First silver CRH find

[cuag]

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.

[fansubs_ca]

but it turned out to be a 1973 Canadian dime.

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

[shinnosuke]

Can you show us a picture of that German coin?

[cuag]

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.

[OneBiteAtATime]

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

[cuag]

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.

[psi]

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.

[wpd7]

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