Silver Washington At The Restaurant Today

Many coin/bullion Internet dealers allow you to save money by sending MO, instead of making electronic credit payment, which costs like most everything else, an I think the higher the cost, the higher the charge. Could be wrong on that....

I am impatient, but if I can make that type of substantial saving, no problem to wait....

Most would charge a bit over spot, and you got for 30 less, which probably translates to a 1 oz. silver round....

I am not surprised people are still spending silver. Let's face it, when you watch shows on TV where so many people on the street, randomly picked, cannot even tell you who the Father of our Country is, do we really expect them to take the time to research when silver coins were made (if they even know that today's coins are not silver)?

well you have to think now that the past generations that are passing away and leaving their collections to kids and grand kids t hat have no clue what they are take the "known" Washington quarters and halves and use them as currency because grandpa had $50 in quarters in his collection....easy money for a highschool or college kid thats starving for money....little do they know that $50 in quarters is worth over $300.......
I am saying this because my grandfather just recently passed and left me his collection....im 22 and if I was not apart of this site and had interest in coins I woulda had no clue that his dimes and quarters were 90% silver......the fact that you are finding them in circulation could be due to the "original collectors" passing there collections down to the next generation that is not preserving the history!

When I was a kid in the sixties a quarter was worth five packs of baseball cards, five candy bars, five packs of gum, two comic books, etc. At that time in history I hate to think how many silver coins I spent. A Mantle card was worth way more to me than precious metals. Live and learn.

A quarter had a lot of buying power in the past. Inflation has killed it. What can you buy for a quarter nowadays?

I took my 5 year old to Target to buy him a little treat for some good behavior. We have a little star chart and when he accumulates some stars he can pick something out. I told him he could have anything he wants for $2 or less. As we're wandering up and down the toy aisle there is hardly anything less than $2! Hotwheels and Matchbox cars were $1.09 but after that the next cheapest thing was $2.99. Most toys were between $3 and $15. That was the sweet spot. And this is all just cheap Chinese made stuff! He's not into cars and I didn't want him to feel like I was punishing him for tempting him and having him walk out with something he didn't like. I ended up bumping the limit up to $10 so he could get a set of Squinkies (Google them).

I know I could have kept the limit at $2 since that is what I told him before we entered the store. Tough luck, right? But it was also my own fault for being naive thinking that a dollar could buy something. He's been enjoying the Squinkies and he's been narrating stories to me about who is doing what. His imagination has been running wild with these things. So I suppose it was a worthy toy purchase.

Still, I can't help but cringe from realizing what inflation has done to our money and buying power. Soon we won't have coins in sub-dollar ranges. We'll just have dollars.

-- Boris

Heck, if you watch the Mr. Chung show, 90% of the women cannot even tell you who the Father of their own Kid is.

In fairness, most of them can narrow the choice down to the football team or basketball squad, and a few don't have to come back more than a half dozen times to find a match.

There's a big difference between "in circulation" and "returned to circulation".

A 1941 dime found in change has not been "in circulation" and no one noticed it for 70 years. A far more likely scenario is it was removed from circulation 40+ years ago, and was "returned to circulation" by someone who either inherited or stole it, and wanted nicotine, alcohol, gas or food more than "a bunch of old coins".

True enough, Fred, but then, circulation IS circulation. If that dime is not circulating at all, then it will never be found as change.

I do know what you mean about coins that have been in a collection for many years and then are inherited or stolen by someone who knows or cares squat about them, other than as pocket money.