Gold Vs. Silver?

Gold is my prefer metal for the time being, with five thousands I would pick up as many 1/10 oz AGE as possible.

I can tell without knowing you that we have a bit in common besides collecting coins. I hated reading comprehension in school, too.

I questioned that, as well, Ed. Came to the conclusion that he wanted gold coins that could be purchased for lower cost goods and services in a crisis but still keep the weight down compared the same dollar figure in silver bullion. Not a half bad idea, really. Maybe the only reason I'd consider fractional gold in such a weight.

amida17:
LOL now how did I miss that one? I thought Traevin was being serious about that.

Libertad,

You know us Americans and our long guns. Now OTOH, you're from Canada and have a built in excuse, so I didn't bust your chops.

I am totally envious of American gun rights. Here it's all about making "peace officers" look like saints while marginalizing the struggling youth. (No offense to any law enforcement.) We have ZERO power when it comes to.... okay, no talk of politics. I'll hold my fingertips on this one. Urban Canada is becoming unsafe, let's just put it that way - that coupled with the majority of our urban centers positioned right at the American border - you can tally up the consequences.

On my original post I wanted to state the importance of 1/10ozt Au for the /exact/ reasons stated by everybody else. One ounce of gold is about the price of a jalopy, while one ounce of silver would be used for feeding the gas tank. Which one would be used daily? The silver, obviously, but you would probably get insane deals if you presented small gold over big silver. Would somebody take your 50ozt Ag brick for a daily purchase? It's hard to say. That kind of size silver is for investment, in my opinion. I think that more people would take gold over silver because of its perceived higher value. You never hear about Ancient Egyptians and their silver. But the word silver is the same for money in many languages. I think you need both to give people the option and to make change.

Im envious over the american gun laws too. in a shtf case, we honest canadians are screwed. the only people that have the guns here, other than the poilce, are the hunters and the WRONG dangerous people. I wish we could all own as well.