Even with the world going crazy for silver, it's still very possible to get amazing deals out there. Just got this set in the mail, I won it a few days ago: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290589311968 Soviet Olympic coins, all 90% silver. The 5 Rouble ones are 0.48 ASW, the 10 Rouble ones are 0.96 ASW. That set has two 10 Rouble coins, three 5 Rouble coins, total 3.36 ASW. 60% below melt ain't bad Keep your eyes open folks.
Nice! I once saw a 14K 1976 Canada Olympic coin listed at well below melt, but I dithered and someone else snapped it up. C'est la vie...
You're definitely more likely to find silver deals in foreign coins because most people don't know what they're dealing with. Most silver buyers know exactly how much silver is in U.S. coins but world coins are all over the map. I'm not a silver collector in general but I do buy them when I see a deal. Last time I was at my local coin story I was looking through their foreign coin value bin and I got five or six silver coins for 25 cents each. They don't intend to put them in there but sometimes they miss one, which is weird because it's really obvious to me when something is a silver coin.
One thing I've noticed though is you need to make sure you know what you're buying, because I see a lot of world coins listed as being silver that actually have no silver in them. I collect Mexican coins, and hardly a day goes by when I don't see an eBay action listing one of the 5 or 10 centavos coins from 1936-42 as silver, when in fact they are copper nickel.
