My trip into the attic today.

keyman64

So, I went to my attic looking for something(never found it and it seems a 10 hour investment of time would be required...some other time)...anyway, I found a bunch of junk foreign coins from when I was a kid. I decided to pull the stuff down to see if there was any silver in the mix. There is stuff in there from 1877 to 1985 or so. A bunch of crap really. One coin stood out...and it was NOT foreign.....

1877 DIME! AG-3/G-4 Details with a few bad scratches....one thin dime.

I wish there was an easy way to way to tell if stuff had silver in it. I pulled out all of the brown coins. I ran a magnet over all of the rest....that sucked up another 20 coins or so...next is to pull out the obvious aluminum ones...then I will have to look up each coin 1 by 1 on the internet to find out the composition of the rest...UGH! There are about 100 coins to go through. Good times.

ajaan

Go to your local library and get a copy of the Krause catalog. This will tell you if a coin is silver, its fineness, and actual silver weight.

DIMEMAN

Sounds like fun really...to me!

DorkGirl

Or take some pics and post them on the Darkside. There are always people over there ready to help out.

keyman64

I have sorted the coins by country/denomination when I could. I have a bunch of piles and then a bunch of 1 offs. Google will be my friend tonight when I attempt to complete this task. However, I have found 4 SILVER CANADIAN QUARTERS so far....melt is $27.10 right now...just for those four. Yipppeeeee.

JamesMurray

One persons "crap" is anothers required holefiller , i recently bought a bag of junk world coins , so far ive made over $500 profit and havnt got to the good ones yet.Ive waited for the 19th to name my price on the bay.

stevek

I have a bunch of those Mexican "un pesos" which I bought along with a large lot many years ago, and always figured they were 90% silver...turns out they are only 10% silver.

Oh well...LOL