Metal Detecting - Silver Coin Totals & Values - December 2024

Hello everyone,

In this thread I want to share all of my Metal Detected US Silver and a few Foreign Silver coins that I have somehow acquired over the past 14+ years.
Mostly in NYC parks. I also attended an event at a park in Rock Hill, South Carolina for the past 3 years.
A total of 504 Silver coins!
The majority were buried for some time in the spots I found them.
A few I have actually eyeballed sitting on top of the ground.
And there are also the coins I detected at Live Metal Detecting Events which means they were seeded in the ground, and I got to keep them.
I have posted pictures, and a screenshot of my updated Excel Spreadsheet I created for all the coins with totals and $ values.

Pictures first then the totals for each - Let's go!

1942 -1945 Silver Wartime Nickels
35% silver, 9% manganese and 56% copper

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Barber Dimes 1892-1916
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Winged Liberty Head (Mercury) Dimes 1916-1945




Silver Roosevelt Dimes 1946-1964




Barber Quarters 1892-1916




Standing Liberty Quarters 1916-1930




Silver Washington Quarters 1932-1964




Seated Dimes & Quarter 1827-1891
(The Bezel was added to the Seated Quarter)




Barber Half - Walking Liberty Half
Benjamin Half - Kennedy Half 90% & 40%
(The Bezel was added to the Barber Half)




Miscellaneous Foreign Silver
Canada, Great Britain, Colombia & Spain




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I ran out of space (Limit 10 pictures) to post the screenshot of the Excel Spreadsheet. So here it is..

Here are the totals for all the coins and their Silver Melt Values.
I created this Excel Spreadsheet earlier this week.
I currently follow the Silver Melt Values for US and Foreign Coins over at the NGC Website.
There are 2 sets of numbers since I started this information earlier this week and then updated the values today.
The melt value went down a bit



I did not include a silver melt value for the 5C Colombia and the 1789 Half Reale.
I couldn't find any information for those two coins.

Check out my thread @lordmarcovan

 

The spread sheet for melt values is a good idea. I'll have to create one for all my finds. I currently don't have any values for them other than the graded stuff I collect. Thanks for posting.

 

You are welcome!
Here is the NGC page I use -
U.S. Silver Coin Melt Values | Silver Dollar Melt Value | NGC

 

Thank You.

 

The Half Real shows as $1.35 melt on Numista. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces18651.html

The 1873 Colombian 5 Centavo comes in at $.82. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces48347.html

 

@jb10000lakes
That's great. I didn't think to use the Numista website. Thanks!

 

Amazing finds for sure, digging for silver coins is a great hobby to have, fun and hard work while making piles of silver and other odds and ends!

 

I got my (adult) daughter a metal detector for Christmas years ago and I think she put it in the back of a storage closet. I'm going to ask her to give it back!!!