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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 4602837, member: 26302"]Fair enough you have personal experience in SENDING them to melters. I knew some dealers who BOUGHT the same coins. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Many times "melters" are large accumulation sites. All kinds of stores send in for "melt", these places sort them into common coins and resell bags. [USER=76863]@baseball21[/USER] is right, in times of extreme turbulenc, where the parties cannot effectively lay off bullion risk on the futures market, more might get melted then, but usually even if a store sends it in for melt, it doesn't see the smelter. This is true mostly for US coins. Silverware, foreign, (especially oddball fineness), jewelry etc gets the heck melted out of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>No problems with me sir. I understand being grumpy at times. I am a disabled Gulf War vet with pain meds, so sometimes I am grumpy as well. Sorry if I misread your posts in turn. Hope you are doing better.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 4602837, member: 26302"]Fair enough you have personal experience in SENDING them to melters. I knew some dealers who BOUGHT the same coins. :) Many times "melters" are large accumulation sites. All kinds of stores send in for "melt", these places sort them into common coins and resell bags. [USER=76863]@baseball21[/USER] is right, in times of extreme turbulenc, where the parties cannot effectively lay off bullion risk on the futures market, more might get melted then, but usually even if a store sends it in for melt, it doesn't see the smelter. This is true mostly for US coins. Silverware, foreign, (especially oddball fineness), jewelry etc gets the heck melted out of it. No problems with me sir. I understand being grumpy at times. I am a disabled Gulf War vet with pain meds, so sometimes I am grumpy as well. Sorry if I misread your posts in turn. Hope you are doing better.[/QUOTE]
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