Silver US Coins Pocket Change: Valuable Silver In Your Pockets

[ReUsedCorn]

funny flip @ 2:49 to 2:52 ...lol green funny money...lol

[pennyondime95]

What is the odds of finding a major double denomination error in circulation? Like the one I got.Please you can check it out my handle the video of my coin error 1995 Double Denomination.Thanks.

[digger9million]

thanks, this was useful and concise, I just wish you'd said the weight of the coins of better still the actual weight in silver, but i liked it all the same.

[BeanMeister22]

@digger9million Thanks, and yes I just used the silver weight because even though I am a coin collector, I wanted people to just think about the amount of precious metals that are in the coins they find.

[pennyondime95]

It is for real some peoples is paying their tab with old coins in a restaurant or any Fast Foof/ store establishment. That's all.

[BeanMeister22]

@pennyondime95 Over the years, I have also found a lot of old coins in my change from candy machines or soda machines; I found my first Buffalo Nickel that way.

[19Lyds]

Your Eisenhower Reference is a little incorrect. The coins were minted from 1971 through 1978, The coins which had Silver contained 40% Silver and not 45% Silver. The coin you display appears to be a 1974-D Eisenhower which had no silver at all.

Nice informative video though. Thanks!

[BeanMeister22]

@19Lyds Yeah, I grabbed the wrong Eisenhower coin when I was filming this and I didn't notice what I had done until I was editing the video. I considered removing that part as I didn't have the time to redo it, but I decided to leave it in, just to see how many people would notice it; a lot of people have noticed it :)

Also, some of the most negative comments this video gets, is people who say that I'm lying and that you can't find silver coins anymore; I found 2 silver dimes just yesterday.

[SSchus87]

You should inform everyone that NOT ALL OF THE the Eisenhower dollars have silver in them. MOST DON'T. Only the special ones that were minted at the San Francisco Mint are. 99% of all Eisenhower dollars are 91.67% copper, 8.33% nickel and are only worth $1.00. Please get your information correct if you are going to pretend to be providing a service to people.

[BeanMeister22]

@SSchus87 I don't really pretend to provide a service to anyone, I just make videos about things I like, such as: coins, slot machines, Bigfoot, ghosts, RC helicopters, LEGO toys, cats, spiders, pranks, gators, zombies, arrow heads and various ancient artifacts that I pick up at auction. This video is mainly about finding old silver coins in your every day pocket change, and one or two errors has no bearing on the fact that there are still silver coins out there in circulation.

[kaosleeroy108]

some of you facts are off.. , you dont find silver in your change rarely u do..

[BeanMeister22]

@kaosleeroy108 Yes, one of my coin facts is wrong because I grabbed the wrong coin when I was filming this, but you are wrong if you think that there are not a lot of silver coins still out there in ciculation. Yesterday I fould 2 old Canadian silver dimes in my change from Taco Bell. Most old coins I find come from fast food places, or even from change in candy or soda machines. Also, the rare thing is to find an old coin in good condition in pocket change, mostly they have a lot of wear.

[BeanMeister22]

@Goldenchild795 If you work at a store or fast food joint, you will see silver coins come through everyday.

[komonstertruck]

The prices that were mentioned are about double now

[paulypaulification]

Now your talking!!!! Sorry for my anger but I was at a bank trying to buy some halves today and the guy at the teller beside me was already getting them all so I got to talking to him and he learned rite here on YouTube!!!!! He had no silver out of 22 rolls so I guess it was yet another coin roll hunters drop off bank. This was once a well kept secret and was my livelyhood. Now I'm lucky to cover my gas money and ordering boxes is just a joke.

[marc0987654321]

Nah, I always throw out all of my silver 90% coins in my pocket change. I find myself keeping ONLY silver maples and Kruggerands, that I get back in my pocket change. What? You too??

[chychy1]

whos the girl in the beginning ?

[ALPHATHEAWESOME]

wat mint mark is dat 1974 ike. and ikes r 40% silver not 45%

[coincollector121]

yeah right,who gave u those in change, i mean you never even get half dollars

in change let alone a walking liberty half...

[TheUncleBastard]

B.S. no one gave you a walking liberty in your change

[BeanMeister22]

@TheUncleBastard Your name says it all; don't stop here, just keep on moving. And it's not BS, hell at some fast food joints I occasionally get foreign coins that are similar in size to US coins; and I don't just mean Canadian coins.

