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Re: A Few More Thoughts About War Nickels
Odd comparison. 2 war nickels is 0 112 oz silver while one dime is 0 0715. They're is actually a much larger discount to melt on war nickels, as there always has been. Did you notice they also pay more for one dollar than four quarters? They don't weigh the same either. -
Re: A Few More Thoughts About War Nickels
That's a lot of war nickels. It includes about 150 nice '44-S's in good and better. Perhaps one 45 DDR. 1 henning nickel, "4" low grade '43/2's, and a couple dozen nice AU- and better '44-D's. I wouldn't necessarily suggest you search them. It's a lot of dirty work and there might be little reward. But If you can sit on… -
Re: A Few More Thoughts About War Nickels
I have a MS set of silver war nickels in a Capital Holder and a few of them that are slabbed, including: 1943/2-P 5C DDO FS-101, FS MS66 FS (over 25 years ago a client paid me a fee by giving me a number of raw coins from his collection, including this one) 1943-D MS66 (I was given this coin by the father of a friend of… -
Re: A Few More Thoughts About War Nickels
What has happened to the cherry picked rolls of 1943-P's. They're barely worth more than melt and a dealer gathering up junk to ship for melting just might grab some or all of them. Not being anointed is a death knell for many modern and heavily saved coin of the last 94 years. MS-60 clads get spent and war nickels get… -
Re: A Few More Thoughts About War Nickels
I had war nickels melted within the last few months. Dallas area I took a mish mash of silver, US40, war nickels, foreign various %, sterling flatware, odds and ends. The payout was 95% spot, as long as the melt was over 80%. They dumped all of it in a large tote, wheeled it away, and I was paid the next day. I had made an… -
Re: A Few More Thoughts About War Nickels
I've never seen this before. You were always better off having a silver dime than two war nickels when it came to sell. Now three silver nickels is about the same as two silver dimes. Most roosies and mercs are in nice collectible condition. About two out of three are nice attractive VG or better and there are billions of… -
Re: A Few More Thoughts About War Nickels
I don't know much about these but google's search engine found this from Mystic Stamp; _"Silver tax stamps were authorized by Congress on June 19, 1934, pursuant to the Silver Purchase Act of 1934. "As a measure to stabilize the US economy and to prevent runs on banks, in the aftermath of the Great Depression, the Gold… -
Re: A Few More Thoughts About War Nickels
I appreciate the reality of your being sole arbiter of what is collectible, how few must exist to be collected, and whether the coins are economically "feasible" or not but you seem to imagine I horde countless numbers of war nickels. No, I sell them when it's profitable. I used to trade '43-D nickels for triple melt. I've… -
A Few More Thoughts About War Nickels
I think I've been underestimating the number already destroyed. I'm basing this on a few observations such as the facts that now days so much of what's being melted are coins that were polished to go into the display cases sold to the general public. Almost none of what was being melted before 1980 contained such coins.… -
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Of course I know that. Just because my mind doesn't work that way doesn't mean yours doesn't. I can chase information too but most AI's don't like to be used like a search engine so I'll use that or a simple AI just to chase data. Chatgpt is one of the best but it still can't "reason" in the way you are describing. These…
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