Spendable silver coins still found in circulation to this day.

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I was thinking about what silver coins are being used in circulation to this day. My brain said “hmm. Maybe i should start a forum post/thread about this…”.  I dont have any silver coins in my possesion, but some examples are the usa quarters and dimes from 1964 and before.

 

For this game(maybe), you will post here your silver coins which are found in circulation and not bought. Silver proofs and commemoratives count(and maybe even escaped non-circulating or collector coins), but is is probably rare to find one of those in actual circulation.

 

Coin list updated per month(i think):

Before the euro came in, once in a while, we could be lucky an find
 a silver gulden. 

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I don't know how often it is to find, but I think you have a slight chance to find a silver coin or billon coins from Switzerland? I haven't tried it, only been there once, before I begund collecting. But with the long date run and minimal change in design, some may still be in circulation :D

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I've only found two in the US this year.  The first was a 1964 Quarter, which I think is probably one of the more common finds these days.  I believe it was in a roll/bag of quarters I picked up to do laundry while traveling. 

The second was a 1998 S Silver Proof Dime, I have no idea where I picked this one up I found it when I emptied my car center console into a jar and was picking through them.  

 

"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Australia (highly unlikely) Silver sixpence used as 5 cents, Shilling as 10 cents and Florin as 20 cents as well as the short-lived round 50 cent pieces. 

Canada (unlikely but possible), all circulating denominations but collectors are heavily hunting for then as well as the RCM alloy recovery program is pulling out all non-magnetic coins.

Mexico (unlikely) 10, 20, 50 and 100 peso coins but are seldom in circulation since the late 00s.

United States (most likely) all circulating denominations most likely the silver coins encountered would be from the 50s-60s. 

 

So I doubt anyone outside of those four countries wouldn't find any silver coins.

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I have not encountered any US silver coins in normal circulation (change) in well over 20 years. Sure it happens but very rarely.

I got a 1942 quarter last summer, posted pictures of it in this thread.

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I've found Silver Half Dollars, Quarters, Dimes and War Nickels in circulation here in the US.

It should be possible to find Silver ½, ¼ and 1/10 Balboas in change in Panama.

I imagine you could do the same with Canadian Quarters and Dimes in Canada and the old Silver centered 10 and 20 pesos in Mexico.

I found a 1920 1 Franc in a lot of modern Swiss Francs sold to me near the exchange rate, so I assume it's possible to find Silver Francs in Switzerland.

Australia's decimal coins are still the same sizes as the silver coins they replaced, so it might be possible to find one.

Before the introduction of the Euro, the Netherlands (1 Gulden), France (5 Francs), Germany (5 Marks) and Austria (5 and 10 Schilling) still had base metal coins that were the same size as Silver coins of the same denomination, so it may have been possible to find Silver in circulation there, but I have no clue what the on the ground reality was.

 

Edit:  Doesn't Britain make Silver 50p coins that are the same size as the circulating versions?  I suppose one of those could theoretically make it into circulation if someone were careless enough to break one out of its commemorative packaging and spend it at face value.

Another country that I forgot to mention is Japan they issued 3 different silver 100 Yen coins in the 1950s and 60s as well as a circulating commemorative 1,000 Yen coin. 

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