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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1368412, member: 68&quot;]Coins have been made debased and underweight for millinea.&nbsp; This is hardly a problem with US coins but there are many heavily worn US coins and these are light.&nbsp; Many buyers don&#039;t care if these underweight coins are scarce date seated liberty; they just want full weight.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s another factor as well and that is that most investors desire 999 bars and the ETF&#039;s require 999 1000 OZt bars.&nbsp; The major reason is that it&#039;s easier to trust that bars are real silver and a secondary reason is that they require less storage room.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Common US silver will not become scarce anytime soon.&nbsp; These are melted because there aren&#039;t nearly enough collectors to absorb the large amounts of these coins.&nbsp; While AU/ U walkers might get pulled out on the way to being melted there are lots of bunches of coins that don&#039;t really get screened at all.&nbsp; Everything that comes in gets shipped right off.&nbsp; The refiners usually don&#039;t have time to save much of anything.&nbsp; If people sell it for scrap prices then there&#039;s a good chance it willbe melted as scrap.&nbsp; Of course this doesn&#039;t apply to the stuff the motel buyers steal.&nbsp; They will obviously pull out easily sold coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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