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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 275196, member: 3011&quot;]Just a couple of additional thoughts...</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course you need to buy a significant dollar value of silver to really benefit from a price increase, but this is no different from gold or stocks or a CD at your local corner bank.&nbsp; It takes money to make money, unfortunately.&nbsp; I&#039;m also not sure that higher silver prices will bring a lot of new silver into the market next time the price runs up.&nbsp; I suspect, but can&#039;t prove, that the silver runup back around 1980 pretty much exhausted a significant portion of the junk silver supply under, say, $25.&nbsp; People were going through their basements and attics looking for the stuff to sell for melt.&nbsp; The evening news showed people lined up outside of coin shops.&nbsp;&nbsp; I think it&#039;s going to take a pretty high price to repeat that act.&nbsp; Tell your wife that you want to sell her silver jewelry and her mothers silver service set to be melted and see how far you get.&nbsp; Carl is correct that it&#039;s probably a good idea to just save for the coin you want to buy, but I have a lot of empathy for the idea of buying coins to trade for other coins later on.&nbsp; If nothing else, it&#039;s a very fun part of the hobby -- and sometimes it even works![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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