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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 123426, member: 3011&quot;]One additional point I&#039;d like to make about silver coins as investments....</p><p><br /></p><p>Part of the process is to understand that buying and selling silver coins is sort of an arbitrage process.&nbsp; You want to buy them at a place and time where/when they are cheap, and sell them at a place and time where/when they are dear.&nbsp; If you buy and sell the same coin from the same dealer on the same day, the bid/ask spread will obviously make this a losing transaction, as others have pointed out.&nbsp; But if you hold the coins a few years, there is the chance [but never the guarantee] that they will go up in price enough to offset the spread.&nbsp; Or the spread will decrease.&nbsp; Or if you find a way to buy them below melt value [similar to what dealers often can do], it may be possible to sell them above melt at a flea market, through Ebay, by becomming a dealer yourself, or at a time in the future when silver coins might be more highly valued than they are now.&nbsp; This obviously takes a little patience, work, creativity and luck; but that&#039;s what is required to &quot;invest&quot; in silver coins.&nbsp; I also don&#039;t think that knowing exactly how you will sell the coins has to be determined at the time you buy the coins.&nbsp; If you buy well, and are patient, eventually the marketplace will enable you to sell well.&nbsp; People sometimes get into a fixed mindset that the way things are now is the way they will always be.&nbsp; That isn&#039;t necessarily true.&nbsp; So look for bargains and have some fun.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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