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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nathan B., post: 4602825, member: 112852&quot;]Hi medoraman!&nbsp; I also thank you for your gracious response.&nbsp; I believe that you didn&#039;t mean any harm in your original post.&nbsp; In my very clumsy way, I was just trying to stick up for the underdogs and make them feel welcome here, which I still think is a worthy goal, even if I didn&#039;t handle things very well.&nbsp; Part of the problem is probably that I am not as mentally stable as I would like to be, owing to some events in the last few years.&nbsp; I&#039;m on a couple of medications now that have made a big difference, though, and hopefully things can continue to improve.</p><p><br /></p><p>About &quot;melt,&quot; though, I meant it literally.&nbsp; I worked for a coin shop until about a year ago.&nbsp; Over my several years there, I saw us shipping off for melting large quantities of both Canadian and US coinage a number of times each year; the amounts were typically in the six-figures in terms of dollar values, so that was a lot of silver getting melted.&nbsp; I know most nations have laws against defacing coins, but I assume there are exemptions for melting bullion.&nbsp; Of course, the owner preferred to sell the coins as bullion right away, but when I was there, demand was usually only a small fraction of supply.&nbsp; Because of the narrow margins on bullion, he had to turn them over quickly so as to be able to make a profit and not take potentially heavy losses.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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