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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ZoidMeister, post: 4758070, member: 114169&quot;]Greetings SME&#039;s,</p><p><br /></p><p>Many many years ago, my father bought a couple of silver balls from a jeweler who had melted his scrap, or maybe melted down some circulation coins, fearing a repeat of a government prohibition on the ownership of silver like they did with gold back in 1933.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dad bought these when I was a kid, probably back around 1965 or so.&nbsp; They sat in a fish tank we owned for many many years.&nbsp; These WERE tarnished a dark grey / black until, my wife gave them to a little old lady who lived across the street.&nbsp; Her son it seemed, is a &quot;coin dealer&quot; who sets up at mall shows across the south east.&nbsp; &quot;Coin dealer&quot; my butt, this guy is a retired bus driver who needed something to get him out of the house and out of his wife&#039;s hair.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I digress.&nbsp; This little old lady thought it would be good to &quot;clean these up&quot; before showing them to her son.&nbsp; I never got to hear if the son actually saw these or not because I took them back as soon as I heard that she &quot;cleaned them.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, my question:&nbsp; how would a general guy go about getting a determination of the metallic content of these balls, and what should I expect to have to pay for this information?</p><p><br /></p><p>Photo evidence of said balls . . . . . .</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1160850[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I included an orange next to them to give a size perspective.&nbsp; A 10 ounce CMI silver bar can be seen in the background as well.&nbsp; I was able to weigh them.&nbsp; Each ball weighs around 650 grams.&nbsp; (649.4g for one, 650.2g for the other).</p><p><br /></p><p>I am thinking with current silver prices, these might be worth looking into.&nbsp; Heck, being jewelers melt, might they have some signficant gold in them as well?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve got no idea what to do with these, but I am looking to downsize our holdings in my numismatic items over the next few months.</p><p><br /></p><p>All advice will be greatly appreciated.</p><p><br /></p><p>Z</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A few other silver items with the balls.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1160856[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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