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Dairygirl | 03-12-2010 06:09 PM
woohoo a real silver quarter I scored at McDonald's today when I got a real silver quarter in change. my meal costs 3.23 and my quarter was worth 3.07. Close enough to be free. I've been searching my change for years and this is the first time I have gotten free silver. Just had to share, it made my day. :yippee::yippee:

Workaholic | 03-12-2010 06:12 PM
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Twisted Avatar | 03-12-2010 06:15 PM
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6L6 | 03-12-2010 06:25 PM
Re: woohoo a real silver quarter I got one too a couple of months ago from my local market. It's hard to believe some are still circulating out there after all these years...

CoinHunter53562 | 03-12-2010 06:28 PM
Re: woohoo a real silver quarter Quote:
Originally Posted by Dairygirl (Post 2223906) I scored at McDonald's today when I got a real silver quarter in change. my meal costs 3.23 and my quarter was worth 3.07. Close enough to be free. I've been searching my change for years and this is the first time I have gotten free silver. Just had to share, it made my day. :yippee::yippee:
Congrats! I've only found one silver coin in general circulation in the past 5+ years when I spotted a Merc dime in the teller tray. I guess that counts. :emotions16:

OutlawJoseyWalesJr | 03-12-2010 06:29 PM
Re: woohoo a real silver quarter Congrats DaisyGirl. :ok: So far, I had no luck finding any silver quarters in my change. Since I started looking for silver in my change, I only found one silver Merc dime in my change.

RossL | 03-12-2010 06:41 PM
Re: woohoo a real silver quarter http://goldismoney.info/forums/showthread.php?t=415676 woohoo !

OutlawJoseyWalesJr | 03-12-2010 07:06 PM
Re: woohoo a real silver quarter Quote:
Originally Posted by RossL (Post 2223946) http://goldismoney.info/forums/showthread.php?t=415676 woohoo !
The dime that I found in my change was a 1943 Merc dime.

ME CO | 03-12-2010 07:18 PM
Re: woohoo a real silver quarter Congrats on the silver quarter. I have never gotten one in pocket change though I have seen a few in tellers trays, one of which I was given. I am also one of them sadistic bastards that sometimes searches boxes looking for them and can attest that they are hard to find. I have gotten a couple dimes in change the last few years but they are smaller and easier for people to miss. HH Mark

Ragnarok | 03-12-2010 07:48 PM
Re: woohoo a real silver quarter That hasn't happened to me in some time. It's always a special treat to get REAL MONEY in change! :applause_ R.

joe_momma | 03-12-2010 08:29 PM
Re: woohoo a real silver quarter Got a 1950 quarter out of the coin-op dryer- woo-hoo! But once in 3 years pretty much sucks though. Well done!

Dairygirl | 03-12-2010 08:44 PM
Re: woohoo a real silver quarter Thank you, Thank you everyone. I showed friends at work and was still on cloud nine when I got home. I knew the minute that quarter hit my hand it was silver. I looked at the edge and then checked the date. 1964. I need to change my name to Silverbug because I definitely like the feel of silver. Have a terrific weekend!!

OutlawJoseyWalesJr | 03-12-2010 09:06 PM
Re: woohoo a real silver quarter Quote:
Originally Posted by Dairygirl (Post 2224107) Thank you, Thank you everyone. I showed friends at work and was still on cloud nine when I got home. I knew the minute that quarter hit my hand it was silver. I looked at the edge and then checked the date. 1964. I need to change my name to Silverbug because I definitely like the feel of silver. Have a terrific weekend!!
Yeah I would change it because silverbugs rule the GIM forums. :ok:

77shovelhead | 03-12-2010 09:39 PM
Re: woohoo a real silver quarter Quote:
Originally Posted by Dairygirl (Post 2224107) Thank you, Thank you everyone. I showed friends at work and was still on cloud nine when I got home. I knew the minute that quarter hit my hand it was silver. I looked at the edge and then checked the date. 1964. I need to change my name to Silverbug because I definitely like the feel of silver. Have a terrific weekend!!
If you change your name you'll never find another piece of silver.:4_1_72: Congrats on the find. It's been about a year since my last quarter find. Found a dime stuck undert the pressure relief valve on an old canner the other day.

Sparky | 03-12-2010 10:42 PM
Re: woohoo a real silver quarter It's funny how this continues to bring such a thrill! I think we'd rather find a silver quarter than a $5 FRN! Congrats Daisy.

