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Message:: [QUOTE="smallaxe, post: 2481673, member: 13430"]All this talk of historical silver prices reminds me of a story. When I was in junior high school in the late 1960's, my friend and I collected coins, but I didn't have much money, so mostly collected common stuff. I had a passbook savings account that was created years before that when I was little. I decided to cash it out and get rolls of coins to go through. I had had the account for years, so was looking forward to finding out how much interest I'd earned over 6 years. When I got to the counter at the bank, they said I had almost $15. I'd expected more. She said I had a "special" kids account that didn't earn interest. What?! I was really disappointed. So I got two rolls of dimes to look for silver coins, and some rolls of pennies/nickels. When I got home, I called my friend and he said, "You won't find any silver in those rolls because the bank is separating them out now." Double dejection! Downhearted, I opened the first roll of dimes....every coin was silver. I opened the second one, and same thing. I'm sure the teller knew why I was getting the rolls, and could see my disappointment, and gave me the separated silver rolls on purpose. The odds of just happening to get all silver several years after clad coins were out was impossible. Ever since, I've hated banks, but like tellers.[/QUOTE]