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United States
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I know which dates and coins to look for in American change, but what about other countries?  Just as some examples, let's say Canadian, Netherlands, English, Irish, and any other countries you might see while collecting. Also, do most of you keep all of your junk silver from your own country and around the world separated from the others coins in your collection? Thanks!  |
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Sweden
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Heyhey, I can be helpful!
UK, threepence and higher pre-1947 are 50% silver. Threepences were made oth of silver and nickel-brass simultainiously. Anything pre -1920 UK and Canada (also including most of the commonwealth, Australia is one exception whereas New Zealand is not and it followed the british silver standard entirely) is 92.5% silver.
Netherlands: pre-1942 10- and 25 cent coins are 64% silver. 1 and 2 1/2 Gulden coins were made in 72% silver up until 1967. Sometime in the 1920s the change from 94.5% to 72% silver was made but I can't recall the date without looking it up. The coin types are different though.
Sweden (yay): Silver coins exist in circulation. Untill 1942 80% silver 1- and 2 krona were reduced to 40% silver untill the abolishment of silver in 1966 (2 kr) and 1968 (1 kr), the latter possible to see in circulation. 10, 25 and 50 öre coins were made in 40% silver until 1962 (except from some 10 öre coins that were minted in silver that year) 25 and 50 öre coins from pre-1942 contain 60% silver.
Austria: Austrian 5- and 10 schilling coins were made in 64% silver. The 5 schilling was changed into copper-nickel in 1968 and the 10 schilling in 1973.
Any Swiss Frank coin (not Rappen) were made in 83.5% silver up to 1967 (exept from the 5 Fr coin that was made in silver untill 1967 and for the last time in 1968.
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07/11/2015 6:31 pm
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 United States
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Sweden
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Secondly, yes. I keep my country's silver coins apart from other countries, mostly because I have an old coin- change maker that fits most of my country's silver coins. Great way to stack them.
I used to have older silver Danish coins in there too (same sizes), but I eventually sorted them out. The Danish silvers are all pre-1920 and are pretty uncommon for the casual silver stacker outside of Denmark
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Canada
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Australian coins up to '63 where half silver and prier to '45 sterling.
I always thought since silver is fungible a bunch of CCF members should get together and trade world silver for domestic silver. Makes for cooler silver hoarding.
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Australia
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Mexico: Bimetallic 10 and 20 neuvo pesos coins 1992 to 1995.
They had a .925 sterling silver core, with a aluminium bronze outer ring.
A total of 105 million 10NP, and a a total of 33 million 20 NP were released into circulation, but after a few years, I suspect that the experiment was a failure. I doubt if ANY silver cored 10 and 20 NP's are in circulation today.
The last silver coin before that to be released into circulation was the 5 Marks of Germany, 1974.
After that, you could still freely obtain later date silver 5 marks from most banks, but I suspect that they could only be obtained at their current silver value, plus a small premium.
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Australia
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-For Canada:
1919 or earlier - sterling silver (92.5%)
1920-1966 - 80% - I like these a lot
1967 - some 80%, some 50%
1968 - some 50%
Additonal info for Australia:
1966 50 cent coin was 80% (one year only) - cool coin
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07/11/2015 11:38 pm
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If the aim of the question was, "found in change", rather than "found in coin dealer junk boxes", then the usual answer given to this is this: the only three countries where you have even a remote chance of finding silver coins in change are America, Canada and Switzerland, because everywhere else has undergone a major currency reform since the worldwide removal of silver coinage in the 1960s. And the banks in both Canada and Switzerland have actively assisted in filtering out and returning to the mint any surviving silver. CRHing for silver in, say, Australia, is futile because there simply is no silver to find. Predecimal coins were silver, but these look so odd and unusual compared to modern Austalian coins that any that were to be accidentally spent would be snaffled up straight away. The 1966 50 cent piece was also silver but it too being a different shape to the current 50˘ coin would stand out like a sore thumb. Quote:
Also, do most of you keep all of your junk silver from your own country and around the world separated from the others coins in your collection? No. My coin collection is sorted by country, denomination then date. Composition is irrelevant. "Reading" through my coin albums, I have silver and gold coins sitting next to common copper and steel coins. This is for the coins "in my collection". Any duplicates I obtain are disposed of. I don't own a stash of "junk silver". Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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United States
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There are some great responses here. All I have to add is if you can get a good deal on a lot of coins, buy them! I used to buy several hundred coins at a time, on rare occasions over 1,000 from the "junk pile/box" of coin stores. I found treasures you can't imagine, and one of the coins easily paid for my investment 10 times over. Coin dealers are people like anyone else - they make mistakes, too.
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Canada
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the only three countries where you have even a remote chance of finding silver coins in change are America, Canada and Switzerland I think you might be able to add Sweden to this short list (and maybe Japan, with its same-size silver 100 yen?) - today's 1 krona coin is the same size as the earlier silver issues. But all this will change very soon because Sweden is currently planning a comprehensive currency reform. |
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Sweden
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I wouldn't say Sweden is tje better place to find silver in circulation. Switzerland would be the best with 4 circulating denominations issued in silver. US and canada have both the dime and quarter (and if you count the less circulating half and one dollar coins). The trick with most places is that there's just been a composition change from silver to some nickel alloy, but no design change, unlike Japan. I can obviously be corrected on this point from someone with experience
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United Kingdom
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Yes, the US, Canada & Switzerland seem the only place you would be likely to find silver in circulation because of the lack of design changes. I'm very envious of those countries able to coin roll hunt for the possibility of silver.
In the UK the last chance we would theoretically have had was 1992 when old Florins & Shillings were still circulating and accepted alongside 5 & 10 pences.
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Canada
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I rarely find silver coins in Canada when roll hunting but last week picked up ten rolls each of quarters, dimes, and nickels (of course no silver in the nickel rolls!). Nothing in the quarter rolls but one roll of dimes had 15 silver coins from 1952 - 1967. I upgraded a couple coins for my collection as did my son and the others I set aside - probably will trade with a dealer to get something I need. This does not happen often Someone must have just taken some old coins to a bank.
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