Help! Where do I begin?

I’ve tryed a few, they just never stuck. I am a sucker for cents though the bag in my images is copper memorials I paid .0023 cents OVER face delivered. I’m cheap!
Reed & Sparkles

 

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'Sokay, I'll catch it.

 

1921 was a very good year for US silver (and gold) coinage - accumulate a complete year set in higher grades & you'll have something to be proud of

https://coinweek.com/education/coin-grading/ngc/1921-a-collectors-paradise/

 

I’m proud of my no value, found in the wild, circulated cent collection no need to spend a lot to make me happy! Plus I wouldn’t know what to do with gold coins except lock them in the safe never to be looked at again.
Reed & Sparkles

 

I like the year 1916 since it was my mothers birth year but putting together a high grade set is well beyond my means.

 

Hummmmmmm.

49 years is a long time to hold a grudge.

 

... but in the case of silver scammers, probably not long enough.

 

I don’t know how you got burned by silver. Buying bullion? If so, don’t let that keep you from collecting numismatic silver coins.

 

well, let's say you bought silver when it was on its last run up and bought at about $30/oz and watched it go up to $49, but then watched it drop to almost $16/oz, I can see that as being burned.

 

In 1969 (and assuming his profile age is accurate) then the rip off was perpetuated on a kid under 10 years old. Kinda despicable to rip off a kid like that.

 

Yes but who burned who? You saw it run up to almost a 50% return on your money in just a short period. You could have sold and banked the profits. But no you got greedy and wanted more. Then it fell but did you sell as it was going down? No you held hoping it would go back up. Then it fell past the $30 you paid, did you sell and cut your losses? No, you rode it to the bottom. The decisions to hold and not sell were not forced upon you, so you have to take part if not most of the blame. You burned yourself.

 

Exactly. This is no different than investing in stocks. Ultimately, one is responsible for their own choices and many won't be satisfied with a modest gain but complain when the market tanks. My primary reason for being into numismatics is for the enjoyment. If it was all about maximizing profit then I doubt if I'd enjoy it. Others may feel otherwise but that's their choice and I wish them well.

 

For the metro

 

Not really. You still have the same number of ounces. You are just comparing it to a fiat currency. Compare it in gallons of gasoline. If you paid $36/oz. when gas was $4.00 a gallon, and now it is $17/oz. and gas is $2.30 a gallon, you are about equal. People keep comparing the price of PMs in fiat currency, whose only backing is debt (promise that the government will tax people to make good on the debt).

 

Riverside here

 

Take it to the Sabres game and watch them lose

 

If you purchased silver at $30 per ounce 20 years ago and, say, inflation has doubled in that time, if silver was still selling at $30 per ounce then your ounces of silver would have half the buying power it did when you originally bought it. To break even with your investment, silver would now need to be selling at $60 per ounce.

 

I was nine summer of 1970 and I’d saved $9.00 of bottle money for that nice pure white Morgan at one of the two coin shops I could reach by bicycle. When I showed it to a older collector friend of the family he informed me that the pure white was bad and all the tiny scratch marks under magnification meant that it had been chemically over dipped, WAY overdipped. The coin was worth a buck and I got ripped off. I won’t buy Morgan dollars EVER AGAIN as a lot have been dipped at some point.

 

Even in 1970, the bullion value of the Morgan was worth well over a dollar.

 

You only get burnt if you don't learn. $9.00 for tuition is a steal.