 AM EDT
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Not in a couple months.
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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:34:26 AM EDT
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Had a kid pay cash for some food at a fast food joint. I was next in line. Kid at counter was staring at the quarter given to him. Said it felt fake. I asked if I could see it. Took note of the date and handed him a new quarter. Then told him why it felt fake. It was a 1960 quarter
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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:36:54 AM EDT
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On very rare occasions I find a silver dime. I haven't found a quarter in quite a few years.
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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:37:41 AM EDT
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I find one occasionally, but I doubt that most people would assign anything beyond face value to old US coinage with silver content. Two generations have grown up now with no silver content, and I think they mostly don't care about the issue as much as some older citizens seem to think they will......
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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:40:33 AM EDT
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I found this in my change the other day. I had never seen one before. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/131444/image-145085.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/131444/image-145086.JPG Mine was 1951, a quarter |
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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:41:42 AM EDT
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Had a kid pay cash for some food at a fast food joint. I was next in line. Kid at counter was staring at the quarter given to him. Said it felt fake. I asked if I could see it. Took note of the date and handed him a new quarter. Then told him why it felt fake. It was a 1960 quarter 
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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:44:43 AM EDT
[#17]
30 years since I found silver
You got lucky, some druggie stole grannys coins and spent them face value on Cheetos. |
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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:45:37 AM EDT
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Used to manage restaurants. Whenever I counted cash drawers I would hold the coins to see the edges, pretty easy to pick out the silver. Found quite a few over the course of a couple years. Also a few $1 and $5 silver certificates. I would always buy them up.
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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:47:53 AM EDT
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I found a 1894 Barber quarter yesterday while out metal detecting. Does that count? |
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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:51:15 AM EDT
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I do "customer roll" (Rolled coins that come in from vendors) searches every payday.
Go to your bank and ask for Customer Rolls. If you just ask for $200 in Pennies/Dimes/Nickles you're going to get 99.9% clad zinc. With "Customer Rolls" you're going to get the stuff that comes in randomly. I don't even waste my time on quarters and half-dollars (They've been picked through Ad nauseam at this point.) My best score was an old (1966) roll that had 7 silver dimes in it. I've also found 15-16 "War" nickels and a metric FUCK TON of wheat backs. I'm still searching for that 1943 copper cent 
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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:53:25 AM EDT
[#21]
I have looked for years and have found 1 quarter in all that time, that was a few months ago
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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:55:05 AM EDT
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I do "customer roll" (Rolled coins that come in from vendors) searches every payday. Go to your bank and ask for Customer Rolls. If you just ask for $200 in Pennies/Dimes/Nickles you're going to get 99.9% clad zinc. With "Customer Rolls" you're going to get the stuff that comes in randomly. I don't even waste my time on quarters and half-dollars (They've been picked through Ad nauseam at this point.) My best score was an old (1966) roll that had 7 silver dimes in it. I've also found 15-16 "War" nickels and a metric FUCK TON of wheat backs. I'm still searching for that 1943 copper cent 
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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:55:24 AM EDT
[#23]
Came across a silver dime a couple of months ago.
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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:57:11 AM EDT
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When you find it at least buy me a beer Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I do "customer roll" (Rolled coins that come in from vendors) searches every payday. Go to your bank and ask for Customer Rolls. If you just ask for $200 in Pennies/Dimes/Nickles you're going to get 99.9% clad zinc. With "Customer Rolls" you're going to get the stuff that comes in randomly. I don't even waste my time on quarters and half-dollars (They've been picked through Ad nauseam at this point.) My best score was an old (1966) roll that had 7 silver dimes in it. I've also found 15-16 "War" nickels and a metric FUCK TON of wheat backs. I'm still searching for that 1943 copper cent 
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Posted: 2/12/2017 2:00:19 AM EDT
[#25]
A war nickel in over 10 years of working at a place with cash registers. Also a couple silver certificates, which I imagine aren't worth anything but a few cents over face.
A gal I worked with found one 40% Kennedy half. |
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Posted: 2/12/2017 2:01:00 AM EDT
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I'd notice right away if I was handed an actual silver coin in change. Nothing magic, but it's rare enough that I'm sure lots of people have never had occasion to notice. |
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Posted: 2/12/2017 2:02:48 AM EDT
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Funny this gets brought up today. I was going through my change from the last few days and found a 1939 quarter.
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Posted: 2/12/2017 2:09:05 AM EDT
[#28]
Always check, starting 4-5 years ago... Nothing found yet. Lots of 1965 coins, never anything older.
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Posted: 2/12/2017 2:12:11 AM EDT
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I check regularly. Last time I got something was a couple years ago - a 1947 quarter. I still have it and keep it in a valet tray on my dresser. I think it is fairly rare to come across one anymore.
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Posted: 2/12/2017 2:21:07 AM EDT
[#30]
I checked whenever I get change
This is a good way to find coins that were made improperly too. My best find was a perry's victory quarter made without reeds, barely circulated, with the 3 layers of metal clearly visible, the edges were wider too. I get a lot of dollar coins as change, but I can never seem to spend them. |
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Posted: 2/12/2017 2:26:41 AM EDT
[#31]
I hate carrying change. It goes into the console or ash tray until it gets dumped into a bucket in the shop, or a big dish on the dresser.
