How Much Would You Pay For An Ounce Of Silver?

Everything I don't care about - just under spot price, really, my budget's not big enough to do any investing.

Old foreign? If you get those for spot plus 10% and have a catalog at the ready and know that you're not just getting holed and bent crap, you're doing great. I pay spot +20% for the privilege of being able to pick out what I want, and it works great once you find someone who doesn't really care about pricing foreign coins.

I have just paid $100/oz for a bar and consider it a bargain

Engelhard, one of a set of 4 100 gram bars from the British Hallmark set, just need the other 3 now

WAIT... $300 US dollars... or are you forgetting to calculate exchange rates?

For bulk silver, maybe 5-10% over spot. anything more than that, and you are getting into speculating, I think.

Last week I had Silver from the US and eight other countries: Australia, Canada, England, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, Portugal and Switzerland.

Yesterday* I added another country to that list...

Germany

Paul Von Hindenburg ain't purdy but it's 4 ounces of foreign silver for $200, $50/ounce.

I had 4.2977 ounces of foreign silver these added 4.016, now totaling 8.3137

Much better than 80-120 for less than an ounce, sorry about your Morgan woes ASEnut. You have not been here long enough to make trades and this is not the right forum for it anyway, but when you can trade let me know I'd love to add African silver to my foreign silver collection





* sorry it took so long to post this... hope there was not too much suspense.

Here's the History lesson. Silver in circulation coinage during the 20th century.

Last year of silver in circulation coins for Belgium 1918 (83.5%)
Last year of silver in circulation coins for Russia 1930 (50%)
Last year of silver in circulation coins for Spain 1933 (83.5%)
Last year of silver in circulation coins for Brazil 1938 (60%)
Last year of silver in circulation coins for France 1939 (68%)
Last year of silver in circulation coins for (Unified) Germany 1939 (62.5% & 90%)
Last year of silver in circulation coins for Italy 1941 (83.5%)
Last year of silver in circulation coins for England 1946 (50%)
Last year of silver in circulation coins for Columbia 1953 (30%)
Last year of silver in circulation coins for Australia 1963 (50%)
Last year of silver in circulation coins for Japan 1966 (60%)
Last year of silver in circulation coins for Switzerland 1967 (83.5%)
Last year of silver in circulation coins for Canada 1968 (50%)
Last year of silver in circulation coins for US 1969 (40%) {1970 JFK half was not meant for circulation}
Last year of silver in circulation coins for Panama 1970 (40%)
Last year of silver in circulation coins for West Germany 1974 (62.5%)
Last year of silver in circulation coins for Mexico 1979 (72%)

My numbers might be off and I wanted to add several other countries but flipping through Krause trying to keep it all straight is not easy.

Is there a complete or partial list of last year for circulation strikes in different countries? If no one can post a link maybe we can start the list here. Feel free to add to or correct this list.

The bottom line is, if you are looking for foreign circulation silver we are pushing 50 years old on the newest.

Due to the constant changes of purity for many countries, from over 90% to 10% in the case of Mexico, many dealers and collectors seem to shy away from foreign silver but I have always liked it.

I'm looking at some cap and ray 72% Mexican peso's (1920-1945) at my LCS... I'll post pics when I get 'em

Edit: 1930 (50%) for Russia, thanks january1may
Edit: Thanks nalaberong

Last year for Mexico: 1995. The last circulating old peso silver was the $100 coin from around 1979, but all $10, $20 and $50 coins that say "N$" instead of just "$" have silver centers. And all new $100 coins have silver centers as well but they do not really circulate.

In West Germany, the 5-mark coin was silver until it was replaced by a copper-nickel design with a rounded box around the 5 that was called the "TV-Five". But I forget what year this was in.