Silver Dimes Left in Circulation

[coinman123]

I did the math, and calculated that there are around 28,000,000 silver dimes left in circulation. I did it based the average amount of silver dimes I find in a box (around 1), after getting that data, I found the percentage of dimes which are silver. Approx .0004% of the dimes in circulation are silver. I did some more math, using the percentage of silver dimes left in circulation, and all of the clad dimes in circulation and figured out that around 28,000,000 silver dimes are left in circulation.

Note: This is not counting Mercury dimes.

Data: 72,000,000,000 clad dimes are in circulation (80,000,000,000 were minted, but many were probably lost, destroyed, kept, or under ground).

Data: 1/2500 dimes are silver (Based on my coin roll hunting averages)

Result: 28,000,000 dimes left in circulation.

 

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[bigfoot1]

you might like this story...last winter my huntin buddy and I left our snowy mountain and headed to the desert for two days of hunting with our atvs and toy hauler rv.We worked the tar out of several mining sites and homestead sites and found some cool relics and a little jewelry....a couple indian heads,a war nickle,a v nickle but not 1 silver coin.

when we topped the summit on the way home we stopped to get some beer and when I got to the truck I noticed I just got a merc in my change....too funny.

I now religeously check my change every time.

cheers

 

[1shotwade]

Not silver but,checked my change yesterday and found a 1937 wheat! WQhere did that come from? Haven't seen one in a couple years! Go figure!

Wade

 

[CincinnatiKid]

Great math!
Last eve a coworker called at 11:37pm to inform me that he just got a "Rosie" in change.
Peace

 

[mlayers]

yea when ever I get some extra cash I always buy some dime rolls. I been lucky I find around 20 silver every yr from the rolls.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Never have done that I should try it.

 

[Moresound]

A few months ago I got a buffalo nickel in my change from the super market.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

No silver in that . . . but still a good find.

I haven't pulled a Merc out of circulation for many years. I have about 200 I saved from when I had a paper route in the 70's. Still a few Roosevelt silver era out there in pockets and purses.

 

[onepenny]

My daughter used to check the change machines in grocery stores when she was between 4 and7 or so. Anyway, she found mercury dimes a few times. My guess is the people getting the cash did not know what they were and the coin machines were not set to take solid silver. In a few years the same might happen with pre 1982 pennies. Funny thing is, she would show them to me and ask if it was foreign money.

 

[Limitool]

My late wealthy Uncle who lived in MO. has hundreds of dollars maybe thousands of money he put "back". This included rolls of silver coins and wheat penny's. He had A LOT of silver certificate's and uncirculated $2.00 bills. These were keep in a drawer in his bedroom. When he passed his wife got the money out and just started to spend it. She turned in all the rolled coins to the bank for cash. Her brother caught her paying a dinner meal with some "good lookin' cash" and asked her about it. She told him it was just money Wallace had in his drawer. They went back to her home and she got the money out for Jim to look at and emptied her purse. There was still $400+ dollars of the collected money. All coins were gone and she said she'd been "running" on this money for the past 6 months.

What a shame.