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 Posted 10/28/2016  8:20 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Silver4Face to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/...7171849.html

This guy is selling 40% Kennedy halves at spot + 2% but the catch is you must purchase at least 100 of them.

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 Posted 10/28/2016  8:41 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Buddy to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
No.

The coins are probably all low grades. If you're going to just stack silver, go for something better than 40%.

Just my opinion.....
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 Posted 10/28/2016  8:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Silver4Face to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'm not going for the deal myself. I just wanted to see what other people think, and I do agree with going for something better than 40% Kennedy's.
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 Posted 10/28/2016  8:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Spence to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I agree with Buddy!
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 Posted 10/28/2016  8:51 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TypeCoin971793 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
40% is very hard to sell in the future. Better off buying at slightly under melt and using the saved expense to melt them into more-acceptable ingots.
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 Posted 10/28/2016  8:56 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add paralyse to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Current silver value: $2.63 + 2% = about $2.68

Buy 100 = $268.00, for an ASW of 14.79oz

Let's say silver gets hot, really hot, and hits $25 an ounce next month...

New melt = $3.695 - using the same ASW of 14.79oz, your 100 coins now have a silver melt value of $369.50.

Silver hasn't been near $25 in awhile, we got up to $21-$22...election year + brexit + the Fed + a lot of other things are causing lots of volatility in metals, and everything else.

So it's just a matter of deciding if you want to spend $270 or so now for a chance to make $370 later (at $25/oz) or more if it goes past that. Lately, it's been going backwards, so you could also end up with $200 worth later. To be honest, I don't think it's worth the trouble for such a small gain, especially with silver's performance lately. That's money tied up that could be working for you elsewhere. You've also got inflation working against you in the meantime, so that if silver does finally hit $25 again, the purchasing power of your $370 when you cash out will be less than the purchasing power of the $270 you invested up front.

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 Posted 10/28/2016  8:59 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jaxenro to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I lived in Massachusetts for 52 years I won't buy anything with any Kennedy on it
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 Posted 10/28/2016  9:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add thecoinguy1964 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Jaxenro, I love your reply! I personally wouldn't buy 40% halves. I've purchased in the past on large deals involving other coins, but I always paid less than their melt.
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 Posted 10/28/2016  9:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add joeysanders627 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Never buy 40% at spot. 90%...go for it. It will be easier to sell in the future.
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 Posted 10/28/2016  11:00 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add paralyse to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
with the above re: 90%, much easier to resell if silver jumps and you decide to get out.
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 Posted 10/28/2016  11:41 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add GR58 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I have to agree ... better to stack 90% or .999 silver ...

Unless your talking Ike 40% silver ...
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 Posted 10/29/2016  05:40 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sel_69l to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
If you are buying any silver at spot plus a small premium, you are essentially buying silver bullion.

A commercial silver refiner would have to meet his refining costs, and still make a worthwhile profit, so he has to buy his silver at a greatly reduced price below the spot price.
That is his way for him (the refiner) of making the you pay his refining costs.

At 2% premium above the spot price? You loose, if you sell later on to a refiner.

If you want to collect 40% halves in bulk and keep them, probably an OK deal.
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 Posted 10/29/2016  10:25 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add LibertyEagle20 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
No for all the reasons above plus the guy seems rude. The verbiage of the ad makes him sound like a jerk IMO.
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 Posted 10/29/2016  5:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply


to the CCF!
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 Posted 10/30/2016  02:38 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Mayflower2020 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Also the post says 1965-70. Didn't they stop making 40% in 69? If there are 1970s mixed in then they would be clad and only worth .50
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 Posted 10/30/2016  06:40 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Debrajc to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
and the little coin shop down the street from me was forever trying to sell 40% Kennedy halves for below spot and they just sat and sat. They have since closed but they had over $50 for a couple of months with no takers.
Stick to 90% at a small premium or .999 bullion coins.
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