2001 S mint silver half

mercury1 · Jul 23, 2013

Hi all. Haven't posted much latley but I'm off to a good start this week. I'd been thinking about getting out detecting this morning but instead decided to do some coin roll hunting. I had about $850 in rolled dimes and a few nickel rolls I was looking to trade. I hit four banks and was able to trade everything for new rolls to search. I found 2 silver Rosies and 2 .999 Canadian nickels. When I'm at my banks I always ask for halves and two banks came through for me. First girl offers up the two she has and I immediately spot that it is a modern silver proof and a clad half. I buy them for a buck. Other girls have a few and I by them up also. Next bank has about 7 dollars in halves. Found a couple 40%. The half dollar S mint silver is my second. Smudged up with finger prints bu I'll take it. HH

mercury1 · Jul 23, 2013

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hokiemojo · Jul 23, 2013

thats gotta be a rare find for a hunter. congrats.

Bad Wolf · Jul 23, 2013

I didn't know that 1973 Canadian nickels came in silver--are they silver proofs?

mercury1 · Jul 23, 2013

hokiemojo said:
thats gotta be a rare find for a hunter. congrats.

Yes thanks hokiemojo, pretty rare find. Takes a clueless person to cash one in for face, and a clueless teller(my favorite kind), to hand it over. Lol

mercury1 · Jul 23, 2013

Bad Wolf said:
I didn't know that 1973 Canadian nickels came in silver--are they silver proofs?

No, the Canadian nickels are pure nickel. Not proofs either. I was just showing my keepers for that day. It became uneconomical for the Canadian mint to use pure nickel so they switched to 75% copper, 25%nickel in 1982, and later switched to steel. They aren't valuable but I like to keep them because I don't find that many.

FormerTeller · Jul 23, 2013

mercury1 said:
No, the Canadian nickels are pure nickel. Not proofs either. I was just showing my keepers for that day. It became uneconomical for the Canadian mint to use pure nickel so they switched to 75% copper, 25%nickel in 1982, and later switched to steel. They aren't valuable but I like to keep them because I don't find that many.

Nice finds. I love the modern silver proofs!

If you like the 99.9% nickel coins, bear in mind that Canadian dimes and quarters from 1969 to 1999 have the same composition. To my knowledge, considering historical nickel prices, only Canadian nickels have enough nickel in them to make hoarding them worthwhile, though the others are still cool to have.

mercury1 · Jul 23, 2013

FormerTeller said:
Nice finds. I love the modern silver proofs!

If you like the 99.9% nickel coins, bear in mind that Canadian dimes and quarters from 1969 to 1999 have the same composition. To my knowledge, considering historical nickel prices, only Canadian nickels have enough nickel in them to make hoarding them worthwhile, though the others are still cool to have.

Yes FT I know the dimes and quarters were nickel also but as you touched on, the relative larger size of the nickel, 20 nickels heavier than 4 quarters or 10 dimes, makes them the only ones worth saving. Also sometimes I find the older ones with the young queen or king George. I just got a couple nickel pages for one of my dansko books which I'm going to fill with my Canadian.

BuffaloBoy · Jul 24, 2013

Awesome score mercury1! I am still awaiting my first 90% silver proof, good luck with the rest of your boxes!
HH
Buff

Infowarrior · Jul 24, 2013

Very nice score!!

I have only found one post-64 silver, I think it was an 03 silver proof, but yours looks to be in better condition than mine is, it was fairly beat up.

HH

hotrod · Jul 24, 2013

awesome!

mercury1 · Jul 24, 2013

Infowarrior said:
Very nice score!!

I have only found one post-64 silver, I think it was an 03 silver proof, but yours looks to be in better condition than mine is, it was fairly beat up.

HH

Info, this was my second modern silver proof and it is in great shape but can't compare to my first, which came out of a teller wrapped roll and was in a plastic protective coin capsule. That coin is perfect. Too bad that teller has moved on to another job.