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Old 09-21-2015, 04:56 PM   #11 (permalink)
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A 1964 dated silver quarter was worth 14 times face value (melt value), until recently it dropped to about 10 times face value. When minted the silver value was 75% of the face value.
It benefits the govt to under report the inflation rate, kind of the fox guarding the chicken coop syndrome.

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