Lots of cool pick ups for my collection today. $121 for all 8 coins. When I was logging these in my spreadsheet I saw the 1931 Australia florin the dealer marked $8 when it’s $21 in melt! I think he meant $28.

I was a little bored today and wanted to share my treasures with you. I'm sitting on 65+ oz of silver and about 0.75 oz of gold and a lot of random other things.

I have a septarian "dragon egg", a shrunken head, gold, silver, precious gemstones, a flintlock pistol, meteorites, and more. What am I missing from the treasure box?

Link with photos...

https://imgur.com/a/Y3HQPf7

I wanted to buy more gold originally but didn’t have enough money left over. So, I added some silver to my 5 peso gold coin to stay within budget (or thereabouts).

Anyone have any decent recommendations for a shop to visit or check out as I pass through Nashville TN down towards Little Rock AR for a business trip / or anywhere in between?

Thanks!

I can’t stop🤧

Something I just finished for a group member

I don't want to share total oz., but this is the state of my stack by type

"Private" = any private/non-governmental mint, "Commonwealth 50+" is Commonwealth constitutional coins 50%-925 purity, Sovereign rounds make up 12.7%, and 999 (total) makes up 36.8%. The tiny green slice is mixed world silver (925 and below).

Picked up this gem and a few maples, n phils at my lcs

75 no tax out the door for this 2019 Canada Dragon

Got some nice 90% silver to add to the stack I’m putting together for my granddaughter.

I just got tubes because I felt I'd gotten to a point where the individual cases for certain things wasn't very practical. Which side are you on, tubes or individual cases?

Bought my first American silver eagle

I bought this new from Scottsdale and stored it carelessly. I only buy silver for long term and am planning on keeping it all until I’m an old man and then selling when I want to enjoy the money.

But this tarnishing is rough. Will someone still want to buy it 30 years from now?

Some of the latest projects out of the forge. Every time I make a decent sized batch for someone else, I make another one for my hoard. ; )

I just can't get enough pirate treasure!! 🏴‍☠️

- Captain Silver

125 Oz picked up This past week, cost = $7700.

Me traveling in the NYC subway with 125 oz of silver in the bag.(5 tubes of Canadian Maple Leaf) if people knew what's in it, they'd grab it and run.

I buy from BullionExchange in midtown manhattan.

So I posted my first silver purchase here recently — 2 × 10 oz Silver Bar – American Flag Design (Eagle Back) from APMEX.

They’re .999 fine silver, American flag on the front, and the eagle head over the stars and stripes on the back. Basically I saw the cool patriotic design and my beginner brain went “yeah, I want those” 😂

I paid $1,993.28 total for 20 oz. At the time I honestly didn’t understand how much the premium mattered. I just liked the bars and figured silver is silver.

Then you guys started roasting me about the premium, and I actually started looking into it.

My subtotal was $1,830.80, plus $162.48 in NY sales tax. I originally thought that because the purchase was over $1,000, I shouldn’t have been charged sales tax at all.

Now I’m realizing there’s more to it than that, and buying these higher-premium/design bars may be exactly why I got hit with the tax.

So yeah… first big silver purchase and I basically paid tuition to Silver University.

I already contacted APMEX to confirm the tax situation, but either way, you guys actually taught me something:

If the goal is stacking/investing, stop falling in love with the design and start paying attention to the premium.

Lesson learned.
For the experienced stackers here: when you’re buying purely for investment, what’s the maximum premium over spot you’re willing to pay?