Comment Re:What's The Average? (Score 1) 98
You might steal a trailer that is full of nickels. But now you need to somehow get rid of $50K worth of nickels.
There was a case in Germany, when silver prices exploded, and the 5 Mark (at that time a about $1.50 - the Dollar was pretty high, in our times Euro 2,50 - but by inflation perhaps only Euro 1), that count had about 65% silver.
People started to horde the coins to smelt them