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    Searching for Silver

    Nov 01, 2019 2 minutes
    Images Courtesy of Heritage Auctions

    I was shopping for lunch and dinner. As a habit, I checked the Coinstar machine and found a few coins. They turned out to be a 1946 Roosevelt, a 1940 “wheatie” and a 1999 Canadian quarter. Seems like this is the only way that I find silver these days.

    Theodore Ho Honolulu, Hawaii

    I continue to find the

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