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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NorthKorea, post: 1765351, member: 29643&quot;]Tim, given how often you complain about world coins being valued lower than US coins, you should know that $12 melt in foreign junk coins won&#039;t get $12. You might get 25-40% less than melt for those, simply because no one will know that they&#039;re silver. Also, foreign silver standards are HORRIBLE. There are some 10%, some 30%, some 50%, some 80%, some 90%, some 92.5%, etc. In the US, most people collecting silver &quot;know&quot; that &quot;pre-1964&quot; (meaning pre-1965) dollars, halves, quarters, and dimes are 90% and that 1965-1970 halves are 40% (80% silver outer shell and 20% silver core, if I recall). Yes, there are other silver coins (silver Ikes, commemorative dollars/halves that are 90%, silver set coins that are 90%, etc), but the average person who knows little about coins vaguely knows the 1964 cutoff.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The equivalent doesn&#039;t really exist for non-US coinage. Unless you&#039;re willing to carry a silver test kit every time you go to sell foreign junk-silver, you&#039;re going to basically be selling to dealers or eBay. With the shipping costs and fees, even if you get &quot;spot&quot; on the silver (which you probably won&#039;t), you should be expecting to lose about 30-40% of the transaction to fees/shipping, unless you&#039;re selling them in lots, in which case, your ending price will be lower, but shipping will also be lower. With dealers, you might be selling at 50% of melt, because &quot;they need to make something too.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The point is, as much as you try to rationalize this into a good deal, you really over spent by at least $10 (assuming all the coins you identified are actually what you think they are). If those coins aren&#039;t &quot;silver,&quot; you overspent by an amount closer to $15.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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