Am I The Only One That Keeps "Junk Silver" As Pieces Of Hist

with the huge rise in silver I sold $45 face of g - f wlh for $1500 then bought a really nice 09 s vdb. To me having a complete Lincoln Cent collection was just more important than the silver which I will just buy back when it hits $27 again

I have all the Kennedy halves I can stand so I sell any silver Kens that are less than BU (64-70) I keep all 1971's since these are one of the key dates in the run. Everything else, 1963 and older, has to be in very bad shape for me to let it go.

In effect, saving about 40% of the cost of the coin.

Well I am glad I am not alone. Actually with the voices in my head I'm never alone!

I save all of my "junk" for exactly the reason you stated...I love to think of what that coin has seen and where it's been in it's life. I started collecting when I was a kid in 1972, predominately because a girl I went to school with had got into her Grandfather's trunk of silver dollars and she was giving them out to her friends...It's a '21 Morgan, but still my favorite coin as it is the one that got this passion for our hobby started in me.

One mans Junk is another mans Gold :-)Couldn't resist.
I started with bags of silver coins. All pre 64 US coins. About 7-8oz a bag. Always a nice Morgan dollar inside. I'd sit their for hrs looking up the coin then reading about it. Then Try and find something hopefully some one missed. I got my first MS Morgan this way. Heck half of them are in Mylar/CB holders. Id practice writing the coin and description. It had to be perfect. I swear on more than a few of them I think I threw out more holders than the coin was worth that ended up in their. All cause my hand would shake or a line would come out funny. I love looking through them. Keeps that hunger alive. I think theirs Junkers in my DNA lol I can see the comments already on that one, lol A fellow Junker here and forever. I respect what reupman did and admit I fight that temtation all the time. Reup would love to see a pic. of that 1909 s vdb.

I've been saving junk silver coins since 1982.
I did part with one of them. I gave away a 1963-D Franklin half dollar as the prize in my DNA's 1100-post contest.

I've also bought a lot of modern (1992+) Silver Proof Sets at melt value for bullion. Even the humblest junk silver coin has "history" that Silver Proofs do not, which is why I'd sell my junk silver last, after I sold my bars, rounds, ASE's and Proofs (in that order!).

Well I saved a whole roll of UNC 1955 roosies several rolls of Buffalo nickles, mercs and Barber dimes. Plus I kept what I thought were the best of all the ones I was selling. Just felt I had to save some for future collectors. Just nothing like holding a coin that has been through so much and makes me think who last used it as pocket change, who used it when it was new, where had it been? Just gives me a tingle every time. It's almost like a time machine.