[MrJsowa]

@BeanMeister22 yup i found a european coin(not sure where from as alot of coins have elizibeth the 2nd on em)in my pocket change smae size as a nickel.cool thing is its from 1932 so.....score

[BeanMeister22]

@MrJsowa Nice! I think some people don't believe me when I talk about this, because they just don't pay attention to the coins they get; which is good because it leaves them in circulation for those of us who do. Yesterday I found 2 old Canadian dimes in my changes, and last week a friend of mine found a coin the size of a US Quarter and it was from some small South Pacfic island chain; he put it into the candy machine before I could get a good look at it...drats!

[thebest345653101]

i have two kenedy half dollars both were made in 1972 do u no how much they are worth

[BeanMeister22]

@thebest345653101 Some of those half dollars are silver proofs, and some are not made of silver, so it all depends on if you have the silvers ones or not. Also silver prices dropped about 25% the other day, so you need do a online search for the current price of silver.

[inkey2]

yeah, WATCH YOUR CHANGE......I got a beautiful 1963, 90% silver coin in my change 2 weeks ago......also, this is a real mind blower.....I went to my local bank and asked for twenty 10 dollar bills about a month ago.....about 10 of those bills were the old 1934 series billls....out of those ten 6 of them were like btand new, Some old person must have been hoarding them. The rare coins and bills are definately out there.....you just have to look at ALL your money

[BeanMeister22]

@inkey2 Those are a couple of nice finds. Also, it's a good idea for people to keep an eye out for star notes, and if they are really bored, notes with serial numbers that stand out such as radar notes or just really neat looking numbers. I found a $5 bill that was a star note, and I sold it for $20.

[inkey2]

@BeanMeister22 yes, I know about star notes....i got a 1999 series 100 dollar bill that was a star note not long ago.........i'll tell you another good find. About 5 years ago I went into a CVS Pharmacy (a chain of pharmacies in massachusetts). I got some one dollar bills in my change. One of them was a very obvious printing mistake. The paper must have folded over on the edge during printing. It was like new too. I sold it on ebay for about 80 bucks

[zekehooper]

I was wondering if collecting the bicentinial 1976 kennedy half's are worth anything?

[ROYNEPTUNE]

Ike dollar...minted 1971-1978

[paulypaulification]

That Ike dollar is not silver!!!! Ones from San Fransisco mint are but that bone is not!!!! He doesn't know what he is talking about,ha,ha

[Decoy8]

@paulypaulification Maybe there would be more clad out of circulation and more silver in circulation if people stopped telling others the difference.

[Acontador13]

washington quarters 1932-1964.......90% silver ?

[xshuvelfacex]

i thought the ike dollar was clad , only worth a dollar , but i heard some were silver , that one looked not silver though , sorry i know my coins

[BeanMeister22]

@xshuvelfacex Yes, there is a clad version of this coin also 92% copper and 8% nickel. I had this one looked at, and it turned out to have been originally a silver uncirculated coin, that made it into circulation. I didn't think the coin looked silver either; maybe it is just the lighting. If you watch any of my videos with my Russian gold coin, because it was in circulation, it does not even look like gold to me.

[anmoose]

Good points. Silver coins were once actually silver, and now they're not.  But with the older ones, including a few of those you flashed, it's a REAL good idea to look up their collectible value before you melt them. You could get $6.50 out of a thousand dollar coin...

[BeanMeister22]

@anmoose You are right about that, and I would certainly check them before I sold them. I only talked about melt value to show people that you do not have to be rich to collect silver coins, in fact I found a 1944 nickel today, 35% silver and worth about a buck.

[anmoose]

@BeanMeister22,

That's the important factor, Jim. They don't have to be collectibles. An investment of just one buck in those 44 nickles, even with their lower silver content, is a guaranteed return of no less than 20 bucks. That's a helluva profit margin, and it's a "worst case."

[gtq838]

@BeanMeister22 problem is nobody wants to melt silver nickels the percentage is too low they don't like to mess with anything less than 70%

[ahmonrah40]

@BeanMeister22 and that buck is a good return for a 5cent piece!

[WORRO01]

I always chck my pocket change, and have found some nice old coins that way. Great info vid here, thanks for sharing!

THUMBS up!

[BeanMeister22]

@WORRO01 Thanks man.

