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What % Silver Content Is Too Low To Take Seriously?

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 Posted 08/15/2015  09:57 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Misterpostman to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Maybe it is different for you Elimist, but in my experience, there are fewer buyers for 35% and 40%, and also, they sell for a lower percentage of the silver content. A good deal is a good deal though, whether it is on .999 or .35, so there is no really definitive answer for this thread, just peoples' thoughts and opinions. I know that I became interested in Canadian 80% because the premiums on US 90% were getting too high, and I wanted a "better deal".
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 Posted 08/15/2015  10:20 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add YoshiRules to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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what % silver content is too low to take seriously?


Depends on who you ask because this might just be a point of opinion. I saw some hate for 35% War Nickels, but I like those. I like any silver coin, although I would definitely need a calculator to figure out the melt value of something that has a weird percentage of silver, like 22% silver or something like that.
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There is no definitive answer to this, you simply have to know the sort of buy and sell price for each % of silver specific to your country. I could sell 40% Kennedys at the equivalent of $6-7 each no problem at all but in the UK there is just no way you can pick them up regularly below spot.

In the UK 50% silver is very liquid, because it's the norm. I'd imagine it's the same in Sweden with the 40% stuff.
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Well, in Sweden the most common percentage is 40% (all silver denoms 1942-1962), but we've also got 80% with larger coins (1875-1942) and it's much more liquid, as evidenced my their market. Personally, if I would stack only for the silver, I'd definitely do only 80%, but I care for more than just silver.
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It's interesting to anyone that remembers 1980, $50 silver and the Hunts. We couldn't give away the 40% silver halves, I believe because of the refining costs. The Hunts wanted as pure of silver as possible as they cornered the market.
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40% is selling pretty good right now, or I'm seeing more of it out for sale, figuring since 90% premiums are up. I only enjoy the 40% I do have because they are kennedy.
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Anything under .900 is a waste of time.
Why?
Read my hundreds of posts on the topic.
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