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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 1284667, member: 3011&quot;]A consistent and prolonged disinvestment of bullion coins by investors would depress the price as you suggest.&nbsp; I was responding to a comment that action in the [paper] futres market could do the same thing, and I don&#039;t see that as being probable. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t see the disinvestment happening, however.&nbsp; The situation in the 90s was largely caused by the intentional sale of silver from government stockpiles regardless of price.&nbsp; From what I can tell, individuals have historically sold silver when the price went up [as in 1980], not down.&nbsp; So if this happened as you suggest, it would be a new phenomenon.&nbsp; Ask the people here how many of them would run to melt their collection of ASEs by date, or Pandas, or Libertads, &quot;junk&quot; Franklin halve collections, or even their wives silver jewelry if silver went to $10.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think there would be too many takers.&nbsp; The great unknown would be the ETFs like SLV.&nbsp; Would they be inclined to take possession of silver to melt at low prices or at high?&nbsp; That might make a difference.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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