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My Dad gave me some silver today!

DarinDarin Posts: 7,201 ✭✭✭✭✭
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My Dad suprised me by putting a box of old 90% silver coins in front of me and saying I could have them. I offered to calculate the amount of silver and pay him for them, but he refused saying I can have them free.
Here's what was in the box.

3 1964 Kennedy halves
48 Washington silver quarters(fine to about unc.)
1 standing liberty quarter(well worn)
77 roosevelt silver dimes(nice looking, most not very worn)

Totaling around 15 ounces silver.

Plus, there were 18 clad dimes and 9 buffalo nickels(all the dates are worn off) so I'm figuring he gave me $2.25 to take 15 ounces of silver off his hands. image

Comments

  • PreTurbPreTurb Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭
    cool!

    Just imagine - that was just plain old boring pocket change 45 years ago...
  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭
    Nice score! My mother did the same thing to me with wheat pennies
    she collected and I put the best into my album. Yes there was some
    silver but nothing like what you scored! congrats.
  • cinman14cinman14 Posts: 2,489 ✭
    Now sit down with him on a cold rainy afternoon and see if any "mean" something to him... If any do, pull them out
    and place in a "never to be sold" box.... There have been many threads saying they "wished they had kept"......image
  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,201 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Now sit down with him on a cold rainy afternoon and see if any "mean" something to him... If any do, pull them out
    and place in a "never to be sold" box.... There have been many threads saying they "wished they had kept"......image >>



    These don't mean anything to him. I think he bought them over the years from coin/bullion dealers, they're not coins he collected as a youth or anything. He does collect some coins, mainly the Morgan dollar series in circulated condition.
  • mkman123mkman123 Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭✭
    awesome!! You have a great start!
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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    I have put away about 35 dollars of silver coinage for my
    youngest son. It contains Standing Lib Quarters, Barber Halves
    Mercury dimes, Barber dimes, pre 64 Wash Quarters and a few
    Walking Liberty halves. The grades probably run from full good
    to VF. Got them all from pocket change about 10 years ago. Not
    much since. Too many of you guys out there looking I guess.


    You have a great dad. Treat him well.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,456 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I have put away about 35 dollars of silver coinage for my
    youngest son. It contains Standing Lib Quarters, Barber Halves
    Mercury dimes, Barber dimes, pre 64 Wash Quarters and a few
    Walking Liberty halves. The grades probably run from full good
    to VF. Got them all from pocket change about 10 years ago. Not
    much since. Too many of you guys out there looking I guess.


    You have a great dad. Treat him well. >>



    Bear, where do you shop??? I need to know??? image
  • carscars Posts: 1,904
    I've pulled 3.95 in silver from change in the last year or so. Suprised they're still floating around.
    Its all relative
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    I have to be totally honest with you Cars.

    Your crawling bug is freaking me out. Every

    time I see it, I get all itchy.image
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • carscars Posts: 1,904
    That's my buddy, eighty. image Few people have made similar comments as well as a few have tried brushing him of the screen lol.
    Its all relative
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