Shame About The Roosevelt Silver Dimes

Once again, I am reminded of my excitement in getting a 1955-S:

Every week our teacher, after collecting our milk money, would call off the dates and mint marks and we kids had the opportunity to exchange another dime for the desired piece.
I RAN to the desk with my dime and made the exchange.
That was about 46 years ago or so.
Today, just another lump of silver for the melting pot.
SIGH ...
The dime is gone, but the memory remains.
10 cents a week for milk?

Lobby, I know what you mean. But unfortunately, as the others have pointed out, in circulated condition below AU, they really dont hold a premium over melt now. The high grade coins still do though. As bbradford, I am putting together an MS/Proof Dansco. Trust me, the MS coins hold a premium.

I can melt circulated Roosies and Kennedys. I have a hard time justifying melting anything older or any of the quarters. But thats just me. I had to turn in a bunch of Walkers and Bens for a lady whos collection I am selling on consignment. VACookey and I bought all of the ones we could afford to, but the rest went to the pot. We would have to be in truly dire straights to do that for ourselves.

Yeah but think about it, the coins are not that old and none had particularly a low mintage. Think about wheat cents from the 40's and 50's. Good thing these dimes are made out of silver, otherwise they would be worth 10 cents. I'm strictly talking about circulated coins by the way.

I have all the "Normal" issue dimes in BU and the proof Rosie's and silver proof Rosie's when they were issued. The Dansco album looks sweet regardless
of what it cost to complete. Also have several cameo's in the album as well. It is not what it can sell for when it is a hobby, your profit comes from
the enjoyment and stress relief when assembling the set.

Enjoy.

I'm with you M0nks. I completed mine a little while back and had a great time with it. I found most of the silver ones in the dime tub at the coin shop. They're not all in the greatest shape, but I'm having a good time upgrading them as I come along better grades at or near spot. I wouldn't mind doing another.

Does anyone have a set of silver Roosevelt dimes they want to sell?

I don't see it as a shame. I'm sure the original collector enjoyed completing the set.

Right now I'm working on nickel, clad dime, and clad quarter sets and having a good time roll hunting. However, I don't know what I will do with the sets once I'm done. For me the enjoyment is in the hunt. Maybe I'll buy a pizza with them and start over.