Canadian Silver Dime And Quarter - To Melt Or Keep/Sell? Are There Criteria?

Criteria?
Simple. If you cannot identify a coin's date and type then it is fodder for the smelter.
You posted a few of the worst.
How about few of the best?
Let's see if there are any keepers among the group.

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Your post was moved to the appropriate forum for the proper attention.

The scrap silver price for Canadian silver after 1920 (.800 fine) is about $16.00 for each dollar or coins adding up to a dollar. A dealer will give you about 90% of scrap if you sell to him, maybe a little less if the coins are really worn (and no longer contain the silver they were struck with). Each dollar or face dollar contains 0.6 troy oz. So take the world price for Ag (that's from NY and US$$) and multiply that by 1.34 (the Cda/US exchange rate) and multiply by .6 and that will give you the day's price in Cdn dollars.

Then get a Charlton or Haxby Canada coin guide at a store or Ebay from any of the last 5-6 years and see what's scarcer and what's not. You'll need to learn how to grade but each of theose books has a good grading ID in the front. Or you can go to this site and get a full inflated retail value. You may be able to get 40-50% of what's in any guide, unless it's a scarcity.

http://www.coinsandcanada.com/coins-prices.php

You can't sell a cin to any book or guide .... you need a person. Don't believe any price that you see in any book. You'll never get 70% of what's on paper and usually less, unless it's scarce or upper grade.

I personally vote to not melt anything. But if I had to, I'd melt the ones that are worn to barely recognizable as a type. If it has a date, I would never melt it. Have fun!!

I have to say that I very much agree with jacrispies and beaver 22. I hate the thought of destroying any coin where the date is still legible. As a collector , I guess it just rubs me the wrong way.
But it is your coin , and this is just my opinion.

Melting them would be pointless, not only do they have a set face value, it's also illegal in Canada.

Even if it were to be legal, its still not ideal, I melt silver, copper and gold and for silver its common practice to not bother melting anything less than .925 purity unless you can confidently provide proof of purity.

If you melt down a few ounces of .800 or .900 silver that had a recognizable face value, how will you prove that the contents and purity are legit once melted, so now you just incurred melting cost, testing cost, shipping costs to/from melter and tester if one isn't locally available to you, an thats just if you cant find anyone local.

Long story short, if it was intended for circulation an has a face value or even just a recognizable obverse/reverse regardless of wear, you are more likely to sell them as "Junk Silver" at melt value before seeing any elevated premiums after melting.

Okiecoiner, my comment wasn't directed towards you, it was more directed towards the OP as his/her post and comments made it sound as if he had plans on trying to melt them, in that case it would not be beneficial to him/her an would only be beneficial to who melts and tests it afterword as the fees attached to that kind of service is not worth it in the end an would need to be done on somewhat of a large scale (50lbs minimum) just to offset total costs for the entire process.