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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cubenewb, post: 1075151, member: 25644&quot;]I&#039;m not entirely well acquainted with the refinement process, but as I understand it it requires some industrial chemicals (borax is one i believe), as well as the graphite ingots, crucibles, and other equipment necessary to process it all. However, if someone were to buy a 1000 90% halves for say 10,000 (10 bucks apiece is probably reasonable in bulk?) they&#039;d have (in a perfect world) 361.69 troy. I&#039;d estimate that at least 5% would be lost when skimming the crud/impurities off the top of the molten bar during the refinement process, if that&#039;s the case the person has 343.61 troy. They would break even selling at $29.10, this makes me believe plenty of people are doing this despite its illegality</p><p><br /></p><p>As for melting mercuries.. that just seems preposterous? Why would someone melt mercs when there are myriads of halves, roosies, and other less &#039;rare&#039; silver coins they could melt? As far as I&#039;m concerned, a mercury is to an indian as a roosevelt is to a lincoln memorial. Mercs have a premium no matter their condition or year imo</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: Interested to see &#039;Merc Crazy&#039;s response <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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