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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cpm9ball, post: 2312989, member: 24633&quot;]Blue collar? What would you call a bartender? That was me!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve had so many setbacks in my life, that if I couldn&#039;t inject some levity into the everyday parts of it, I would probably go insane. After military service and divorce, bartending was the best thing that ever happened to me. I got to look at the funny things in life in a much broader spectrum.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not trying to disillusion the young collectors about the hobby, but I do think it is important to wake them up to the reality of what is valuable and what is not. We keep getting the novice collectors asking, &quot;What is this worth?&quot;, but they don&#039;t realize that a coin, any coin, is only worth face value unless someone is willing to pay more for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for melting coins, I have never advocated this whether there is a law against it or not. But, someone has to wake the uninformed collectors up to the fact that the 95% copper Lincoln&#039;s are not worth their weight in copper. Actually, they&#039;re worth less than face value. Refiners will only pay about 25% of the price of Grade A copper because the copper has to be extracted from the alloyed coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think you might have misunderstood about melting coins. A lot of people refer to junk silver based on the going price. It is often called &quot;melt value&quot; or even &quot;spot price&quot;. Both have the same meaning, but these collectors are not really advocating melting the coins because like many of them, there are others who would be happier than a pig in slop to have these coins in their collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope this helps!</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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