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<p>[QUOTE="1970 Silver Art, post: 1162895, member: 18828"]I have been collecting '70's silver art bars for only about 3 years and I want to emphasize here that I am still learning about silver art bars. Generally speaking, sterling is the "ugly duckling" of silver since most people prefer .999 pure silver. With that said, I am familiar with Franklin Mint silver art bars that were minted between 1970 to 1975 (1000 grains and 500 grains) but I am not familiar with the Franklin "Jewelers of the World". </p><p><br /></p><p>I have never seen the Franklin Mint "Jewelers of the World" collection on ebay and I do not have an exact idea of what they are worth but what you could do is to sell it on ebay because ebay IMO is the best place that you will get the best price for them. I am going to make a wild guess here but I suspect that you will get slightly above melt value for them. I am basing this on past observations of seeing some 1970's 1000 grain Franklin Mint silver art bars selling for just above melt on ebay. </p><p><br /></p><p>Selling sterling silver on ebay and getting melt value for it is much better than selling it to a local coin dealer. If you try to sell it to a local dealer, then that local dealer will heavily discount it (if they accept it) because it is sterling silver and it is hard for them to move sterling silver bars and sterling silver rounds.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="1970 Silver Art, post: 1162895, member: 18828"]I have been collecting '70's silver art bars for only about 3 years and I want to emphasize here that I am still learning about silver art bars. Generally speaking, sterling is the "ugly duckling" of silver since most people prefer .999 pure silver. With that said, I am familiar with Franklin Mint silver art bars that were minted between 1970 to 1975 (1000 grains and 500 grains) but I am not familiar with the Franklin "Jewelers of the World". I have never seen the Franklin Mint "Jewelers of the World" collection on ebay and I do not have an exact idea of what they are worth but what you could do is to sell it on ebay because ebay IMO is the best place that you will get the best price for them. I am going to make a wild guess here but I suspect that you will get slightly above melt value for them. I am basing this on past observations of seeing some 1970's 1000 grain Franklin Mint silver art bars selling for just above melt on ebay. Selling sterling silver on ebay and getting melt value for it is much better than selling it to a local coin dealer. If you try to sell it to a local dealer, then that local dealer will heavily discount it (if they accept it) because it is sterling silver and it is hard for them to move sterling silver bars and sterling silver rounds.[/QUOTE]
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