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03-16-2009, 09:25 AM
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Re: Coins
64 and before dimes , quarters, and half dollars are 90 percent silver, with silver at 13 bucks an ounce they are worth roughly 10 times, depends on the dealer, silver and gold are good things to collect, anytime, i have thousands of pennies, love it, dt
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03-16-2009, 09:27 AM
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64 and before dimes , quarters, and half dollars are 90 percent silver, with silver at 13 bucks an ounce they are worth roughly 10 times, depends on the dealer, silver and gold are good things to collect, anytime, i have thousands of pennies, love it, dt
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Yes, I read that silver dime I picked up is worth almost a dollar at melt value. That's a pretty good profit margin!!
What sort of pennies are you collecting?
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03-16-2009, 09:28 AM
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Anyone know about gold testers? I am thinking about buying an M24 Mizar for garage saling this summer.....and training myself to see it.
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Re: Coins
I sure couldn't retire but I do have 3 sets of State Quarters. 
Add a few blue folders of pennies or whatever from my hubbies youth;And a handful of foreign coins that we just keep...
I suppose I should check it all out.....maybe a few coins are worth over face value. (hidden in an old hardside briefcase____but not buried  )
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03-16-2009, 09:34 AM
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I sure couldn't retire but I do have 3 sets of State Quarters.
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03-16-2009, 09:42 AM
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Re: Coins
As has been said... Dimes, Quarters, half dollars & dollar coins 1964 and before are 90% silver.
Silver eagles are 99.9% pure. I just got four in the mail today.
Nickels are not silver except for the years 1942-1945.
The current selling price for 90% silver coins (Pre 1965) is 12-15 times their face value.
A good deal on 99.9% pure US coins (Silver eagles) is 17-20 times face value.
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03-16-2009, 09:47 AM
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As has been said... Dimes, Quarters, half dollars & dollar coins 1964 and before are 90% silver.
Silver eagles are 99.9% pure. I just got four in the mail today.
Nickels are not silver except for the years 1942-1945.
The current selling price for 90% silver coins (Pre 1965) is 12-15 times their face value.
A good deal on 99.9% pure US coins (Silver eagles) is 17-20 times face value.
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It's always good to say again!! 
What do you think about the dollar? Do you think it will eventually collapse (regardless of the stock market and all the other economy stuff..)?
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Re: Coins
This thread made me think of the book I just finished reading. The other day I stumbled across an old paperback mystery novel that I have no idea when or how I got.
It was titled "Loose Coins". The main characters were into coin collecting and one owned a coin shop in Memphis. It was a very entertaining book with very good development of the characters. It also sparked an old interest I had in coin collecting.
When I finished the book yesterday I did internet research on the authors (it had two strangely enough) to see if there were sequals to it (It had been written around 1998). Sadly I discovered that one of the authors died two years ago at the age of 81 and though he was a prolific science fiction writer this was the only mystery novel he had penned and there are no sequals. The co-authors had not written near as much and I don't see sequals from him either. Arghhh.
My mom had a boatload of silver dollars from the 1800's but a few years ago most of them somehow were lost. I have a few somewhere.
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03-16-2009, 09:54 AM
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Re: Coins
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It's always good to say again!!
What do you think about the dollar? Do you think it will eventually collapse (regardless of the stock market and all the other economy stuff..)? |
Yes ma'am... I certainly do.
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03-16-2009, 10:08 AM
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Re: Coins
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This thread made me think of the book I just finished reading. The other day I stumbled across an old paperback mystery novel that I have no idea when or how I got.
It was titled "Loose Coins". The main characters were into coin collecting and one owned a coin shop in Memphis. It was a very entertaining book with very good development of the characters. It also sparked an old interest I had in coin collecting.
When I finished the book yesterday I did internet research on the authors (it had two strangely enough) to see if there were sequals to it (It had been written around 1998). Sadly I discovered that one of the authors died two years ago at the age of 81 and though he was a prolific science fiction writer this was the only mystery novel he had penned and there are no sequals. The co-authors had not written near as much and I don't see sequals from him either. Arghhh.
My mom had a boatload of silver dollars from the 1800's but a few years ago most of them somehow were lost. I have a few somewhere.
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I did a search on Joe L. Hensley. Most of what he wrote looks like mysteries and not science fiction. There are a number of them. I can get them for you if you are interested.
I found two more books by a Guy M. Townsend: To Prove a Villain and Rex Stout: an annotated primary and secondary bibliography (edited by Guy M. Townsend).
I did not find a sequel to Loose Coins.
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