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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 12873, member: 68&quot;]No.&nbsp; It certainly would be for a 1933 double eagle but not for an 1891 dime.&nbsp; There has never been heavy melting of any US silver coins minted since the mid-1850&#039;s except for the Pittman act which melted silver dollars the the treasury melts of 1968/9. This latter melt was not extrenmely large but did remove the silver coin from circulation which was still there in &#039;68.&nbsp; There was an extensive series of smaller melts which did melt a large number of coins.&nbsp; These were mostly very common coins in very common conditions and this melting did not seriously affect the surviving numbers of any coin in any collectible condition.&nbsp; There were a few coins which might have been more greatly threatened such as coins like a circ &#039;40-D quarter or original rolls of &#039;68 and &#039;69-D half dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s attrition which destroys coins.&nbsp; They run into mishaps from fires, floods, misplacement, hammers, trains and myriad other sources. High grade silver and gold often exist only because of the propensity of people to hoarde things of value in good time and bad.&nbsp; This has protected them from the ravages of time and circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>edited to add three sentences to first paragraph.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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