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Message:: [QUOTE="Nutfarm, post: 888348, member: 24649"]bqcoins is spot on.  According to the mint, 6.6 billion of these were minted between 1946 and 1964.  According to me and the research I've done, there are still about 500 million left.  Though that is less than 8% of the original mintage, about 180 million of the remaining coins are in un-circulated condition. The data suggests there are some surprises in store for future collectors but even the rarest of the series has over 300,000 un-circulated specimens available.  Therefore, the only things that will ever have much value are high grade un-circulated coins and then only after there is some interest in the series.  That may be never or at least not in the time frame a dealer is interested in.  I hope my kids thank me. For now though, keep melting them.  As the price of silver rises and/or when industrial demand again increases, more of these will be melted.  If enough rolls get busted up and enough of the busted up rolls get melted, and if enough people become interested, then maybe there will be a modest profit to be made on high grade specimens.  Also, in case I forgot... If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. I buy and hold them because I like them. To each his own.[/QUOTE]