Found Silver...

[alabamadan]

Well Today I found my first silver coins thanks to this forum. I went to the bank and got four rolls of nickles and found 11 nickles from 1964 or older. That's silver right! I found:

1964
1946
1964
1961
1964
1964
1941
1964
1964
1954
1964

No mint marks on them at all.

 

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[KevGA]

Could be wrong on this as I'm still learning coinage, but I believe that date reference only works for dimes and quarters. I think the only nicklels that contained silver are the war time ones from 1942-1945.

 

[coinshtr]

KEVFL is correct. Even those years (42-45) contained only 35% silver.

 

[gregl01]

Sorry Dan- Kev is right on this one. No silver in that batch of nickels. Keep trying though, I recently bought a couple rolls of halves an ended up with 9 silvers. They're still out there, in the ground or not!!! LOL
HH all
Greg

 

[MDnoob]

The easiest way to get silver from the bank is in rolls of halves. You can tell silver nickels because they have a huge mint mark above Monticello. And they are usually a weird dark color.

 

[alabamadan]

Dang!

Is that why they're called nickle.

Still it's cool to have found such old ones. I was looking for this supposed "new" nickle.

 

[Emperor Findus Cladius]

The "supposed" new nickel is out there, I have received two in change. All of the above posts are correct on the metal content, but personally I do save any nickels from 1955 and before. There were over 1 billion (yes, that is billion, not million) 1964 nickels made, so there really is not any use in saving those.

 

[rvbvetter]

For some reason, that escapes me now. I started saving older date nickles years ago from my change. In the casinos i'd sometimes play the nickle machines, just to pick out the older ones.
HH