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Message:: [QUOTE="Collector1966, post: 566585, member: 17919"]Yes, indeed, that is a big problem. But the gap between gold and silver seems to have been growing over the long term. Silver has lost its allure as a monetary metal among all but the most avid silver aficianados, or among us old-timers who can remember when silver actually circulated as money. The whole world has gone to a fiat monetary system where increasingly, not even tokens and "monopoly money" but even more estoric forms of "cash" in the form of electronic information encrypted in a computer file or card are viewed as "money". And the younger generation seems to have mostly accepted this system, and most of them, it seems, will give you a blank stare when you tell them that at one time, silver actually circulated as money. Or maybe they will say, "What? There's no silver in the quarter or dime? Then why do they look like silver?" So the silver aficianado can continue to invest in the metal, and who knows? it may go back up in value. But then again, it might once again reach a price where the 40%/90% coins and grandma's silverware, not to mention silver bullion being held by base metal mining companies, are once again dumped on the market to take advantage of the price before it is once again driven back down.[/QUOTE]