“I long for the time when if I had a couple silver quarters and a couple silver dimes
in my pocket, I felt like a rich man. But then came Lyndon Johnson. I spit on his grave.”
You used to occasionally still receive silver dimes in change. My mother managed a retail clothing store until retirement and she would “buy” any silver from the change drawer. Now the only time you might see silver is when some idiot robs his grandma or neighbor and spends it to buy a pack of Newport and the clerk is clueless about its value. The last time I received a silver dime in change was about 10 years ago.
“You used to occasionally still receive silver dimes in change.”
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My supermarket installed machines to convert one’s loose change to paper money. (Less a “fee”).
I sadly watched as thousands of unexamined silver-colored coins were fed into that great maw.
:(
Silver coins are rare in pocket change but copper pennies are common.
Pre 1982 copper pennies are worth 2 1/2 cents each for the copper value!
Once in a while I would come across a silver nickel minted during WWII. But that ended between 5 to 10 years ago when the bank wouldn’t have any rolls of coins to hand out.