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<p>[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 1162938, member: 13650"]LOL!! Is that so!? I'm shocked! All kidding aside, you're a little late to the game. People started hoarding them in the early 60's to start because they knew they were going to be valuable some day. Then every time silver goes up, more people think they're going to do what you're doing and get a bunch of silver for face. You might be roll searcher # 1,580,467,389 at this point. To be honest, I'd bet more silver coins get spent from people's coin collections and accidentally put back into circulation, than original silvers left out there. </p><p><br /></p><p> You also have to understand that the coin supply overall, is diluted with 'B'illions of new coins every year. Which reduces your chances drastically with each passing year. I did a writeup over this a while back concerning silver Washington quarters. You probably didn't know that if you could take every silver Washington quarter from 1932 through 1964 EVER MINTED and evenly mix them into a huge pot with (only) every 1965 through 1967 Washington quarter ever minted, and you were then blind folded.... you would have LESS than a 50% chance of pulling out a silver quarter. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Just to give you an idea of the scope of the problem. This is why you're finding 1965s. They made tons of them, nobody wants them, so they're still circulating. I get a 65 on about a weekly basis. I've never gotten a 64 or earlier. </p><p> There's only been a mere 44 years and billions of quarters minted since 67 on top of it. Most silver quarters are sitting in albums or individual 2x2s for $8.50+ now. If you decide to bring home $100,000 worth of change, I wouldn't get your hopes up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 1162938, member: 13650"]LOL!! Is that so!? I'm shocked! All kidding aside, you're a little late to the game. People started hoarding them in the early 60's to start because they knew they were going to be valuable some day. Then every time silver goes up, more people think they're going to do what you're doing and get a bunch of silver for face. You might be roll searcher # 1,580,467,389 at this point. To be honest, I'd bet more silver coins get spent from people's coin collections and accidentally put back into circulation, than original silvers left out there. You also have to understand that the coin supply overall, is diluted with 'B'illions of new coins every year. Which reduces your chances drastically with each passing year. I did a writeup over this a while back concerning silver Washington quarters. You probably didn't know that if you could take every silver Washington quarter from 1932 through 1964 EVER MINTED and evenly mix them into a huge pot with (only) every 1965 through 1967 Washington quarter ever minted, and you were then blind folded.... you would have LESS than a 50% chance of pulling out a silver quarter. ;) Just to give you an idea of the scope of the problem. This is why you're finding 1965s. They made tons of them, nobody wants them, so they're still circulating. I get a 65 on about a weekly basis. I've never gotten a 64 or earlier. There's only been a mere 44 years and billions of quarters minted since 67 on top of it. Most silver quarters are sitting in albums or individual 2x2s for $8.50+ now. If you decide to bring home $100,000 worth of change, I wouldn't get your hopes up.[/QUOTE]
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