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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 3122417, member: 77814&quot;]I collect designs.</p><p>There was only <u>ONE</u> Canadian design that I liked in the past.&nbsp; The Hologram</p><p>[ATTACH]794747[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Plus I really don&#039;t have much faith in any foreign PM coins</p><p>Sure you get can closer to 100% but you can buy them for less, and you can sell them for less ... There&#039;s always a Buyback price, a spot + premium price which all vary.&nbsp; You need to keep a spreadsheet over time to track the variances and track the economy in relation to that spread to know how they react over time.&nbsp; If you wander in previous pages you&#039;ll see some tracking of ASE prices in relation to spot.&nbsp; Sometimes when spot drops the actual purchase price doesn&#039;t .. premium just goes up.</p><p><br /></p><p>In content,</p><p>US Platinum Eagles are 99.95%</p><p>US Gold Eagles are 91.67% <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold" rel="nofollow">Au</a> 3% <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver" rel="nofollow">Ag</a> 5.33% <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper" rel="nofollow">Cu</a></p><p>US Modern $5 Commems are 90%?</p><p>Gold Buffalo are .9999</p><p>and then there&#039;s pre-33s and various others</p><p>So you can pick your poison.</p><p><br /></p><p>so let&#039;s explore that economic crash scenario.&nbsp; When we lost power in the midwest blackout in 2003 (US and Canada) which lasted up to 2 weeks in some areas.</p><p><br /></p><p>So what was the &quot;money&quot; of choice?</p><p><br /></p><p>Cash.&nbsp; Right?</p><p><br /></p><p>stores are set up for cash + electronic.&nbsp; Not for anything barter?&nbsp; Their suppliers want cash as it is a form of transactions now for a very long time.&nbsp; NOT silver/gold.&nbsp; Don&#039;t even bring in Platinum as ppl are mostly unaware of platinum.&nbsp; Some may think your $100 coin is fake and totally refuse it.&nbsp; A bank may or may not take it for conversion to .. wait for it .. wait for it .. cash at face value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Think about bartering for a second.&nbsp; how much is a silver coin worth ?</p><p>okay, now that you have answered that question how do you know the answer?</p><p><br /></p><p>Because you track spot price right?</p><p><br /></p><p>okay, with electronic commerce and forex commerce blacked out .. where does spot lie now?&nbsp; Umm ... if one is not used to silver /gold money that value may drop down to face value.&nbsp; Spot becomes very localized without interstate and international trading markets (the very thing that killed PM based money).&nbsp; So how does that now affect your cash conversion into PMs for those emergencies when barter is required ?</p><p><br /></p><p>I kept cash for emergencies as that is the only true &quot;money&quot; once electronic communications is blacked out for any length of time.&nbsp; Other than that those 2 weeks with no power, gasoline became the leading commodity of choice other than food.&nbsp; I had bunches of that too, which actually came in very handy as ppl would pay quite a premium for it although I didn&#039;t gouge ppl.&nbsp; I gave some away for ppl that wanted to leave the area and couldn&#039;t get to a ATM becz they were all shut down.&nbsp; Matter of fact, they never paid me back now that I think of it.&nbsp; Oh well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, without a failure like that we are limited to the 10k, etc valuations.&nbsp; Which we should a complete and utter failure of electronic markets I don&#039;t think we will ever see.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I don&#039;t really stack PMs although I have a bunch of ASEs.&nbsp; So I have a totally different aspect to collecting them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I like the design.&nbsp; I collect designs.&nbsp; PMs have nice designs as I primary collect coins with the Bald Eagle on them and there&#039;s many US coins with bald eagles.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Canadian snow hawks of one recent release I had no interest.&nbsp; All the privy marks, no interest in the design.&nbsp; If a Canadian coin had a bald eagle, I might get one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I do like the Canadian coins with sail boats on them too, but I have a few of those I got when I was a kid.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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