Silver Certificates

I have a silver certificate and I was wondering if I went to a bank if I were to get a $1 silver coin or a dollar worth of silver?

 

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No, silver is no longer redeemable as if 1974 I believe. You get a buck in regular coins

 

I was told by many people that silver and gold is still redeemable with gold and silver certificates

 

Either way I'm not going to spend it because it was a gift given to me by a worker I got a few of my coins at. I was just wondering.

 

One way to find out -- take them to your bank but do be ready for disappointment. Paying out gold ended in 1933 and Silver certificates continued to be issued until late 1963, when the $1 Federal Reserve Note was released into circulation. For several years, existing silver certificates could be redeemed for silver, but this practice was halted on June 24, 1968.

 

Okay, thank you!... just wondering

 

PS: Glad you're going to keep it. Your note is now a part of history.

 

Thnx... it also has sentimental value... It's a great story actually... I went to an antique mall and was looking at coins and saw this note but I couldn't afford it because I was buying a ton of other coins and the lady knew that I wanted it and she bought it for me... I was so thankful

 

TO BE FAIR... you could TECHNICALLY get a dollar in silver coin if the teller just so happened to have a stack of silver coins.

bht it’s not a legal requirement that the bank exchanges silver certa for silver coin

 

However, if you brought me an average circulated 1923 $1 silver certificate, I'd trade it for a dollar's worth of silver without hesitation.

 

I think mine is a 1953

 

Didn’t make any that year, gotta be 1957

 

Yeah... that's it... I'm new to collecting bills but yeah...

 

I have a few $2 bills and a silver certificate and 1993 and 1999 dollar bill... nothing special about 1999, 1996, and a few of the $2 ones... I have two 1976 $2 bills but that's about all of the American paper money I have... My foreign ones are from all around the world and have about 100 of those

Edit:Unc condition

 

You should post some of your foreign notes sometime.

 

I love world notes. Crazy cheap and often amazingly beautiful. I’d go bankrupt on a handful of old Americans, but could get dozens of not hundreds of quality old world

 

Yeah, I should... I have a 1 cent note from China... Most of them are only worth a few cents though... are people still willing to see those?

 

I know... American notes are awesome to have but they're so expensive... mainly because paper money comes in $1 and up unlike coins that are a few cents

 

Yea those are all cool. Little bits of history

 

Okay... I'll create a thread next week!