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Good question. Maybe that or maybe because a lot of them still have decent luster to them and non-collectors may think silver coins always look grungy and old.

 

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Right now I am lazily sifting through 31,000 cents that have come from three different credit unions in the past few days.

So far, some early S mints like 1919, four 1943 steels, several George VI etc.

 

Because there were about ~4-5 times as many minted in 1964 than almost every other previous year.

~560 million 1964 quarters, ~700 million 1964-D quarters, ~929 million 1964 dimes and ~1.35 billion 1964-D dimes.

That's a lot of coins!

 

People had started to hoard silver coins in the early 60s, and in 1964 there was need for lots of new coins. Since Congress hadn't authorized changing the composition of quarters/dimes/halves yet, the mint had no choice but to crank out 90% silver coins in 1964.

 

Congress didn't act until mid 1965, so coins were struck with frozen dates until then. The mint struck silver until early 1966 when the supply ran down. That is the same reason there are lots and lots of 1964 dated nickels.

 

Yes. Thanks for the timeline clarification since 1964 dated coins were minted after 1964.

 

yesterday-
$9.5 loose halves- 10x 40%
1 large dollar- 1922!!!

today-
$5.5 loose halves- skunk
3 loose large dollars- skunk
27 small dollars- skunk (traded in all my $1 bills)

 

4 boxes of nickels so far this is what I have.
A/U
1956
1959 D x2
1968s
1970s
1962
2009 p&d
War Nickels
1943p x2
G/F
1939 x2
1940d
1941 x6
1941d x4
1941s
1942
1946 x5
1946d x2
1947
1947d
1948 x4
1948d
1949d
1949s
1950
1951d
1952 x4
1952s
1953d
1954
1954d x2
1954s
1955
1955d x2
1956 x2
1956d x3
1957
1957d x6
1958d x2
1959 x2
1959d x7
1968s
1970s
odd balls
2008 euro 5 cent
2 Canadians
1981 Bahamas
1994p Magicians coin (my favorite)

 

$75 in halves... one dirty '64.
Picked up two mint rolls of dollars.

 

I can think of 2,286,877,180 reasons. WAY more minted that any other year, by more than double. They just made a LOT of them. and by the time you get back to the 50's, less than 250,000,000 per year
add to that all the collections that have taken all dates out of circulation...

 

ahh. sorry Mr F see you already gave the numbers...

 

$10.5 halves- skunk

 

$60.00 halves- skunk

 

Nice score on the dollar!

 

Not a find from a roll, but something very cool - my girlfriend was cooling her feet in a nearby river and noticed something unusual in the gravel. She pulled it out and upon realizing it was a coin, called me over. Turns out it was a 1917 UK large penny. No idea how this coin would've found its way to a river in the northeast US, except maybe tossed in by a tourist (kind of unlikely, it's a residential area) or by an immigrant (it was just below a dam built in 1919).

Definitely cooler than anything I've pulled out of a roll.

 

cool. i've found a couple of those in rolls of halves before.

 

400.00 in $2, 4 red seal

 

20 boxes FWR of cents: 194 total wheats (average 9.7 per box)

Box 1: 1929, 1940 s, 1944, 1944 s, 1945 s, 1949 d. Canada- 1976x2, 1982. Belize 1c: 2000

Box 2: 1944 d, 1951, 1951 d, 1953 d, 1956 dx2, 1957 d. Canada- 1975, 2002.

Box 3: 1901 IH, 1911, 1920, 1921, 1927, 1929, 1934, 1936, 1940 x2, 1941, 1942x2, 1943 x2, 1944, 1946 x2, 1947, 1948, 1949 d, 1950 d, 1951 d x2, 1951 s, 1952 d x4, 1954 d, 1955 d, 1957 d x2.

Box 4: 1940, 1944, 1946, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1956 d, 1958 x2

Box 5: 1944, 1944 d, 1945, 1946, 1946 s, 1950, 1952, 1956, 1958 d. Canada- 1967, 1969, 1975, 1981. Barbados-1998

Box 6: 1937, 1941, 1944 s, 1948 d, 1952 d. Canada- 1968, 1972, 1974, 1981.

Box 7: 1936, 1942, 1944, 1944 d, 1945 x2, 1949, 1951 d, 1952 d, 1953 d x3, 1955 d, 1956 d, 1957. Canada- 1968, 1982. Spain-2000

Box 8: 1920, 1938, 1940 x3, 1944 d, 1947 d, 1950, 1953, 1955 d, 1956 d, canada-1981

Box 9: 1934, 1945, 1951 d, 1952 d, 1953 d, 1955 d, 1957 d. Canada- 1970, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1983, 2003.

Box 10: 1936, 1942, 1945, 1956, 1956 d. Canada- 1945, 1962, 1973, 1981.

Box 11: 1945, 1951 x3, 1955 x2, 1956 d, 1951s silver dime. Canada- 1985, 1993.

Box 12: 1945, 1949, 1952, 1952 d, 1953 d, 1956, 1957 d, 1958.
Canada- 1977, 1979, 1980, 1985, 1986.

Box 13: 1941, 1942, 1944x2, 1945, 1946, 1947 d. Canada- 1963, 1967, 1989.

Box 14: 1925 s, 1936, 1937, 1943 d, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1950 d, 1953.
Canada- 1976, 1999.

Box 15: 1919, 1921, 1935, 1937 d, 1940, 1941, 1942 x2, 1944 x2, 1945, 1953 d, 1955, 1957, 1958 d. Canada- 1940, 1961, 1967, 1974, 1981, 1999.

Box 16: 1946, 1946 d, 1952, 1952 d, 1956, 1957 d. Canada- 1970, 1982. Latvia- 2014

Box 17: 1935, 1941 x2, 1946 d, 1952 s, 1953, 1956 d, 1957 d.
Canada: 1965, 1979, 1981, 1998, 2003.

Box 18: 1937, 1941, 1945 x2, 1950, 1952, 1952 d, 1953, 1955, 1955 d, 1957 d. Canada- 1975, 1987, 1999.

Box 19: 1941, 1951 d, 1953 d, 1954 d, 1955, 1955 d x2, 1957 d x2, 1958 d. Canada- 1970, 1979, 1988.

Box 20: 1942, 1944, 1945 x3, 1952 d, 1956, 1957. Canada- 1978, 1979, 1985, 1986, 1988.

 

Box of nickels today.
War Nickel 1943s g/f
Off Center 1984 p
British Twenty Pence 2000

A/U
2009P x2
2009 D
1960d

G/F
1939
1940 x2
1940d
1946
1947
1947s
1948 x3
1951
1953d
1954d x3
1957
1957d

 

Found a 1976-s half that appears to be one of the silver varieties. How rare is that, is it worth any more than melt, etc.?

(average, circulated condition)