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Pillar of the Community
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Bought these from a dealer for melt on Thursday (~6.76 each) How did I do?  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pics of the reverse would show mintmarks and help to better establish values... You didn't do terribly, though! =)
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I hate to think history like this is being melted! Good rescue and good coins.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I loooove buying silver for melt - especially since you can get Barber coinage for melt now! |
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Pillar of the Community
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687 Posts |
Here are the reverses. I feel the need to "rescue" coins like this when I find them :) I didn't have time to search the whole pile, so I'll have to go back and look for more!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yes, I'll snap up Barber's & Liberties for melt both from a value and "save the history" standpoint.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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big time  Retired USAF 1983-2003
Edited by Coinstar
05/31/2011 10:41 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Good save. It would have been a shame to melt those beauties. I would pay that all day long. Nice job!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Nice pickup. I know we always talk about "melt value" around here, but how many coins actually do get melted? I would think it is quite small.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Grab those at melt all day. You should see the Franklins I got out of one my local shops "junk" silver bag.
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Are people actually melting these?
I mean , I hear of people melting jewelry and some utensils down, but I'd think no one would be THAT stupid to melt old US currency down....but then I'm amazed sometimes at stuff people will do.
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didn't have time to search the whole pile, so I'll have to go back and look for more! Do it! Do not forget to show us what you found.  Quote:
Are people actually melting these? Sadly, yes. Those people see a commodity (silver) and not the coin. |
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Pillar of the Community
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These four for melt value was a good buy. Silver coins are not actually melted unless they are worn slick with hardly any discernable details or severely damaged, essentially those considered culls. The coins pictured here would not be melted for their silver content since they are still in very collectible condition. ANA LM-3175 |
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I always wondered how many of the silver coins are actually melted. At larger coin shows, you can always find several dealers who are buying bulk silver at a little below melt and there are other dealers with bags of silver coins to sell (at a premium above melt). I have a feeling that many of the coins turned in are just resold to someone else. Last year when I was buying a lot of Mercury dimes on ebay, I got a number in larger lots which included many earlier dates and with mintmarks, but in lower grades (ag, g) for melt value. I also got a number of higher grade (vf, xf) of later dates for melt also. I would hate to see them actually get melted. |
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