Coins, rounds, bar or junk???????

[Ag guy]

1 oz and 10 oz generic bars 90% (only w low premium) NOW just adding a bit of gold. Premiums on volatile silver are sick! I might grab some when I get a chance under 10% over spot....Still expensive but I can live with it.

Ag guy

[Lawrence]

yes i already did. we will see??

Good luck, let us know how it works out.

[digbird]

My first gold piece was back in 1969 when I bought a 1967 Canadian centennial set with a 1/2 oz. gold coin and the rest of the set mostly 80% for $100.00.

Then in 1978 I turned in a silver certificate for 20 silver JM bars, the series 1 type. I was foolish not to sell them during the run up in the 1980's. I still own them to this day. The plan is to pass them down to my kids.

2% junk (80%)

2% rounds

46% bars

50% coins

Personal gold to silver ratio is 80% gold and 20% silver.

[maxwellsilverhammer]

My first gold piece was back in 1969 when I bought a 1967 Canadian centennial set with a 1/2 oz. gold coin and the rest of the set mostly 80% for $100.00.

Then in 1978 I turned in a silver certificate for 20 silver JM bars, the series 1 type. I was foolish not to sell them during the run up in the 1980's. I still own them to this day. The plan is to pass them down to my kids.

2% junk (80%)

2% rounds

46% bars

50% coins

Personal gold to silver ratio is 80% gold and 20% silver.

you and i are just about reversed. my holdings are about a 60ozt silver to 1 ozt gold - sgr. if the global ratio ever flips downward to say around 40/1 then i expect to exchange much of the silver for gold

[digbird]

you and i are just about reversed. my holdings are about a 60ozt silver to 1 ozt gold - sgr. if the global ratio ever flips downward to say around 40/1 then i expect to exchange much of the silver for gold

I feel like I need more silver to change my personal ratio. This co-insides with my thinking that silver is really underpriced. I don't want to sell gold for silver to alter my personal ratio quickly, so I will just add more silver without selling any gold. Sure would help if the Canadian peso gained some momentum and the U$D dropped a lot more.

[maxwellsilverhammer]

I feel like I need more silver to change my personal ratio. This co-insides with my thinking that silver is really underpriced. I don't want to sell gold for silver to alter my personal ratio quickly, so I will just add more silver without selling any gold. Sure would help if the Canadian peso gained some momentum and the U$D dropped a lot more.

good plan. i dont like selling gold either. if the ratio were back to 110 or 120 to 1 sgr, i would just about have to sell all the foreign generic and bars gold for silver.

[jjmcwill]

At the moment I don't like any of it. It all seems to be underperforming given the amount of inflation we have had.

That said I am partial to Morgan dollars. They are not even particularly good looking in my opinion. They do feel very American though.

[SilverPalm]

Coins, rounds, bars, or junk? The answer to that question varies with the market conditions.

When gold proof sets are sold as bullion, I would buy them. When junk is sold at spot, I would buy that. When rounds are half a buck over spot, I would buy them. When the tides turn and mark ups increase (like now) I would consider selling some of the stash.

I stay away from bars because I do not have a good way to assay them. Coins & rounds respond to a ping test, which is part of the battery of tests that I perform to gain confidence in my purchase. If I had an electronic PM Verifier, bars would be on my buy list as well, if I found them at the right price.

Conditions between the extremes represent a gray area, where I may buy or sell. That choice may come from watching Gama, or just from a gut feeling about public sentiment at the time.

If you tie yourself to a specific form, or if you just WANT something in particular, you are not likely to make the best purchase that is available in the market at the time.

[LongDonSilver]

With silver it is mostly bars -- 100oz, kilo, 10oz and a few 1 oz. Followed by silver rounds and then 90% junk. I do have some Britannia's and a few Maples, but I've sold all of my Eagles and a lot of my 90% because I could swap them for generic and end up with many more ounces. It's all about ounces, IMHO.

[digbird]

I have been shopping around and have noticed that with the latest drop in silver and gold that the shops are not lowering their prices. Maybe they are just slow... or, it is below what they paid their wholesalers? Shipping to Canada from the USA is expensive, like Apmex is $60.15. Sheesh!

If the price freezes here for awhile or even drops a bit more, then perhaps they will have to lower their prices.

Looking to add 20 to 100 ounces.

I've noticed that there is less talk on the CBDC debacle lately.

Metals shine when the Fed starts cutting rates. But that is at least a year or two away from now.

Here are some seasonality charts. June and July can be the lows.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=silver...p=1&ghc=1&lq=0