how common are silver quarters in circulation?

Also silver today is just peoples stashes getting raided by kids or people who inherit it and do not know what it is. Ive had people come to my work and pay with silver quarters that their grandparents gave them.

 

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I'd say the percentage rate of finding 90% silver in circulation every year drop spy 4% maybe 5% we're to this day it is the chance of finding of 90% silver coin is maybe you bought 0.3% now finding 40% silver you might say you have a 2% chance

 

Been awhile. Actually before I had ez pass I got a few in change from tolls actually. But any silver in circulation is scarce around here. Too many people know what to look for

 

They made so many quarters in 1964, you can still find one once in a while. Dimes too. But since they have been culled from circulation, etc.
I got a slicker 1943 in a Coin Star in July, and recently a 64-D metal detecting.

 

I've found maybe 9 or 10 silver quarters in circulation over the past ten or fifteen years. Last few years, probably only one. So getting harder.

 

It's rare but I've found a few. Last one was a 1956 quarter that I kept as a lucky piece until I accidentally spent it! ::headsmack::

As others have said, I imagine it's kids spending their parents (or grandparents) stash of silver coins, not realizing the value.

 

I started roll hunting in January 2019 and have found 3 silver quarters including this beauty!

 

I found a 1935 quarter in change about 2.5 years ago, and a 1964 quarter in change about 2 months ago.

 

Nice find! It's in better condition than my silver quarters!

 

In the early '70s, my brother and I had paper routes. Mrs. Mueller, the Asst. Manager at the Union Trust Bank, was on my brother's route. She had a large change purse filled with silver coins pulled from circulation. She always tipped my bother with silver coins! I was so jealous...

The New Haven Register was 85¢/week then (10¢ daily and 25¢ Sunday). We would usually get a 15¢ tip from each customer each week. We would use our tips to search rolls in the Union Trust parking lot...and Mrs. Mueller made sure we always got fresh rolls! God bless Mrs. Mueller!


P.S. We would find buffalo nickles and mercury dimes fairly often. I found a Liberty nickel once and thought it was a foreign coin. At least 50% of cents were wheaties. I would find cents in the teens and twenties about as often as I found silver.

 

Yeah came from somebodies stash someone who didnt know what it was spent it

 

...kids raiding their father's collection.

 

My grandfather gave me about 5 bucks in silver quarters but I didnt know the dates because I was 11 and didnt care about collecting coins yet and I spent them all on drinks at the gas station
Only when I look back at it now knowing what they were

 

I haven't seen a silver quarter in circulation in about 15 years. I last found a silver dime in circulation about 12 years ago.

 

Ive found 3 this year. 2 at my job while working register and 1 while at a gas station

 

Over the past year I've found (*estimates):

2 standing liberty quarters

*45+ Washington silver quarters ranging in date from 34-64, some very good quality.

1 Oregon silver proof

Foreign silver:
1964 Canadian quarter
1960 silver franc

*4 winged liberty dimes from 20-36

*30+ Roosevelt dimes ranging in date from 40-64 (3 yesterday alone).

1 1901 barber nickel

50+ each
1941 prewar nickel
1940 prewar nickel
1939 prewar nickel

1938 nickel seems rare, I've only found 3.

Wartime silver nickels years 42-45, i think i have a dozen total, 2 or 3 1942 with no mint mark

Indian nickels, about a dozen, earliest is 1919

4 1943 steel penny

I have more I'm forgetting. This isn't a joke either. I found these this week alone.

 

I stick with half dollars ^_^

I had an amazing haul last nonth!

I went into my local bank and handed them 2x $100 bills for 400 half dollars.

300 of them were pre-1965!

Nice little profit. What’s crazy is the first $100 I bought the teller saw they were silver and still kept the other $100 for me to go home and get another $100.

She said all the coins were brought in by the same customer. Probably an old lady who didn’t know any better.

I gave the teller a couple of the 1964 90% to say thanks .

 

Pictures or it never happened!

 

Fair enough. Oops I meant to say pre-1969. xD

 

Picked these up last year out of coin counting machines, but I got lucky as I generally find fewer silver quarters than halves or dimes.