BlacktopTravelr wrote:Jeffco, each to his own.
I'm personally not into collectible silver as it gets overpriced too often. I buy my silver for the future and I don't mean as waiting for the price to go up and selling. but to hold it in case the economy dumps and we have to have something else to barter with. Gold and silver has always been two of the items most often traded after a SHTF type of situation or when times get tough. Good luck with your purchase.
I have a shit-ton of 1 gram silver bars for that situation. I figure they'd be more useful than trying to divide up a 1 oz bar or coin.
Not that I expect that situation to happen, but did figure it into the overall idea when I decided to collect. I just like silver. And copper. That's gotten out of hand, I need to put the brakes on. I have over 20 pounds of copper bullion in various forms (bars, coins, rounds, bullets, etc)...the pieces are cheap and fun to collect, I see how many different styles and types I can find. Some that I like a lot I have several dozen of. When you buy in large quantities (say over 10) they are priced below $1/piece.
Still not really grounded in actual value of copper, by weight they are only worth .25 cents or so. But it costs money to design and create and ship them, same as anything else. But if, as you said, the SHTF, long before you'd be bartering with yer gold and silver, copper and other metal prices will surge like they did when fuel got so high...one way or the other, it takes fuel to mine and process metals, and the prices are inextricably tied to each other. There is a lag, but not much. Ones that take more power to produce and form feel it first.
Only a couple dozen made. Maybe one shows up on the used market? Yeah right. Not gonna happen, for a few years anyway...then will be priced outta my range... 
(putt putt putt)
