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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rono, post: 2330008, member: 6492&quot;]Howdy David,</p><p><br /></p><p>It sounds like you&#039;ve got all the basics.&nbsp;&nbsp; Silver bullion is a weird market due to some of the premiums.&nbsp; At the low end are the generic silver rounds and ingots with the cheapest being those minted at Joe&#039;s Mint and Carwash.&nbsp; The best are Engelhard and Johnson Matthey - they&#039;re the top shelf of the generic silver.&nbsp; When it comes to coins it get&#039;s a bit more odd.&nbsp; Some carry a higher premium due to &#039;rarity&#039; such as the Panda.&nbsp; Some like ASE&#039;s and Leafs carry a bit higher premium because they&#039;re easy to sell.&nbsp;&nbsp; And, as mentioned above, coins are safer to buy and sell.&nbsp; &nbsp; And it goes without saying that you can get quantity discounts.&nbsp; This link shows the premiums on a many of the basic coins.&nbsp; It&#039;s my local dealer.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://libertycoinservice.com/wp-content/uploads/quotes/daily_quotes.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://libertycoinservice.com/wp-content/uploads/quotes/daily_quotes.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://libertycoinservice.com/wp-content/uploads/quotes/daily_quotes.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>What get&#039;s very strange is when the Central and Money Center banks are dinking the paper price of bullion and it diverges from the street price.&nbsp; &nbsp; This results in either higher premiums and/or reduced supply.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s a fairly common micro economic event whenever the price is somehow fixed below what the market feels is correct.&nbsp; Witness the gas price controls under Nixon - no supply because they couldn&#039;t get away with upping the premium (price).&nbsp; Witness the liquidity trap the feds have gotten us into with artificially low interest rates.&nbsp; Try to get a mortgage at 3% or so and Mr. Banker is all out of money.&nbsp; However, if you&#039;re willing to pay 4-5% . . . perhaps he can find some.&nbsp; This same stuff happen with bullion when you have divergence between what folks believe it&#039;s worth and what they &#039;markets&#039; tell us it is.&nbsp; Either lack of supply or much higher premiums.</p><p><br /></p><p>I note that you&#039;re stacking different things and I think that&#039;s a good idea.&nbsp; My stash is mostly ASE&#039;s and AGE&#039;s but I also have a bunch of Prospectors and Engelhard bars; tubes of 1 oz ingots and some 10 oz bars.&nbsp; Also some 90%.&nbsp; I like diversity, particularly with investments.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly,&nbsp; because you like collecting coins don&#039;t fret terribly if you end up with some blurring between stacking bullion and collecting coins.&nbsp; Feh, the Somali Elephants may be a fad but who cares . . . I like them.&nbsp; Dansco makes albums for ASE&#039;s but also for Libertads and Mapleleafs.&nbsp; Why not collect them all?&nbsp; Some folks over the years have collected Silver Crowns with various and sundry Kings and Queens.&nbsp; Very neat to collect but what is the difference between a stack of 8 Reales and a stack of Libertads?&nbsp; Age?&nbsp; Worth?&nbsp; How about in another 100 years?</p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck,</p><p><br /></p><p>And so it goes,</p><p><br /></p><p>peace,</p><p><br /></p><p>rono[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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