When things get full, I sort through and pick out the pre-64 stuff. The rest goes to the coin sorter at the bank. I have half a dozen old socks stuffed with junk silver doing that for the last 10 years or so. Have also found some rare stuff in the process. |
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Posted: 2/12/2017 2:27:52 AM EDT
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My oldest coin found detecting was a Barber dime, 1906. Also the only silver coin I've found. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I found a 1894 Barber quarter yesterday while out metal detecting. Does that count? I have been detecting here in Brevard County Florida off and on for six years. I also found a 1919 nickel. Buffalo -Indian head.. These are my first old coins to date. The 1894 was my first silver coin as well. Not too many old places here to detect that haven't been worked. Didn't mean to hijack the thread. Carry on |
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Posted: 2/12/2017 2:32:28 AM EDT
[#33]
When I worked at the grocery store as a checker some guy paid me in $2.00 of silver quarters. I dropped them in my drawer and thought wow those sounded weird. Afterwards looked back in my drawer and noticed they were all silver called someone over to witness and bought them.
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Posted: 2/12/2017 4:58:46 AM EDT
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I was given 2 1957 $1 silver certificates after breaking a $20 at circle k last year. Of course those were bills and not coins.
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Posted: 2/12/2017 7:44:53 AM EDT
[#35]
I don't even remember the last time I got a US coin with silver in change.
I do get a wheat penny every couple weeks, and canadian coins too, although its been a while for Canadian coins. |
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Posted: 2/12/2017 7:47:39 AM EDT
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I was given 2 1957 $1 silver certificates after breaking a $20 at circle k last year. Of course those were bills and not coins. We need more little pothead shits stealing from grandma's momento box, so they can get another fix, and then we can all get these things in change. That must be how most of these things, including silver coins, end up in circulation |
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Posted: 2/12/2017 7:48:31 AM EDT
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I can't even remember the last time I used cash to buy something... This. |
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Posted: 2/12/2017 7:54:31 AM EDT
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30 years since I found silver You got lucky, some druggie stole grannys coins and spent them face value on Cheetos. This is why I always use cash, and pennies, if I have them, make sure I get the most quarters and dimes back in change at our local CircleK. I get a few quarters and many dimes every year from this place. I was at a Wendy's i Erie, PA a few years ago and got a pre 1964 quarter. I asked the clerk if she had any more in her drawer. She looked and said yes, I bought 7.50 in pre-64 from her at face value. |
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Posted: 2/12/2017 7:57:06 AM EDT
[#39]
I haven't found silver in years. I did get a wheat penny the other day.
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Posted: 2/12/2017 8:05:17 AM EDT
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I don't bother looking anymore, not worth the effort. As a kid in the 60's I'd have my mom get rolls of coins at the bank and I'd sort through them for any coins worth above face value. With the change to reduced silver coins I got my dad to give me $200 to turn into silver quarters. Wish I'd have got more. I still have all those coins.
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Posted: 2/12/2017 8:09:12 AM EDT
[#41]
I had a silver dollar that my wife tossed in the trash because "it was scratched up"
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Posted: 2/12/2017 8:09:52 AM EDT
[#42]
I check my change whenever I get it....found 1 quarter and 2 dimes over the last several years.
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Posted: 2/12/2017 8:33:15 AM EDT
[#43]
I received a Mercury dime in change at Walmart a couple of months ago.
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Posted: 2/12/2017 8:39:05 AM EDT
[#44]
Not a coin, but I came across a 1$ silver certificate back in the '80s when I was a cashier at Kroger.
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Posted: 2/12/2017 8:39:39 AM EDT
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My oldest coin found detecting was a Barber dime, 1906. Also the only silver coin I've found. Found a 1908 Indian head penny once. That's about it. |
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Posted: 2/12/2017 8:50:12 AM EDT
[#46]
Last time I found silver in random change was a Mercury dime, probably ten years ago.
I used to collect American silver coins when I was a kid and still have my collection. I was that dork who'd go through rolls of dimes and quarters from the banks. You develop an eye and ear for them after a while; like others have said, I would know it right away if I got one back in change. |
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Posted: 2/12/2017 8:54:34 AM EDT
[#47]
I check but never find chit
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Posted: 2/12/2017 8:57:22 AM EDT
[#48]
Not looking. But a local bartender traded me face value ($1) for a 1999 "Silver Eagle" dollar with 1 oz .999 Fine Silver in it.
Someone tipped him with it. All beat up, so only worth the spot price of silver. ~$17 |
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Posted: 2/12/2017 9:02:25 AM EDT
[#49]
I always look at my change for rare coins. Best I ever found was a 1936 dime. Was probably 6-8 years ago.
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Posted: 2/12/2017 9:04:40 AM EDT
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This is a chart that follows the SPOT price of silver when it comes to some coins.
https://www.ngccoin.com/priceguide/Coin-Melt-Values.aspx |
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