What does one do if one wishes to sell her dad's silver kennedy halves for silver value??? What is the going price, who buys at this price??? Coin shops??? My wife has over 200 and wants a roto tiller, so where does one who has been away from coins for nearly 40 years, start??? Thanks... Tom
Tom - Normally just about any coin shop would purchase them at approx 10% less than melt value. Only the '64 coins are 90% silver, the '65 through '70 coins are 40% silver. The '64 coins have .36169 oz silver each, the '65-'70 coins have .1479 oz silver each. Just check the spot price of silver, do the math and subtract 10% and you'll have what you should get
Most are 64 or older, some franklins and L/Ws... What does an average roll of F to AU 64 halves go for these days???
In your first post you didn't mention anything but Kennedy halves. Franklins and Walkers could be another story depending on condition. But the Kennedy halves - in anything other than Unc, and nice Unc at that - about all you can get is melt value as I said below - about $2.25 each net.
Thanks... How about Canadian quarters and dimes??? Where the silver years and content percentage the same???
Sorry, I know very little about Canadian coinage. But we have a member here who does. I'm sure he'll stop by soon and hopefully provide you an answer.
It varied from time to time. I don't have a reference handy, but I recall reading that some Canadian coins were .500 silver.
Silver content for Canadian Dimes and Quarter 1870-1919 92.5% 1920-1967 80.0% 1967-1968 50.0% Dimes and quarters in 1967 were first minted with 80% silver, when silver rose it was reduced to 50%. 1968 was the last year Canada minted circulation coins from silver, also Dimes and quarters in 1968 were minted with first silver then later nickel. I know you did not ask but here are silver content of 50 cent and Dollar coins 50 cent coins 1870-1919 92.5% 1920-1967 80.0% Dollar coins 1935-1967 80.0%
