Couple a week each, for decades.
There is no money in silver.
Is that legal? For that matter, does it make sense to buy silver for its "melt value," if melting a US coin is illegal?
Yeah, but if it will crash Morgan I'm game...
A Marine buddy of mine told me how, while being shipped to Korea on a troopship, the skipper had to ban anybody taking spoons from the messhall. It seems that to kill time, the guys were "borrowing" a spoon to create a silver ring for their girlfriend(s).
They'd get a half dollar and by resting it on the heel of their combat boot, start turning the coin while tapping on the rim with the spoon, gradually peening it out to the size of a ring, then get a Machinist Mate to bore out the center.
He said it looked like a bunch of Chinese coolies humped over their feet and pinging away all day long. Drove him crazy.