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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 1224292, member: 27832"]Yes, Lucy, we've gotten a little silly, and I'm sorry for my part in the threadjacking. But many of us have a hard time imagining "not having enough room for all our silver".</p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose that it's an issue if you've accumulated a lot of silver -- say, enough to pay for a modest house -- and you're trying to get it into a small SDB. Or perhaps you're collecting silver proof sets or slabbed coins, which does increase the volume considerably. Or maybe you just hate clutter (although, in my experience, coins and clutter almost always go hand-in-hand).</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line: yes, a given value of silver (at today's prices) weighs about 40 times as much as an equal value of gold, and occupies nearly 80 times the volume. But I imagine that most of us here would <i>love</i> to be in a position where that becomes a problem. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 1224292, member: 27832"]Yes, Lucy, we've gotten a little silly, and I'm sorry for my part in the threadjacking. But many of us have a hard time imagining "not having enough room for all our silver". I suppose that it's an issue if you've accumulated a lot of silver -- say, enough to pay for a modest house -- and you're trying to get it into a small SDB. Or perhaps you're collecting silver proof sets or slabbed coins, which does increase the volume considerably. Or maybe you just hate clutter (although, in my experience, coins and clutter almost always go hand-in-hand). Bottom line: yes, a given value of silver (at today's prices) weighs about 40 times as much as an equal value of gold, and occupies nearly 80 times the volume. But I imagine that most of us here would [I]love[/I] to be in a position where that becomes a problem. :)[/QUOTE]
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