Yesterday I gave you the story of the Mercury Dimes and posted photos of the set. Today is the opposite. I have an album on Roosevelt’s, Number 1 from 1946-1964, all silver. I had all but 3 of them. When goin through the coins yesterday I also went through the 117 Roosevelt Dimes and I found all 3 that I needed. Here is this set, all put together from junk silver.
When I was younger and bored, (combination of dirt cheap silver and no one caring about Roosevelts as well), I used to buy a tube of Roosevelts where I picked out a full set from the junk box. I always rounded up, (46 per set), with 4 extra 49 Ss. Back then it was less than $20 for a roll of junk dimes. Something to do when you didn't have much money but loved coins. I think I still have 7 or 8 of those rolls in the junk silver pile. Good coins for an inexpensive fix.
CN - I thought you said this is from "junk silver". These are perfect in my opinion. Mine is made from circulation coins - which is virtually the same as yours. I consider CRH the same as finding in circulation. Nice is any condition.
Thanks but all of them are from junk silver bought over time, well before today’s pricing. I’ve purchased junk silver and I be bought the same thing from the same business a number of years later. As time goes past the junk silver gets worse looking and you find better coins in the older coins.
Silver is Silver. My early portion of my Dime set (49-64) are of well circulated silver too. When I grade mine I put WB (what bands) on it instead of FB (full bands).
