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Message:: [QUOTE="Prime Mover, post: 1757099, member: 38783"]Neither will be better "investment-wise".  They are both .999 silver with a premium on top of them because they are "art" rounds.  Fractional bullion will always have a higher premium per-oz - you can get 1/2oz lunars for about $27, meanwhile the 1oz you can get for about $42 currently. The popularity of the series or specific issue will determine your eventual resale potential and value, not its weight, especially so when dealing with bullion coins.  Lunars are quite popular so either way you probably won't have trouble reselling them if needed.    For now, I might agree with this statement as 1oz is a nice combination of size and price.  But this has little to do with the specific size of the coin, and more to do with the cost of production, and the cost to acquire (for the buyer).  They produce as small as 1/25oz gold coins, and 1/10oz is a very popular size due to the affordability of it to the regular person given the current price of gold.  If silver were to crest $100/oz, I'm sure that smaller denominations would be much more proliferate and you'd see more 1/2oz or smaller offerings out there simply because there's a greater market ease to buy/sell to the largest audience.[/QUOTE]