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Anyone Been Cleaning Out Their Junk/Low Value Silver Lately?

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 Posted 01/29/2026  10:04 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list

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This market is going to end very very badly in my opinion.
Selling for 80% now would look genius in hindsight, assuming you bought in before the swell.


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the US dollar.....has become unpopular
And will remain so until things change...
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 Posted 01/29/2026  12:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add denny7000 to your friends list
Mcshilling if you could walk into J&M this am you would get from them 525$ for your 10$ roll of quarters and 86.50$ for a pre 1966 cnd dollar.

You can check on their website under sell to J&M, bullion. Prices fluctuate with the spot price.
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 Posted 01/29/2026  3:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Cdncoins to your friends list
Gatewest is a big buyer of silver and gold and offers one of the most competitive prices. You can ship it to them.
http://markets3.gatewestcoin.com/bullionBuy.html
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 Posted 01/29/2026  6:58 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Smallcentguy to your friends list
Pre 67 silver has 0.6 fine ounces per dollar. So a silver dollar has 0.6 ounces or almost C$100 of silver. A $40 offer is terrible for a silver dollar. You should expect a discount but a fair price would be $80+.
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 Posted 01/29/2026  7:22 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mcshilling to your friends list
Smallcentguy I agree with you , when he told me $200 I said wow thinking that's low, he said great price right. I picked up my coins and said it should be at least double that. No comment from them.

What would be the best way to ship to someone?
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 Posted 01/30/2026  12:53 am  Show Profile   Check Pacificoin's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add Pacificoin to your friends list
Both bought and sold stuff in Vancouver today .
Pure saleable stuff brought strong prices .
Cased dollars , mint product , US 40 per cent and the like
all brought around 80 per cent give or so .
THERE IS NO WHERE TO GO ! Dealers are running
very low on liquidity, ie running out of cash!
I was able to buy a very nice run of Morgan dollars
and US numismatics at great prices .
15 back of Grey Sheet on the Collector coins and the Morgans
95 per cent of spot!
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 Posted 01/30/2026  2:36 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add purelywasted to your friends list
Glad you were able to cash that out Pacific, looks like the bubble might have burst today. If it holds, silver down 30%. Not even sure how to describe the impact of that if it holds.
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 Posted 01/30/2026  3:11 pm  Show Profile   Check Pacificoin's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add Pacificoin to your friends list
The one thing that has to be considered as to the impact
on the market is this .
Can all of you who stack silver or consider it as an
Investment ever TRUST again?
Silver is a relatively thinly traded market and is
endlessly manipulated.
It really is predicated on Horse Bleep !
I have been dealing in this stuff for over 5 decades now
and the only way to win is to consistently buy and sell.
Any profits I have ever made go into premium dividend
paying stocks to create a predictable income flow.
Precious metals pay zero income as long as they are
held and are subject to wild swings as we have witnessed
many times .
Hang on everyone, the madness has only begun
this time round !
1980 was great fun and games as was 2011.
Gut feeling this madness of 2026 will be much worse and
dies not end well!
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 Posted 01/30/2026  9:12 pm  Show Profile   Check NumisCat's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add NumisCat to your friends list
For those of you who don't know, I run a dealership in Ottawa. The last two days have been insane. These silver prices seemed unreasonable for the last month or two -- even more so as I began to receive calls from the general public looking to buy into the market (never happened to me before, I'm a coin dealer not a bullion dealer). When the public wants to buy in, that's when I want to get out.

Today, in particular, was wild. I had eight appointments scheduled, six of them came in and two cancelled. I was buying hundreds of ounces of silver, mainly Canadian circulation coinage but also some pure stuff and RCM product, as the market was crashing, trying to maintain fair buy prices and margins without losing my shirt. Thankfully, I did make it through the day without any massive losses. I have been careful about offsetting all metals purchases with equivalent sales over the last month as prices became inflated so as not to inflate my inventory and exposure.

I was around buying and selling in 2011 when this happened, but I don't recall it being as singularly nuts as what's happening now. It will be interesting to see how the market reacts on Sunday night. Will the selloff continue? Will collectors and investors want to buy the dip? All I know is I will continue buying and selling in a way that is both fair to my clients and limits my downside risk from the price volatility.

Happy to answer any questions.
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 Posted 01/30/2026  9:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add NumisEd to your friends list

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Dealers are running very low on liquidity, ie running out of cash!

There is always the fallback option of ebay, but you will have to take the 10-20% hit. If you are low on liquidity due to mismanagement, then any cash is better than no cash.


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Can all of you who stack silver or consider it as an Investment ever TRUST again?

People who stack and consider it an investment are misguided IMO.


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Any profits I have ever made go into premium dividend paying stocks to create a predictable income flow.

I hear ya, but I think the stock market is also very overvalued right now. Many tech stocks have doubled from a year ago. There is no way that can continue on like that.
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premium dividend paying stocks

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the stock market is also very overvalued right now
Diversity and dividends cover the market dips. My portfolio is well in the black by every metric—YTD, last year, and the last ten.
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 Posted 02/05/2026  7:43 pm  Show Profile   Check Pacificoin's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add Pacificoin to your friends list
I am curious as to who in the Canadian Coin
business is going to survive this!
Personally , I am licking my chops .
No inventory tied up in the back room
waiting for the refiners .
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 Posted 02/05/2026  8:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add NumisEd to your friends list
Looks like the big online sellers of bullion are still holding the line. A discount of $2.50 (back of spot) on 90% silver (the best I can find) does not scream "liquidity crisis!" to me.
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 Posted 02/06/2026  10:42 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add purelywasted to your friends list
As a general principle, do smaller dealers actively hedge their silver purchases? And by active, I mean manage their short/long contracts on daily/weekly basis to protect against big swings.

I'm sure the large players do.
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