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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2634730, member: 27832"]Because you can always sell 90% coins for more than the equivalent weight of pure silver, <i>especially</i> if you're trying to sell homemade silver bars.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's well within a serious hobbyist's ability to refine coin silver to .999 -- all it takes is lots of time, some not-exactly-cheap equipment and materials, and a good bit of fuel for heating. So, you'd end up spending significant time and money to turn your silver into a form in which it would bring you <i>less</i> money when it's time to sell.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, if you're doing it for fun, you just have to decide whether the entertainment value is worth the cost. I still have half a silver dime somewhere; I dissolved the other half in nitric acid to make silver nitrate for some chemistry experiments. It was well worth the 30 cents (mid-1970s value) I gave up by trashing the dime. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2634730, member: 27832"]Because you can always sell 90% coins for more than the equivalent weight of pure silver, [I]especially[/I] if you're trying to sell homemade silver bars. It's well within a serious hobbyist's ability to refine coin silver to .999 -- all it takes is lots of time, some not-exactly-cheap equipment and materials, and a good bit of fuel for heating. So, you'd end up spending significant time and money to turn your silver into a form in which it would bring you [I]less[/I] money when it's time to sell. On the other hand, if you're doing it for fun, you just have to decide whether the entertainment value is worth the cost. I still have half a silver dime somewhere; I dissolved the other half in nitric acid to make silver nitrate for some chemistry experiments. It was well worth the 30 cents (mid-1970s value) I gave up by trashing the dime. :)[/QUOTE]
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