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Are You Coins To Good To Melt? What Price Do You Sell ?

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 Posted 11/18/2010  3:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add upstate to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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I am not in it for the money so I don't really care what the market does. I will never sell my collection for the bullion so they can be melted




Bryan1315 said it best.
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 Posted 11/18/2010  6:36 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Syaoran_2001 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
So where exactly does one take coins to be melted? Are people selling their silver coins to scrap metal dealers who subsequently melt them into silver bars? Say you have one ounce worth of silver in coin form and silver is at $25 an ounce. You take it to a scrap metal dealer, he pays you $25, where does he make a profit? Or is it that the scrap dealer would never pay you full market value for the silver?
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 Posted 11/18/2010  6:49 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Libertad to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
syaoran: Exactly. A lot of dealers will have you believe that silver is so valuable, well bring your couple of coins to a refinery so that they can have a good laugh. You need in the range of 500 ozt (by my estimation), by the vatfull. And then you have to pay someone their cut, at below spot price of course, for melting, assaying, holding onto it, to cover the market's volatility, etc. You really need "lots" to get anything close to a fair price. Pick your bottom and stick with it, if you let the market dictate your buying behaviours then you're being played by the game.
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 Posted 11/18/2010  6:56 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Maineman750 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Syaoran, check out the AMPEX link at the top of this page...gives you an idea how much you need and how much they are paying.
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 Posted 11/19/2010  5:31 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Syaoran_2001 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
My ad-blocker is blocking that ad, so I see no such link.
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