Last year, I found a 1943 Mercury dime in my change.
I received it as part of my change from a cashier in the garden section of a WalMart here in Maine.
As a kid, I used to find MANY Mercury dimes while going through my mother’s pocketbook and the change in my father’s pockets (with their permission). Also pre-1965 90% silver Roosevelt dimes, Washington quarters, an occasional Standing Liberty quarter dollar, 40% silver war time Jefferson nickels, Buffalo nickels, wheat pennies, 1943 steel Lincoln pennies, etc.
My father and I sold all the silver coins, and all silver half dollars and Morgan silver dollars, when silver reached $50 an ounce in 1980.
I even sold back then a roll of uncirculated 1963 Washington quarter dollars in a clear plastic tube that my father bought for me at a business called “The Trading Post” on Long Island.
My great grandmother (1886-1966) saved silver coins for her yet to born great grandchildren. I ended up with a gallon ziplock bag of silver dollars and half dollars. I still find silver coins but you have to know how to listen for them. They make a distictive clinking noise when jingled with other coins.