Help Me Crack This "Safe"- Pew Pew Inside

[Mountain]

If all 90% for that $20 face you’re looking at about $450. Not a bad haul!

You think? All of the coins are well circulated and the oldest ones very worn. The ones on the right are Bicentennials, well after coins were made from silver. The Bicentennial half dollars are worth ~$4 and the quarters are only worth a quarter LOL. Actual silver quarters are worth ~$7, half dollars ~$11.

The older stuff I don't know much about. Mercury dimes are ~$2 to ~$3 in that condition. The rest I'll have to do some more digging. I was thinking the coins might not even equal the $200 cost of a new Stack-On, but now I'd guess the value is north of that and heading towards that $450 you mention.

Oh, the two bills are actually silver certificates. The blue seal caught my eye as different. They are probably worth somewhere between face value and two bucks.

 

[ddeck]

You think? All of the coins are well circulated and the oldest ones very worn. The ones on the right are Bicentennials, well after coins were made from silver. The Bicentennial half dollars are worth ~$4 and the quarters are only worth a quarter LOL. Actual silver quarters are worth ~$7, half dollars ~$11.

The older stuff I don't know much about. Mercury dimes are ~$2 to ~$3 in that condition. The rest I'll have to do some more digging. I was thinking the coins might not even equal the $200 cost of a new Stack-On, but now I'd guess the value is north of that and heading towards that $450 you mention.

Oh, the two bills are actually silver certificates. The blue seal caught my eye as different. They are probably worth somewhere between face value and two bucks.

1976-S quarters and half dollars could be silver.

I can’t make out the mint marks

 

[alan226]

LOL looks like I've messed with the forum enough.

I lost patience with the jigglers after a little more than 4 minutes. Lots of helpful suggestions here but vise grips did the trick.

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Mostly silver coins in the bank bag. Approx $20 face value, so F-U to anyone suggesting cut it open, blow it open, etc. LOL.

Pretty good score for free

 

[strangenh]

Yeah, $20 face for 90% silver US coinage is indeed in the area of $450 in raw silver at today's silver prices.

Those 1976 coins look clad based on the edge, but hard to say from the pic. As @ddeck says, only the S marked ones (below the head and above the date, including the dollars) would be silver (40%). That said, can't imagine why the person would have put those in the bag if they weren't silver.

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[Mountain]

Yeah, $20 face for 90% silver US coinage is indeed in the area of $450 in raw silver at today's silver prices.

Those 1976 coins look clad based on the edge, but hard to say from the pic. As @ddeck says, only the S marked ones (below the head and above the date, including the dollars) would be silver (40%). That said, can't imagine why the person would have put those in the bag if they weren't silver.

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I would assume they were thought to be collectible. For sure a cool find but none of these are high dollar mint condition coins as far as I have figured out thus far. LOL 16 ga shells check out.

 

[strangenh]

I would assume they were thought to be collectible. For sure a cool find butnone of these are high dollar mint condition coins as far as I have figured out thus far. LOL 16 ga shells check out.

Well they seem to have had a taste for silver, there. Look at the mint mark on those 1976s closely. If "S" then they are 40% silver. Still good stuff. if D, then nope. If CC then Chinese forgeries, probably a true rarity.

 

[strangenh]

NGL, if I bought a used Stack-On tin can that turned out to have even $300 in junk silver in it (that's your ballpark bullion value minus the 1976 stuff), I would be pretty happy.

 

[Blackmore]

Since the jigglers didn't work, remember you can return them if you bought them on Amazon.

 

[67ray]

Well they seem to have had a taste for silver, there. Look at the mint mark on those 1976s closely. If "S" then they are 40% silver. Still good stuff. if D, then nope. If CC then Chinese forgeries, probably a true rarity.

You can see from the reeded edges in the pic that they are clad

 

[strangenh]

You can see from the reeded edges in the pic that they are clad

YM where I said, "look clad based on the edge, but hard to say from the pic"?

 

[Romokid]

@Mountain you are doing this all wrong. You have found more value in that safe than those clowns on Oak Island but they have managed to drag it out for about 10 years and you ended this saga in about 7 days.

 

[HorizontalHunter]

Well they seem to have had a taste for silver, there. Look at the mint mark on those 1976s closely. If "S" then they are 40% silver. Still good stuff. if D, then nope. If CC then Chinese forgeries, probably a true rarity.

 

[lukewarm_fuzz]

Just don’t clean the coins

 

[Roof gunner]

I chose the word 'safe' rather than gun cabinet because I wanted NES-ers to at least read the first post before revoking my man card. And I think that was good judgement on my part because after all the helpful responses, I can see that "Help Me Crack Open this Stack-On" is pretty much the same as "Help Me Open this Stubborn Zip-Lok Bag".

I'll put the word "safe" in quotes.

I wore a safe once

 

[Mountain]

Yeah, $20 face for 90% silver US coinage is indeed in the area of $450 in raw silver at today's silver prices.

