cdickrun64
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Searched 4 boxes of dimes yesterday.....5 silvers! Unfortunately, 4 were canadian 
Silver is Silver I guess....
Silver is Silver I guess....
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Canadian silver still dominating :(
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fistfulladirt
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I get a kick outa find those silver Canadians - roosies are kinda bland -
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Feel free to throw them back or give them to one of us!
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Yes, I kinda am complaining!! I would much rather find us than canadian!!
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How come? Because the cNADIAN are only 80%?
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Yes....Partly...
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Yeah, but it still beats the heck out of clad
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All that i am saying is that if I was to find 5 silver dimes, I would prefer them all to be US , not Canadian.
K1DDO1979
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Canadian silver coins were in circulation longer than the U.S. and were sterling silver up to 1920. But I'd take a Canadian or a us silver coin of any date and be very happy! [emoji2]
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cdickrun64
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Oh my god.......nevermind.
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I'm pretty sure you just jinxed yourself with 100 boxes of bad luck. CRH gods are not smiling!
K1DDO1979
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You should put up some pictures of the silvers you find. Maybe a good year or variety in will in there sometime.
From 1870 to 1919 Canada quarters for example were struck to a standard of 5.81 grams of 92.5% (sterling) silver so at roughly have about $3.75 worth of silver in them. From 1920 to 1966 there were struck to a standard of 5.83 grams of 80% silver so roughly have about $3.26 worth of silver. 1967 and 1968 quarters are slightly less.
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Yeaaaahhhh. nooo.
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US silver to 1969 not counting 1970 Kennedy half NIFC. Sorry.
K1DDO1979
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Your right on the halves. I was more talking about common pocket change. Halves dated 1965 through 1970 contain 40% silver. Halves dated 1971 or later are copper-nickel clad coins. They were not used in circulation much by the mid 1960's.
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You are correct there. Halves dated 1971 or later were not used in circulation much in the 1960's. 40% silver halves were. I am a child of the '60's. Grandma gave us silver coins in the '60's, and she gave us Ike dollars for our birthday in the '70's.
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Glad for the info. I'm not that great when it comes to all the us coin info. I'm up here in Nova Scotia. I am sure going to be psyched when I finally dig a silver us. I'm way over due. I found almost 300 year old Spanish silver and almost 150 year old Canadian silver but no us silver. Closest I came was a 1966 us quarter! Haha
