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O.k. all of you stackers out there, where is a respectable Mint in America that doesn't charge an arm and a leg and that has some bullion in stock that they will ship. My "friend" (actually my Dad) was on the phone today with one of the Fox advertisers and they were proud to sell him bullion for $36/oz and (checks internet)... Dad, slv spot is around $25 atm. That's one heck of a markup / boomer savings remover.

So guys, here's the question:

Which mint has verifiable silver bullion, has it for a decent price and will ship to an address in the U.S.

Extra question: what are the most common pitfalls when buying silver online.

O.k. all of you stackers out there, where is a respectable Mint in America that doesn't charge an arm and a leg and that has some bullion in stock that they will ship. My "friend" (actually my Dad) was on the phone today with one of the Fox advertisers and they were proud to sell him bullion for $36/oz and (checks internet)... Dad, slv spot is around $25 atm. That's one heck of a markup / boomer savings remover. So guys, here's the question: Which mint has verifiable silver bullion, has it for a decent price and will ship to an address in the U.S. Extra question: what are the most common pitfalls when buying silver online.

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pre 1964 coins dimes nickles quarters

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Was just looking at those on JM Bullion but they still work out to $33.3 / oz and they are only 90% silver. But this is a damn good idea if he wants to go the pawn shop route!

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silver bars arent really worth the actually price due to apple/microsoft/sony etc ect. they are causing 50% of the cost. coins are the best way to go

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Wow... Talk about being late to the party. The good entry to silver has ended a while back. We are deeply in the unending rise. You pay whatever you need to pay and quit bitching.

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It's starting to look that way, my whole point of this post was to find out the situation and many of you guys have been very helpful.

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Get you some silver but get some crypto as well. There are WAY more opportunities in crypto right now. TRX VET ADA XRP and more. Why pick only one possibility when one could diversify. I like to hold metals and crypto and land. SOMETHING is going to go up lol

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Canada has good coins some reason I bought a bunch of kraken 2 Oz coins because they looked cool and where close to market price

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Jmbullion.com is decent, but you will pay a premium no matter what. Silver is artificially depressed in price, and these dealers have trouble keeping it in stock.

You can get it for around $31/Oz on jmbullion I think. I haven't checked in a few days though. All of their silver is from reputable mints as far as I know.

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I was figuring that JM would show up (it's a /pol/ favorite) and it's looking like that $36/oz from the boomer Fox mint isn't looking so bad.

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You can get SilverTowne rounds for around $30/oz.

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you're always going to pay more than the bullion melt price. i know people who have bought from the alex jones guy, what was his name i forget. if you're buying a lot you can go to someone like that.

for one off coins here and there, ebay sellers with 100% + feedback are usually a good bet.

take a sharp knife and cut a tiny nick off the edge of your coin to be sure it's not plated.

i once had a local coin shop sell me a bunch of plated silver ounce coins. buyer beware.

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I don't think putting wealth into bars of metal is ever going to be that useful, besides, it might get confiscated violently in the coming years... I personally think getting out of debt and turning cash into useful durable goods and land is a better plan...

That being said, I've lost quite a bit of weight since I got married so I now have several plain gold wedding bands in assorted sizes... If things get really bad I think it will be much more useful/practical to go down to whatever swap meet dystopia market pops up with one of those rings looking devastated that I need to trade it for food/medical supplies than it would be to try to safely cash in a bar or coin that I obviously bought as a way to store wealth BEFORE everything truly hit the fan, you know?

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It's for my Dad, who is rather old and wouldn't do well in a Mad Max scenario, he just afraid that the dollar will tank and what little retirement money he has will tank with it.

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Local coin shop. ASEs.

Or eBay from a reputable dealer.

Selling, again eBay or local coin shop.

You only get screwed on markup if you dump a bunch on the local coin shop.

If you sell yourself you can get back your premium.

ASEs we're about $20/ea this time last year, they're about $35/ea now.

Could be $50 or $100 this time next year.

The hole in the ground guy doesn't understand passing on generational wealth.

Say your dad got this idea at your age.

Could've picked up an oz of gold for about $50 to $100. 50 years later that same coin is $1800.

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Say your dad got this idea at your age.

He didn't but my Grandad did, those coins got stolen though since my Dad stored them in his house. Idiot. But he's my Dad and I still love him despite his faults. Speaking of his faults, getting into the ebay market system would not be one of his fortes. What I'm looking for is a non-predatory Mint that will sell bullion with reasonable fees. Is that even a thing?

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Ya, I forget the name, but there's a us based mint with low fees.

I've just gone with apmex, bullion exchange.

Most people don't like the fees, but then forget it's free shipping.

You can save by going to the mint yourself.

The cheapest way is to scour estate sales.

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apmex Thanks for the link! Just went there and they have 1oz bars "for as low as" $32.37 in stock which is a hell of a lot better than $36+.

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Read through the posts in the Markets sub here, lot of info there.

I also looked into buying silver but found the same, the markup puts you at a loss right away! I have some from when I was a kid is it's still worth the same.

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Thanks for the info, I should have checked Poal 1st... I just didn't want to go to /biz/ 'cause those guys are freaks.

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Silver is very expensive to buy because its not worth anything and its ultra heavy, hence shipping costs. Silver really is useless, get into gold.

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Who gave you a downvote for your comment? What a load of shit!

