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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2769035, member: 10461&quot;]At spot north of $50-60/oz, I&#039;d start looking at my metal detecting finds album a bit differently.&nbsp; Might have to go beyond $65-75/oz to break my sentimental attachment to my dug &quot;treasures&quot;, though.</p><p><br /></p><p>What little generic silver I keep around would go long before that, of course.</p><p><br /></p><p>My primary collections would be safe almost indefinitely. It&#039;s not really feasible to melt Roman <i>denarii</i> or wafer-thin medieval hammered silver, or the scarcer slabbed stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>I couldn&#039;t bring myself to surrender such things for melt, even if spot value exceeded my cost.&nbsp; But strange things happen in peaks like that.&nbsp; The coin dealer who mentored me told stories of people in the back room during the early-1980s boom, crushing antique Tiffany silver sets and suchlike with <i>sledgehammers</i>, so that it could all be busted up and shipped off to the smelter.</p><p><br /></p><p>I couldn&#039;t bear to watch something like that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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