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First Ever!! .999 Silver Proof Set from the US Mint!!
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First Ever!! .999 Silver Proof Set from the US Mint!!
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I'm a sucker, so I'm in! But on the secondary market about a year from now.
Nice set and good video pictures.... Cheers, RickO
They are dime a dozen so to speak if you can live without the w penny. Stacks and stacks on secondary market and a graded w penny example is also pretty cheap for show and tell. Just a thought 🙀jzyskowski
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They are pretty silver modern coins.
is the cent zinc or 90% copper?
Not copper coated .999 silver?
DEMO IN TEXT....NOT VIDEO !!
Viewed under correctly balanced lighting (not fluorescent junk), 0.900 fin silver will have a slight cream or yellow cast due to copper alloy. Fine silver (0.999) should look white much like the highlands on a full moon, or maybe the rays from Tycho.
Zinc
Now if the denominations matched the weight as a descriptor it would be fair.
A silver eagle is .999 and it's denomination ; "One Dollar".
Is the half dollar a half ounce of silver ? Is the quarter a quarter ounce, and the Dime a tenth ounce ? I bet not. Funny weights and measures to go with our banking rules, I'm sure. But hey .... five quarters makes an ounce equal to one silver dollar ( Eagle). By weight ( or close )
Aside from the above, I'm still in.
Wrong dollar. Try a Morgan/Peace dollar.
Morgan/Peace: 25.73g
Franklin half: 12.5g
Silver quarter: 6.25g
mercury dime: 2.5g
So based on that. the dollar has slightly more weight, but is twice that of a half. A quarter is half the weight of a half. A dime is 40% of a quarter.
So it does work out. You just have to use real silver coins to compare, and not the artificial $1/1ozt of the ASE.
Yet another "collectors only" offering from the US Mint. Where's the melting pot?
So a buck isn't a buck anymore $.
Will commemorative $s , going forward remain at .900 fineness ?
They say 999. We can only hope 🙀jzyskowski
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