1967 Canada Silver Dimes?

Vermonster

Hopefully this is the right place to ask, but just looking for advice. I have always saved any silver coins I found, whether detecting or in a coinstar, but not as a collector, more just cause theyve got silver on them.

Anyway, cleaning out my parent's house, found a bunch of silver US coins. All of them are basically melt type coins, nothing of value.

But, what I did find, was 1 1/2 rolls of 1967 Canada dimes with the mackerel on them. There were a few in there that stuck to a magnet, but about 55 of them are silver and totally uncirculated. They were not in rolls, but these plastic tubes with twist off caps. I grew up 4 miles from Canada so I could see my parents easily getting them somehow.

My question is, what to do with them. Sell them raw and individually, sell as a whole lot, melt them, what? And I guess most importantly, are they even worth the trouble? Looking at ebay there are a few listings, getting decent price.

Anyway, sorry for the long post, thanks for any info anyone has.

SimonW

It’s the commemorative I assume. Looks like they’re 80% silver, and on average trade for silver content. If they’re in really great shape it might be a good idea to send them in for certification, they go for some money in high grade. They gotta be pretty much perfect though, like they just rolled off the assembly line.

Posting pics would help.

Greenstang

They should all be silver, there were no nickel dimes in 1967.
The problem is halfway through the year the mint switched from 80% silver to 50% silver.
As it is virtually impossible to tell the difference, dealers split it and pay 65% bullion. They
are not worth grading unless they are at least MS66. A MS65 goes for about 25.00 CDN so
it would cost you more to certify than they are worth. A silver dime weighs 2.33g if you want
to figure out the bullion value of your dimes.

MEJ7070

I wouldn’t grade them fwiw. I like Canadian dimes and I like picking off gems for less than the cost of certification, which is not terribly difficult to do.

If you want to keep them and just want them graded then go for it but I wouldn’t look at grading as any sort of ROI proposition for any 1960s Canadian dime.

Vermonster

Thanks for the advice. Ill dig them out and throw up some photos in a bit. Appreciate it!