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Quite the Change

Nancy-IL

Nancy-IL

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Yesterday when I was paying for groceries at Kroger, I noticed something different in my coin compartment. I looked at it and sure enough, it was a Susan B. Anthony dollar coin. Looking through more and sure enough, there were two more. Whoever gave me back change in the past must have not known what they were and just put them in with the quarters. Watch your change...........It counts! I love these bonus finds. :thumbup: HH, Nancy
 
Nice surprise! And you didn't have to freeze while swinging a detector.

Ever since son became interested in coins I've been checking my change. Have gotten about 10 wheat's for him but no silver yet. Many coins that were 1965, those are frustrating.

Keep warm.
 
The $49/ounce silver prices in 1980 pretty much took care of silver coins in circulation. Back then every silver dime was worth over $4 each and a metal detectorist could make $50 a day or more......... that was a fair days pay 33 years ago. Keep looking though, we still see a silver every now and then.
 
Wow. $4 a dime. That would be nice money even now!

I remember as a kid in the early 80's I would try to save the Buffalo nickel's I would often come across. But it never failed, the allure of candy at the local grocery in town would usually strip me of my collection. Lol. I shudder to think how much silver I may have spent on Big league chewing gum.

Wow $4.
 
I was at the East Peoria Kroger last week and tried to spend a clad half dollar. The clerk called her manager over to ask if they still accepted this type of coin. She said she had never seen one before!
 
Isn't that crazy. She didn't know what a half dollar was. :rolleyes: She must have been a teenager??? HH, Nancy
 
Seems like it was Nathan from the club just found a silver dime from a pop machine last month. They are out there! :) HH,Nancy
 
The Kennedy half is still being minted today but just for collectors who are willing to pay more than face value for them. The general circulation halves went out of production in 2002.
 
Look at your nickels. I still get 1938 - 1960 Jefferson nickels in change. Even some 35% silver from the WWII era, (1942 - 1945).
 
I had been to a bank one day and got a few halves from one of my tellers. She only had a few and they were clad, so I just put them in my pocket. A little while later at Wal-Mart, my total came to $15.50, so I gave the cashier a ten, a five and a half. She tried very hard to give me 50 cent change. She was not only close to my age, I know she had been a cashier there for years. Silver dimes and halves are the easiest to find, War nickels are tougher and silver quarters are the toughest. I have found Seated, Barber, Mercury and Rosie dimes, Barber, Walker, Franklin and both types of Kennedy halves. war and buffalo nickels, Indians and wheats. But I have never found any type of silver quarter other than a Washington. :shrug:
 
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