[cherry]

legally, you can’t melt down coinage....how do you make money from pennies or nickles if you can never use them for their mineral content.

[blam]

"...how do you make money from pennies or nickles if you can never use them for their mineral content."

They're bought and sold by weight at coin stores.

[blam]

90% Silver U.S. Coin Bags

Each 90% silver bag contains either 4,000 U.S. quarters or 10,000 U.S. dimes dated 1964 or earlier...weighs approximately 800 troy ounces (or 54 pounds)...and contains approximately 715 ounces of pure silver.

One of the primary benefits of a 90% silver coin bag investment is that the bag has a built-in guarantee simply unavailable with most other silver investments: No matter what happens to the price of silver, the value of your 90% silver bag will never be worth less than its $1,000 face value.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Who says you can’t?