The best deal you'll find on silver is that tea set in the classifieds. You can melt it down and make your own bars.

I've already been eyeballing it lol

Good luck with getting your $20 silver

The best deal you'll find on silver is that tea set in the classifieds. You can melt it down and make your own bars.

Apmex has sales every week. Sign up for their emails and you'll get notifications. I got silver buffalo coins last week for $22.70. If you can get close on price to bars I'd suggest coins. Easier to carry and store and they come in rolls.

If you are thinking barter purposes 90% silver is hard to beat. Specifically dimes. They are worth about $1.50 each. There is a lot of counterfeit stuff out there. China is a hole. Dimes have a small enough value and old ones are pretty distinct so I don’t think fakes are a real big issue. There are plenty of fake 1 ounce bars and coins floating around.

I’m not going to sell them. Wife would grab the $ and head to Winstar.

9mm, .45 and .308 ammo will be worth it's weight in gold if that time where you think gold would come in handy ever comes.

Yea also been thinking about that as well. Would guns and ammo be a better investment? I think it would be. Myself and family members and community could use those arms if needed. Could barter with them as well. I’m not looking to invest in precious metals for financial growth or security. I’m kind of on a different mind of thinking than gold/silver investors.

I've been a coin collector since about age 6, and believe firmly in accumulating gold & silver as well. Historically, most countries revalue/replace their currency every so often. England switched from the pound sterling (shillings and florins) to the decimal pound in 1971. Mexico switched from the old peso to the 'peso nuevo' in the 1990's, at an exchange rate of $1,000 old pesos buying N$10 new pesos. I could go on, but the point is that these currency changes almost always result in a massive loss of buying power for the average person WITHOUT any kind of situation where ammo is necessary to use. The US did something similar in 1933 when FDR called in private ownership of gold at a value of approx $21/ounce and then revalued it at $35 per ounce. Americans lost a massive amount of their purchasing power by fiat.

We could have a repeat of 1933 - a peaceful revaluation of the currency that results in massive losses for all of us, without any kind of shooting going on. Gold & silver would be handy to own then, as their intrinsic value would most likely keep pace with the change in currency. Of course, there's no guarantee that the US government wouldn't once again ban private ownership of gold ... but you can't be ready for every single scenario.

Sorry, will get off my soapbox now.

I just stumbled over this thread. Bold Precious Metals out of Austin, TX smokes all the above PM dealers on price.
https://www.boldpreciousmetals.com