Silver quarters

[sonambulo]

Any point to owning these?

I've worked as a cashier on the side for years and years and buy these out of the register at face value ($0.25 ea.), with the store owner's permission. Is there any point to hoarding them or should I just sell them all for silver?

 

[lxskllr]

I save them when I find one. I don't know that there's a point, but I like them.

 

[MichaelD]

Collectible coins appreciate in value. Precious metals appreciate in value. IMO, you've got a double-win if you keep these coins.

 

[BoomerD]

During the "Hunt Brothers Silver Fiasco," stores of all kinds were offering fabulous deals, often pennies on the dollar...if you paid with silver coins.

 

[DominionSeraph]

I say sell 'em. With all the retarded Tea Partiers having driven up the price, it's a good time.

 

[JEDI]

Collectible coins appreciate in value. Precious metals appreciate in value. IMO, you've got a double-win if you keep these coins.

yup i save silver quarters, dimes, and war nickels

its fun. plus in the 2012 apocalypse, silver coins will become the defacto currency.
stock up on silver dollars now!!

 

[basslover1]

Any point to owning these?

I've worked as a cashier on the side for years and years and buy these out of the register at face value ($0.25 ea.), with the store owner's permission. Is there any point to hoarding them or should I just sell them all for silver?

If they're of the 90% silver 10% copper variety, they're worth about 7.25 each by today's values.

So yea, I'd say they're worth something.

 

[sjwaste]

I don't think I've ever come across one.

 

[Newbian]

Melt them down and make one big coin to rule them all.

 

[sonambulo]

I don't think I've ever come across one.

All thanks to kleptomaniac assholes like me :biggrin:

 

[dawp]

Well the value of the coins depends a lot on the condition. if they are well worn, the silver is worth more than the coin it self.

as a side note, I have a watch that the face is a Kennedy silver half dollar with the head plated in gold.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

I say sell 'em. With all the retarded Tea Partiers having driven up the price, it's a good time.

What are you insinuating here?

1) Tea Partiers are small group with lots of money to buy metals. (how do retards get lots of money)

2) Tea partiers are a large group with modest extra income to buy metals (how did we get so many retards?)

3) you don't know what your talking about and many investors see metals as a logical and safe investment.

 

[Net]

http://sammler.com/coins/washington_silver_quarter.htm
http://www.silvermonthly.com/1932-1964-silver-quarter-90-silver/

 

[acheron]

If they're beat up or worn, they probably don't have much extra collector value over the raw silver price, unless they're rare dates or whatever. Can sell them for "melt value" if you want, or save them if you think silver will keep going up, or if you just like them.

To anyone who doesn't know:
Quarters and dimes were 90% silver until 1964. (that is, 1964 quarters are silver, 1965 quarters are not.)
Half-dollars were 90% silver until 1964 and 40% silver from 1965-1969.

 

[JJ650]

If they're beat up or worn, they probably don't have much extra collector value over the raw silver price, unless they're rare dates or whatever. Can sell them for "melt value" if you want, or save them if you think silver will keep going up, or if you just like them.

To anyone who doesn't know:
Quarters and dimes were 90% silver until 1964. (that is, 1964 quarters are silver, 1965 quarters are not.)
Half-dollars were 90% silver until 1964 and 40% silver from 1965-1969.

This.


The silver value alone makes them worth more.

If you don't want them, I'll buy the off ya


Speaking of silver, I'll be picking up my 6th $500 box of half dollars for my silver hunt.

 

[bobdole369]

I heard pennies prior to 1982 are worth about a nickel in copper value.

 

[highland145]

What are you insinuating here?

1) Tea Partiers are small group with lots of money to buy metals. (how do retards get lots of money)

2) Tea partiers are a large group with modest extra income to buy metals (how did we get so many retards?)

3) you don't know what your talking about and many investors see metals as a logical and safe investment.

The 200 silver rounds in my file cabinet.....paid $17 per.

 

[DrPizza]

I had someone come in to purchase pizza once with a roll of silver quarters. I even commented "you know these are probably worth more than regular quarters - you didn't take these from your parent's bedroom or something, did you?" "No, my Mom is in the car [motions to car] and says they've been sitting around doing nothing, so we may as well spend them." They sat on the edge of the register until he was out the door. I pulled the money from my pocket and exchanged it for the quarters. When I went through them later, I expected early 1960's coins. Instead, 1876 centennial something or other liberty quarters. Worth $35 each at the time. I still have them.

 

[lxskllr]

I heard pennies prior to 1982 are worth about a nickel in copper value.

I save all my copper pennies to make rustproof washers. I couldn't buy one for 1¢.

 

[gorcorps]

I heard pennies prior to 1982 are worth about a nickel in copper value.

They were worth about 2c a year ago and I'm not sure copper has doubled since then. Still... buying bricks of pennies for face value could be a worth while investment because you can find a good chunk of pre-1982 pennies in each brick. Any non-1982 pennies could just be redeposited at the bank for the price you paid for them, and the 15-20% of them that are pre-1982 could net you 3-4 times what you paid in copper scrap.

You have to find somebody willing to pay copper scrap though, because it's an alloy (mostly copper with ~5% zinc after 1962) so it's not a straight trade.

 

[sonambulo]

Instead, 1876 centennial something or other liberty quarters.

Nice score!!!

 

[FelixDeCat]

Like an idiot I sold all my 60s era Kennedy halves that were 40% silver for $2.50 each last year. They are now worth $6 each!!!

Even worse, I had a Silver Eagle I bought in 2004 for $17. I sold it for $25 in 2009 thinking it was time to sell and I didnt want it anymore anyway.

Today its worth $50. :'(

 

[acheron]

I had someone come in to purchase pizza once with a roll of silver quarters. I even commented "you know these are probably worth more than regular quarters - you didn't take these from your parent's bedroom or something, did you?" "No, my Mom is in the car [motions to car] and says they've been sitting around doing nothing, so we may as well spend them." They sat on the edge of the register until he was out the door. I pulled the money from my pocket and exchanged it for the quarters. When I went through them later, I expected early 1960's coins. Instead, 1876 centennial something or other liberty quarters. Worth $35 each at the time. I still have them.

Wow. That's pretty awesome.

 

[highland145]

Like an idiot I sold all my 60s era Kennedy halves that were 40% silver for $2.50 each last year. They are now worth $6 each!!!

Even worse, I had a Silver Eagle I bought in 2004 for $17. I sold it for $25 in 2009 thinking it was time to sell and I didnt want it anymore anyway.

Today its worth $50. :'(

Don't feel bad. Sold 9oz gold last year at $1175. $1800+ today.

 

[basslover1]

I had someone come in to purchase pizza once with a roll of silver quarters. I even commented "you know these are probably worth more than regular quarters - you didn't take these from your parent's bedroom or something, did you?" "No, my Mom is in the car [motions to car] and says they've been sitting around doing nothing, so we may as well spend them." They sat on the edge of the register until he was out the door. I pulled the money from my pocket and exchanged it for the quarters. When I went through them later, I expected early 1960's coins. Instead, 1876 centennial something or other liberty quarters. Worth $35 each at the time. I still have them.

I had someone pay with a roll of quarters before. All 40 of them were pre 1964 silver quarters. I wasn't much of a collector so I had no idea what they were at the time, other than they sounded odd when tapped against each other. An older co-worker bought the roll for face value. Even at melting value, they're worth about 300 bucks now.