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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pilkenton, post: 1097109, member: 23961&quot;]I&#039;ve been selling a lot of Franklin halves on ebay.&nbsp; I&#039;ve had a lot of bad luck with my graded common ones, especially the proofs.&nbsp; I sold a proof 66-1961 for 18 dollars and a proof 65-1963 for 14 dollars.&nbsp; The ungraded ones were going for scrap prices.&nbsp; It got to the point that it wasn&#039;t worth listing them.</p><p>So I gathered what I had left and went to the coin store that treats me the fairest.&nbsp; He gave me a fair lump sum for all of them.&nbsp; I was happy because I didn&#039;t have to go through the hassle of packing and shipping a bunch of individual coins.&nbsp; I told him about my bad luck on ebay.&nbsp; He said that the price of silver now is worth more than the collectors value for these coins.&nbsp; He also said they were busting open proof sets and throwing the Franklins into the melt bucket.&nbsp; </p><p>Is this a common practice now?&nbsp; I could see melting a bunch of them instead of them collecting dust in their shop.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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