CajunCoin | 03-14-2010 10:53 AM
Re: woohoo a real silver quarter Got a silver dime 1964 in change in Key West FL last Week while on the cruise!!! Went see Mel Fisher's Treasure, What a hoard!!!

gilmoujr | 03-14-2010 11:41 AM
Re: woohoo a real silver quarter "Pocket Prospecting" has earned me exactly 1 War Nickel, 2 Silver Rosies, and 2 Silver Washingtons over the past 25 years. "Bank Mining" has achieved me about 33 Ozt. since I started about 5 months ago - only sifting through about $1000 of Halves. I keep track via a spreadsheet.

TomD | 03-15-2010 10:46 AM
Re: woohoo a real silver quarter Quote:
Originally Posted by 6L6 (Post 2223929) I got one too a couple of months ago from my local market. It's hard to believe some are still circulating out there after all these years...
I don't think it is still circulating but through some circumstance has been reintroduced into circulation and probably recently. I'll bet that a large percentage of the population is dumb enough to just spend a junk silver stash that has come their way through inheritance, theft, etc. It's been a while but I was behind some kid (10-12 or so) in at the counter in a convenience store and watched him drop a load of candy on the counter and proceed to pay for it with 90%. I almost freaked but nobody else noticed anything. You know he was raiding some family member's stash. I ended up with the 90% BTW. The wife got a 62 Roosevelt dime a couple of months back. My piggy bank was full and I rolled it up a couple of weeks back, close to $400 in dimes and quarters. Nothing. I don't even look through the pennies and nickles, just roll them and stuff them in a drawer somewhere, probably got better than 50 lbs by now.

RealJack | 03-15-2010 11:27 AM
Re: woohoo a real silver quarter Doesn't all this talk of finding Silver belong in the Conspiracy sub-forum? :)

GOLD DUCK | 03-15-2010 12:04 PM
Re: woohoo a real silver quarter QWAK,What amases ME :36_1_25::favorites21:is that -- one SILVER QUORTER was my weakly ALLOWENCE after and IF -- I did all my chores and did not fight with my younger sister :4_1_72: at age 7 :yes: and back then it = a ten cent paper kite,a ten cent ball of string and a NICKLE candy bar! :yes: :23_30_104: :565: and NOW just the candy bar is a BUCK! :36_1_28: :censored: :banghead: :confused_ma: the DUCK :15_1_70v:

ME CO | 03-15-2010 01:16 PM
Re: woohoo a real silver quarter Quote:
Originally Posted by RealJack (Post 2227330) Doesn't all this talk of finding Silver belong in the Conspiracy sub-forum? :)
Your right, there is no silver coinage to be found in the wild. Move along folks, nothing to see here. Happy Hunting, I know I am, Mark

SLV>GLD | 03-15-2010 01:21 PM
Re: woohoo a real silver quarter I read somewhere the odds of finding a silver Washington quarter are something like 1 in 2 million. 2 million is a lot of quarters to sift through for one measly silver one.

ME CO | 03-16-2010 12:00 AM
Re: woohoo a real silver quarter Quote:
Originally Posted by SLV>GLD (Post 2227422) I read somewhere the odds of finding a silver Washington quarter are something like 1 in 2 million. 2 million is a lot of quarters to sift through for one measly silver one.
Its all luck of the draw. Last summer a guy told ME he averaged 1 per box, since that is my average for dimes I tried a box and got one, so I tried another box and got another. Then I had 3 skunks in a row and quit, probly done less than 10 boxes since then with maybe 1 or 2 slivers to show for it. They are a rare beast. One of my tellers said he got one in a deposit the other day, he intended to swap it out and keep it but the end of the day it was gone, he had handed it out to someone. HH Mark

Heads_Up | 03-16-2010 12:08 PM
Re: woohoo a real silver quarter I know all of the women at the tills of the drugstore near work, and I've told them all about PM's. So some now collect it when it comes in, and a couple of them save it for me. I've gotten about a canadian dime a week from them, but today one of them gave me 2 canadian quarters in place of my change. What goes around, comes around. I'm happy with the 80% canadian they have given me over the last year or so, although I did try and tell them that they should be collecting it themselves. So it is still in minor circulation up here. :coolbeer:

Aproz | 03-21-2010 09:23 PM
Re: woohoo a real silver quarter I got a silver dime in my change from Menards last week. It was my first silver find in 10 years! :banana:

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