Coins to save

and improve the fortunes of our cat filled households: half dollars minted before 1971. Most have been removed from the currency by now, but if you are going to find a coin with any actual silver content in the American coinage, in circulation, it is probably a half dollar, minted between 1965 and 1970. That quarters before 1965 have some silver content is common knowledge, so the best chance of finding silver is to scrutinize the halves. The quarters are almost certainly absent from your change.