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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;berto, post: 1948186, member: 68428&quot;]Funny you should mention this.&nbsp; Last week while visiting extended family I was fortunate enough to look through the coins my late grandmother, grandfather, and uncle collected from circulation.&nbsp; I had been hearing about this collection for many years and was excited to finally have the chance to look through it.&nbsp; My grandmother worked as a teller at a small-town bank in Indiana for 27 years, from 1953 to 1980.&nbsp; She would buy the silver coin as it was deposited at her teller station, just as many tellers do today.&nbsp; Can you imagine how much silver passed through her hands from 1953 to 1980?!?!&nbsp; Unfortunately, they were relatively poor and didn&#039;t have much extra money to swap-out for silver.&nbsp; As a result, they didn&#039;t save as much silver coin as they could have had they had more disposable income.&nbsp; Anyway, the box of coin weighed about 100 pounds and contained a few Morgan and Peace dollars; walking liberty, franklin, and kennedy halves; a few standing liberty quarters, silver washington quarters; liberty head dimes, and silver roosevelt dimes; a few shield, buffalo, and war nickels; and about 15 pounds of wheat and steel pennies.&nbsp; There were actually almost 400 steel pennies, which was more of those than I had ever seen in any single place.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There were also several old-style Whitman coin folders, too, with walking liberty halves, franklin halves, liberty head dimes, roosevelt dimes, and wheat cents, plus a partial folder with Indian Head cents.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I really appreciated seeing the collection and throughly enjoyed the few hours I was able to spend sorting it.&nbsp; Seeing this collection humbled me and made me realize there truly is very little silver remaining in circulation today.&nbsp; Oh well, I still enjoy searching coin rolls for silver and collectables from time to time despite the fact my hobby does not and will not pay for itself.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Cheers to all, and happy hunting <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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