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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;superc, post: 1712844, member: 44079&quot;]That is where my own head is.&nbsp; I have silver coins left to me by my spouse, by my parents, and by my grandparents.&nbsp; None of them do I sell.&nbsp; Instead I have been adding to the collection.&nbsp; I don&#039;t see it as having an end.&nbsp; Whatever the best price of that day is, that is the price I will try to acquire them at.&nbsp; I am a long way from 1,000 lbs of silver coins, and have less than a tenth of that, but I think 1,000 pounds of negotiable silver coins is a very decent goal for any person who wants their grandkids to someday be able to decide if they can afford to eat.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding those here and elsewhere who decry silver not being money, they are correct, at present.&nbsp; Money is a concept.&nbsp; It is whatever the current ruler of the country you are in says it is, coupled with what the rest of the world agrees it is worth.&nbsp; History shows us that in many, many, countries when economic conditions get bad enough for lonly,g enough sometimes (violently, sometimes not) a change of government may follow.&nbsp; Even in the history of the US we see that in the transition times from Wilson to Roosevelt when Roosevelt narrowly evaded an armed coup (go look up &#039;the office plot&#039; and General Butler if your own HS teachers didn&#039;t bother to teach you about that little US history tidbit).&nbsp; Often after a change of government or significant instability the currency of that country goes through a re-evaluation, or changes.&nbsp; Now you can take a chance and decide &#039;Bitcoins&#039; are where you should put your money and hope the ISP provider running the server doesn&#039;t go down and everything just vanish, or you can put your spare change into something with an intrinsic value that will still have (allowing for market fluctuations of course) a similar intrinsic globally agreed upon value after the transition, or 100 years from now if you are taking the generational view as I am.&nbsp; Only two or three types of &#039;no longer being made&#039; investments come to mind.&nbsp; Land with a good water source (which is becoming rarer), and bullion.&nbsp; Is it possible someday one of my kids will decide he or she should sell it all to buy a new car which will lose value the second they drive it out of the showroom, or perhaps develop a substance abuse problem and begin swapping two or three MS 70 slabbed Eagles for $10 bags of rock or ice?&nbsp; Sure.&nbsp; I hope they turn out smarter than that however, and I hope their own children stay as smart.&nbsp; For me, silver acquisition is a generational acquisition.&nbsp; All that being said, if I ever buy a $250 face value bag of silver coins and find out some twerp missed an 1804 silver dollar in the bag, heck yeah, I would sell that one, buy a new car, and another bag of silver too, probably.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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