Silver from the Jr. High Student Store

[killerwine]

My wife is the counselor and has to count the change every day...Brought me her 4th 1964 quarter today! Probably a kid "getting" them from mom/dad or grandma/grandpa's collection...My coins go in the safe and my two boys have been notified that it is a capital offense to touch dad's coins.

 

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[thrillathahunt]

Cool finds!

I got a 1964 quarter in change at a Taco Bell earlier this summer.

TTH

 

[Postalrevnant]

Great deal Killerwine. I love hearing of finds you don't usually expect. Especially the quarter. Its certainly one I haven't found yet, and must be a very hard one to get by change.

Congratulations,

Postalrevnant

 

[killerwine]

For some reason the quarters seem to give me the best silver jolt! I think because they are so obviously different people pull them out of circulation and are hard to find...I remember my mom telling me as a boy that pre 1965 coins were silver and she was going to start keeping them, had an impact on me...She saved some, but I wish I would have done the same! She had a piggy bank from her childhood that my brothers and I went through in the 70's got me hooked on coin collecting...Most memorable coin was a 1909-S VDB penny! Just to be able to go back in time with what I know now! HH

 

[HobBob]

Wow, I haven't seen a silver quarter in circulation in ages!! Nice find!
HH,
Bob

 

[killerwine]

My wife just handed me another silver quarter! (1963 mint mark unreadable) From the student store again...Not a BIG find but helping me fill up my roll of found silver quarters...I smooched her and said she was leading the pack here on silver quarters found!

 

[low xtreme]

silver quarters seem to come in spurts. they'll be some in one box, a couple in the next, then not see one for a while. very weird. i found 4 in one roll before and a couple more in the same box.

 

[Snee]

Very nice!

 

[HobBob]

Fantastic find. It's been so long since I have seen a silver quarter still in circulation that I was sure they had all been snatched up by now.
Congrats and HH!
Bob

 

[desecrator]

Where I live in Western NY, silver Washingtons and Roosies are pretty common in circulation. Now, I work at a busy pizza shop where we do about $13,000 in cash transaction per week and we buy about $1500 in change per week, so my definition of "common" might be skewed.... But I still find a couple of Roosies a week, at a few Washingtons per month. I've even seen a dozen or so Buffalo nickels come through the shop this year. Also, I'm fairly confident that most of these coins aren't taken from collections. Some coins are just survivors. I do, however, look forward to the pre-Christmas weeks because people get hard up for cash and we just might see some silver halves and dollars come in.