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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;imrich, post: 2673767, member: 22331&quot;]I&#039;ll try not to confuse you with logic, as I&#039;ve previously tried that without success. I&#039;ll paraphrase, hoping you&#039;ll perceive the logic.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=23778]@sakata[/USER] stated: &quot;Highly unlikely a coin worth $20 would be made of gold&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>PARAPHRASED: &quot;Highly unlikely a 2017 Eagle coin worth $1 would be made of Silver&quot; He meant literally what he stated, that he couldn&#039;t understand how a coin originally having a stated value/worth could be made of Gold, seemingly not understanding that the coin was produced 168 years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll now paraphrase your statement to see if it makes sense: &quot;We absolutely can state the gold value of those doesn&#039;t even sniff 20 dollar anymore and hasn&#039;t for many decades.&nbsp; I believe his statement was saying you aren&#039;t going to find any gold coins today for 20 dollars.&nbsp; If it costs you more than the 20 dollar face value to buy, it&#039;s worth more than 20 dollars&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>PARAPHRASED: &quot;We absolutely can state the Copper, Silver, Gold Nickel value of U.S. coins doesn&#039;t even sniff their &quot;face value&quot; anymore and hasn&#039;t for decades.&nbsp; I believe his statement was saying you aren&#039;t going to find any PM coins today for their Face Value.&nbsp; If it costs more than the face value to produce/acquire, it&#039;s worth more.&quot; My practical statement is that the coins will be worth their face value when the variable PM material of construction varies e.g. when the copper in the cent, nickel in the 5 cent, etc. drops somewhat.</p><p><br /></p><p>Virtually all PM &quot;coins&quot; produced by the U.S. mint are not produced of appropriate materials relative to their &quot;Face Value&quot;, and none question the construction material or value (e.g. $1, $5, $10, $25, $50 Precious Metals amount relative to FV). Why question that of a different era that changed in value because of a currency standards change. The day may soon arrive when the worth and FV may be correct. I don&#039;t know!</p><p><br /></p><p>JMHO[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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