Since they are small and easily stolen one local antique shop doesnt allow any vendors to sell them even in display cases.
My mad money is rolls of Dollars or Half Dollars—I figure I can find whoever stole them in the hospital with a hernia.
The silver is locked in the safe, along with the few gold coins I have.
I do regard my 2012 $30.00 Australian Koala as a home defense device, however. Hit someone in the head with that, they are dead…
It does weigh a kilo…of silver…
My grandparents owned a small business. When the government started minting sandwich coins, my grandmother started going through the daily till, and saving all of the solid silver coins.
My mother inherited the collection. I believe that she has probably paid more to rent the safe-deposit box than she will ever get from the coins, but Mom is convinced that they will be worth a fortune someday.
Not counting the whole Hunt Brothers thing, some years back I believe it hit a max of 30 to 1 ------- $1 face value got you $30 current cash. But with some of those store hoards you really need to go through and check the dates. Kids would sometimes nab Grandpap’s old sock of coins and buy some comic books and such. I checked one hoard that had some Bust Dimes and early Seated Half Dollars mixed in with the straight silver value “junk”.
I wouldn’t know about massive, but a relative who flew to London twice a year to trade in coins would bring me that year’s proof set and something neat like an 18-- US silver dollar or maybe something Greek. This happened for fifteen years or so. All those singles are in a safety deposit box in Mom’s closet. I have no idea if they’re worth anything or not.
I’ve started to keep the odd and old coins and bills I receive as a store cashier.
So far, the best thing I got was a 1934 Silver Certificate five dollar bill.
My father in law had a huge coin collection with some valuable pieces. His intention was that the kids in the family would sell it off and divide the proceeds when he passed away. That happened about fifteen years ago. My wife’s sister decided that it, along with almost anything else of value, needed to be removed from the house and “kept safe.” None of the siblings have ever seen any of that stuff again. That sister passed away last year. Her husband has evidently decided that he still needs to “keep it safe.”
I’m pretty sure you can consider it gone. He just inherited it from her.
A silver quarter is currently worth nearly $3, just based on the silver. Most random silver coins are going to be worth only their silver value, which you can track. Although the value trends upward, it fluctuates a lot.
Damn, it looks like silver peaked between 2011 and 2013. Oddly, that’s when I was selling.
I was inspired by this thread to revisit all those damned statehood quarters, which are basically worth face value. I just took them out of the trunk, opened the boxes and peeled off all the wrappers (the bank won’t take rolled coins, even if they are from the mint and still sealed in the boxes :rolleyes: ), dumping them into a plastic container. Must be $400 worth. Also had some mint rolls of the Westward nickels. They’re going also, along with a roll of wheat pennies. To the bank tomorrow to dump them in the coin machine, which is at least free to members.
This leaves me with a few higher value coins like the Buffalo coin and stamp set, a quarter-ounce proof gold Eagle, and a couple of the Silver Eagles that have some collector value.