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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 26587455, member: 27832&quot;]Someone here has posted Mint reports showing the amount of silver (and I think gold) coinage <i>returned</i> to the Mint each year for re-melting. Distilling all that data would be a pretty big undertaking, and I don&#039;t even know if it covers the 1960s. (The reports I saw were from the late 19th century, I think?)</p><p><br /></p><p>And, of course, there are no official accounts for the great melting that happened circa 1980, or during subsequent spikes. I&#039;d <i>like</i> to think that most of the actual coinage was kept in its original, easily-authenticated-and-counted form, but I&#039;m sure a lot has been recycled.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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