Grandpa's Penny Jar

When my uncle gave me the 8 silver quarters and like 5 silver dimes he didn't hand them to me. He put them inside a container mixed with other coins and had me search them. I' not sure if he knew they were silver or they got put in by him finding them in change. But he told me to keep them.

i told my dad about how you ended up with some old bottles of pennies and my dad told me that when he was younger him and my grandpa would check all of their change for wheat pennies and toss them in a bucket. I asked him why he and my grandpa did and he just said that my grandpa liked the way they looked and that he never collected coins though. at the time of my grandpas death he had a 5 gallon drum of just wheat pennies but somehow or another it disappeared. now every time I think about it I think about all the 1909s-vdb, 1914-d and any others that could have been in there along with any errors and it makes me sad :(