Anyways you are not wrong, Gold is king but my Dad isn't a rich man so silver it has to be.

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You dont have to buy a kilo at a time in gold, you have small coins worth a couple hundred. Aim small. In the end youll alwaysblose too much with silver. There is something they dont show in the US but they do in some european countries. Its called bounty in mine, its basically the overvalye compared to the metal price of any coin or bar. For example, the 5$ liberty coins are less rare than the 5$ indian head so the indian head is more expensive for the same amount of metal. Bounty on silver is HUGE because its heavy without having much value, hence my comment about shipping costs and all. Look for gold with the lowest amount of bounty on it to get weight for your money.

Usually trading fees are about 5%, no idea how much in the us but probably loweelr than that. To make your investment woethwhile you need a general increase of 5% of what you bought to start making money. Gold will always, always increase overtime. It will fluctuate, but will always increase, especiallly in hars times.

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Found the jew.

Silver is more widely used in manufacturing than gold. It is an excellent conductor.

Silver has natural antibiotic properties. It works wonders as an antiseptic on wounds and can be made easily into colloidal silver with distilled water and a battery.

Silver was dropped into water and milk jugs by pioneers to prevent spoilage due to its antibiotic traits.

Being born with a silver spoon in your mouth stemmed from the low death rates of children from families who could afford silverware. Again, antibiotic.

Silver is insanely useful, and it is wildly undervalued.

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Im not debating this as its all very good points however hoarding bars of silver is still a retarded idea. Go and try to store 10k$ worth of silver and get back to me.

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Done. It really isn't bad to store 500 Oz of silver.

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So I did the math (1kg silver bar is 4.35 in long, 1.89 in wide. .98 in deep) and to store 10 kg of silver (slightly less than $10,000) you would need a space 12.99 in long, 3.78 in wide and 1.96 in deep. That would also leave space to put 2 more kg in there, btw.

Really not all that much space at all when you come to think about it.

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Silver is very expensive to buy because it's not worth anything

https://geology.com/articles/uses-of-silver/

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And how does that relate to the guy wanting to hoard wealth by buying silver bars?

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Silver and gold are both a pain in the ass. So you buy a dozen little one-ounce bars of pure silver. You stick them in a drawer in your house. Or maybe you are paranoid, and you hide them in a hole in the ground. You don't use a safety deposit box at a bank because you don't trust banks -- that's why you bought the silver in the first place.

So it sits there. What good does it do you? You are already in a hole when you bought it because of the huge mark-up. Why such a huge mark-up? Because actual bullion is difficult to handle. It's awkward.

So let's say a day comes along when you decide to cash in some of your silver bars for dollars. You take it to a pawn shop, and they offer to give you 60% of its actual value. You are outraged. You won't sell. You take your silver back home and put it back in its hole in the ground.

See what I'm getting at, here? Or let's say you decide to sell it at a loss. What have you gained by owning it? Other than a bit of wisdom into the working of the world? Nothing. You have lost money, not gained money, or kept money. Lost.

I know what you're thinking. But what if there is a nuclear holocaust, and zombie hordes start roaming the world, in search of brains? Then I've got something of value. But have you, really? Who is going to give you anything for silver, if they don't know you and don't know if they can trust you? And if nobody is buying silver? What you have then are little bits of shiny metal. The things of real value will be guns, ammunition, gasoline, bread, clothing, shoes.

Any way you look at it, hoarding silver or gold looks like a losing proposition.

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You have lost money

Money, by far, is the most subjective thing that we experience on a daily basis. Is it raining outside? Yes. Is it cold outside? yes. Is it really hard to split this entire cord of wood? Yes.

These are all observations that you as a person can make but what you can have a hard time predicting is what some other person perceives and values. Is it raining out side? No, only a fagit would call that rain. Is it cold outside? My vodka hasn't frozen yet so no. Is it really hard to split this entire cord of wood? Lol: I'm a lumberjack and I work all day I sleep at night and...

One Man's trash is another Man's treasure.

If you get my meaning. My Dad asked me if he should invest in physical precious metals to which I replied yes. To a safety deposit box not his mattress. Back in the 80s a savings account got 12% interest, today you get practically nothing and to make matters worse the dollar is deflating at a rapid pace; the interest rates can never be raised thanks to the massive national debt and the amount of money just to service that national debt.

I'd like to think that my Dad is thinking about preserving a bit of wealth for his grandchildren but either way you never anwered the question: How not why. I already know the reason of why.

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Safety deposit boxes are not insured like cash deposits are. There are stories of people opening their boxes to find them empty and getting told to go pound sand.

And there are plenty of stories of lost buried treasure because of shifting land or the owner losing track of landmarks.

Probably crypto is the way to go these days...unless we get hit with a good solar flare and the computers go tits up.

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And now this is a thing as well:

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-raids-business-renting-anonymous-safety-deposit-boxes-forces-customers-reveal

Still better than leaving it anywhere in his house, when he dies his cleaning lady is going to search the place top to bottom.

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You go back in time and start about 20 years ago.

Starting now is about as retarded as adopting a nigger.

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Adopting a nigger is pretty retarded. Buying silver while the price is still suppressed and the dollar is about to tank... not so much.

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Pretending you can even buy silver (any reasonable bulk quantity) in today's climate is eye-roll inducing.

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Actually some of the other suggestions were quite helpful, it's available and for quite a bit less than $36/oz.

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