WOW I have not looked at this thread in about a month & have really enjoyed the posts I have not read until today thanks to all for the educational info. Its amazing to see CRHs still finding silvers in this day [maybe its kids ,addicts spending all they have, I guess that goes for proof coinage as well]..Not that uncommon 2or3 times Ive gotten silver coins back in change in the past 5 or 6 yrs but 1 lucky day a little over a year ago @ a thrift store I made a purchase and in my change got back 1silver quarter & 2 silver dimes 1 was a merc ,then I went back in and bought something for a little over 1$ same thing more silver in the change this time 1silver 1 clad quarter 3 more silver dimes .Being a bit greedy by now I went back in and asked for 5$ in change {for the bus} MAN the till was full of change of all types and could see silver dimes sitting on top could not really tell on the quarters so I asked for "2 DOLLARS in Quart-& 3 in dimes ,seeing the edges the Qs had 2 silvers and 17 of the dimes were silver I wanted more but the gig was up ,so I left and let someone elese be the lucky one. How this happend? I often wonder . ? did someone donate the coins to be turned in to cash and they ended up in the till instead & HOW the ladies working check out didnt notice 'ESP, with all the Mercs .Ill never know but Im pretty sure someone took note eventvally.