Melting Your Silver Coins.

Last I heard it was a federal offense to melt them your self, and a horrible thing to do to any coin. You didn't say you we're planning that but when I hear people talk about it I wonder how much time, effort, and fuel they would put into it, then as you said where do you sell it at, if I walked into my recycle center with a mass of melted metal and claimed it was 40% or 35% or what ever I don't know if they would just laugh and tell me to get out or detain me with a citizens arrest and call the cops.

I hold onto all of mine but most LCS's would probably buy them for melt value or less. Since silver is under $20 an ounce now I'd say if you HAVE to sell them... wait.

War Nickel's are 35% and in my opinion the best value for CRH finds...

a nickel is 5g so 5*35% = 1.75g of silver for 5 cents
a dime is 2.5g so 2.5*90% = 2.25g of silver for 10 cents

So 3.5g for 10 cents of two nickels or 2.25g for one 10 cent dime.

edit: The nickels may not be as easy to find but they are a horridly under-valued, wonderful coin.
OK so not illegal but still it's not a quick and easy do-it- yourself type of thing. Unless you have a forge in your back yard.

I had sold my stash of 40% to Provident Metals and my 30% I sold on ebay around $35-$40 silver spot.

In terms of value, the best thing is to sell junk silver and War Nickels in bulk over ebay. Coin dealers will give you about 50-75% of what they are worth upfront in cash if it would be too much of a hassle to deal with ebay.

Never take them to one of those "Cash 4 Gold" places because they tend to pay under 50% of the coin's value, and melt most of what they get. Even if the coins aren't worth anything over melt to you personally, please try to avoid selling them to a place that will melt them--silver coins are much more scarce than they should be due to massive melting in the 1980s.

Dont melt it if you do its going to be very hard to sell it.. It takes alot of refining to extract the silver from the coins. To make it pure silver. Unless you have a company who can smelt it down purify it then put a authentication mark on it it will be a tough sell its not like a blow torch and a crucible and boom you have pure silver. Un refined silver puts off poisonous gas same as gold does.. This is a thing for the professionals only . Those facilties are state of the art and cost millions. Kinda like graded coins and in the end without true autentication the coin wont sell for its premium

Find silver for face value, buy silver for face value great deal jbuck

Jbuck, two days ago I sold 3 proof sets 61-62-63 store credit bought a cameo appearing franklin a 55 gugs bunny BU and 12 assorted nickels war and 50's for the book and my kid found a toy john deere he couldnt live with out and I spent 28 bucks after the silver swap the franklins and the 42p war nick were the big scores!
And of course another toy to stumble over is precious! Hahaha

Pending on where you live and what is available, jewlers at flea markets give the highest prices on Silver coins. AT least by me they do. One person I know purposely goes to pawn shops looking for Silver coins. Then takes to a jewler at a flea market for sale. I asked if he ever looks at them for dates and he told me it's a waste of hos time.