Silver Really Worth Investing In?

My perspective is buy and collect if you are interested in the coin itself, but investing in PM is not wise as of the moment, could be a while before it does go back to the twenties? Having a few coins in a collection is a joy to look at, but this is money you can afford to park to a side and not afraid of losing it. Hopefully rewarding toward the future.

I realize we're in the PM forum, but there is a lot more to coin collecting than silver eagles, rounds, and 90%. If you're into the hobby just to stack silver (or gold), you're going to get bored pretty quickly - not to mention anxious. What drew you to CCF? Do you already have a coin collection of some sort?
I think most of us here are collecting because we like to build something. We like the challenge of trying to complete something. I like the connection to history. I see coins as small sculptures, little works of art (except for some Barber issues .
So ask yourself why you should put your time and $$ into coin collecting. Start small, and BTW,

Frankly, I don't really give a darn if the silver price rises or continues to fall further.
I started collecting coins seriously when I was 16 years of age and I am now nearly 70 years of age, (as of next birthday).

The precious metals price trends have broadly followed coin prices trends in all of those 54 years.
I have slowly accumulated both coins and silver during all of that period.
I have seen the vagaries and ructions of silver prices and coin prices, both up and down, and I have long since learned not to be bothered by them.

My current silver stash is relatively small, because most of it has been converted to numismatic coins, which are on much the same sort of price roller coaster.

So I don't do too much navel gazing or thumb twiddling, when it comes to current silver prices.
Been there, done that.

I collect firewood. But I don't know what the weather will be like this winter.

I would say about 40% of my collection is silver coins with numismatic value. I feel this a win/win way to benefit my children and grandchildren. I will continue this method of collecting for as long as I'm above the ground.

My dad hunted for rocks and stored them in glass jars. He bought part of an old tourist ruby mine, which he visited annually for at least 15 years. After he died we hauled the jars of unidentified rocks to the landfill and found a buyer for the mine, at about 1/3 of the price he paid for it. We never found his little ziploc bag of tiny ruby chips, which had an aggregate value of about $25. Counting the cost of the trips to the dump, the loss on sale of the mine, the cost of the annual trips to the mine, and converting to 2016 basis, his rock hunting hobby cost in excess of $100,000. But it was his hobby. If he had spent the money golfing it would have cost about the same, with as little to show.

I have the same collecting genes, but decided a long time ago to collect things that were small and valuable. I stack coins, but I like to pick and choose what I stack. My heirs will get better value from those coins than we did out of dad's pile of rocks.

I agree with the others in that I don't look at my modest silver holdings as an "investment". I am not a stacker but I do collect world bullion coins and look forward to the start of the new year. So far I have picked up the 2016 Kangaroo, Lunar Monkey, Panda, Elephant and the Benin Lion. When it is available I will pick up the 2016 ASE and a few others I will need to keep my sets current that I started 4 or 5 years ago.

I do this because I enjoy it and baring a future major financial obstacle my collection of bullion / coins will just get passed down to the next generation so I don't worry about what is worth today vs the future.

Have some fun! And