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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WingedLiberty, post: 1054089, member: 26030&quot;]Let me know about your scales, Jeff!&nbsp; Always curious about new equipment.&nbsp; And please post your findings.&nbsp; I wonder if the silver loss would follow similar percentages for smaller denominations (esp curious about dimes).&nbsp; I picked half dollars for my bulk purchases since halfs didnt circulate nearly as much as the dimes and quaters, so i thought they might come in slightly better condition (and have less silver loss) on average.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another thing I always wondered about is ... <b><i>where does all the worn off silver go?</i></b>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If you think about the many many hundreds of millions of silver coins produced in this country since 1794 ... and if the well worn coins lost 6% of their silver ... there must be tens of millions of ounces of &quot;lost&quot; silver floating around somewhere in our environment.&nbsp; Makes you want to grab your shovels (or maybe wisk brooms?) and silver dust bags!!!&nbsp; (Perhaps some of it wears off on our hands, then we wash it into our sewer systems? Sort of a strange thought.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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