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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2157343, member: 71723"]Well then, I guess I'm just not "folks", huh? Because I've been collecting for 52 years and I couldn't give a rodent's rump about silver or intrinsic value. I am all about the artistry, and that is even if the coin in question is made of silver, copper, cupro-nickel, or aluminum brass or pure zinc, and brother, I have them all. I could not give one whit less how many protons are in a coin's atomic nuclei, I care about the condition and the "shape of the boundary between the metallic atoms and the nearby gaseous ones". Okay with you? Oh, and my Lincolns, Jeffersons, Roosevelts, Kennedys, Washingtons, and Eisenhowers, SBA's, Sacs, and Presidentials are ALL COMPLETE in MS 64+ from 1965 right up to 2015 as applicable too, WITH all the applicable proofs, again if that's okay with you. By the way, looking at the WHOLE series, I'm complete in all alloys in all of those in MS64 and up except for a few earlier mint marked Lincolns and 4 Washingtons. The rest are complete complete. I need one Merc to finish the short set in 64+ (34-45), and I'm one Walker short from 1939-47 in 64+. So I don't avoid silver per se, nor do I seek it. And aside from real rarities, or at least pre-1933, for U.S. issues, if it ain't in the MS range, I don't keep it.[/QUOTE]