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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Westtexasbound, post: 1760662, member: 54086&quot;]Should I shift a significant portion to Gold?</p><p><br /></p><p>I am new to PM and got bit by the silver bug but several recent supply articles are making me rethink.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not a doomsday person or an economic collapse person.&nbsp; I respect it can happen but those are much further down my list.&nbsp; My main reasons.</p><p><br /></p><p>1.&nbsp; Silver is consumable and becoming scarce.&nbsp; Article after article and YouTube videos showed this.&nbsp; Had not seen any recycle videos.&nbsp; I now know that there is a lot of recycling.&nbsp; I think some of the bars out there like to show their green side and tout recycled material.</p><p><br /></p><p>2.&nbsp; Silver to gold ratio out of historical line.&nbsp; A material becoming more scarce will get in line but what about some that is over supplied and has closed mines.</p><p><br /></p><p>3.&nbsp; Legacy.&nbsp; Think about if someone left you 1,000 or 2,000 or 5,000 silver coins.&nbsp; The flip side think if someone left you 20 or 30 one ounce gold coins.&nbsp; Pretty cool person either way.</p><p><br /></p><p>4.&nbsp; The ASE is just beautiful</p><p><br /></p><p>5.&nbsp; Cool world coins that are affordable</p><p><br /></p><p>I still plan to pick up 10 world coins per year but thinking of only doing a single tube of ASE and then shifting to gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>My three questions</p><p><br /></p><p>1.&nbsp; Should I be talked out of this?&nbsp; Is there something to be sad about future scarcity?</p><p>2.&nbsp; What percentage mix do those who split their PM purchases between gold and silver employ?</p><p>3.&nbsp; What size coins do you like?&nbsp; Save up for an ounce or go fractional?&nbsp; How would you ideally split up on a percentage basis not considering cost ex. 25% 1 ounce 25% half ounce etc etc</p><p>2.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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