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angel2004: I wish I had the $$$ to search halves. I can afford $50-100 every payday for bullion, but I just can't afford to tie up $1k at a time for searching. Even if it is still cash, it would be out of the bank account when I need it for bills and stuff. I like the proof idea too...I hadn't thought of that! Nice!
ICanSeeYou7687: Holy cow! I wish I had that kind of money to throw around!
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The boXes are $500 and sometimes tellers have rolls of halves available but not often in my experience. The $500 for halves is reused so its just the first $d00 and art of my emergency cash I keep. Just an idea. It can always be spent and you are not so quick to use coins so save money in the long run
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You don't have to roll search by buying large amounts. You can just buy a roll or two then spend them on things like gas, lunch, beers, or what ever during the week.
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angel2004: That's actually a pretty interesting idea. For some reason I thought half boxes were $1k and I really can't afford to have that much tied up in searching, but I might be able to do $500! This is worth some serious consideration. Thanks!
mkfarm: I've done that in the past and have found a little here and there, but not much. And the banks around here seem to get rid of halves as soon as they come in, so I've had a lot of trouble finding rolls to buy. I kind of figured I'd need to order a box to be able to search.
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Think about it. You are not spending money on rolls. Your rolls of halves are still money. You just have coins instead of paper. You can spend coins (though you might get a dirty look if you use it for a large purchase). The only $ you are actually spending doing this is when you keep some of the halves.
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Exactly! And basically get silver at face value instead of many times face!
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Re: the silver proof sets... This is one way to go, buy just the State Quarters, which are .900, and 5 of them amount to 9/10th of an oz., but remember the advice about selling to dealers and receiving 10% to 20% below spot. Same goes for the ATB silver quarter sets, which are excellent buys at spot. The bonus is some sets might rise someday above their intrinsic value, such as the 1999 set. When you have them together, makes for an awesome display. Another thing you could is buy an empty ASE tube, and start filling it up with scruffy, toned, slightly damaged ASEs. As this series has been around since 1986, mishandling is common, dealers will buy these at a few % off of spot and sell either @ spot or $1.00 above it. If you buy from a private individual, sometimes you can get them for way under melt. A bullion investor would not care how they looked as long as they were recognizable, and would not get attached to them. Silver is silver! |
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Yes the 5 Q 2010is 39 95 and now spot is over 36 for 5 Quarters so not that much more than buying junk. Just a way to get quality for junk price. I have calculated the whole set allowing for silver value for the silver coins and adding 5 06 for non silver. That comes close as well especially for the 2010 year that cost less
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As an aside the proof silver eagle goes for 59 99 for an oz while the Proof annuals are much much less per OZ of silver
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That "dimes" idea is pretty good, but honestly if it came to that there would be way more to worry about than money. I would go with Peace/Morgan dollars in your case. Once you get into bags with pounds you might find yourself happy with them in the future. Make sure you have a plan for selling. Although they are 90%, you may be selling them at a lower price than you originally thought because of the bulk weight. (Something to consider - not sure how you're redeeming your investment)
About getting too attached to bullion: I say that if it's slightly more desirable then you can sell it at a slightly higher price. If you find that silver has hit its peak for a while, buy some proofs while they're relatively inexpensive. (This actually may be risky in your situation.)
Bullion (1ozt) may be your best bet if you have children and want to pass down your belongings. I'll bet you they'll value the bars over junk coins anyday. They may want to hock the bag of coins yet ask more for the bars.
Good luck with everything!
Edited by Libertad
08/17/2011 2:00 pm
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Think about it. You are not spending money on rolls. Your rolls of halves are still money. You just have coins instead of paper. You can spend coins (though you might get a dirty look if you use it for a large purchase). The only $ you are actually spending doing this is when you keep some of the halves. This is EXACTLY what I tell my wife about my silver collecting. "Honey, I didn't SPEND any money... I simply converted one form of money into another. Unlike actually SPENDING money, I still have it!".  Not sure if she is 100% convinced but the grumbling HAS diminished quite a bit.  |
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