Who Hoarded Silver In The Late 1960's?

My Great-Grandmother was a coin collector, and although I have never seen her collection (my grandmother has it), I hear it has a LOT of 90% and 40% halves in tin cans that were pulled from circulation in the 60's.

CotW, I bet there is some REAL nice finds in that collection.
To answer the OP, I know many people immediately hoarded pre-1965 coins and most probably sold off during the Hunt Brothers price run up in 1979.

I collect siliver coins from circulation from the late 60's until 82. I had about a $1000 in face value. I made the mistake of showing my coin collection to anyone who came over to the house. I lost all my coins in a burglary in 82. I never collected again until I retired a couple of years ago because it was a painful lose. At the time my coin collection was worth more than my savings in the bank.

I remember working at my hs ticket booth in '66, halves just disappeared, everybody used 2 quarters.

My Father-in-law must have, when he passed last December I found out he had a hoard of coins he had pulled from circulation. Lots of Mercs and silver Roosevelts, many quarters, and about 60 1964 Kennedy halves. Probably hundreds of each of the mercs and Roosevelts. I sorted through them for rare dates, and 2x2'd the nicest of each date and turned his hoard into a collection for my Mother-in-law. Silver prices have been dropping since the time I sorted it, but it got me into collecting coins again. I remember my Dad telling me it was time to sell our silver coins in 1979, and we went to the local Holiday Inn, and I sold all the silver coins I had found from my paper route for I believe 10x face. I was 12 or 13 at the time, and I think we missed the peak, but I was happy as could be to get a dollar for each of my dimes!

I was pulling what I could, for a kid in the 60's.
I did end up with a jar full, that I sold in the Hunt
brothers boom.

I started putting silver away, on a bigger scale in
the mid 80's. In the 80's I was doing roll hunting
and heavy into metal detecting. A local dealer would
take our dirty dug clad coins, for purchasing junk
90% at 3 to 4 times face. Plus there were organized
club hunts where I found hundreds of silver coins
per hunt. One hunt, treasure week in Indiana, I would
get 1000 to 1500 silver coins (mostly dimes) each time
I went.

When silver went up in 2010 - 2011, I sold a lot of that
silver to purchase the gold coins for my 7070 gold page.

Now I am back to putting more silver away.

One more silver coin story, I worked at a theatre in the early 70's as an assistant manager. We used half dollars as change when tickets were purchased. I was making up the cashier bank and I opened a roll of half dollars, and in the end of the roll was the most beautiful Franklin half that I had every seen. I had never seen any coin look like the half dollar with many different bright colors. I did not know why the coin was toned, so I looked at the paper roll and realized the paper caused the toning only on the obverse side. At that time, I had never heard the term rainbow toning. I bought the coin and took it home and put it into a cardboard flip. This was one of the coins that I lost in the 1982 burglary.