Besides the 84 Trade $1's, what else can we profitably melt?

MrEureka

We've already established in other threads that you can make money by buying all the 84 Trade Dollars and melting all but five. Now, here's the cool thing: That may be the only coin for which that strategy will work. Play with the numbers. I defy you to name another coin where this would work!

sinin1

if you can get those fake ones from Asia and melt them - will be worth lots when silver gets to $50/oz again

coppercoins

Maybe a couple billion 1982 cents? You could build a brass castle with the metal.

razorface1027

EVERYTHING! Then we can start discussing coins...

joeyuk

I would like some cheese melted over french onion soup.

clw54

1870-S Seated Liberty dollar?

MrEureka

1870-S Seated Liberty dollar?

At current levels, that would take about $3.5 - 4 million. It might work!

lclugza

I wish they would melt all the clad coins and zinc cents. Then we can go back to silver and gold circulating coinage, and copper cents.

MrEureka

There are some good opportunities like this in the modern commemorative gold series. It wouldn't take much to make some of these issues rarer than the $1600 Jackie Robinson BU $5.

ClausUrch

<< <i>There are some good opportunities like this in the modern commemorative gold series. It wouldn't take much to make some of these issues rarer than the $1600 Jackie Robinson BU $5. >>



Ahhh...Mr. Eureka...that's the 2,200 Jackie Robinson and J. Parrino is hoarding them instead of melting which could very well boil down to the same!