I inherited coins, some Canadian dimes. What’s the difference?
They are all loose in a bag. Should I try to sort them if I plan on selling them for the silver? Are any of them worth selling seperately? What are they worth now as silver?
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You’d probably get more for them as coins, rather than simply as silver, a lot of people are taking the silver out of circulation so if you time it right you might get quite a bit more for them. If you ever go abroad to europe you might want to try your luck there and get more for them.
Yes, they may well be worth sorting out.
Pre-1967 dimes are 80% silver and worth nearly $1 in silver value, at current silver prices of about $16/Troy ounce.
1968 dimes that are 50% silver - those that can’t be picked up by a magnet - have about $0.60 worth of silver. (The ones that can be picked up by a magnet don’t contain silver and are worth just their face value in Canada.)
Finally, the 1967 dimes - that have a picture of a mackerel fish - are in either category, 80% or 50% silver - and thus worth either $1 or $0.60 - but there’s no straightforward way to tell in which camp they fall.
On eBay, sometimes sellers of Canadian silver dimes separate out the pre-1967 dimes from the 1967s, and the 1967s from the 1968s, and sometimes they sell mixed lots containing dimes from two or three of these categories. If you do so, it’s a good idea to identify how many dimes are from each category.
Details:
http://www.coinflation.com/silver_coin_values.html
(scroll down to "Canadian Circulated Silver Coins")
Since other Canadian dimes are worth just about US $0.10, and less in the US - since they can only be spent in Canada - it may well be worth your while to sort out the silver ones.