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<p>[QUOTE="krispy, post: 2027295, member: 19065"]...You know they usually swap out the classic car and, anymore, they use CG a lot more often than anything physical being banged-up. The beauty shots of classic cars in movies are what you see before careful editing and Hollywood skill that blends the "stunt double" into the myth of the film you are wrapped up in. Similar to how "no animals were hurt during the filming of this movie" the same goes for the cars provided to the movie industry. </p><p><br /></p><p>FWIW, I would sell at far less than $5000/oz. There are so many other things to enjoy with the benefit the coins would provide us from that payout! and so many other non-silver coins to collect if the vast majority of them were melted for the silver. Even if only a marginal amount of silver coins survived that only a few mega-billionaires could afford to possess them, we could still enjoy them like the rarities we can only behold in national museum collections.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another thing to ease your mind about, despite how many ARE being melted regularly, is to think of how much silver is really out there, still underground and not being actively mined, coming from production of other ore. If the demand is there, there's plenty of resources to go to for vast volumes of it without sacrificing all the coins you're thinking about. With silver at $5000 an ounce they'll reopen the silver mines that are shuttered and scrape the mines clean![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="krispy, post: 2027295, member: 19065"]...You know they usually swap out the classic car and, anymore, they use CG a lot more often than anything physical being banged-up. The beauty shots of classic cars in movies are what you see before careful editing and Hollywood skill that blends the "stunt double" into the myth of the film you are wrapped up in. Similar to how "no animals were hurt during the filming of this movie" the same goes for the cars provided to the movie industry. FWIW, I would sell at far less than $5000/oz. There are so many other things to enjoy with the benefit the coins would provide us from that payout! and so many other non-silver coins to collect if the vast majority of them were melted for the silver. Even if only a marginal amount of silver coins survived that only a few mega-billionaires could afford to possess them, we could still enjoy them like the rarities we can only behold in national museum collections. Another thing to ease your mind about, despite how many ARE being melted regularly, is to think of how much silver is really out there, still underground and not being actively mined, coming from production of other ore. If the demand is there, there's plenty of resources to go to for vast volumes of it without sacrificing all the coins you're thinking about. With silver at $5000 an ounce they'll reopen the silver mines that are shuttered and scrape the mines clean![/QUOTE]
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