I was down by the beach recently and there was a coin shop near me. Even though I have been collecting for a number of years, I have only been to two coin shops! I went to this one and spent about an hour looking through all the coins but I could have easily spend all day there lol. I was mainly looking to fill my US and Canadian coin albums or just get some good coins for relatively cheap. They a box of foreign coins and is was 6 dollars per pound, you get to fill a bag. I filled a bag with any foreign coins I might like and I found (24) 1968 Canadian .500 silver dimes and a few other miscellaneous silver coins shown in the last picture. I got the entire bag for 6 bucks. I also got some other stuff which are in the pictures. - 3 foreign banknotes for $1 - 3 silver Washington quarters I needed for my album for $14.25 - PR-70 DCAM North Dakota silver quarter for $5 - and a bag of 75 Japan 1 yen aluminum coins for $0.50 Altogether I spent $23.75 (He gave me a colorized Georgia quarter for change ) IMO, not bad at all for the amount of foreign silver I got. I will definitely go back there next time I’m in the area. Post your recent coin shop hauls!
Impressive. Most impressive @Matthew Kruse. Anyway, here's my all-time best foreign silver haul from 2018 which only cost me $4.
There are three essential things to have as a collector. A working left eye, a working right eye, and a working brain. Looks like you have all three. Congratulations on a nice haul!
It looks like all those Canadian dimes are 1968. Did you have a magnet to check them? Most of the 1968 dimes were minted in 100% nickel, not 50% silver.
I looked at the edges and I could tell they were silver. Silver coins look much different than clad. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think they would stick to the magnet even if they weren’t silver because nickel isn’t magnetic.
The fish was on the centennial issue, 1967. Some of those were struck in 80% silver, some in 50% silver. (I hadn't realized that myself.)
The non-silver ones are not clad. They're solid nickel, so their edges will look uniform, like a silver coin. Well, here's a correction. Pure nickel is quite magnetic. The alloy we use in our coins, 25% nickel and 75% copper, is not.
Ohh okay, that makes sense. I just thought that since nickels aren’t magnetic, why would nickel be magnetic? I put a earth magnet up to them earlier and none of them stuck though. All silver!
