Hit the mother lode at work today!

More details to come - but I hit the mother lode at work today! Was cashing out my drawer and went to restock my dimes with a new $5 roll that came from the bank. Not paying attention when I was dumping them into the change cup my ears heard a different *ting* as they emptied the roll. Eyes darted down to the change cup - voila! The WHOLE ROLL WAS SILVER!!!

Immediately I went to the safe and found... wait for it - SIX OTHER ROLLS!!! ALL SILVER!!!

I am just starting the cataloging process, 95% of the coins are Roosevelt pre-1964. The remainder are Mercury dimes.

WOO HOO! I'll post any good finds in the coins once I have had a chance to properly sort and catalogue it.

 

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Good luck, maybe you'll find a 1942/1!

 

I’ll take Roosevelt’s by the roll if they are dated 1964 or lower. Yes, I’d rather have Mercury Dimes but silver is silver. Buy one for a dime (face value) and it’s worth over 15 times that amount. Nice job!

 

ChaChing!!! Nice find and your boss lets you do this? That's cool.

 

Where on earth were these babies hiding? And for an eternity of such?

 

Get to it, old sod.......

 

Wow!
Nice.
Can't wait to see what you have.

 

The store only sees the coins for their face value (or in this case their face roll value), so I had cash on hand to buy the rolls of dimes. Boss was there and had no issues.

 

This is why you should always have some cash on you at all times.
I'm sure there are other reasons, but this is a good reason...where else are you going to make 24.449% ROI swapping money?

 

Nice!!

 

Score!

 

Congrat's, awesome find.

 

A quick check reveals a silver dime is valued currently at $2.4211. That is over 24 times…Spark

 

When will we see pictures?
At least one picture of all the coins together and the rolls for now.

Us silver hoarders need some eye candy!

 

I'd go to the bank you get coin from and buy all dimes and quarters and halves they will sell you.

 

Not a expert but I think you are one decimal off. Should be 244% correct?

 

Actually 2440%. Converting multiple to percent moves the decimal two places.

 

More like 24.449 times investment.
That's More like the math I'm used to.

 

Total number of coins ended up being 213. Pictures are coming soon - but here is a teaser....

 

Another picture as I was sorting the coins. The chart paper they are sitting on represents year of the coin (0=1950, 9=1959 etc.). Surprising to see how the coins collected relate to the mintage of that year.

1955 - total mintage 12 million
1958 - total mintage 38 million

Compared to

1954 - total mintage 114 million