Pre 1947 Coins

[Silverman1985]

I know this is just about as junk as silver goes but Iv been buying up some job lots of coins here. From 3 pence to half crowns. I like the volume of silver and getting it at spot price and sometimes below and having a bag of divisible silver for the apocalypse... (joke, kind of)

what are people opinions on these coins, and are there any worth collecting / rare dates that I might inadvertently hold... 

Great to hear people opinions. 

[HawkHybrid]

23 minutes ago, Silverman1985 said:

I like the volume of silver

 

actually half of the volume is not silver for pre 1947 coins.

imo it's always nice to have some for variety/balance.

 

HH

[Silverman1985]

Yes I’m aware its 50%. So when I say spot I mean half of spot in this case. 

[HawkHybrid]

43 minutes ago, Silverman1985 said:

Yes I’m aware its 50%. So when I say spot I mean half of spot in this case. 

 

the point I was making is that half of the volume is in the metal that you want.

you need to refine it further if you plan to use the silver. thus stack accordingly.

 

spot is already volume weighted, so it's just spot.

 

(by volume there's more copper in your silver than there is silver in you copper  )

 

HH

[blindguy]

You are doing the right thing. Keep buying at or below spot. I do the same thing here in the states with silver coins from canada.  Jim

[Silverman1985]

4 hours ago, HawkHybrid said:

 

the point I was making is that half of the volume is in the metal that you want.

you need to refine it further if you plan to use the silver. thus stack accordingly.

 

spot is already volume weighted, so it's just spot.

 

(by volume there's more copper in your silver than there is silver in you copper  )

 

HH

Never thought about it this way, so I’m probably paying spot when I think I’m getting below spot and slightly higher than spot when i think I’m getting spot.

Thanks for the tip. 

[JohnA]

I collect sixpence. So I have quite a few of these. I collect all the key dates when kings and queens changed, etc. I have all the war years.
I think sixpence pre-47 are a good coin to collect.