biggest silver stash

what is the biggest stash of silver coins that you have ever found


thanks bob

 

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Not a huge hoard but right now on ebay there is a lot of 96 Walkers. I figure a winning bid should go about $475 minimum. But knowing ebay bidders it will probably get up over $500.

 

I'm not sure exactly what you mean. I don't usually FIND large stashes of silver. But some years back, my dad showed me his entire collection, which is in 3 different bank safe deposit boxes, and its a pretty incredible amount of silver. Just in Morgans, he has about 400 coins. Quite a few peace dollars, many rolls of smaller silver coins like Mercury dimes, and probably well over 1,000 halves-walkers, franklins and silver kennedys.

 

I agree, I'm not sure what you mean, but a few years ago I helped someone sell off about $2500 (face) in silver coin.
I made a few bucks, but not enough, I wish that I had kept some of it.

 

In number of coins, I found a group of 100 mercury dimes plus one proof roosevelt dime for $35; and another time a 1946 to 1964 collection of roosevelt dimes for sale in an antique shop for less than melt value. Neither group probably qualified as a hoard but maybe they were large enough to be a stash.

 

About 2 years ago I found 30 EA walking halves- 84 EA franklin halves- 104 EA 64 kennedy halves and 65 EA 40% halves while searching $720 worth of halves from a small bank in Terry,MS. Don't ever think I will top this find and at face value to.

 

wow!!!

 

Well... it's not a stash I found... but it's the biggest stash I ever heard of... 135 million ounces... 14,700 TONS of silver that was "borrowed" from the US treasury during WWII to built the calutron electromagnetic separators at Oak Ridge Tennessee. The result was the atomic bomb. After the calutron technique was surpassed by the centrifuge process the silver was all returned to the treasury. So it's entirely likely that most of the US silver coins made after 1945 contain some silver that was used to produce the atomic bomb. You can read more about it at http://www.olive-drab.com/od_nuclear_manhattan_oakridge.php The father of a friend was involved in that project... and he said that when they inventoried the silver to return it to the treasury they had lost less than seven pounds.... or only about 0.0002%... in the entire process of smelting the bullion, drawing it into wire, insulating the wire, winding the coils, making electrical connections, tearing it all down, removing the insulation, and resmelting into bullion. Now THAT is amazing!

 

I tell you, but have to kill you

 

How about Ted Binions underground silver vaults in Vagas?

 

My best was three in one hole with my detector.

 

Dock:
Nice hit, what detector do you use?
I use a Whites DFX, but everything has been pretty bad this winter, no erosion, just wash up (sand).
But, two weeks ago I was out for two hours, only one hit, a 14KT ring!
The two more hits, a nickel and a quarter.
That's it as far as good hits lately.
As far as best hits in one hole, I'd have to check my logs.
But, it has been a while.

 

My father purchased the property he currently lives on several years ago. On the property was an old decrepid house where an old woman lived (she had passed away). This woman saved everything. And I mean everything. The whole house was floor to ceiling in boxes. She even saved her junk mail. We found a lot of stuff in that house. 9-10 guns in perfect condition (her husband was a military man), we found thousands of dollars in cash, about 50 pounds of wheat pennies in jars, several thousand silver coins, antiques etc.

Unfortunately the house had a hole in the roof, and most of the things in the house had extensive water damage. There was a hand drawn map from Louis and Clark! Unfortunately, mice had chewed most of it up for nests. We were told that it would be worth anywhere from 100-300k if it had not been chewed up.

That was the only and biggest silver stash I have ever come across.

 

My personal largest single find came out of two boxes of halves back in the Fall of 2005:

13 40% Kennedy
3 1964 Kennedy
85 Franklins
138 Walkers
1907-O Barber
1893 Columbian Expo

 

how come i never get anything when i search the roles? will anyone recommend any strategies? Thanks

 

Spock1k,

Why don't you let us know your strategy and then I'll give you ideas. Do you order boxes in? Pickup customer returns? How many other banks are in the area etc..

What rolls do you search?

 

Here are what I consider my three best stash finds -

1) Customer returns - $180 FV of Franklins and Kennedy halves just turned in by on older gentlemen that morning.

2) Box search - One box that held ~$450 dollars of 40% halves. Someone must have turned in a bag of 40%. I never did get the other box that held the rest.

3) Numismatic - Another box contained an almost complete set of BU Franklins -

 

very cool

That is awsome, I have dreams of finding stashes like that, only with my luck the mice would have found a way to chew up the cash too!!:goofer:

 

I got those in a local park this past July with my Tesoro DeLeon.

I was totally skunked in January and February is not looking good either.