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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dan Rogers, post: 3381035, member: 101221&quot;]So I went through probably 10,000 coins I had accumulated in jars at the end of the day for the past 30 years.&nbsp; When I retired, for each denomination I carefully culled out every coin that had silver content.&nbsp; Then I carefully did my research and checked each coin, looking for the ones that would help make me rich. (Of course I didn&#039;t find any.)&nbsp; But knowing there was intrinsic melt-value, for example I counted out my Mercury &amp; Roosevelt dimes.&nbsp; A friend of mine, who collects and sells, confirmed I had nothing of great value but did know someone who would purchase the coins for their melt value.&nbsp; Thinking that wear would probably be a factor and wanting to show I was being up-front about this transaction (and knowing I still had quarters and halves and even war nickels I wanted him to purchase later), I weighed the lot and found there was indeed a loss due to wear.&nbsp; I gave the bags of dimes to my friend noting the weight for each bag.&nbsp; The outcome?&nbsp; The buyer asked for the amount of dimes in each bag, I gave it to him and he paid me by the count, not the weight.&nbsp; Lesson learned....weight is important when trying to identify coins, but wear loss is infinitesimal in the grand scheme of things.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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