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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2467222, member: 59677&quot;]Most US coins until the 1870s WERE melted down in substantial numbers by the mint to make bullion for subsequent coinage. And even after that, obsolete coins were routinely melted (for example, posted here a couple months back are records showing 10,000s of 3c silvers were melted in the 1920s). The problem with those records is they are by weight or value not by mintage years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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