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It only took 15+ years of searching but I finally found...
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A 90% silver 1964 Quarter in my change!
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WOW, that in todays world amazing. All the scroungers on here go through their change nightly and check for gold. Not to be bested but I got a 1909 wheat penny at Sonic last week. No it was not the VDB.
1909 s VDB. I have spent a lifetime looking for that coin.
My grandmother once gave me two pennies minted in the year of her birth. She passed on Easter morning.......2009.....at 100 years young.
Both are 1909 VDB......…no "s".........dang it!!
Still have them, though.
That's an amazing find anymore congrats
I was in a coin club many years ago some of the older fellows would take basic junk silver coins or considered now and put them into circulation knowing it would brighten some ones day or even get a new collector started but that was 40 yrs ago
The melt value of that quarter as of this morning is about $4.50.
I collect the Quarters from the Gum Ball machines for the Local Lions Club.
About once a month I find a silver quarter in the batch of about $ 200.00
Strange how one shows up in the machine. Might be a story there.
About three months ago I was given change at a local mom & pop store and was given three WWII era zinc pennies. I don't know if they are worth anything. When I was a kid back in the late Fifties they were pretty common.
Have you looked on Ebay?
When I was 16, yrs old I started working at a local grocery store 1974 to about 1977
The cashier gals would save the silver coins for me then decided WTH
And started keeping them .oh well
I remember them showing off latest finds some young kid was bringing in
Turns out his grand mother had mason jars full of sillver coins hid in the attic she was keeping for the grand kids and he discovered them then just using at face value the check out gals hit the jack pot for about a month
I found out where he was getting them some time later thru my younger brother the kid started selling to a local coin shop after learning the value
I Always felt bad after fining out her grand kid was stealing his one day inhartace
But it was not uncommon for older people to bring in old silver coins they had held back for years out of nesity to buy food but still atface value the thought of seeing for silver never ocured to them
Truly sad even then
I was at our local Habitat for Humanity store and the cashier was looking at an odd coin in the till. I asked to see it and asked if there were any more. I ended up picking up 21 mercury dimes at face value. Mind you, I donate to this store an a regualr basis.
Hoosier, some kid likely lifted collectible coins from their parents collection.