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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 26586862, member: 73489&quot;]Will it ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Our parents and grandparents hoarded silver coins especially after the government ceased using silver.&nbsp; But that was over 50 years ago.&nbsp; My grandparents and parents/uncles/relatives all had silver coins in some quantities (100-1,000).&nbsp; But today the Family Elders don&#039;t have them for the most part.&nbsp; 2 estates I worked on had $35,000 and $5,000 in coins but they&#039;re the exception.</p><p><br /></p><p>Folks on coins sites like this buy junk silver, silver bars, silver coins, etc.&nbsp; Not as sure about the public today as much as in the 1970&#039;s when alot more people were really shocked by the changes of the 1970&#039;s which were wrenching, unprecedented, and somewhat incredible.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>If you doubt me....ask anybody under the age of 40 if they ever waited an hour at a gas station to buy gas....or if they lived through inflation years which AVERAGED 8%....or anchovie or meat prices doubling in a few months and then doing it again.&nbsp; They&#039;ll look at you like you were from Mars or the 1880&#039;s.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></u></b></p><p><b><u><br /></u></b></p><p>I think there are more inheritances with some silver coins to come out, but I don&#039;t think it&#039;s on the volume of the 1970&#039;s.&nbsp; Maybe a few people who wanted to go cheap relative to Blanchard gold coins in the 1980&#039;s and 1990&#039;s did the silver alternative but most people were learning about the stock and bond markets.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>I would be interested if you Junk Silver Experts might quantify exactly how much silver coinage was used by the United States </b>from 1850 or whenever it started ($1, 50 cent, 25 cent, 10 cent, 5 cent) through 1964....how much they figure was melted/destroyed....and how much might be out there in circulation and/or in collections/hoards.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have no idea of the numbers and what the resulting silver content means relative to the current volume or annual supply.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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