Re: Wait! Don't Scrap Your Silver Just Yet!



On Mar 30, 6:49 pm, Lew Hartswick <lhartsw...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
silverhammer wrote:

snip about "art objects"



Jeffrey Herman, Founder & Executive Director
Society of American Silversmiths
PO Box 72839
Providence, RI 02907
401/461-6840, Fax: 401/461-6841
E-mail: s...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Home Page:http://www.silversmithing.com

How about Ag $ coinage from circulation in the 50s
Have a few of those?
...lew...

Those are scrappable

unless there is a specific law but even then. In one of my highschool
chemistry classes (Early 90's during the russian metal dumping
debacle) we tool pre-1968 coins and dissolved and titrated the silver
out of them

we were then asked to weigh the amount of silver we got and using the
spot price calculate the value.

the number was in the ballpark of 40 cents even back then. likely now
its over a dollar of silver for the dime. And even more obviously for
nickels and quarters
.



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