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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 2389515, member: 73489&quot;]<b><span style="color: #0000ff">To add to what Rono says....as a financial professional... LIQUIDITY is important and can be counterintuitive.</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Bars and other ingot-things are more acceptable over in Europe where the people never trusted their governments as much (hence the popularity for Saints and Liberty DE&#039;s overseas).</p><p><br /></p><p>Since we are in the U.S., the American Silver Eagles tend to carry a premium for bullion and numismatic reasons.&nbsp; Knowing you can get spot or a premium to spot means the price tends to trade above intrinsic/bullion value.&nbsp; Other silver coins or bars or whatnot may trade at lower premiums or even discounts.</p><p><br /></p><p>You might think that ASEs should trade CLOSER to silver because they are more liquid than other forms of silver but MARKETABILITY is not liquidity.&nbsp; DEMAND for ASEs insures they trade at a premium because they are also the most marketable in the U.S.:&nbsp; you&#039;ll get the most relative to silver than any other product, silver bullion or bars or pure silver or whatever.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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