I got the buffalos at spot in a starter pack deal, and the eagle at spot for Black Friday. The only coin I bought that had a premium was the 25 peso at ~$3 to hit the $200 free shipping threshold. I'm thinking I might just go around and buy the one-per-customer spot deals from all the reputable sellers until I've exhausted them all, there's at least 100 oz of premium-free silver right there.
Lots of people do that. A guy on Reddit even posted a photo of everything he got, read it here.
the company that produces the packaged bars sold by jmbullion, luciteria science, sells almost all of the naturally occurring elements on the periodic table, and they sell about 50 different elemental metals in the form of one gram and/or one ounce bullion bars. they even have a labeled display case for all of the one gram bars that they produce:
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I would just buy an ETF instead. Platinum (and Palladium which is similar) both have absurd spreads. Sprott has SPPP which tracks both, and they're open about the exact bars they hold and are audited so you're not investing with someone who owns futures or something. Of course it costs more because storing metal ain't cheap.
I second the notion of shopping all vendors. I happen to live in a city that has sales tax - but most of the smaller vendors don't know (or care?) about that. Instant 5% savings.
I've been wanting a drop, but I don't think it's gonna happen. Just off-hand, not even 2 years ago, I could get 20oz in the $600-$700 range depending on what's what. Now, It starts in the low to mid $700s and is only going up.
I got some for the itsy-bitsiest premium just because they were milk-spotted. Why do I care if there are spots?!
Copper is cheap, but I ended up using mine practically instead of stack-tically.
I own exactly 1 copper coin, and that's so I can use it to complain about how the economy works in DND.
I have a few 1 oz copper bars because a friend gave them to me. They're just sitting on my desk as paperweights
Maybe I'm picky but I really do not understand the widespread love of Canadian coins. For some reason, I've noticed that a lot of people really seem to like them, but then hate on Philharmonics (how is *a leaf* better than an organ). It may come back to bite me but I refuse to buy them just because I think they're so dumb looking. But I'm also the type of person who rarely gets rounds because I find most designs to be kind of ugly so, again, maybe I'm just picky and/or pretentious.
Silver maple leafs aren't known for milkspotting easily. It's a big plus in my book to stack silver coins and not have them look like shit after a year, just my personal preference though.
agreed. i'm not a fan of the maple leafs, or the phiharmonics, or the ases, but i still collect them with my annual sovereigns. i can kinda understand the appeal of canadian silver more that the others though, because it's 0.999 (four nines) instead of 0.999 (three nines). that's how they are able to produce a mirror finish (three nines can't do that).
The hate is pretty dumb. It's a nice design, they are the only widely available sovereign coin denominated in Euros, and the mint has a long history. Like anything else there are fads. Maybe that is one good reason to buy as close to spot as possible, you can always sell silver for spot or just under no matter how ugly it is. The premium is subject to taste, and nobody knows if people will still like ASEs or Libertads enough to pay the current premium ten years from now. This matters more if you are stacking rather than just buying the odd coin.
The coins came in yesterday and they are beautiful
I understand why many people may not like the Maple Leafs. Improper Milk spotting could be an issue on these coins for some people and make the coin appear like shit. Though fortunately it doesn't affect the value whatsoever and it doesn't make your coin smell bad either. I've had milk spotting and corrosion on Silver Bars before (even some milk spotting on some Silver Maple Leafs). They can be cleaned though you gotta have the right materials and you gotta clean it carefully. I honestly don't really care much milk spotting but I often store these maple leafs in Tubes and other environment where these things could be prevented easier and I often keep them away from sunlight. With that being said, Silver Maple Leafs are still some of my favorite coins considering how pretty they look.
