Are there such coincidences? Hmmmm.

You know, that is SOOO remarkable.

Living many miles away, I got a coin that sounded different when I emptied my pocket -- and I know that sound -- it's SILVER. Sure enough, it was a 1964 Washington Quarter!

What are the chances that we'd both get one of those in the same week?

Wow!

It's been a while since I got one too -- usually I am more likely to get a silver Kennedy Half (mostly because I go get ROLLS of half dollars from the bank and search them for silvers or even the 40% silver ones), and then just either spend the rest, use them as partial tips in restaurants, or return them -- they are money after all.

Then, I roll the rest -- they are SILVER after all, nabbed for face value! How do you go wrong?!?! I can't TRULY bear the idea of melting handsome Kennedy coins, but if silver ever rose again to the 1980 level, I'd be melting coins like crazy.

Going back to pre-Y2K scare, I remember silver was relatively cheap, and I bought bags of relatively inexpensive 90% (coin-silver) coins for what was at the time probably expensive, but in retrospect seems like a super-bargain. The receipt is with the bags of coins, which weigh several pounds each in one of my safe deposit boxes, but basically we're talking a few pounds of silver each, and I admit I picked out a few coins which were BLATANTLY worth more than their melt value, a few sharper Morgans and Franklin Halves, even a sharp Kennedy Half or two from 1964.

Mostly though, the coins are really better for melt I suspect, even at today's prices I would do far better than what I paid.

However, I'd like to see silver much higher before I said farewell to coins which are truly treasures - I mean there are such old beauties in there, barber halves, quarters, etc. Mercury and Roosevelt Times, Washington Quarters, the works. I hate to destroy anything numismatic, but if the price is right, how can I resist?

In the meantime, I will treasure hunt for SILVER with the rest of them!