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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3232078, member: 19463&quot;]Wow, I almost skipped this thread since it had the word Bullion in the title but when I saw who started it, I have to check it out.&nbsp; I agree that this is a question that can only be answered if we make assumptions that are probably best not made but it raises the basic questions of coinage.&nbsp; Why did they want to strike the coins?&nbsp; Where did the get the metal?&nbsp; What happened to the coins that are no longer known to exist?&nbsp; I am allergic to the term bullion since it promotes the theory that any ounce of metal is just like any other ounce of metal.&nbsp; If a hoard of well corroded ancient silver coins were found at the bottom of a well in condition that made them identifiable but ugly as sin and worth only melt, I would hope someone would save them from the pot but I would not put any of my money toward the project.&nbsp; As we write here, I suspect that somewhere someone is melting some coins that mean nothing to me but still will mean less to me when they are bricks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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