Anyone have any info or theories? Doesn't pass the smell test how it happened right when covid started for no apparent reason
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United States 5 cent nickels are 8 cents worth of metal for starters.
I hear 1966 and into the 1970 's half dollars are 40 percent silver Because they are getting rid of coins , I just last week bought 5k worth of coins 3 grand in dollars ,, I didn't even know we had dollar coins with all the different presidents on them. I also bought Two k in half dollars. Unbelievable I wasn't expecting to find silver dollars, but in the 4 boxes of half dollars that I ordered, I found a 1943 1942 lady liberty solid silver and 6 1964 1963 solid silver ,, 8 solid silver half's. I never expected to find real solid silver from buying coins from a bank . I just bought cases of coins to put away for my kids to find 20 years from now or whenever ! I bought silver to put away as well but I'll tell you it was a whole lot of excitement to find 8 solid half's going through the coins I bought from the bank . Paying 50 cents a piece for silver halves was a score lol
Those pre-1965 coins aren't pure silver but they are 90% silver. There are plenty of websites that will break down the composition for you and the silver weight. Also during WW2 there were "war nickels" that are actually 35% silver/6% manganese/59% copper.
Those dollar coins with the presidents on them are almost pure copper with brass plating. They do have a nice ring to them.
Pennies shifted away from pure copper to copper-plated zinc midway through 1982, you have to do the sound test on the 82's to figure out which are which. Copper ones have a nice ring to them while the zinc ones sound dull, if you have pre-82 and post-82 pennies you can compare them to figure out if your 82's are copper or not. Pennies from 1943 were actually made of steel because copper was needed more for the war effort and are neat curiosities.
Thank you for all that info , yes I remember now hearing they r 90 percent , ty !those President dollars are cool out of 2 k dollars box I got 1 Kennedy and 1 Reagan ,most of the dollars were Susan b Anthony and Sacajawea , I was kind of ashamed that some of the presidents I never heard of , it made me buy a book of the Presidents just because I love History and realized I never even heard of some of these dudes.
Awesome congrats on the silver finds! I'll have to try.
Yeah thanks it was cool I actually ordered 2 more boxes lol just to check, it only takes a few minutes u can spot the silver the minute u undo the roll , actually it's undoing the paper that takes the most time takes a few seconds to spot the real ones . I'll just return the ones I don't want , If I find more in this round I may do it again ! I am saving some of the more rare half , some dates are hard to find ! I figured it would be cool for my kids , but yeah I have to say I was really stoked , mainly because I in no way expected to find silver, I opened the rolls to put them in tubes according to the years for my kids and was like ,, no flippin way !
my thought. pennies still have a decent amount of copper in it too (not as much as they used to)
Pre 1982 pennies 3 cents of metal
Post 1982 pennies worth 1.1 cents of metal
http://coinapps.com
New pennies today look like play money to me. And they disintegrate so quickly. My daughter found one the other day and it's in such poor condition, I don't know if any store would take it. Everything in our country has gone to pot.
thank you