I made these two pocket change videos because I had been getting a lot of push-back from a few people who said that collecting gold and silver was just a paranoid scam developed by rich people and driven by FOX news. According to them, there is no reason for normal people to own precious metals, except to make rich people richer. I hope this video shows that even normal poor people can at least collect silver coins:)

[WORRO01]

@BeanMeister22 Yes Sir, and your dead on with checking your change.. Like I said I do it all the time, and I've had some GOOD finds doing so, and it being pocket change, it didnt cost me a thing other than a minutes time :)

Did u get my last PM I sent you?

Take care bro!!

[BeanMeister22]

@WORRO01 The one with your address?

I will try to get it sent out later this week, but I only have one day off in the 13 days, so if I can't get to the post office this week, it will have to be the week after next. But I will try to get it sent this week.

[lostmymindinwv]

maybe ill pay attention to mine... hows ur new book comin along.. update baby update :-)

[BeanMeister22]

@lostmymindinwv How's my writing coming? Hmm...well if you were to take 20 books and put them on a desk, then push them all onto the floor; what you have left on the desk is where I am at:)

I lost an important 30% of the book on that Acer netbook, and all I have left is about half a book in rough form. Right now I just can't find the time to clean up what I have, and then rewrite what I lost. But it is possible I will have something ready before the year is out...

[lostmymindinwv]

oh sweetheart, im so sorry to hear that

[BeanMeister22]

@lostmymindinwv It happens, and as it turned out, the word doc I created on that computer as a backup which I emailed to myself for safe keeping, corrupted which was probably caused by that computer too.

[BeanMeister22]

@lostmymindinwv I just found a rough draft of my missing chapters. It looks like about 3 of the missing 5 chapters. Things just seem to get lost when you have a a 300gig hard drive, a 250gig Passport, and a 1 TB external hard drive all hooked to the same computer.

[lostmymindinwv]

well im glad you found that much of it :-)

[VAND4LL]

Thanks Beanmeister22 that was good information you provided your the man!!!

[BeanMeister22]

@VAND4LL Thanks for taking the time to watch it:)

[autoconinja689]

i know you said you were only doing melt value, but if the goal is money, some of those coins are worth at least $30 if not more... but this is a very informative video good job! and keep it up!

[BeanMeister22]

@autoconinja689 Thanks, and I only looked at melt value for two reasons. The first reason was because when you start talking about collectability, it is very subjective and it also confuses a lot of people. The other reason was that all of my precious metal videos try to focus on having gold and silver to protect you from inflation or monetary collapse. If I found a very collectable coin, I would sell it and immediately buy cheap coins with it so I would still have the coins and not the cash.

[Legostuff74]

where do you usually find silver coins? i've bean looking through change recieved from stores, etc. for months and havent found one silver. are there any better places to look? thanks

[BeanMeister22]

@Legostuff74 What I used to do, was I talked to all of my friends who worked at McDs and Taco Bell, and told them to set aside any older or strange looking coins. I would pay them twice the face value, so for an older quarter I would pay them 50 cents and so on.

Also, this might sound kinda bad, but I have always had the best luck finding silver pocket change when I was at a place that had mostly foreign workers who were new to US money.

[Legostuff74]

@BeanMeister22 thanks

[BeanMeister22]

@Legostuff74 You may not be finding any silver money, because now a lot of people are looking for it. It was about 6 years ago that I found my first Buffalo nickel, I got it from Taco Bell, and I had never seen one up close before. And the Mercury dime in this video, I found it less than a month ago. So the silver coins are still out there, my advice would be to keep looking.

[Legostuff74]

@BeanMeister22 thanks, another fast food place that ive found foriegn coins is from chik fil a. ive found canadian coins, australian coins, and a coin from the bahamas

[RZEEJOKERRS1000]

YEAH SILVER :)

are you gonna do any vids on jewellery ? .

i think i seen this video before

[BeanMeister22]

@RZEEJOKERRS1000 I assure you that have not seen this one before, but I have used this same intro in all of my videos about silver coins.

As for gold jewelry, I might make a video on that topic some time, because there are a lot of companies now paying good money for your unwanted jewelry.

[RZEEJOKERRS1000]

@BeanMeister22 unwanted jewellery ? nah i like jewellery i'd never sell or "unwant" jewellery but i do want to see it lol , it's funny how that pirate is called long john silver from treasure island (the original) but it's gold he's after