Silver Coin Calculator

As a child, my Grandfather used to give my sister and I a Kennedy Half Dollar when he saw us, or sometimes a few if it was a special occasion.  At the time, I treated those coins like they were gold… for some reason, they were special because my “Papa” gave them to me.  I honored and protected those coins all through my youth and into young adulthood.  No matter what cool toy I wanted or what new video game came out, that money was untouchable to me.

Every so often, I would open up my Piggy Bank (which was really a very ugly rabbit with some kind of fake, prickly “hair” on it) and dump my Kennedy Half Dollar coins out on my bed.  I would occasionally put other coins in there that caught my eye as special too.  Whenever I went through this exercise, I’d methodically count every coin, add up how many there were, how much money I had and then sign and date the scrap piece of paper that I did my calculations on.  I guess I though I was some kind of junior accountant or something.  Anyway, soon after my Papa died, I stopped this ritual.  I put my coin collection in a large zip lock baggie and threw it in a cardboard box with other childhood memories.

Many, many years later I became involved with a start-up MLM  company that used MS69 Silver Eagle Dollars as their flagship product.  As 99% of the people who get involved in an MLM also find out, I was not cut out for the kind of attitude and tact that is required to succeed in that kind of business.  I failed and quit.  However, I learned a lot from the experience and it also rekindled my interest in coins and started a new interest in precious metals.

As a result, I dug out my old coins and decided to find out what I had and how much it was worth.  I hadn’t looked at the coins for over 20 years…  to my surprise, the 161 half-dollars that I had been given weren’t worth the $80.50 that I had written on a scrap paper many years ago.  After looking around the internet and sending what I think is personal information (my private collection) to a web page on some site, I found out that I actually had about $1200 in silver!!!!  And that doesn’t even take into consideration the numismatic value of the coins!!

I also had some old Franklin Half Dollars, Roosevelt Dimes, a 1 oz Silver Bar, a couple Silver Eagle Dollars, a few Eisenhower Dollars and some other miscellaneous coins that had way more silver value that face value.  I wanted to track my new, yet previously unknown collection.  But, I didn’t want to share the specifics with some site on the internet that was selling or buying coins.  And, because I’m cheap, I didn’t want to spend a ton of money on some fancy, schmancy software that had way more features than I needed.  So, I created the Silver Coin Calculator.  I’m selling it on this site for a very, very low price.  I hope you purchase it and find it as easy and valuable as I do.

Thanks,

Bill