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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1343346, member: 68&quot;]Melting is not going to affect availability of silver coins for collectors in the foreseeable future.&nbsp; Even if 99% of the &#039;64-D dimes were destroyed it would have no effect on the values.&nbsp; It is not within the realm of reason to expect such a high redemption rate except in the very long term because all &#039;64-D dimes will not be sold for melt and even if they were a small percentage would be bought for storage or for collections.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This being said there are numerous exceptions to this general rule.&nbsp; For instance a tiny percentage of &#039;64-D quartters have a clad reverse and these are mixed in with the typical specimens.&nbsp; So the small population of the clad reverse gets melted in the same proportions as the common coins.&nbsp; By the same token most &#039;40-D quarters are heavily worn and have no numismatic premiums so large numbers of these will be melted leaving relatively few of any grade for this date.&nbsp; The same goes for numerous US coins and even more numerous world coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Common coins will always be common but some common coins weren&#039;t saved and some uncommon coins only appear to be common.&nbsp; You have to think about these things.&nbsp; Compare mintages and values and you&#039;ll see what&#039;s going on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Melting was very high up till 5 months ago but might have slowed down or sped up with the lower price.&nbsp; Figure about 30% of the silver is gone across the board and they can get about 10% of the survivors each year if the refineries stay busy.&nbsp; This means it would take a very long time to get them all and this especially is true since prices will increase for coins when supply is sufficiently affected.</p><p><br /></p><p>The bottomline is don&#039;t buy coins waiting for melting to make them rare.&nbsp; Trade off your &#039;55 quarter rolls for something that already has a numismatic value around spot. Waiting for &#039;69-D halfs to be worth more than melt will only work if the silver price crashes so you lose money either way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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