Plus all my well-chosen words about junk silver went by the wayside. Forget bars - buy a roll of silver dimes, and two screw-top plastic tubes....
Lasers, you got your money's worth with that question - nearly 5 pages of answers! (I forget the exact question) Now join a coin club.
Gothic florins in that shape are not worth much over melt; it's sterling, 0.3364 ounce. It's also the most common date of its type.
I agree, a coin that thin is probably a jeton.
Revi, and lasers, the real question is, do you want to be a collector or a stacker? Interesting silver coins = collector, building a collection...
Another tip about fake coins - the Chinese seem to have problems getting them struck squarely on the planchet. For instance, if a bullion coin or...
It would help if you'd put the images RIGHT SIDE UP, and indicate the diameter in mm and the weight in grams. We don't know if this coin's the...
A word about silver bars -- someday, when you want to sell them, you have to CONVINCE somebody that they are real silver, since the Chinese can...
Here's a little math for everybody. Let's go back 100 years. A 1914 $20 gold piece contained 0.9675 Troy ounces of pure gold. A 1914 half...
Junk silver traditionally means COINS only, not candlesticks and silverware, etc. :D And, it usually means dimes, quarters, and halves. It...
I do not disagree that silver "could" drop another 20% during this extended correction. But I am in this for the long term, not for X years, and...
I've seen 10 times more people lose money TRADING silver, than make money trading... And, of course, in trading smallish quantities, the premium...
Here's one more part of the theory. The gold price/silver price (per ounce) is near a historic high, over the past century. This suggests that...
You buy (junk) silver NOT to trade it, but to preserve the purchasing power of the money you already have. Here's the explanation that seems to...
When I was a kid, coin roll hunting really paid off. Nowadays, I'm not so sure, because 90% of "all dates" has been cut off (the silvers). You...
As I stated above, put a card in your shirt pocket, easily readable, "I buy old coins!" Most contacts will come from general flea-market sellers...
Blissskr has the right idea. As I posted an hour ago, I think it's more fun to prowl the flea markets and look for coins you can flip for double...
Regarding ingots, bars, and rounds -- some day your prospective Buyer will ask all the questions and demand all the guarantees and think of all...
Also, if you're in a major metro area, watch CraigsList, every day. I see plenty of guys who bought $500-1000 worth last year, now they're in the...
Wise words from Thomas Austin. My "investment" plan is not for everybody, but 3 times in the past 4 years I have consigned portions of my...
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