Any Tips About Collecting Silver Coins?

I forgot to add, there are many guides online about bullion silver or silver stacking. Which is fine. But I was more looking for advice about collection pieces, older coins, which ones to choose, etc.

I don't collect new proof NCLT silver.
My experience is that new NCLT is sold by the Mint at the highest price that the market will bear;
performs poorly in the secondary after market.

If you are keen on proof silver NCLT
look for it at reduced prices in the secondary aftermarket; you are much more likely to find good common sense bargains in this market.

1. Buy low, sell high

When buying silver, you should know the composition and weight of the coin you are buying so you have a better idea of the market value of the silver content. This helps you determine how much over the silver content value you are paying for the coin. I search for the current price of silver and research the silver content of the coin I am interested in.

The amount you are willing to pay over the current silver value is (obviously) determined by your personal interest in the coin. Personally, I find collecting series a bit frustrating, so I tend to focus on interesting commemoratives. I will buy common silver coins if I find a good deal and may keep those, and ones found in circulation, but tend to not retain worn finds.

I try to keep all my silver coins at least in 2x2 cardboard flips. If they get cloudy in original packaging, I have no issues with breaking them out and trying to get rid of that using acetone.

I also try to store them in a relatively cool (54-68 DEGF) dry (50% or less relative humidity) space to slow oxidation.

You may have discovered that silver prices tend to be more volatile than gold and silver generally doesn't perform as well as a long-term investment. If I would have converted all of my silver to gold in 2000 I would have arguably more value today. Lucky for me, I didn't want to turn my hobby into a business and...I like being able to obtain the greater variety that silver allows within my budget constraints.

Good luck with your silver adventure. Hope you have as much fun as I do.

I can only say what I like, but I enjoy buying older silver coins that many consider junk silver or melt value but may contain some nicer examples mixed in - i.e., I like Mercury dimes over Roosevelt dimes or Barber quarters and halves or Walking Liberty halves over Washington quarters or Kennedy halves. Oftentimes there will be a few coins in there that have a little collectible value that you kind of get as a bonus when buying in bulk. Or it has some potential to appreciate in value over the years. I know you are in Argentina but I am sure there are equivalent coins that would fall into the same category as the US examples listed.

Silver has been used in coins since the invention of coins, nearly 2700 years ago. Up until the 20th century, most countries regularly used silver as the mainstay of everyday circulating money.

Silver is a "noble" metal, meaning it does not readily react with the environment to corrode. Unlike gold and platinum, however, silver can and does tarnish, or turn black. The culprit is not oxygen (which is what causes copper and other more base metals to corrode) but sulfur; silver's affinity for sulfur and propensity to form black silver sulfide, yet be resistant to most other chemical agents, is highly unusual. This has ramifications for preserving silver coins: you need to keep them away from sulfur. And there's sulfur hiding in lots of things you might not expect, like rubber, cardboard, certain kinds of wood, dyed paper, and various foodstuffs such as eggs, garlic and onions. Do not store your silver coins in the same locations as these items, unless you want them to turn black.

Another chemical you do not want to be using around silver coins is chlorine, which forms insoluble silver chloride on contact with silver. Silver chloride is white, but turns black on exposure to sunlight. Lots of silver compounds turn black on exposure to sunlight, so it's generally a good idea to keep your silver coins out of the sun. Free chlorine, like you find in chlorinated swimming pools or household bleach, will react with silver and cause irreversible discolouration (tarnish remover will not remove silver chloride). But so long as you don't store your coins in a swimming pool or try to clean them with bleach, your coins should be safe from chlorine damage. Chloride, the most common form of chlorine found in salt and seawater, generally does not react quickly with silver; it takes centuries for chloride to form "horn silver" deposits on coins, so it's not something you need to worry about happening to your coins.

You are unfortunate to be both a collector of silver coins, and to be from Argentina. I have always found it sadly ironic that Argentina - whose name translates to "the Land of Silver" - was one of the first countries to abandon the use of silver in coins; it is impossible to obtain 20th century circulating silver coins from Argentina, because none were issued. Most other countries continued issuing silver coins until at least the start of World War I in 1914, with many continuing to issue silver coins for circulation up until the mid-1960s.

Only one country has issued "circulating silver coins" since the late 1960s price spike: Mexico issued silver-cored bimetallic coins in the early 1990s, in an attempt to stop the peso from declining in value. It didn't work; the peso declined, the coins became worth more in silver than their face value, and people promptly punched out the silver core and melted them.

Julio, alcohol is an acceptable although less effective solvent than acetone. Because it is usually mixed with water, make sure that the coin has completely dried before storing it.
If the fingerprints have been on the coin for a while, they are now a permanent feature of it.

If you do not plan to make money by buying junk silver, then I would advise you to buy coins on global trading platforms like ebay. you can buy coins in a high degree of safety or with a low circulation to compensate for your money that you paid for the coin in excess of its silver price.
Right now I'm busy collecting Roosevelt dimes, Mercury dimes and Washington quarter. They are relatively inexpensive compared to other older and larger US coins. I'm just trying to collect a collection of dimes and quarters by dates and mints, I'm not in a hurry and I won't spend on this series, it will be a small inexpensive collection of silver coins of small denomination. I keep the collection in 2x2 cardboard flips.

Enthusiasm ... I love to see it ! I was lucky enough to meet a "pawn guy" who sold me a bucket of morgans and Peace dollars at a reasonable price. That got me interested at a deeper level. Keep your eyes open and your niche will emerge. Best of luck - Tiny