Where to do you guys buy your gold/silver?

I'm in the market for silver mostly, at the moment looking to buy 100+ 1Toz silver bars. Best price I've found was $2067 for 100oz of silver shot. I've also been looking at getting a forge and crucible, so was thinking of melting down the silver shot and pouring my own 1oz bars. Seems like a fun hobby, with that I can also make copper and aluminum ingots as well. Not that they're worth very much but never know when they might come in handy.

I'm not really looking for 5-10oz bars or even kilos. I want them to be smaller denominations so if the stuff ever does hit the fan or our economy ceases to exist, which isn't too far fetched these days, I can use them for payment/barter.

Anyone have a good place to buy them not too far over spot price?

Thanks

Hero bullion has had the best prices I’ve seen lately on silver.

Betty Crocker bars will be (should be) suspicious. Minted bars only if you want your barter precious metal to be taken seriously.

APMX.

Thanks, HB was where I found the silver shot.


Yes, good point and I had already started leaning that direction after posting this.


Thanks, I'm looking at them now.

Buy it in Grams

https://www.herobullion.com/100x-1-gram-silver-bar-valcambi-silver-combibar/

Already looked at that, but that works out to 47 an oz. LOL

Provident has 10 oz, any mint, for $234.

Free shipping

From my local undertaker.

Had a bunch that my company gave for prizes instead of cash. I cashed them in and did quite well. This was in early 2000

Thanks, 5oz is the largest I'd want to buy. Prefer the 1oz bars though. Lowest I've found on them are $22.60/oz shipped.

Now is the time to buy. Silver prices are way down ($19.42).

Hero Bullion's prices on 1 oz. bars are about $3 cheaper than APMEX.

I've used Provident in Dallas for buying, and selling, easy to deal with

Me too.

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.

Same here.

Monumental metals seems to beat everyone else lately

Thanks everyone. I put up a WTB in the classifieds if I don’t find any there I’ll buy from one of the above mentioned.

Yep, in a hard plastic sleve.

https://dillongage.com/

APMX, SD Bullion, Provident and JM are all good . Shop around.

Thanks guys, doesn't look like I'm getting much traction in the classifieds section. So I'm probably just going to buy from a bullion dealer, probably safer that way anyway.

Looks like Hero Bullion has the lowest prices I can find. Also just noticed that they are in Princeton TX just east of McKinney. I just contacted them to see if they allow walkins and cash buyers. If so I'll make a trip down this weekend and buy a bunch.

I still have my coin collection from my teenage years. Lots of Whitman folders plus roll of coins from pre 1964.
No plans to do anything with them. I don’t need the coins or the money they would bring.

Yes sir, I replied in the classifieds to you. Let me know if you'd like to make a deal.

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

Yep was gonna buy it but to big for storing for me, I don’t smelt

Wrapped around Hersey's Nuggets.

Good luck with getting your $20 silver

It’s $21 silver and the day I posted it I could buy bars from hero bullion for 22, not going to pay a premium on the second hand market when I can purchase directly from a bullion dealer for $1 more. Makes no sense.

It has gone up the past few days sorry I don’t have a silver ticker on my thread to keep my price up to date.

I get mine right Heeruh

Dang should have bought it, he just changed his price.

+1

I've dealt with Apmex for a number of years, both buying and selling. They're honest and reliable.

I would suggest coins over bars as well, as it'll be easier to sell for a higher price when the time comes. Authenticity of silver coins is easier to confirm than for many silver bars.

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.

Thanks bud good advice and makes sense.

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

No problem sir, I wouldn’t sell them either.

When tshtf my money will be in Dinty Moore stew and spam.

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.

Texas precious metals.

Down side with fdr was govt deemed private citizen ownership of gold a criminal act and bought back all surrendered for the 21 and as soon as they felt comfortable the govt had all it was going to get they falsely raised the price to 35 and made it impossible for mere citizens to cash out what they may have kept as it would be reported and charges pursued.
I don’t see people giving it up as easy again, but could happen.

I don't

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

Only problem is they don’t have much inventory. Not any 1oz Gold Eagles in inventory.
Like others they seem to have no name /generic products.
Physical is drying up everywhere.