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Posted 07/10/2023 1:05 pm
Not entirely on topic, but... in the late '70s (my late teens) my mother had roughly a quart-sized baggie full of silver dimes, quarters, halves and dollars. As I recall, the dollars (Morgan & Peace) were older than the rest, which were mostly from the later days of U.S. silver coins (i.e., lots of 1964s). I only recall seeing Washington quarters and Kennedy halves; there may or may not have been Mercury dimes.
Supposedly the bulk of these coins came from my paternal grandparents. I'm not sure how my mother got them, given that my father had been out of our lives for some time. But I know my grandparents couldn't have collected all of them, since they both died in early 1963 while silver coins were still being made. So I'm not sure who actually pulled all of the relatively recent coins (particularly the 1964s) out of circulation.
At any rate, we decided to sell the whole bag in late 1979 or early 1980, around the time silver prices shot way up. (Until I read this thread today, I'd never heard of the Hunt brothers.) I recall one day in particular when I tried going to various coin stores, and all of them were closed due to the crazy circumstances at the time. Eventually we did get them sold, although I don't know where or for how much. But I soon ended up losing a similar amount of money anyway, in an unrelated situation.
I now wish I'd kept the coins, of course -- the non-duplicate ones, anyway.
Supposedly the bulk of these coins came from my paternal grandparents. I'm not sure how my mother got them, given that my father had been out of our lives for some time. But I know my grandparents couldn't have collected all of them, since they both died in early 1963 while silver coins were still being made. So I'm not sure who actually pulled all of the relatively recent coins (particularly the 1964s) out of circulation.
At any rate, we decided to sell the whole bag in late 1979 or early 1980, around the time silver prices shot way up. (Until I read this thread today, I'd never heard of the Hunt brothers.) I recall one day in particular when I tried going to various coin stores, and all of them were closed due to the crazy circumstances at the time. Eventually we did get them sold, although I don't know where or for how much. But I soon ended up losing a similar amount of money anyway, in an unrelated situation.
I now wish I'd kept the coins, of course -- the non-duplicate ones, anyway.
