Hey all, Came across a bag of junk silver at a flea market yesterday...$15 for $1 face value. Grabbed the coins in the pictures. On silver alone, based on my calculations, I think I paid a little less than spot. What do you all think from a collector standpoint? $2.50 average per coin...nothing special here but includes some coins I didn’t have previous. The half dime isn’t I great shape, with no clear date...I can make out a 4 as the last digit but that’s about it.
I think you did a good job! It is always nice to find silver below spot. It's obviously had a jump here recently. Regardless, you have a couple hole fillers there. Are you planning on putting them in an album or are you just going to keep them as junk silver?
I don't think I've ever come across a half dime being sold as junk silver. I'll take just about any half dime for 75 cents...
One barber quarter and the barber dime are already in an album filling two previously empty spots. Of the rest, only the Rosie may go in the junk silver pouch...the rest in 2x2s.
I was very surprised to see it in the bag myself. I started feverishly rifling through it when I saw that in there.
thanks for the tip...I hadn’t looked at the various varieties and such yet to try to nail down a date more closely. Seems these had a some different varieties and other visual cues to be able to get a date based on partial numbers.
Nice score! I’m cheap and only pay 10x face, 95% of the time, but I would have done that deal to get the (probable) 2 coins that you mentioned putting in an album.
in hindsight I definitely should’ve. I’m a very casual collector and don’t quickly realize if I’m getting a good deal or not. There were a couple things I thought might’ve been good deals but I was hesitant not being completely sure.
Go back on the next day they are there and check it out. Ask something dumb while you're doing the math.
good luck finding silver at 10 times face. The seller would have to have their head in the sand to sell at that price.
Sellers with their head in the sand pop up from time to time. Either they become aware of their mistake, or their stuff sells really, really quickly. (Or, if it's overpriced, not at all.)