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Chapter 12, Melt Value, is the guide's sample chapter. It shows how every chapter works: a clear explanation, diagrams drawn to scale, fully worked examples, a reference table, common mistakes, a one-page summary and a list of sources.
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Every gold or silver coin has two prices hiding inside it. One is what collectors will pay for its history, rarity and condition. The other is what the metal would be worth if the coin were a lump of bullion. That second number is its melt value, and it is the first figure you should know before you buy or sell anything made of precious metal.
Melt value is useful because it is the most objective number in the coin world. Grades are opinions. Price guides go out of date. Asking prices are wishes. But the amount of silver in a 1964 dime was fixed when it was struck, and the price of silver is published every trading day. Put those two facts together and you have a number nobody can argue you out of.
From Chapter 12, Melt Value. The full chapter includes four worked examples, reference tables and eleven cited sources.
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