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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 2590096, member: 71234"]Looks like a good EF at a fair price.</p><p><br /></p><p>An above average amount of 50% silver George VI coins survived in high grades due to war time hoarding, and also to the Great Silver Hunt during the C. 1970 silver price spike when it was suddenly worth the effort to pick silver coins from circulation. Virtually the whole circulating coinage was sifted througn, and only the most ruthless scrapper would not pick all the high grade coins out before selling off the average circulated stuff. </p><p><br /></p><p>I came to that party a bit late, all the halfcrowns and florins had been scooped up, and probably most of the shillings,, but it was still worth while sorting bags of sixpences, because they took more sorting for the same silver value and the high graders had mined all the best ore. </p><p><br /></p><p>Since that time collectable grade George VI silver has always been rather more common than you'd expect.</p><p><br /></p><p>WWI French silver francs and half francs have always been more plentiful than you'd expect in good grades because many British soldiers kept one or two as a souvenir. Sometimes human activity that has little to do with coins leads to un-naturally large numbers of them surviving.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 2590096, member: 71234"]Looks like a good EF at a fair price. An above average amount of 50% silver George VI coins survived in high grades due to war time hoarding, and also to the Great Silver Hunt during the C. 1970 silver price spike when it was suddenly worth the effort to pick silver coins from circulation. Virtually the whole circulating coinage was sifted througn, and only the most ruthless scrapper would not pick all the high grade coins out before selling off the average circulated stuff. I came to that party a bit late, all the halfcrowns and florins had been scooped up, and probably most of the shillings,, but it was still worth while sorting bags of sixpences, because they took more sorting for the same silver value and the high graders had mined all the best ore. Since that time collectable grade George VI silver has always been rather more common than you'd expect. WWI French silver francs and half francs have always been more plentiful than you'd expect in good grades because many British soldiers kept one or two as a souvenir. Sometimes human activity that has little to do with coins leads to un-naturally large numbers of them surviving.[/QUOTE]
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