I got change at a restaurant and instead of them giving me quarters (since the change was something like 80 cents), they gave me all dimes. I didn't ask for it that way but it turned out to be a good thing since one of the dimes was 1962-D. Silver baby! Yeaa!! First silver dime I have found in change since I began looking a couple years back...
I've had two silver quarters, a silver dime, an Indian Head penny, and quite a few wheat Lincoln pennies given to me in change over the last decade. I think what happens is probably someone dies in a nursing home who was hoarding a handful of silver coins and old pennies, and their clueless relatives think it's just regular coinage and go out and spend it. One of my silver coins was a near mint 1932 quarter, and the second time I got the silver quarter and dime in the same transaction...both 1964. Probably someone had just given them as change just before I got them at the grocery store. When the cashier gave me the change and I heard the sound they made as she gave them to me, I knew I had silver before even looking. Silver sounds different than the clad stuff. Congrats and happy hunting.
I think that's what happens... someone sets them aside and then someone else (most likely a family member) comes along and spends them not knowing what they are. I know some people complain that not having a design change with the Roosevelt dime has taken away from the appeal of collecting them, but for silver hunters it's a good thing. Having the same design today helps disguise the silver dimes. Otherwise these people that spend/steal their older relatives coins would notice they are different and probably keep them. Same thing with Lincoln cents. There would be less wheat cents to find in circulation if they had also changed the Lincoln portrait on the obverse. Getting a silver quarter and dime together in change seems remarkable (and it is). However probably not as astronomical as one would think. As you mention, they were probably sitting in the same jar together for many years until grandson Joey comes along and takes them to go buy a happy meal. Getting the two silver coins together as change most likely means you were one of the next customers after Joey. About the sound silver coins make... as another member on here used to say (bugo)... that sound is a "sweet jangle".
I got a silver Rosie in change this year , 1st one in 20 years . Even though it's only worth a little over a buck , it sure feels nice . Real money .
Wahoo! I know that feeling. I got my first one in change back in September. Need a quarter now and ill be really happy with my silver findings in the wild.
It can be a real crummy day, but when you find silver in your change it is like the sun coming out after a storm
Nice find, they are getting harder and harder to find, right now finding one in change is almost impossible.
Nice find I found a 1947 S Roosevelt in a vending machine coin return at work Friday nothing nicer than free or face value silver
