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<p>[QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 2602720, member: 5233"]I don't know if this is the best place to ask this question...but it seemed to make the most sense (I think this might be my first post in the Bullion Investing Forum...just took me over 12K posts to get here).</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I'm not really interested in "investing" per se, but I love silver...especially "silver dollar" sized coins. I think the large coins are beautiful and fun. I thought it would be fun to collect a variety of nationally produced silver bullion coins and put them into an album. </p><p><br /></p><p>My first question is this, assuming 1oz coins silver bullion coins...is 40mm the standard size? Obviously the metal has a specific mass so bullion coins must be approximately the same size...but do different countries produce coins of different thicknesses and the coins end up being different size? Or is the 40mm ASE size pretty much the standard?</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason I ask is Dansco makes an album (7084) that holds 40mm silver rounds. It contains 45 slots which I think would make a very nice government silver bullion "type set." </p><p><br /></p><p>I think I would try and get as many as possible from my birth year (1985)...although I know some countries haven't made silver bullion coins that long (I'm looking at you USA). But, I think it would be a fun little side project...and I figure I can get most of the coins for near spot value I would think. Any thoughts?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 2602720, member: 5233"]I don't know if this is the best place to ask this question...but it seemed to make the most sense (I think this might be my first post in the Bullion Investing Forum...just took me over 12K posts to get here). Anyway, I'm not really interested in "investing" per se, but I love silver...especially "silver dollar" sized coins. I think the large coins are beautiful and fun. I thought it would be fun to collect a variety of nationally produced silver bullion coins and put them into an album. My first question is this, assuming 1oz coins silver bullion coins...is 40mm the standard size? Obviously the metal has a specific mass so bullion coins must be approximately the same size...but do different countries produce coins of different thicknesses and the coins end up being different size? Or is the 40mm ASE size pretty much the standard? The reason I ask is Dansco makes an album (7084) that holds 40mm silver rounds. It contains 45 slots which I think would make a very nice government silver bullion "type set." I think I would try and get as many as possible from my birth year (1985)...although I know some countries haven't made silver bullion coins that long (I'm looking at you USA). But, I think it would be a fun little side project...and I figure I can get most of the coins for near spot value I would think. Any thoughts?[/QUOTE]
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