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Message:: [QUOTE="Victor, post: 423676, member: 5454"]Well here is my advice. Take it for what it cost you which is nothing.When I first started I bought real bullion coins in the form of American Silver Eagles.  Made by the US mint they are known and accepted widely.To balance things out a bit I then started buying a few one tenth ounce Gold Eagles.  It was a good way to get in and get comfortable with this market.I took it slowly and just did one or two small buys per month.Then a co-worker had a fantastic deal on some Canadian Silver Maple Leafs.Again, it's a government minted coin-not a round or a bar.  But I did manage to get several APMEX one ounce silver bars from this same guy for $8 each.  He bought them from Apmex and paid the shipping a few years prior. When it came time to sell or trade those bars were the first to go.  Several sold at that time for $14 each.  Then next to go were the Silver maple leafs.I traded them and some bars for an absolutely stunning Mercury Dime collection.So what I still have and will still hold onto is the American bullion coins.I'm not too keen on rounds.  A month ago I was offered 10 Prospector rounds for $17 each.  I passed. [good thing]  So I would say start slowly and get real US bullion in coin form.  But watch out for milky white spots on the silver eagles.[/QUOTE]