When was the last time you found a silver quarter in circulation?

Do Coinstar machines reject silver coins? If so I will be sure to check the one at our Grocery store everytime I am there - maybe some silver in the junk/return slot.

 

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Got a silver quarter last year at Presidente Supermarket on NE 125 St.

 

Coinstar machines do reject silver. It is a bit heavier and a different electronic signature than the clad coins. Back when the switch was to clad made coin machines like telephones were not that sensitive to the weight standard and didn't measure electronic conductivity as part of the authentication process.

 

i find 'em all the time, but the people at the arcade aren't too happy when i show up with $500 in twenties and run it all through the machine....

 

I found this little guy at work in the register at work one night. I don't know if it came from a roll or if a customer spent it. It's a 1976-S (bicentennial) 40% silver business strike quarter. I keep every bicentennial quarter that I find, and I saw this one and put it back. Later on I was looking at it and something looked "funny" about it. I looked at the edge and didn't see a copper core. I took some pictures and posted it here and sure enough, it is a business strike 40% silver bicentennial quarter. I didn't even know they existed until I found this one. This is the only year that 40% quarters were ever minted. I've made some great circulation finds, but this one is one of my very favorites. I've also found a 1964 (can't remember if it was D or P) quarter in the drawer at work, and some friends and coworkers have found some that they have stuck back for me. They're not common, but they're out there.

Silver dimes are a lot more common. I found a 1959-D dime at work about 2 1/2 weeks ago. I've found at least 35 in the 15 months that I've been at this job. All of them have been Roosevelt dimes. I haven't found a single Mercury dime.

 

Actually found in change, not roll hunting or in the cashdrawer? 1968.

 

Just last week my wife found a 1935-D quarter. She works at our local newspaper and was helping to count the coins from the coin boxes. That is probably the most worn quarter I have ever seen, easily a lower grade than the AG-3 in Photograde. Makes me wonder how much of its circulation was recent. Most of the silver coins I get from circulation are higher grades, probably from someone's collection. When my daughter worked at the DQ, she usually brought home $2-$5 in silver each week.

 

It's been about a year since I found any US 90% silver. but have found a few world coins 40%-9.25 silver.
But there still out there!

 

I found 2 in my carwash last month, and one in my MCD change last April. I still look thru my quarters though before the last month it had been a year since I found my last one. I keep all my bicentennials to though I'm not real sure why.

 

I wonder why the majority of silver dimes and quarters in circulation are 1964s? Do some non-collectors think that 1963 was the last year of the silver quarter?

 

I do the same thing. I guess they remind me of being a kid and finding them in change. I was born in 1973 so I can't remember a time when they didn't exist.

 

Probably because mintages were HUGE. 1964-dated coins were struck well into 1965. I don't have references handy, but I've read that the total mintage of 1964 halves was more than the total mintage of the ENTIRE Franklin half series. I imagine it was the same story for quarters and dimes. Even nickels were produced in huge numbers; when I was a kid in the late 1960s, it seemed like half the nickels I saw in circulation were dated 1964.

When the coin composition change was announced, people started hoarding silver coins, and there was a tremendous shortage of circulating coins. The government responded by minting huge numbers of 1964 silver coins to combat the perception of a shortage; those coins were hoarded, too. It took a couple of years for things to stabilize.

 

jeffB has the answer. Due to the coin shortage mintages started ramping up in 1962, but the 1964 mintage (which were struck until 1966) were huge.

In 1962 in dimes they made 406 million, 1963 540 million, and in 1964 2.3 billion.
For quarters in 62 they made 163 million, 1963 211 million, and in 1964 1.26 billion

 

I found a 1963-D dime at work tonight. A customer spent it.

I realize the 1964 dimes were minted in larger quantities than the earlier years, but nearly half of the 35 or so silver dimes that I've found in the last year and a quarter have been 1964s. Mathematically I should have only found 7 or 8 1964s or so. It seems that the 1964s were not stuck back in the numbers that the earlier dimes and quarters were.

 

Well the 2 most recent silver coins I got on the same day and from the same place was a 1958 Washington quarter and a 1945 Mercury dime which I got in change from the recycling center.

 

@bugo
Roosevelt dimes are over looked 90% of time.
hex I found 1996-W clad in a bank roll I was hunting rolls for silver.

 

I don't think I have ever found a silver quarter in circulation.......

 

If ya do it could be a 1964 but have found 1776/1976 40% back when I could get rolls turn into Region bank but the person retired it kinda ended my roll hunting