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Valued Member
United States
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I am in high school, and a few weeks ago I heard a guy jingling his change, and I heard silver. He opened his hand when I walked over and there was a 1959 and a 1961. I traded them for face value but felt bad later and asked if he wanted me to pay him, but he said it was fine. The coins were in really good condition.
A week later I pressed the coin return button on the vending machine near school and I got a 1962 quarter, pretty beat up.
Today, I got another silver quarter, this time a 1964 D, from the vending machine. My friend and I were getting a snack and so I let him keep the coin due to a coin toss.
I was just wondering, is this normal? How common are silver quarters? I know for a fact that they're almost impossible to get in rolls, but how often do things like this happen?
Still, 4 silver quarters is really good. I think there must have been an entire roll of silver quarters at the cafeteria; the kid with the 2 said he got them there.
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Rest in Peace
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Yes, that is quite unusual to find that much in such an in closed area in the short time! Lucky you! Does sound like someone dumped a roll in the kitty...inquire and see if school is the one who fills machines or if its as private vendor...you may get permission to look at their source!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's pretty darned good luck!
I'm jealous
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Valued Member
United States
338 Posts |
Sounds like somebody my have got into a box of coins not realizing what they were spending. I had a friend of mine do the same thing with Franklin halves. His mother was not very happy when she made the discovery. |
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Valued Member
 United States
186 Posts |
The school fills the vending machine. I see them every week filling it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4809 Posts |
Not uncommon to hit a streak like that. Over the years, I've hit for silver coinage (nickels, dimes, quarters). I would get $5 in change from the machine on occasions where I would hit streaks. It'll dry up soon enough though. So work the machines for the next few days. Always work it so you get the change you are finding keepers in. Good luck!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Super Congrats! You are on a lucky streak!
Not much silver out there in the wild these days.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I hate to say it, but I'd lay odds the coins were stolen from somebody's house or his/her own parents. It's high school. For a cluster of them to show up there, is a red flag. My house was broken into quite a while ago and they stole mostly my stereo, CDs, my quarters jar and a pile of foreign coins. Kids see money and they think _money_, not "collectibles". How well do you know the kid that had two of them? I got a silver quarter in change about a year ago and it was the first time in 30+ years. It's rare. Somebody dropping a roll of silver into the vending machine to me is highly unlikely.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Sounds like a silver quarter dump was made at your school .keep checking those vending machines and when the person collecting lunch money is idle ask if they have any silver coins in their coin draw that you can swap for regular change . |
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Valued Member
United States
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I have heard of occasional full rolls of silver quarters. Perhaps at the cafeteria, the cashiers got one without knowing. The kid who had the silver in his change had it because he got it from the cafeteria. I think the change from the cafeteria spread out, and two did end up in the vending machine.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I used to think it would be highly unlikely but a story like yours shows up here once in awhile....so, maybe they were stolen but maybe not. I know a lot of us kept little boxes of old coins long before we became collectors. And even now, if someone in my family suddenly inherited all my stuff, I'm pretty sure that a lot of what I've collected would end up in circulation. I'm going to guess -- just going by the dates, that someone started setting aside silver quarters in the late 60's. It probably wasn't an organized collection -- and to a non-collector it was just a jar of quarters which were then sent back into the wild. |
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United States
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 United States
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Nice finds! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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As the silver hunters here will tell you, folks cash in their silver willfully and occasionally, the tellers here will relate that some folks come into the bank to dump their silver under suspicion. If the teller doesn't snag the silver for themselves or if it's dumped into a counter, it'll go out to be processed and rolled. Rolls make their ways back out into circulation and if the vending guy buys a bunch of these rolls to stuff the return change caches or the change machine, then folks like us stand a chance of hitting these pockets of fun.
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United States
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The school fills the vending machine. I see them every week filling it. It sounds like the vending company might be the source of the coins. The quarters distributed in change from these machines are in a separate canister that is loaded by the company. Next time you see the school filling the machine ask if they empty the coins and fill the coin return canister. Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Posted 02/13/2017 8:59 pm
