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Message:: [QUOTE="tradernick, post: 27122, member: 648"]So this guy comes into the shop...regular customer.  Retired navy that loves coins and other interesting things.  Says he's got a new hobby and has been melting u.s. 90% coins and sterling scrap...making them into things.  Paperweights....star shaped and round and just big blobs of silver.  Just as they're cooling he sticks more silver coins to them so there's usually a coin or silver round stuck to the top...or dimes sticking sideways out of the thing, or a piece of sterling chain visible. The first time I thought he was trying to pull a fast one but since he's local I bought them anyway and had them refined.  Sure enough...94% pure.  He's since sold me a few more.  Pretty sad that he's got nothing better to do than melt coins.Look here to see one that didn't sell on FEEbay <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3361&item=3944530896&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3361&item=3944530896&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3361&item=3944530896&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW</a>[/QUOTE]