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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NorthKorea, post: 2788821, member: 29643&quot;]That&#039;s still insane. Silver content would still have been only $2.47 on a freshly minted coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, the outer layer is 80% silver and the inner core is 21% silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re dealing with VF or less coinage, you&#039;re losing silver at a rate of ~2.25x the expected loss, due to the differences in density and relative volume of a cylinder inside another cylinder.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, if a coin has lost 1g in mass, rather than losing merely 0.4g of silver, you may have lost closer to 0.9g of silver. In other words, a 10.5g coin (loss 1g) would have the equivalent silver of a 9.25g coin (loss 2.25g)... or a 19.5% loss in silver value/weight.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, if you were dealing with VF or lower grade coinage, you were getting $2.20 per coin containing about $1.99 of costly to recover silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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