Today is April 5th, 2008. My wife and I were walking down Spadina Avenue in Toronto Canada and noticed a man selling various pieces on the sidewalk, some of which were Canadian Silver Dollars. We purchased 4. One of them was a 1983 Olympic Silver Dollar. We paid $15 for this coin. We have checked the internet to see if we purchased it at a commendable rate. It seems that they sell for various prices on eBay but $15 is about right. It probably is a deal when one considers the price of silver, which today is around $17.50 an ounce, and there is approximately half an ounce of silver in the coin. There is always a premium on minted coins. Also silver faces a bull market for about the next 15 years because it is scarcer than gold and industrial consumption has put it in a deficit position over the last 60 plus years. Under the circumstances we considered it to be a bargain.
No such thing. The US didn't mint any dollar coins that year.
If it's a circulation coin made out of nickel, it's only worth face value. If it's a silver proof, it could be worth about $15.
there is no year on the coin
By 1983, Canadian coins were no longer made of silver. It's worth 50 cents.
A US half dollar with a date of 1983 is a Kennedy half dollar not a liberty half dollar.The coin has no silver and most are only face value.
its worth about one dollar
There are no US $50 bills dated 1983.
Half dollars dated 1971 and later are only worth face value.They're made of copper-nickel and don't contain any silver.
The 1989 (and all other dates) One Dollar Silver Eagle coins are bullion coins that have 1 ounce of pure silver in them with a value that follows the market price of silver which changes by the minute and right now it's $17.34 per ounce. Because of that the worth of the coin is a little less than spot price at time of sale.
Its value is nothing, except for sentimental value.
It's worth 25 cents.
It's not silver, just copper-nickel. Spend it.