Loading Up On Junk Walkers

I'm tempted by them too. They seem to sell well on ebay but they seem to be so common in dealer's junk bins that I question any additional premium.

As a stacker, they've normally lost way too much weight for my liking.

14x face = 13% premium above melt value.
How does that compare to 1000 fine bar silver?

Agree with you on this one. The standard is 7.15 ounces per $10 face, and with Walkers it's hard to hit that. But I am not going to lie, they are one of my favorite coins.




They weren't in circulation as long when the govt stopped making 90% silver. Generally speaking, they are not going to be as worn as Walkers. I find EF+ Franklins in dealer junk silver bins all the time.




There are premiums on silver bars as well. The biggest coin shop in town here sells generic silver at spot plus $2.50 so the premium percentage is about the same.

Picking up some better walkers or franklins at a LCS can be a pretty good deal as there are a lot of people that collect Albums and need to fill empty spots.

A couple of months ago, the owner of our LCS was on his way out for an important lunch with a new girlfriend, so he told his employee to sell me some kennedy, franklin, walker, and barber Dansco albums around melt. I bought about everything they had, and most were about 85% filled.

The problem is I have then had to go to ebay and been paying way too much to fill the remainder of the album. In the end, these 15% of the albums will cost a lot (i.e., $21 for a franklin).

Need pictures vermontensium!

I metal detect a lot of my Walkers, just this spring a 1917 at about 10" deep near an old ice skating area in a park.

I like to stack 'em when I can find them in nice shape. My favorite is a '38D key which I bought off a teller for $5, was from her personal collection of silver halves she's pulled off the 'line.