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Message:: [QUOTE="Sallent, post: 26394460, member: 76194"]With silver prices being ridiculously high a lot of vintage stuff is coming out of the woodworks, but unfortunately there's way more sellers than buyers which means a lot of this stuff is ending in the melt piles and off to the refiners. But I've been able to acquire multiple examples of a few varieties I didn't have before, all for melt value, and I'd like to share them here with you. First is a Hoffman and Hoffman Universal Trade Unit from 1974. [ATTACH=full]1683845[/ATTACH] Next is a Continental Coin Corporation round that is dated 1981, though they were sold to the public in the first half of 1982. They made a bid for some of the strategic reserve silver in an auction in November of 1981, and won 8,000 oz in the form of 1000 oz bars of silver, which were then converted to 1 oz bars and rounds for sale to the public. [ATTACH=full]1683846[/ATTACH] Next is another Hoffman and Hoffman, this time featuring the very iconic unicorn obverse with a rather plain and simple reverse. [ATTACH=full]1683847[/ATTACH] And last but not least, a somewhat more common 1983 American Pacific Mint Silver Trade Unit. [ATTACH=full]1683848[/ATTACH] Boy, they really had something for those "silver trade units" back then, it seems to be a very common theme on vintage rounds.[/QUOTE]