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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;qsilver007, post: 1466469, member: 34667&quot;]I have been a buyer or gold and silver for a long time, mostly bars and lowere grade silver coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>On this recent downtrun in Silver I found a gentleman in my are who was looking to dump some silver, at prices so far below market I was expecting black holed candadian dimes</p><p><br /></p><p>to my surprise he had a fe uhaul boxes of silver mostly forerign, mostly canadian</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought the small &quot;hoard&quot; of silver</p><p><br /></p><p>There were gallon bags of ugly grey toned 1940&#039;s-1960&#039;s canadian 10c, 25c, 50c and dollars, kind of what i expected</p><p><br /></p><p>what i didnt expect was shoeboxes full of 1950&#039;s and 1960&#039;s canadian proof sets most were 61-67 in cellophane in a yellow envelope</p><p><br /></p><p>a few were 1953-1960 proof sets all with major toning in these white carboard sleeves wrapped in cellophane</p><p><br /></p><p>i looked on ebay the mintages for some of the 1950&#039;s ones were 1k, 3k, 9k, basically nothing the early 60s cellophane ones were 60-90k</p><p><br /></p><p>why are they so cheap?</p><p>u got more than an ounce of silver 1.11 if my calc&#039;s are correct.&nbsp; at the price i bought im just holding it, but it just dosnt seem like ther is enough of a premium on them for there rarity</p><p>any opinions?</p><p>thanks</p><p>qsilver007[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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