Why do you want to clean them? Pictures?
That's what I do with cello packs like that, I've got a bunch of proof sets that happened to also.
I find them every now and then (IHC).
Looks real to me, nice find.
I think it's the latest fad among kids, remember knockers in the 70's?
Even though I don't agree with all the doom and gloomers, I think hoarding ANYTHING while it is still readily available hurts no one and actually...
Looks like the Frederick Douglass bullion puck is sold out at 20k.
Yeah, open them up and let us all have a peek.
No it's not, I usually just multiply spot times .925, for instance, $16.62 spot price means $15.37 sterling price. I get things that people sell...
I have an account at Dillon Gage here in Dallas, they pay in either a check or you can get bullion coins in payment.
My Mom passed my family's sterling flatware on to me and I use it everyday, the forks alone weigh around 75-76 grams each.
Mostly sterling items that are just worth melt, I've got a scrap bucket that I throw mangled sterling forks, bent .925 spoons and candlesticks...
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