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Official ODT Silver Thread

As a new guy to post to this thread, I have been watching it for a while. I am out of email addresses for specials for buy at spot with most places. I enjoy the suggestions. My question is about smelting. We have ALOT under beds, and in closets that have no personal value to our daughters but handfed down for years. My wife and I have talked about smelting it down into bars. Internet searches have gone to we will buy but are there private smelters that would do so for a fee?
from what I've seen....that's pretty intensive...BUT doable
 
As a new guy to post to this thread, I have been watching it for a while. I am out of email addresses for specials for buy at spot with most places. I enjoy the suggestions. My question is about smelting. We have ALOT under beds, and in closets that have no personal value to our daughters but handfed down for years. My wife and I have talked about smelting it down into bars. Internet searches have gone to we will buy but are there private smelters that would do so for a fee?
You are essentially cutting its value in half.

What I mean by that is its going to cost money to have it reported, and nobody will buy an un-stamped or unknown stamped bar with an assay report, which costs money. The only smelter I know of won't smelt it without you having a dealers license.
 
You are essentially cutting its value in half.

What I mean by that is its going to cost money to have it reported, and nobody will buy an un-stamped or unknown stamped bar with an assay report, which costs money. The only smelter I know of won't smelt it without you having a dealers license.
I see what you are saying but if we/the wife is to melt grandmas and great granny's stuff, we still have it. We have no Baisis in it. Have it reported?
 
from what I've seen....that's pretty intensive...BUT doable
But who would do it? I assume there would be a fee. They have a business to run for a profit, I get that along with the cost of melting. Is there such a company? We don't need the silver to retire or live on. Hell the stuff in the safe now will be a surprise to our daughters when we are gone. They don't want 150 year old platters and pitchers with great aunt Suzie's ex husbands initials on them.
 
But who would do it? I assume there would be a fee. They have a business to run for a profit, I get that along with the cost of melting. Is there such a company? We don't need the silver to retire or live on. Hell the stuff in the safe now will be a surprise to our daughters when we are gone. They don't want 150 year old platters and pitchers with great aunt Suzie's ex husbands initials on them.
Sell it at premium price and buy bullion or coins.
 
I sold some foreign coins that were either 92.3% silver, sterling silver, or some other circulated coins never intended for collectors that were either 50% or 80% silver. I took these coins to four different dealers and called another three or four and spoke to them over the phone without making the drive.

One dealer paid a little bit less than that day spot price for them,

while another dealer paid just a little more than spot because I also threw in various proof sets of foreign
{theoretically collectible} coins that included many non-silver coins.

I still think that .999 pure silver bullion in the form of 1 or 2 ounce coins
and 1 to 10 ounce bars is your best bet.

Unless you just enjoy the research behind coins, or you like to play the market with complex calculations of multiple variables,

and you see that as a hobby to derive pleasure from above and beyond how it may increase your wealth.
 
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