Silver (Sort Of) Medallion

Indeed there is. There is also some family history in this. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, my Dad was a US Army missile launch control officer and instructor in guided missile electrical systems. He often went to the White Sands testing range for "shoots". It was a top secret base back then and only US military personnel and a few heavy weight politicians with high security clearances could get in. Anyway, he would tell my family about how things went with the shoot and we would all listen very attentively. He did not relate any details, just the general activity. We knew that we were hearing history in the making.






Now that is awesome. Your Mom did you a HUGE favor with that and what a great way to start collecting. Those coins are going to be worth BANK someday. Hang on to them until you can either make a great purchase with them or pass them on to the next generation.



Silver will be volatile and there is no way around that. We can profit from that if we buy and sell carefully but for the most part, collectors do not worry too much about the current price of silver. It goes up, it goes down, and we will always buy a little here and there no matter what.

As to that terribly expensive gasoline... is it really all that expensive? If we think about it in terms of silver, no not really. A gallon of gas costs about $4 today. With silver at $36 an oz., that would be 1/9th or 0.111 of an oz. A 90% silver quarter contains about 0.18 oz. of silver, so would buy 1.6 gallons of gas. A 16 gallon tank can be filled for $2.50 in silver. That may seem like a lot to the younger folks on here who appreciate the price of silver but a lot of us older folks remember when a silver dollar WAS $1 and not $35-40 like it is today. So, all you people out there who are hollering about the "high price of gas"... just understand that gas isn't high - our money is just too cheap to buy much of it anymore.

I have a momento from White Sands,a piece of Trinitite. It is a green glass formed from the fusing of sand under the heat of the first atomic explosion. I will try to get a picture of it to post. A friend of mine who worked for the National Park Service(I have worked 7 seasons in parks myself)got it for me from the site. I guess there is one day a year that the public can search a small area for Trinitite so he found a piece and sent it to me. It is one of my prized "historical" possessions.