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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2894715, member: 76194"]I know, I love silver. The problem is that until now all the silver I own is in the form of about 100 ancient silver coins ranging in weight from 1gm to 17gm, and ranging in age from 1,500 years to 2,600 years old.</p><p><br /></p><p>They are beautiful, but they are not an investment in the strictest sense. I can guarantee you that of silver skyrocketed tomorrow to $1000, I wouldn't sell a single one of my precious coins...even if the melt value was much more than Numismatics value. How could you ever get rid of one of these beauties?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]696146[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So yeah, I think bars are the perfect invesent tool for me....so if I have to sell any of them in the future, or exchange them for gold bullion, it won't be a big deal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mind you, once I start to chase after Limited Edition poured artistic bars, I doubt I'll see those as an investment either, but rather as collectables. But a regular poured bar like the ones I just purchased from Prospector's and Monarch Metals I have no problem seeing as bullion and treating them as such.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2894715, member: 76194"]I know, I love silver. The problem is that until now all the silver I own is in the form of about 100 ancient silver coins ranging in weight from 1gm to 17gm, and ranging in age from 1,500 years to 2,600 years old. They are beautiful, but they are not an investment in the strictest sense. I can guarantee you that of silver skyrocketed tomorrow to $1000, I wouldn't sell a single one of my precious coins...even if the melt value was much more than Numismatics value. How could you ever get rid of one of these beauties? [ATTACH=full]696146[/ATTACH] So yeah, I think bars are the perfect invesent tool for me....so if I have to sell any of them in the future, or exchange them for gold bullion, it won't be a big deal. Mind you, once I start to chase after Limited Edition poured artistic bars, I doubt I'll see those as an investment either, but rather as collectables. But a regular poured bar like the ones I just purchased from Prospector's and Monarch Metals I have no problem seeing as bullion and treating them as such.[/QUOTE]
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