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Message:: [QUOTE="Tom Maringer, post: 192408, member: 7033"]Well... it's not a stash I found... but it's the biggest stash I ever heard of... 135 million ounces... 14,700 TONS of silver that was "borrowed" from the US treasury during WWII to built the calutron electromagnetic separators at Oak Ridge Tennessee. The result was the atomic bomb. After the calutron technique was surpassed by the centrifuge process the silver was all returned to the treasury. So it's entirely likely that most of the US silver coins made after 1945 contain some silver that was used to produce the atomic bomb. You can read more about it at <a href="http://www.olive-drab.com/od_nuclear_manhattan_oakridge.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.olive-drab.com/od_nuclear_manhattan_oakridge.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.olive-drab.com/od_nuclear_manhattan_oakridge.php</a>  The father of a friend was involved in that project... and he said that when they inventoried the silver to return it to the treasury they had lost less than seven pounds.... or only about 0.0002%... in the entire process of smelting the bullion, drawing it into wire, insulating the wire, winding the coils, making electrical connections, tearing it all down, removing the insulation, and resmelting into bullion. Now THAT is amazing![/QUOTE]