gold coin I got my hands on back in March. They only sell the newer stuff like that 1 oz. Mint – Though not pre-1965 junks coins as we’ve been talking about.

You can pick them up at your local gold and silver shops, and sometimes even pawn shops.

You can buy ’em online (and in bulk) from places like APMEX, or CMI.

Luckily there are other ways to get your hands on this junk silver if you really want some, though: And while I considered going back a second and third time just to be absolutely SURE I didn’t get a bad batch, I just haven’t had the heart to start the whole search all over again… After a while your eyes get really pissed off! ) Definitely not worth the time, if you ask me.

It was a 1943 “Jefferson War” nickel worth approx two bucks. I then had the genius idea to hit up the bank – just like I do with those $2.00 bills – to see what THEY were hiding from all us average consumers! They have billions of coins back there, surely there were handfuls of those dated pre-1965 too, right? So I cashed in about $40 worth of rolled up dimes and nickels and especially quarters – which had the highest % of silver back then outside of half and silver dollars – and I rushed back home to start my sneaky search.Īnd sneaky it sure was, dag nabit… One hour later with green finger tips and a raging headache, I’d looked through literally hundreds of coins only to find a measly ONE (that’s right – one!) and it wasn’t even one of the more bigger ones, either. Wha wha wha… But that wasn’t going to stop me, was it? ) So of course the first thing I did when I learned about this was scour all my change piles around the house (and cars, cabinets, boxes) to see how many goodies I already had on me! But little did I know the millions of people over the years (Almost 50 of them to be exact!) had already beaten me to the punch. (Here’s another quick tool to see how much your coin is worth or not too: Is My Coin Silver?) But those numbers above give you a good idea of what you can more easily expect to find as a mere common folk ) Once you get into that type of territory, you’re usually talking about coins that are worth a ton more outside of just the silver they contain as they become more collectible in nature due to their rarity. 77 oz of silver = $24.50Īnd that doesn’t include any special coins or others minted before then either – like those from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Here’s a breakdown of how much these pre-1965 “junk coins” are worth today: Which gives you yet ANOTHER idea of just how much silver has increased in worth since then! Before they turned to making them out of copper and zinc and nickel and other stuff as the value of silver started surpassing the coins’ face value. coins that were of silver color pre-1965 (like dimes, quarters, half dollars, and even some nickels) contained large portions of *actual* silver. I was searching around for “ junk silver” to learn more, I found out that U.S. So needless to say this interest in silver has some reasoning behind it ) And it wasn’t until lately that I even realized I could very well have MORE sitting around my house without even knowing it! Which was the shockingly good news! silver coin for 25 cents at a yard sale, remember that? It’s already doubled in value! And you don’t even wanna know what an oz was going for back in the early 2000’s, jeesh. At the time of this post, an ounce of silver is currently going for about $32.00 – down from its peak of $48.00 a year ago, but up from a low of just $15.00 TWO years ago. I don’t know how many of you follow the values of Silver or Gold or any of that kind of stuff lately, but MAN is silver pretty valuable right now.

Like my latest find over the weekend of an old US Mint bank bag I snagged for $3! Which also happened to have strange dark red spots on it that I can only hope didn’t have to do with some sort of botched robbery, haha…īut the latest craze I’ve been getting into – outside of the $2.00 bill hoarding – is searching around for more SILVER for my collection. It started with a strange dollar bill I found in my pocket years back, and then slowly over time progressed to interesting coins and other money-related items I’ve since come across. As you know, I’m a huge fan addict of collecting currency.

Nickels worth money