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Picked up a bag of dimes today:
5 Roosies (46, 46D, 52D, 60D, 64P)
1968 Canadian Dime (Not sure if 50% or 80%)

oh and.... 1914 Barber Dime!!!

 

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Awesome furry! I have found many mercs but nothing older.

 

picked up a box of cents to go through, will update later

 

1 Box of Nickels

- 4 silvers (PR!): '43 S, '44 S, '44 P, '45 D
- No foreign (PR!)
- Some miscellaneous errors and low mintage dates

 

$20 in pennies. Filled 6 Wheat slots in my book I needed.

$30 in Nickels. Filled 3 slots in my pre-1960 book. I can't find a Buffalo in a roll anymore to save my life. A few weeks ago when I was in Florida I had a perfect 1937 Buffalo in my change at a gas station. It was so nice I almost didn't notice it because it blended right in with the new change. If I hadn't been near death's door from a hangover I would have walked back inside to see if the cashier had anything else in their drawer, but not even the prospect of a good coin score could keep me from 10 Aspirin and a day in bed ASAP.

I head to Florida at the end of this month. I may do a bank drive one morning while I am there. I figure with all the octogenarians down there, some good old coins must end up in bank teller drawers fairly regularly.

Any Florida hunters in here?

 

$200 Bag of nickels:
1 Dateless Buff
1 War (45D)
1 2009P
4 Can 5c
2 Bahamas 5c

 

i fell asleep while CRH and now i have linoln imprints on the side of my face

so far I've searched $7.50 and have found 4 wheats, a canadian, and 8 2009

 

Awesome finds, you can check the Canadian one for silver by using a magnet. If it sticks, then it is not silver.

 

I search cents. I found 5 2009D 1DO-001 DDO's in the last 3 weeks. I looked through a bunch of cents $20.00? my daughter in law gave me for Xmas, plus about 20 rolls I got from the bank.

 

I search cents. I found 5 2009D 1DO-001 DDO's in the last 3 weeks. I looked through a bunch of cents $20.00? my daughter in law gave me for Xmas, plus about 20 rolls I got from the bank. Here are pics of 3 of them.
Last year I found 1 1989D 1D0 002, and one 1970s WDDO 005 (my best find ever)

 

It doesn't stick and it's the correct weight for a silver 68. Problem is, both the 50% and 80% weigh the same. Not sure how to tell the difference there.

 

@furryfrog02, I did a search and supposedly you can try acoustic and/or specific gravity tests. Sounds like too much work, but hey, if you have some free time it sounds like fun:

"There is some guy on youtube who developed a simple test to distinguish canadian 1967 50% and 80% silver coins using a microphone and some freeware audio software (Audacity) to examine the sound frequencies produced when you bang the coin. The signatures for 50% and 80% silver coins are completely different and they are easy to tell apart.

"

reference: https://gold-forum.kitco.com/archive/index.php?t-94183.html

 

$30 halves - 1 NIFC (2004-P)
$3 Ikes - 72, 78, 78-D

made up for this bust when an ebay purchase arrived - $11 for 7 Kennedys that included a 64, 68-D, 69-S, 76-S (40%) and 3 clads

 

The 1968 Canadian dime is 50%

 

How do you know?

 

Thanks Dougmeister I am well acquainted with Audacity I don't have a microphone at home to test it though.

 

There are also apps (I use an Android phone; don't know if available for iPhone) for that too called "Spectrum Analyze", "Spectrum Analyzer" and one made specifically for coins & rounds called "Bullion Test". I prefer the first one mentioned, which works great if you know what frequency you are looking for (and it's free). It will show the frequency and its harmonics as well. It does a peak (max hold) function which takes a snapshot of the peak frequencies. It's pretty cool for electrical engineering nerds like me.

 

http://www.coinflation.com/canada/

1967 was the last year for 80%, 1968 they went to 50%, and then by the end of the year, they which it again to nickel.

 

Correct, if your does not stick to a magnet it is 50% silver. Here are some additional links:

http://coinapps.com/silver/coin/canadian/calculator/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dime_(Canadian_coin)
http://coinsite.com/canadian-silver-coins-1858-1968/

 

Off the coins and canada website it said that there were 1968 both 50% and 80% silverdimes. That's where I was getting my info from.
http://www.coinsandcanada.com/coins-prices.php?coin=10-cents-1968&years=10-cents-1965-2015