You just never know!

[peteacher37]

Hi all. I am a little in shock but I thought you should know how my detecting experience went today. I have a friend who "tears" down old houses for a living. I asked him if he knew where I could detect and he mentioned the place I went to today. It was an old doctors office that he was demolishing in a few days. After about 2 hours I had found only 2 nickels. One was 1943 and the other was 1947. I was getting discouraged and asked him if I could look inside. He said go ahead and take anything I want. I found many things I wanted including 12 handblown Christmas ornaments from Germany. He mentioned he was using them for golf balls last week! Ouch!!!!!!!!! Anyway as I was about to leave I noticed a blue coin binder lodged down behind a shelving unit. I pulled it out and look what I found! A silver half dollar collection from 1937-1947. Twenty two halves in all! Im not a coin guy so what do I do with them? Please help!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jb58]

gulp!! keep em!

 

[billydabeeg]

Sell them and give your friend half. nice find.

 

[KOOTNEY KID]

Sweet ,keep em sell em,enjoy em then sell em,I dont know but i sure wish i had found em. thanks.............K.KID.

 

[Digger1980]

ebay

 

[Argentium]

Greetings friend ! In this economy , there is nothing wrong with HOLDING large , obsolete ,
beautiful, American silver coins , that you scored for free !!! Please consider that the federal reserve
note is losing value - and have you seen the activity lately with precious metals ? I wouldn't exchange
those babies for federal reserve notes unless you are in real trouble financially ! Argentium.

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

I will give them a good home, full of love and warmth. Hey, I had to try.
Carl

 

[txconservative]

Those are perdy..

I'd keep em' ! :P

 

[goatofwonder]

I'd hold onto those...but then again, Walkers are my favorite.

 

[deanv63]

Sweet recovery!

 

[mhagy1]

Nice find before the place was demoed.

 

[vanoldschool]

come bury them in washington!

 

[chark21798]

Well if you dont want them im sure alot of hands are going up. Great find. HH Mark

 

[Mr.T]

Banner! I'm voting

Way, way cool!!!!

rory

 

[birdman]

One heck of a score!!

 

[ivan salis]

that is a great score 22 (90%) silver halves current silver value of $7.92 each (of course if selling the coin dealers offer less than full value to make their mark up ) -- so at the very least say $6 each x 22 thats a cool $ 132 bucks in value for free -- some one messed up bad leaving that behind --it there was a one set of coins --check carefully since their maybe be more "hidden" about -- and after that house is taken down if you can check the spot closely

the 1943 war nickle with a big letter on the back is 35% silver as well

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Talk about finding treasure! I'd find a knowledgeable coin dealer
and find out if they're are worth big money or only the silver value.
Then as billydabeeg suggested, "sell them and give your friend half."

 

[Rasputin]

Time's awastin' , I would go back there right now searching every nook and cranny...

 

[pookie3520]

....Wow! Why wouldn't you just keep them unless you needed some cash really fast. What a great collection!

 

[RON (PA)]

I would keep the coins and definitely go back to the house...There is definitely more valuable things in there for you to find.