Junk Silver

I'll betcha there are no scarce types, dates, varieties or examples in better condition for date in the junk silver you may buy. Each coin that you buy in this category has been assigned to the junk bin after careful examination by a collector or dealer, somewhere sometime, on the basis of the above criteria.

That does not stop an accumulation of such coins from being interesting, however. I collect World coins, with finensss ranging from .250 to .925, and the variety in the accumulation makes it fun to review occasionally.

Almost all of my accumulation are left overs from job lots, which originally included coins of ALL metals. I have about 200 pieces of junk silver, accumulated over many years, the ASW would be around 25 ounces.

I don't specifically go looking for junk silver or bullion.

There are a lot of "junk looking" early US silver and copper coins that are getting good prices now.
Who knows what our so called junk will be worth in a few decades.
I presume that there will be a larger collector base with only a limited supply of old coins to go around in the decades to come

If you take a spin through the prices shown here http://www.coinsandcanada.com/coins-prices.php you'll see which ones have additional numismatic value (they stand out as having higher prices at the lower grades) and be able to check if you have any of them. You'll see that most of them have to be at least VG8 to have value higher than spot with only a couple of exceptions (1927 & 1936 particularly). Remember, those prior to 1920 are sterling .925 silver and those 1920 and later are 80% silver. Also, with the Mint's Alloy Recovery Program running (that I saw mentioned in another thread) these might start to become rarer over the years.