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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 3222292, member: 39&quot;]First of all, great finds there! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> As for the melting issue, I would not be all too worried about that. Mints and other &quot;official institutions&quot; do that themselves. For example, coins issued in this country (Federal Republic of Germany) before the euro will indeed be destroyed when somebody returns them to a Bundesbank branch office. Usually they are &quot;decoined&quot; and then sold as scrap metal, but from a collector&#039;s POV they are gone.</p><p><br /></p><p>The GDR (East G. 1949-1990) melted many collector coins so today&#039;s population figures for those pieces are way below the production figures. The Monnaie de Paris (French mint) also does that with coins they have not been able to sell. Most probably others too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t know what happened to pre-decimal British coins (such as the ones you just got) that were returned to banks when they ceased to be legal tender. But I have a hunch they were not sold to coin dealers. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So all in all, a single dealer who decides to have coins melted down will probably not have a great impact on population figures. Would be great if we had more information about how many pieces of a certain type are actually still around. Ah well, one can dream ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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