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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 4670671, member: 27832&quot;]As I understand it, manufacturers chose palladium <i>solely</i> because it was <i>so much cheaper</i> than platinum. Through the 1970s and 1980s, palladium was generally half the price of platinum, sometimes cheaper than that.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think they&#039;re more or less equally effective, but you have to engineer your processes for one or the other from the beginning, so switching is very costly.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Nah, they crank out millions of ounces a year of the stuff for industry. But it&#039;s never been very popular for coins, partly because it tends to look duller and grayer than silver or even platinum.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had an opportunity to buy a 1oz palladium eagle not too long after they came out. I passed, because I thought $1300 was a ridiculous markup. Sigh. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie87" alt=":sorry:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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