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I've been casually sorting pennies and halves, quarters, and dimes for a year or so. Today I picked up 10 rolls of dimes and 10 rolls of quarters, $150, bank rolled (the place has their own machine and rerolls the customers' coins). Halfway through the quarters I found a 1901 1 Deutsch Mark, .1606 oz. Has some odd toning that looks like 2 other quarter-sized coins had been sitting on top of it, giving it 2 small half-moons. I'm a big collector of Reichsmarks when I can get them close to melt, so this will fit in nicely. I thought I hit a double when I spotted a silver edge on a dime, but it turned out to be a 1973 Canadian dime.

cuag wrote:but it turned out to be a 1973 Canadian dime.

Well, it was breifly over melt when Nickel got over $25/lb. ^_^

Can you show us a picture of that German coin?

Here are the pics, as you can see in the first pic, the tarnish exists exactly in the radius of another quarter or similar-sized coin covering up most of the coin.

Wow! It's in wonderful shape! What do you think the chances are of your first CRH find being foreign!?!?

I didn't think much until I saw the year. I'm guessing someone just thought it was some random foreign coin and tossed it in there thinking 25 cents is better than 1 Mark.

A psuedo "silver in the wild" story I have is an encounter in an antique mall. I heard a lady come in and loudly proclaim to the cashier that she received a silver quarter in change from the McDonald's drive-thru and it was worth $2. (This was several months ago, when silver was in the high $30s). I was in the middle of looking at some coins but ran into her later when she was paying for something. I said I couldn't help but hear that she found a silver quarter and that I would buy it from her for $4 ($2 more than what she thought, about $2 less than melt). She looked at me like I was trying to scam her and said "why, are you just going to turn around and sell it", thinking I was the coin vendor. I said "no, I'm a customer and collect them." She pulled it out right there and I gave her $4 cash and her old man that was with her said "wow, they must have really gone up from what I remember." She was happy that I (or McDonalds) pretty much paid for her breakfast and I was happy for getting a good deal. It was a 50's Washington that looked nice. It made me realize that #1 silver quarters are still out there, and #2 elders are still educating the younger about silver coinage. I just wonder which of the two caught that it was a silver quarter first and how that took place.

Great looking coin. I have yet to find silver in a quarter roll but I have pretty much given up looking. Aside from lucky breaks it must take a lot of volume sorted to find much silver in quarter rolls.

All my silver quarters have been spotted at the teller's till..... Tried some CRH on them but all have been skunks so far.