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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bqcoins, post: 1247058, member: 5036&quot;]All right then, I have been breaking into the coin business for a while now, here and there, for the last three years.&nbsp; My local dealer, also my friend, has been very good to help me along with a few deals, lots of knowledge, and the occasional poker game <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Well, one of the things he cuts me deals on is foreign silver coins.&nbsp; He lumps them all together and saves them up for me and I buy them by weight at 70% spot.&nbsp; The way we figured it is that most foreign silver, except the modern mexican is usually somewhere between 50% and 80% and it has worked out well for me.&nbsp; I can usually turn a profit on these little items.&nbsp; But this last time I received a doozie of a deal.&nbsp; I just came back from deployment and stopped in to see him, he had a mason jar full of foreign silver.&nbsp; We weighed it, I bought it, no biggie.&nbsp; (btw, he told me this is stuff he would send to the scrappers if I didn&#039;t purchase it)&nbsp; I got it home and started sifting through it.&nbsp; The canadian dimes, quarters, modern halves, australian and new zealand and british 3 pence went right back out the door with out a thought and I made a few bucks on them.&nbsp; There were some other minor coins that I looked up and decided it would be easier to dump them off, but I was left with a few bigger items, as I usually start with the smallest stuff and work my way up.&nbsp; The last two items quite literally shocked me.&nbsp; An American Peso and an older Canadian half. Here are the pics:</p><p><img src="http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff71/bqcoins/coins002.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff71/bqcoins/coins001.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff71/bqcoins/coins004.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff71/bqcoins/coins003.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Both of these are moderately rare, the peso which looks to be unc, maybe dipped, lists over $100 and the half is a major rarity with a mintage of 60,000 list in this condition for around $700!!!&nbsp; I called my friend and told him about them and that I could give him half of whatever I sold them for, but he told me not to worry about it, again he was just going to melt them if I didn&#039;t purchase them.&nbsp; Plus, there is a coin show this weekend and I was taking some other stuff in to show some of the specialist dealers (a mostly complete set of barber dimes and some major error coins) so these will go along.&nbsp; This may end up being my biggest deal yet![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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