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Canadian_Nickle
Penny Hoarding Member
Canada
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 Posted - 07/18/2006 : 17:54:46
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Got a silver dime from a customer today at the butcher shop. This is only the fourth silver coin I've ever gotten in regular circulation (the other three were quarters)
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Posted - 07/18/2006 : 19:47:55
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i think you should be disappointed, CN, that's a 60% deduction from your usual encounter :))
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Canadian_Nickle
Penny Hoarding Member
Canada
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Posted - 07/18/2006 : 20:22:36
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Posted - 07/18/2006 : 21:50:28
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| somehow i thnk silver you get in change should worth more than the ones you get in coin shop, simply because they are harder to get |
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Posted - 07/19/2006 : 12:12:05
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Ok, I want a job in this butcher shop. I'd get silver change, I'd get meat and be able to cut it myself. It's a no lose situation!
I've gotten silver from rolls I bought for the purpose of searching. So if I say you got your's "in the wild", then mine was a canned hunt. heh heh
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Posted - 07/20/2006 : 22:53:03
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Originally posted by ballcopper
somehow i thnk silver you get in change should worth more than the ones you get in coin shop, simply because they are harder to get
I have 2 silver dimes and a silver quarter that I got from circulation over the years and I keep them separated from ones that I buy. They are definitly worth more to me, lol.
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Posted - 08/10/2006 : 01:34:34
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| I work at a retail store with between 1000 and 1500 customers a day. I have been finding 1 to 3 silver coins a month. Some mercury dimes, some early Washington quarters, even a few Ike's and one Peace dollar. But most have been Roosevelt dimes. I think because most people don't notice the slight difference. Also, a lot of wheaties! |
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Posted - 02/22/2007 : 23:40:22
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I work in the cash office of a major retail store and just today I got 3.40 worth of silver dimes (34 of 'em)mostly 1964- oldest was 1939
The coin machine doesn't count them, along with foreign money, so it spits them out. Kind of interesting |
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Ridewithme38
Penny Sorter Member
USA
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Posted - 02/23/2007 : 00:26:36
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Silver bull...what are the slight differences between the older roosevelt dimes and the newer ones? I've been searching change just by year forever and my eyes keep getting worse and worse...Is there another way?
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RUNNING TOTAL:
2223 Copper
43 wheat
20 canadian
1 Guatemala coin?(1979)What is this made of?
and a 250gram .999 pure copper bar(Jetco USA) |
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Metalophile
Penny Collector Member
USA
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Posted - 02/23/2007 : 08:13:23
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One way is to look at the edges. 90% silver usually has a dark band around the edge, while cupro nickel clad has a reddish copper edge. Another way is to listen to the coin clink on a surface. Silver coins have a distinctive deep ring. After you hear it a few times you can spot a silver coin clink across a room just by the sound.
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Cerulean
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
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Posted - 02/23/2007 : 08:15:59
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Originally posted by Ridewithme38
Silver bull...what are the slight differences between the older roosevelt dimes and the newer ones? I've been searching change just by year forever and my eyes keep getting worse and worse...Is there another way?
The easiest way is to look at the edge. Silver dimes have no trace of copper on the reeded edge, and in the words of Rudyard Kipling, stand out "like a bar of soap in a coal scuttle". However, it still helps to check the date, as silver tarnish can make a silver edge look like copper-nickel.
To some ears, silver dimes also ring differently than copper-nickel dimes when flipped, but the difference is subtle.
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Penny Search Totals:
881 zincs (1982-2006) 77.1%
254 coppers (1959-1982) 22.2%
6 wheats (1940-1952)
1 dime (2004)
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Posted - 02/23/2007 : 14:40:23
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