Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1256395, member: 68&quot;]Clad coins have not been melted yet but this is the fate of almost all moderns and it will eventually befall&nbsp; clad quarters as well.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Almost all of the pre-2000 European coins have been melted and turned into consumer products.&nbsp; Have you priced something like a nice luminum unc 1950 E E German 10p recently.&nbsp; It goes for well over $1000. A 1969 Russian 5k goes for nearly a thousand.&nbsp; Some of the Greek cu ni from the &#039;50&#039;s is over a thousand.&nbsp; A 1991 Russian mint set is over $2500 and an Indian 1950 proof set is over $1000.&nbsp; These coins are mostly high mintage but people neglected to save them.&nbsp; All of these coins that were left after decades of use have been melted over the last couple decades.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The old coins were not melted because no one would want to turn in a silver coin for a debased coin.&nbsp; Of course some have been melted individually but this isn&#039;t like thwe wholesale destruction of hundreds of millions of coins.&nbsp; There was a ship that used to take 30,000 tons of obsolete coins back to Japan after each delivery of Toyotas to South America.&nbsp; But you can go to a coin shop and get bags of obsolete silver.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It was highly variable.&nbsp; It ranged from as low as about .08% to as high as about 9%.&nbsp; Multiply that low number by the one third of mint sets that survive to get an idea of how scarce gems can be.&nbsp; Try to find gems of coins that didn&#039;t appear in mint sets like the &#039;82-P quarter if you want a real challenge.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in