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LTC (Join to see) I've been meaning to get back into buying coins again. I have to find a reputable place here.

LTC Trent Klug there is an antique store chain up here in Canada that is way cheaper generally speaking than the coin shops because no matter if the coin is from or generally how old it is, they only go by a certain price per gram based on if the silver coin is at 80% silver like the Canadian, 91.4% silver like really early free 1919 coins that were 94.4% silver or American silver coins that were 90% silver. Some coin places charge way too much or they charge a little more than you're comfortable with. So try to see if you can find an antique store that cells antiques bite digital auction because they may get a lot of the state sales and the coins they keep for sale in the store, if they don't sell, they just sell it for scrap value. So a coin that would sell for $20 of a coin store like a 1964 Kennedy half dollar 90% silver I can buy it for about $12 at the antique store because they're selling it based on the silver content not on the condition or the year of the coin. Same thing with buying Ben Franklin 50 cent pieces or most standing liberty half dollars. I was able to buy turn the century Victorian era 50 cent pieces from Newfoundland that Queen Victoria and the two successive Kings and I just paid scrap value for these coins. I also got some one rupee coins from India that I paid a little bit more for but I knew they were 91.4% silver and they were before 1919. England went cheap starting in the late 30s their coins went to 50% silver and by 1947 they got rid of silver altogether. Australian coins may have that issue as well so beware.

LTC (Join to see) voice text error, American coins 90% silver not 94%. Canadian and British coins before 1919 were 91.4% silver. Indian coins under English Monarchy 91.4% before 1919.

Canadian silver coins were 80% silver until 1967. Some in 1968 for 50% silver but I don't buy any 1968 at all.
Here are some examples of Canadian silver dollars from the mid-1930s through the mid-1960s. So you had Queen Elizabeth's father without the crown and the grandfather with the crown. Queen Elizabeth started wearing her crown in 1963 but the earlier coins didn't have her with a crown. I also have examples of 50 cent coins but those same coins I could get at the antique store for 12 bucks instead of 20 canadian. Just in case you wanted to diversify your silver collection with other than American coins.