Those 1976 coins look clad based on the edge, but hard to say from the pic. As @ddeck says, only the S marked ones (below the head and above the date, including the dollars) would be silver (40%). That said, can't imagine why the person would have put those in the bag if they weren't silver.

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Surprisingly, some of the dimes were worth more than I expected. Condition ranges good to fine for all of them- nothing horrible, nothing great. Didn't see any 's' proofed coins but need to go back and look more closely. There's a 1972 silver dollar that seems pretty random but if it's a 'type 2' it might be the most valuable in the bag and might explain why it's there. There were some mid-late 60's half dollars with no proof. AFAIK these are 40% silver and ~$5 each.

Rating everything at 'good' to no more than 1/3 towards 'fine' I come up with ~$400 in value. Obviously I knew little about coins when assuming their value would have been less than a $200 Stack-On.

 

[Mesatchornug]

Surprisingly, some of the dimes were worth more than I expected. Condition ranges good to fine for all of them- nothing horrible, nothing great. Didn't see any 's' proofed coins but need to go back and look more closely. There's a 1972 silver dollar that seems pretty random but if it's a 'type 2' it might be the most valuable in the bag and might explain why it's there. There were some mid-late 60's half dollars with no proof. AFAIK these are 40% silver and ~$5 each.

Rating everything at 'good' to no more than 1/3 towards 'fine' I come up with ~$400 in value. Obviously I knew little about coins when assuming their value would have been less than a $200 Stack-On.

If I learned anything from that "collectibles" thread, the best thing you can do is sell them now, before the market drops out. Maybe buy some unwanted 12GA ammo?

 

[Marty McFly]

If I learned anything from that "collectibles" thread, the best thing you can do is sell them now, before the market drops out. Maybe buy some unwanted 12GA ammo?

He needs to melt the silver into glock switches

 

[Mountain]

If I learned anything from that "collectibles" thread, the best thing you can do is sell them now, before the market drops out. Maybe buy some unwanted 12GA ammo?

He needs to melt the silver into glock switches

Genius! Both ideas!

If I buy the 12ga ammo, how can I verify his mother said it was OK to sell?

 

[Marty McFly]

Genius! Both ideas!

If I buy the 12ga ammo, how can I verify his mother said it was OK to sell?

Just ask her when she's making you breakfast

 

[Coyote33]

knew little about coins when assuming their value would have been less than a $200 Stack-On.

Same for the person who missed them when they threw it away!

 

[Parker Schreiber]

There's a 1972 silver dollar that seems pretty random but if it's a 'type 2' it might be the most valuable in the bag and might explain why it's there.

The Type 2 coins were struck for circulation using a proof die. They contain no silver and are extremely hard to identify unless uncirculated.

There were some mid-late 60's half dollars with no proof. AFAIK these are 40% silver and ~$5 each.

Rating everything at 'good' to no more than 1/3 towards 'fine' I come up with ~$400 in value. Obviously I knew little about coins when assuming their value would have been less than a $200 Stack-On.

My guess is you are looking at retail prices. If you try to sell them to a dealer, you’ll get considerably less. Worn common date dimes, quarters, and halves are sold as “junk silver” at bullion prices.

 

[strangenh]

^^ What he said. But with silver over $30, most of the value in those silver coins is the silver. The numismatic booster doesn't scale with the price of metals, at least for some time. Example - a double eagle worth $2700 before gold jumped up ($800 over 'spot') is still worth $800 over spot. So like @Mesatchornug said, sell while the silver is hot. (I might be paraphrasing.)

 

[Demoman]

He needs to melt the silver into glock switches

I make bullets out of mine supposedly kills vampires or werewolves or leprechauns. I dont remember what they kill or were they went maybe down range. Might have to make more

 

[Mountain]

Aha, so the Stack-On might end up the greater value after all? I did want an 'overflow' cabinet to stash guns I rarely shoot. $30 for a new lock and key set.

Can't decide whether or not to sell those four shotgun shells. I should start a thread.

 

[strangenh]

I make bullets out of mine supposedly kills vampires or werewolves or leprechauns. I dont remember what they kill or were they went maybe down range. Might have to make more

Make them silver hollowpoints with ironwood cores. Multifunction.

 

[garandman]

///numismatic booster//

Now that’s a term I never expected to see here.

 

[HorizontalHunter]

Make them silver hollowpoints with ironwood cores. Multifunction.

But would that work on a politician?

Just joking NSA minders.

 

[Mountain]

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LOL just scrolled by this via a larger screen and figured it out. I hear that stuff is just the ticket for getting bird poop off the hood of someone else's car.

 

[strangenh]

Now that’s a term I never expected to see here.

It's a very old, well-established term I made up about 57 minutes ago.

 

[chris_1001]

LOL just scrolled by this via a larger screen and figured it out. I hear that stuff is just the ticket for getting bird poop off the hood of someone else's car.

Took a scratch out of my paint in just seconds. You would never know there was a scratch after use.