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Coin collecting isn't all that costly either. You can get hundreds of dollars worth of silver half dollars for free. Just ask your bank to order a few hundred dollars in half dollar roles ahead of time. Then wait for the shipment, banks dont keep hundreds of dollars in 50c pieces on hand, but they can make a request for the denomination you asked for from the mint. Once it comes in, withdraw your money in the half dollars. After that skim for the silver ones still in circulation. They should be shinier and stand out, but a way to know 100% is they were made before 1964, which is when the us mint started phasing out using actual silver in coins. There are however some half dollars made of silver after 64. Each coin is worth about 7 dollars minimum, some are a bit more because of condition.

You loose nothing (you still have whatever amount you withdrew) and you gain value. Now just spend the non silver half dollars as you normally would with cash, but don't be a jerk, do it to small purchases. If you try to hand them right back they probably will stop helping you.

Now if you go to a store to spend a 7 dollar half dollar, it's still worth 50c. However it is legal to sell US currency for more than its face value within the US so long as the coin is not destroyed, ie. melted for silver wire.

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This made me remember an interesting bit of recent history about the US Treasury where in order to circumvent Congress’s control of the debt-ceiling and raise the country’s borrowing limit, the minting of a trillion dollar platinum coin was proposed. Supposedly all metals currently used to mint US coins are confined to specific denominations, however platinum was one metal which had no stipulation meaning they could use it as a loophole for the US Treasury to mint a trillion dollar coin and pay the Federal Reserve thus preventing the nation from defaulting on its debt. The minting of the coin was also legally sound meaning that it could not even been challenged in court thus also preventing the Judicial branch from interfering.

The coin was never minted, but it was seriously considered and debated back in 2011 and recently in 2020 during the pandemic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion-dollar_coin

Or you can go coinstar prospecting if you don't mind looking like a crackhead. I've found free silver just by doing that.

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Isn't that where you turn in your coins, and not the other way arround?

Yeah but coins that aren't modern circulating ones (foreign ones, silver ones, etc.) get dropped into a reject tray. Some people don't bother checking the reject tray when they use it, thus leaving behind potentially valuable coins. Most of the time I've found like wheat pennies, messed up coins, and pesos and shit. But occasionally you'll be able to find the older silver coins in there.

Ah the reject tray! I never would have thought of that!

I once found a 1923 peace dollar jammed in the buffer wheel of one of those machines lol

For efficiency, you can also drop a small handful of coins on a table and listen for a higher pitched sound. Silver coins make a very distinctive ringing sound, so after hearing that you know there's at least one silver coin.

consooming bad except when its thing i like

But when does it stop tho? Consume house, get excited for next house? Consume nature walk, get excited for next nature walk? Consume food, get excited for next food? Consume oxygen get excited for next oxygen? People do the things they like. I think the point here is to mock wasteful consuming.

Where do you sell them? Could you sell them at pawn shops?

A pawn shop would take them for near market price for the percent of silver they weigh. Some shops also exist specifically for buying precious metals, although they would probably be mkre local and less well known. Alternatively if the coin is rare you can have them graded and sell them to collectors for alot more.

I have one silver 1936 quarter that I got back in change awhile back and I was so excited. Every since then I check my change every time. No silvers since then but a have found several wheat pennies

How would anyone possibly find out that you've been melting the coins?

First and foremost the mixture of metal would be a dead giveaway. Silver half dollars are either 90% silver or 40% silver, the rest is copper. Getting an alloy apart is difficult, the melting points if copper amd silver are within about 200f of each other (100c) and that's hard to maintain in a furnace to get the silver to melt but not the copper, plus the atoms are intertwined together, so this wont come apart. As soon as you hand someone that silver bar you made from coins, they are going to notice there's copper in it, and that it therefor came from a coin. People have been faking precious metals for a LONG time, including adding impuraties that are easy to find to weight the bar, so it's really easy to tell when someone is cheating you.

Plus there's not really a reason to destroy them, they are perfectly valuable as they are.

I own a few roman coins and i find them cool as fuck, not to mention they cost me maybe 20 bucks in total