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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1012080, member: 57463&quot;]The easy answer is that junk silver is sold &quot;by tale&quot; (by count) not by weight.&nbsp; This has been true for hundreds of years with the silver penny of England.&nbsp; Yes, we all know that Barber Halves weigh less than 1964 Kennedys.&nbsp; But I never in 35 years had a dealer do anything except run them through a counter.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I beg to differ.&nbsp; If they were mashed down, would the diameter not get larger?&nbsp; I had an uncle, a real estate agent, who knew the trick to tearing a phone book in half.&nbsp; He collected coins.&nbsp; Never mashed one flat.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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