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<p>[QUOTE="doug5353, post: 2224669, member: 73555"]Here's one generality to consider. If and when the price of silver skyrockets in the next few years, the substantial premiums paid for Mint products will evaporate, and an ordinary silver dollar and a Marine Corps dollar and a Boy Scout dollar, etc., will all be worth the same, and Mint products, unfamiliar to the average person, may even be hard to use in commerce, if it comes to that.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, they are wonderful works of art to be admired and enjoyed until the economy goes in the ditch. I have never bought any bullion other than common 90% dimes, quarters, and half dollars, and the vast majority has been dimes. No aesthetic value whatsoever, in other words, and no foreign silver, like Britannias, Philharmonics, or Maple Leafs, etc. And <u>especially</u> no bars or rounds.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="doug5353, post: 2224669, member: 73555"]Here's one generality to consider. If and when the price of silver skyrockets in the next few years, the substantial premiums paid for Mint products will evaporate, and an ordinary silver dollar and a Marine Corps dollar and a Boy Scout dollar, etc., will all be worth the same, and Mint products, unfamiliar to the average person, may even be hard to use in commerce, if it comes to that. On the other hand, they are wonderful works of art to be admired and enjoyed until the economy goes in the ditch. I have never bought any bullion other than common 90% dimes, quarters, and half dollars, and the vast majority has been dimes. No aesthetic value whatsoever, in other words, and no foreign silver, like Britannias, Philharmonics, or Maple Leafs, etc. And [U]especially[/U] no bars or rounds.[/QUOTE]
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