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<p>[QUOTE="Doug21, post: 1005423, member: 5650"]To me junk silver is Roosy dimes ( any) Wash quarters ( any) Franklin and 1964-69 Kennedy halves ( any). I wouldn't even look through bags of them looking for a 1932-s quarter. Of course I wouldn't trash an original BU roll of 1962 quarters for example, but I'm not going to look through a bag of circ. FDR dimes, either ! </p><p><br /></p><p> IMO, the main semi-junk silver coins are the WL halves and Merc dimes. They are over 60 years old. I consider even stuff from the early 1940's in Fine or better to be worth a bit more, but in retrospect the proper thing to do was to melt them back in 1980 ( I'm 47 yo, BTW).</p><p><br /></p><p>Is there even a premium over junk silver on these yet ? I guess you could probably get 15-17X on ebay, instead of more like 14X for regular junk ?</p><p><br /></p><p>I can't trash a no date SLQ or a poor/ AG Barber coin either....even if they don't weigh right.:hail:</p><p><br /></p><p>I have no problem trashing FDR, GW BF, or JFK coins though !</p><p><br /></p><p>I know they don't really ( usually) even get melted....or do they ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Any thoughts on this ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Doug21, post: 1005423, member: 5650"]To me junk silver is Roosy dimes ( any) Wash quarters ( any) Franklin and 1964-69 Kennedy halves ( any). I wouldn't even look through bags of them looking for a 1932-s quarter. Of course I wouldn't trash an original BU roll of 1962 quarters for example, but I'm not going to look through a bag of circ. FDR dimes, either ! IMO, the main semi-junk silver coins are the WL halves and Merc dimes. They are over 60 years old. I consider even stuff from the early 1940's in Fine or better to be worth a bit more, but in retrospect the proper thing to do was to melt them back in 1980 ( I'm 47 yo, BTW). Is there even a premium over junk silver on these yet ? I guess you could probably get 15-17X on ebay, instead of more like 14X for regular junk ? I can't trash a no date SLQ or a poor/ AG Barber coin either....even if they don't weigh right.:hail: I have no problem trashing FDR, GW BF, or JFK coins though ! I know they don't really ( usually) even get melted....or do they ? Any thoughts on this ?[/QUOTE]
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