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Yep, silver's pretty important to a lot of industries. I don't know if I'll go out and actively buy any junk silver but if any gets in my path, I'll pick some up. I think I'll do the bank route with getting a roll (or whatever they have) for half dollars and if they have any Ike dollars (may be easier to pick up the 40% coins than the 90% ones...).

Here's some links to people who occasionally or actively seek junk silver:

5 ways to find old silver
http://cointrackers.com/blog/5-ways-to- ... nk-silver/

Some comments off of a forum I stumbled into:

Re: How likely am I to find junk silver coins in circulation?
Here's the secret, go into a bank perferably one in a snaller town and buy $100 worth of halves and dollars (coins,not the new ones!) and search, the bank will love you as they hate storing them. The great thing it costs you nothing (Spend the reg. coins on gas or something you would anyway) The rewards can be awesome, my boys and I do this and we have found some great coins over the years

Those ripoff "coinstar"/coin counting machines at grocery stores reject silver and foreign coins as do toll boths(save up enough Canadian coins and then trade them in as they are worth more than our $ now). look in the reject slot of these machines. I get maybe 5-10 junk silver coins a year this way usually quarters and dimes. I did find a barely readable 1810 or so US dime coin book valued a few years ago at $14 or so, but those values are high anyway.

I work in a bank and we get rolled coin by the box. I find, on average, 3 - 5 silver quarters or dimes per box. Some boxes contain more some none at all. Luckily the rolls within these boxes are clear plasic and you can see the silver coins among the clads. I just replace the silver coin I find with a clad coin from my pocket change. I've accumulated quite a nice silver stash over the past couple of years.

Recently I found silver half from local banks. One bank has $40 and I exchanged it. When I get home I found 12 silver half. 1 was 1964 Kennedy and 1 was 1962 half. The rest were from 1965 - 1969. After this I went few other banks and in 1 week I fount total of 45 silver halfs. (Kennedy halves from 1965-1970 and Eisenhower dollars 1971-1976 are 40% silver)


Some advice about buying silver content coins on ebay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1m8lDrK-4Q

I enjoyed watching this guy’s adventures for about two weeks but now it seems he does larger wheeling and dealing and not as much making deals at rummage sales…

Swamp surely you ain't forgetting the little bad boys who steal a roll from grandpa in order to buy a package of whatever. I'm sure that is the only way to find a full roll of silver coins now without buying them at 15 times face value.

PC, I hear all you are doing and do it some myself. Donny is the silver magnet for coins and it's actually amazing to me how many he finds in a year. ffAbout 10 years ago, dad bought a couple 9 drawer metal filing cabinets at an auction in the city[we use them for tools, antiques and small stuff]. Under the bottom drawer[we took the drawers out to move them easier] was a hidey hole with a bunch of old money. That was like finding a buried pirates treasure chest. Another place I'm always looking for silver is in the kitchen implements at fleamarkets/auctions. Sterling silver is .925 silver and old spoons, knives, forks and tea servings can be found sometimes.

Interesting. I wonder if those pointy ends would hurt carrying around in your pocket comapred to a standard round coin (then again, were these things ever used??)