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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1368878, member: 27832&quot;]Don&#039;t know about the Canadian market for Canadian material, but down here in the southeastern US, sterling trades at a hefty discount. At a typical coin show, dealers buy .999 at close to melt, but pay something like 80% for sterling.</p><p><br /></p><p>As it&#039;s been explained to me, .999 is easiest to reprocess (just melt it), 90% coin silver is fairly easy (separate it from the copper), but sterling is difficult because that other 7.5% can include a wide variety of metals or semimetals. Separating an unknown composition is always harder and more expensive.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously, this does <i>not</i> address numismatic value. I&#039;ll leave that to others.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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