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[windweaver77]

Had to cancel that order. It is not the silver set.

[maxwellsilverhammer]

$.40 cents bought me 4 x junk silver dimes from my bank teller today. very fun. this is the 3rd call from her since she made my acquaintance as a new lead teller at my bank. i have offered finders fees and even chocolates but she refuses not wishing to jeopardize her job. i will figure something out as a return gesture to her - maybe have to just bring a basket of goodies to share between all the tellers at Christmas or something. its cool and kind of fun to see that number pop up on my cell phone occasionally.

[windweaver77]

$.40 cents bought me 4 x junk silver dimes from my bank teller today. very fun. this is the 3rd call from her since she made my acquaintance as a new lead teller at my bank. i have offered finders fees and even chocolates but she refuses not wishing to jeopardize her job. i will figure something out as a return gesture to her - maybe have to just bring a basket of goodies to share between all the tellers at Christmas or something. its cool and kind of fun to see that number pop up on my cell phone occasionally.

I got some free constitutional today!!!

And yesterday I scored some stuff...
https://youtu.be/l63DCn_nwz4

[motocat]

Well worn 1943 "S" nickle received as change. Most common silver coin I still find in change is the 1964 or earlier dimes, even mercury dimes, can't remember finding a silver nickel since I went through nickle rolls as a boy. Judging by wear, this one must have been in circulation since WWII, going through probably thousand of hands before being recognized as more than an nickel...

[SilverPalm]

Well worn 1943 "S" nickle received as change. Most common silver coin I still find in change is the 1964 or earlier dimes, even mercury dimes, can't remember finding a silver nickel since I went through nickle rolls as a boy. Judging by wear, this one must have been in circulation since WWII, going through probably thousand of hands before being recognized as more than an nickel...

I didn't realize that nickels were ever made out of silver, aside from the odd silver proof set. I now see that 1942-1945 nickels were said to have been silver. I knew about steel pennies during the war years. I did not know about silver nickels. Thanks for making me take a look.

[jiggysmb]

I didn't realize that nickels were ever made out of silver, aside from the odd silver proof set. I now see that 1942-1945 nickels were said to have been silver. I knew about steel pennies during the war years. I did not know about silver nickels. Thanks for making me take a look.

I see a lot of people say silver nickels are 40% or 35%, a few months back I researched this and the composition can range from 7% to 30%, but 18% was most common. I think this would over complicate matters if you were trying to base a coin on silver value.

[maxwellsilverhammer]

I see a lot of people say silver nickels are 40% or 35%, a few months back I researched this and the composition can range from 7% to 30%, but 18% was most common. I think this would over complicate matters if you were trying to base a coin on silver value.

I think you will get some contesting feedback here with your statement about the US war nickel silver content. Where did you get this "research" information?

Everything I understand about the silver composition of those nickels was straight 35% silver, 56% copper, 9% manganese.

[LongDonSilver]

Everything I've seen says the war nickels were all the some composition. Melt value for all production years is computed here: https://www.coinflation.com/coins/19...kel-Value.html

[Ag guy]

I really thought the economy would have caused a fed pivot (or pause) by now. Any way I continue to average down on EXK Jan 19th 2024 $5 calls. Now holding 800 contracts avg, @ .39. $31.2K total invested...currently down$17.2K....Isn't that much further down to get to zero, but every dime up is $8K now. That is if the word "up" is still in the mining sector language lol.
Got the rest of the year for a spark...pretty ugly for the moment. OH WELL...............

Ag guy

Well...a little improvement..........Up 100% at the moment.Still holding strong!

[digbird]

Well...a little improvement..........Up 100% at the moment.Still holding strong!

Cool. I'm rootin' for you.