how common are silver quarters in circulation?

Picked up a 53d dime at the hospital yesterday. Occasionally get a silver nickel. Prob from kids in their grand parents collections

 

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Picked up a 53d dime at the hospital yesterday. Occasionally get a silver nickel. Prob from kids in their grand parents collections

 

I used to check all my change when I was a kid in the 1970s. Found a lot of silver quarters, well, for a kid and his change.
not much in the 80s and 90s. Maybe 1 since.

 

I got back into coin roll hunting about six months ago after many years. Since then I've found five silver dimes and four silver war nickels in coin rolls. So far, I've found zero silver quarters.

It's pretty clear that most silver coins that show up in circulation nowadays were just recently re-introduced. They were probably sitting in some jar or piggy bank for decades and were recently put back into circulation by someone who didn't realize their value. Dimes, nickels and cents are far more likely to be sitting in a place like that for many years. But not nearly as many people would let quarters accumulate somewhere for that long...they are more likely to roll them and exchange for cash or to quickly re-spend them in vending machines, etc. I think that explains why you never see silver quarters in circulation, people just don't save quarters without spending them like they might with smaller change, so there are less older ones being unwittingly reintroduced to circulation today . The fact is there are just not many pre-1965 silver quarters left that have not been intentionally pulled from circulation for collections or melted.

 

When I would start losing at the tables and slot machine operated on coins I used to get a bucket of nickels. Then I would look for war nickels and wait for the dealer to change.

 

State quarters haven't been mentioned. Since 1999 the mintages have increased exponentially and that's made finding silver quarters that much harder.

 

I went through a box of quarters last week. Had never done one so, I thought I would give it a try. 75% of each role are state or national parks and recreation. I just looked at the edges about a quarter of the way through no silver.

 

I have 5 silver quarters, and I don't remember when I got them.
Had to be change from a store, I have never searched quarter rolls.
Oldest is a 1941.

 

Dang what the hell+!

 

Extremely rare but possible , everyone is searching I say be like 4% chance

 

My experience has been similar. As a cashier at a local 7-11, I was lucky to find one silver quarter in my nine months of employment there. Silver dimes are several times more common, as are war time nickels. There is a neighborhood gas station where these finds seemed to run in streaks. It's in a economically depressed neighborhood.

 

My experience has been similar. As a cashier at a local 7-11, I was lucky to find one silver quarter in my nine months of employment there. Silver dimes are several times more common, as are war time nickels. There is a neighborhood gas station where these finds seemed to run in streaks. It's in a economically depressed neighborhood.

 

My experience has been similar. As a cashier at a local 7-11, I was lucky enough to find one silver quarter in my nine months of employment there. Silver dimes are several times more common, as are war time nickels. There is a neighborhood gas station where these coin finds seem to run in streaks. It's in an economically depressed neighborhood.

 

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Good luck if you do find silver coins in your pocket change. I still check mine. But the reason why is because they quit minting them, and out of circulation in so long, it's tough to get anyone to spend them, so I'm not alone in this. Your question was "How Common"? Mathematically, several million went to melt down, divided by several billion clad coins now in common circulation. Take the melt number and subtract it from the mintage for the last few years, then divide the remainder by the billions of quarters now in circulation. Something like 25,000,000 / 35,000,000,000 for clad quarters pre 1999 Statehood quarters. The answer came back as 0.00071428571 or 1 divided by this number is a ratio you would likely find in circulation as silver compared to clad pre 1999. I got ( 1 : 1400 ) as silver quarters to pre 1999 clad quarters.

 

Go through the safe deposit boxes maybe?

 

She wrote that 8 years ago.

 

You got about 15-25% chance of finding one in circulation

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At the rolling of next year it will be down to 5-15%

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Had a guy who runs a route of drink machines outside major retailers. He used to bring me several hundred dollars worth at a time about twice a year. Haven't seen him in two years.