Anybody here have a favorite source of silver bars?

[recon]

So what is better to get? Silver coins of silver bars?

[ltorlo64]

I recommend coins as the purity and weight of the silver was attested to by a minting organization. Also, coins are easier to carry and parse out than bars if worse comes to worse and you need them for currency.

[Hatedbysheeple]

So what is better to get? Silver coins of silver bars?

For investment, what ever has the lowest premium over spot but is still easily moved, I like 10oz bars for this, sometimes you can find smaller stuff for cheaper.

If your a prepper , U.S., Canadian or British 1oz government minted coins and 90% silver dimes, quarters and half dollars. I think Canadian 1oz silver maples are the lowest premium government minted coins.

I would not buy bulk silver or gold right now, the markets are dropping steadily and have yet to find bottom, I think gold will stop around $1000 an oz, once gold steadies, I think silver will return to the $15 level for a bit then go back to the $20 range since that's around what it cost to mine and refine per oz.

[recon]

Yeah I was thinking coins for carry just in case the world goes south!

[coppertales]

With the price of silver lately, I hit a few gold and silver places around here. None of them had any silver for sale at the going rate, which tells me none of them want to take a loss on what they have in stock. I like the one ounce silver coins. Easy to barter with. I do have a 50 ounce bar. Really pretty....

[O.S.O.K.]

I use APMEX.com and I buy silver rounds - mostly their mint. I also have some quarter and half ounce rounds but not that many. I bought them thinking it would be handy to use them in SHTF...

My purpose is mostly financial SHTF - as a way of ensuring I have something of worth should the dollar tank.

I also have some Bitcoin just to annoy the anti-digital people on this board

[Aggressive Perfector]

I don't have a favorite source, but I do have some favorite bars. I have a 1 ounce Gadsden flag bar, and a 1 gram "bar" with an AK47 on it. Damn shame I can't find that one in a 1 or 5 ounce bar.

[5.56NATO]

So what is better to get? Silver coins of silver bars?

If you have a lot of money to throw at metal, it will make sense to have some bars in the mix. But I have caveats about bars as they could be fabricated mostly out of say zinc or some other cheap metal and coated with a thin layer of silver. A similar crime was foisted upon the Chinese, they bought some gold bars and they had a coating of real gold, but inside they were zinc or some other metal. Coins are a bit harder to fake correctly. Also in a barter/precious metals only world what are you going to buy with a bar? The whole city block? Who can make change for a loaf of bread you just bought with a bar of silver? Good idea to have coins that are easily recognisable as US minted by prospective trade partners and are worth less than the typical bar/ingot. Greece right now is running on barter, even corporations are doing it. Also see here;
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...rofessors.html

[Hatedbysheeple]

APMEX is having a short time flash sale on 2015 American Silver Eagles (tube of 20) $2.99 an ounce over spot, lowest price over spot I have seen in a while, just snatched up 6 tubes. This will bring me up to 233 oz of 1 oz coins. I'll be buying Canadian royal mint 10oz bars from here on out in silver at least.

[Hatedbysheeple]

They are sold out now

[O.S.O.K.]

I'm really surprised that there's any silver available for sale at this market level... way below the actual cost to mine. Crazy.

[Altarboy]

I'dlove a source where I could receive a bar a week or something. You know, automatically. I just feel my 401k will be robbed at some point.