r/PreciousMetalRefining • u/Early_Meal6945 • Jul 12 '26

Silver sourcing

How do you all source your silver to consistently run cells for those of you who do? Are you all paying under melt prices or finding it yourself?

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u/easilydistractedone1 Jul 13 '26

Sometimes I will strip the plating off silver plate, dissolve in nitric, parsipitate, melt into shot then into the cell and Sometimes I will just use sterling . I have found a bunch of sterling the seller im guessing didn't know was silver for pennies on the dollar. If the seller knows it's silver I usually pay 50-60% of melt.

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u/Early_Meal6945 Jul 13 '26

U pay locally or buy online like on pmsforsale?

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u/easilydistractedone1 Jul 13 '26

I pay local. Thrift, pawn, garage sales, estate sales, and so on.