Find Real Silver Coins In Your Own Pocket Change

CHECK YOUR CHANGE! YOU MIGHT STRIKE SILVER! Did you know that there are still U.S. silver coins in circulation? Dimes, quarters, and half dollars minted before 1965 contain 90% silver. G GAINESVILLE COINS .COM WHAT TO LOOK FOR How to quickly check for silver coins. Silver Quarter 1 Hold your coin on its edge you see brown, the 2 coin is clad copper 3 A solid edge is silver DO YOU HAVE SILVER? It's easy to check your change! Simply hold your coins edge-on and look as you turn them. If you see a brown stripe along the edge, this is a copper core of a clad coin. Better luck next time! But if you see a solid edge, you've struck silver! NOTHING "JUNKY" ABOUT IT! 90% silver U.S. coinage is sometimes called "junk silver", because they have no numismatic value over their melt value. This may have been junk back when silver was $1 an ounce, but not anymore! The U.S. Mint made the silver content in these coins proportional to their denomination, so $1 in face value in any combination of dimes, quarters, and halves contains .715 troy oz of silver. This is why you see "junk silver" sold in multiples of face value. 90% Silver NROD TRO we Dimes Quarters Halves • Pre 1965 Roosevelt • Mercury • Barber • Pre 1965 Washington • Standing Liberty • Barber • 1964 JFK • Franklin • Walking Liberty • Barber HOW MUCH IS IT WORTH? Use this equation to calculate how much your 90% silver is worth Spot Price You can find the current spot price at 0.10 (Dimes) 0.25 (Quarters) 0.50 (Halves) 0.715 х Silver Content GainesvilleCoins.com 40% Silver JFK Half Dollars (1965 - 1970) From 1965 to 1970, Kennedy half dollars were made from a core of 21% silver and 79% copper, sandwiched between two layers of 80% silver and 20% copper. The total silver content was 0.1479 troy oz of silver - 40% of the total weight. E TRUET Tricky Ikes San Francisco Mint Mark Eisenhower Dollars ATES OF (1971 - 1976) There is one more U.S. coin that is 40% silver - the special Uncirculated and proof Eisenhower dollars. These dollars were never meant for circulation, and were only sold in packages for coin collectors. The 40% silver Ikes were all made at the San Francisco Mint, but GODW TRUST not every Ike made there was silver. Confusing, isn't it? Less than 4% of all Ikes minted are made of 40% silver. 35% Silver (1942 - 1945) War Nickels During WWII, nickel was a vital industrial metal for the war effort. In fact, it was so vital that the government decided to use SILVER instead of nickel to make 5 cent coins. In order to tell the difference, these silver "war nickels" had the mintmark placed above the dome of Monticello on the reverse of the coin. Mint Mark NTED. ORAMERI STATES DEYS STATE Actual War Nickel Not A War Nickel SILVER TIMELINE 1965 - 1970 40% JFK Half Dollars 1942 - 1945 War Nickels 1935 1940 1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 Dimes Quarters Half Dollars 1971 - 1976 Tricky Ikes Pre 1965 It Might Be Worth More Than Melt • Older coins in decent shape may be worth more than melt value. STATE • Check recent online sales such as completed sales on eBay. PLURIBUS UNUM • To get an idea of the condition of your coin, compare it to the photos at PCGS Photograde. www.pcgs.com/photograde DOLLAR Infographic brought to you by: G GAINESVILLE COINS .COM www.GainesvilleCoins.com [email protected] (813) 482-9300 TED