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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 812518, member: 16510&quot;]<b>No, or,,,</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;No, or,,,&nbsp; If 75% of silver US coins were melted before 1980 there must have so much laying around that people were propping up doors and using it as boat anchors by the bag!</p><p>To believe that and all that has been since then (30 years) and is being melted right now, well golly jee folks there wouldn&#039;t a scap of silver left in the world.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The most common item in every, and I mean every coin shop, dealers table, old peoples dresser drawer and bank box is US coin silver.&nbsp; It has never been rare, is not now, and will not be for at least another 100 years.</p><p>Look folks I&#039;m just a little old fellow from East Tenn. and may not know much but what I do know is what is what I see.&nbsp; I see silver everywhere, all the time, every one has it and nobody has to search to find it - those are facts, (at least down here).</p><p>The only aspect of any U.S. silver that may have suffered (and thus be less left in the market today) during meltdown was common date BU rolls of dimes, quarters and halves from 1950 forward.&nbsp; Yes, these were melted also as most were not (and still not) worth much over melt value.&nbsp; Truly original bank wrapped rolls of U.S BU coin silver may be a fraction of original mintages left.&nbsp; Even that does not or will not make it rare or very valuble in and of itself.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The 75% of all US coin silver was melted before 1980 figure only could be correct if at one time bags of silver were as common as dirt and worth little more!!!&nbsp; I would go with 45% to 60% but never 75% - not here anyway.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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