Apmex Fractional Oz. Silver Rounds

I have not considered anything less than a 1/2 oz. of silver yet. Like the Aussie lunar 1/2 oz. silver for example, often goes for more than a typical couple buck over spot 1 oz. silver round, lol. Crazy premiums....

But I just can't pull the trigger on that, as I am thinkin 500 to 1000 oz. of silver like you and most of the long term collectors, and fractional silver is not helping me get there any faster....

Like GearDaddy said, maybe if we get to the point where silver is over 100 an oz., then we will all be looking to those smaller pieces, and perhaps that will increase their popularity with the general overall collecting world....

Same. If I'm going to buy fractional silver, it's going to be in the form of 90% and 40% silver legal tender.

i got the email as well, buti don't quite understand the reason for fractionals when silver is so cheap......understandable if silver were to go in the $200-$300/oz. range, but even then id probably still just stick with 1 oz rounds......but to each there own!

Other than some 90% silver US coins, I haven't either. I just thought that it was interesting that APMEX chose to come out with these at this time. They've probably been planning this for a while, so the recent silver price pull-back was not likely known when they started with this.

I kind of like the idea of their silver amounts being equal to the gold in the AGE coins, though. That is a lot easier to use for trade purposes than the 90% coin silver content. I dunno, though. Maybe in a barter situation, people will just use some multiplication of face value and call it good. Obviously, something would have to be done about the ASEs, since they contain 1 oz. of silver and not the 0.77 oz. in a silver dollar.

The use of the coin images on the obverse side is also interesting. Didn't a fellow just get sent to jail for making and selling his own "Liberty dollars"? The reason being that they looked too much like US coins (to the non-collecting world, perhaps). These look a LOT like US coins, even if the reverse is different.

Cute for little prizes or jewelry, but killer premiums for investment, which you're not likely to recover.

With no disrespect to anyone intended, if you are running so close to broke that you can't afford an ounce of silver, perhaps you should re-examine whether you should be investing or maintaining your car instead.

Huh? This is not about price. It is about whether or not rounds of less than 1 oz. silver weight are desirable in and of themselves. My small silver collection contains a number of Roosevelt and Mercury dimes and Kennedy 1/2 dollars. I did not buy them because I could not afford an equal number of ASEs. I bought them for use as a convenient size in barter situations for small value purchases. I do, however, appreciate the common silver weights used in these fractional silver rounds. I'm not planning to buy any of these fractional rounds but was curious as to what others thought of them.



A 69¢ piece would be pretty cool, actually... something in a coin that is akin to a $3 bill.

Early bird (or hawk) Ed B gets the worm (or silver round in this case) they say....

You almost beat me to 500, but you gotta get to typing pretty early in the morning to keep up with this typing loud mouth, lol....

To steal one from one of our armed forces adds....I type more BS before nine in the morning, than most do all day....