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New Member
United States
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I'm currious what the cummunity thinks about this stuff. I've been considering the addition of small amounts of these items to my stash. I realize the disconnect between paper contract (spot) cost and bullion premiums are vast. However, I do feel comfortable with a moderate amount of speculation considering it was actually mined and assayed to be pure and trust THAT vs. fiat in the event of a barter situation. Thoughts?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
834 Posts |
Copper Hoard pennies
Nickel hoard ore 1981 nickels .999 pure by the government of Canada
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
36745 Posts |
Gold and silver have proven themselves over thousands of years, IMO stick with those. Easy to buy, easy to sell. Why spend the money on industrial metals that take up a lot of space and may not give you much return for a number of years to come?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5831 Posts |
I agree with IGE!
Unless you have room to store allot of the other types of metal alloy.
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Valued Member
United States
264 Posts |
If you need Nickel bullion, just call a steel supplier in your region. They will sell you nickel plate at competitive rates.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1454 Posts |
I agree with Mac. A small amount really won't help you much, IMO. If you're going with baser metals, think about making room for big inventories, like basement or garage-sized spaces, or it's probably not worth the effort.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
745 Posts |
Hoard Copper US pennies, 1959-1981 it's not worth time to sort out the CU vs Zinc 1982 cents. you get about 2.2 cents of CU for 1c, plus they still have a face value.  Great deal, it's like a reverse premium.  I know you can't melt them now, but sometime in future US will allow it...maybe when USA stops penny like Canada just did.  we can melt the old Silver coins now, so save those CU cents. Edited by Penny4Me
08/08/2012 3:40 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
3692 Posts |
These are duds, in my opinion. Tin? Really?
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3294 Posts |
technically, by definition, only precious metals are classified as bullion.
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Moderator
 Australia
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If you seriously think the economy will collapse to the point where bartering copper and tin is going to be necessary, don't waste space hoarding high-tech industrial metals like titanium, nickel, tungsten, platinum etc.. You need an advanced technological civilization to even work with such metals, let alone find a use for them.
If you want my tip on hoarding a valuable post-apocalypse metal, go for aluminium. It's useful, easy to work with even using primitive technology and, now that all of the cryolite in the world has been mined out, it would be impossible for a post-New-Dark-Age civilization to make any more aluminium unless they found some pre-existing aluminium metal to make synthetic cryolite with.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Valued Member
United States
264 Posts |
@Sap Why not tell these fearful hoarders to just store copper?  It can be easily melted and formed using primitive fire pits as well.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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If you seriously think the economy will collapse to the point where bartering copper and tin is going to be necessary, don't waste space hoarding high-tech industrial metals like titanium, nickel, tungsten, platinum etc.. You need an advanced technological civilization to even work with such metals, let alone find a use for them. That's why I also invest in lead and brass with a little powder in between. |
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Valued Member
United States
228 Posts |
I invested in guns and Ammo for post apocalyptic times!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1454 Posts |
Get a good sword and learn how to use it. If a collapse occurs, modern ammo will quickly be in short supply; but a well-crafted piece of steel could last a lifetime, if you take care of it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Tin I could go for as it is quite useful to mix with lead and then cast bullets from it. I have done this a number of times and it works quite well. Other than that, I have no interest in the base metals.
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Posted 08/08/2012 10:32 am
