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Here is a lesson in mining eBay for silver (1/2)

Indeed the competition for freshly listed cheap Buy it Now sterling in the "Antiques" category is more fierce lately, the only fresh listing I got yesterday was the Mexican trinket/pill box with no weight or dimensions given, but at just 14.59 with tax it's a good deal because Silver boxes are collectible and they can always fetch well over spot price. It's for keeping in the Viking treasure hoard, not for melting.

Next is 5 bucks in silver dimes, total price $98 which is pretty good for an auction format batch of coin Silver and barely over spot. Not particularly special but PMG baker admonished me for not having enough coin so I'll be working on filling the FWTDHW bags. Note the crappy title, by just searching "5 face silver" or similar you can find decent deals that others screen out with more detailed search strings.

Next was an old listing for a pair of sterling handled salad servers which should yield 38-44 grams of sterling when broken down, $14.15 total. Listed in a dumb category which is why no one bought it. I searched "sterling salad" across all of eBay sorted lowest price first to see if I could find cheap servers and sterling-base wooden bowls lurking around. No bowls but the servers were a good deal.