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Do "Milk Spots" plague world silver bullion like SAE's?

CoinHuskerCoinHusker Posts: 5,033 ✭✭✭
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The problem of milk spots on SAE's is well documented on various threads on the US Coin forum but are milk spots as common on world silver bullion or are they primarily a US problem?image
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  • lope208lope208 Posts: 1,960 ✭✭
    Good Question. If someone really wanted to solve the milk spot question,
    it would make sense to compare the US minting process to another country
    that has experienced no problems. Find out what is different and it could help
    answer the question.
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  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,038 ✭✭✭✭✭
    All I can say is I have 80 ounces of foreign silver bullion coins and there isn't a single milkspot on one of them.
  • Coll3ctorColl3ctor Posts: 3,333 ✭✭✭
    Maple leafs are just as bad as the ASE's.
  • CoinHuskerCoinHusker Posts: 5,033 ✭✭✭
    Do silver bars spot?image
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  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Maple leafs are just as bad as the ASE's. >>



    i was just going to say the same thing. boy did we go through a lot
    of them a few months back and they were terrible. it seems like
    every other sheet of 10 had at least one milk spotted coin in it let
    alone some sheets of 10 that were awful.
  • Coll3ctorColl3ctor Posts: 3,333 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Maple leafs are just as bad as the ASE's. >>



    i was just going to say the same thing. boy did we go through a lot
    of them a few months back and they were terrible. it seems like
    every other sheet of 10 had at least one milk spotted coin in it let
    alone some sheets of 10 that were awful. >>





    I had several rolls (25 per roll) where they were all spotted image
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Do silver bars spot?image >>




    Good question. And I have another related one. How do people store their silver (primarily bars), especially if they come from the mint in PVC? Wouldn't it make sense to get them out of the toxic PVC and into something like mylar? Which begs the question, are safe holders/containers available not made of PVC for different bars? I've seen hard mylar cases for the 1 oz. bars, but nothing bigger. Are food-safe ziplocs good enough (as far as I know, food quality bags don't contain PVC)?


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  • JeremyDie1JeremyDie1 Posts: 2,383 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Maple leafs are just as bad as the ASE's. >>



    Yep. Also have gone through many rolls of Libertads and seen milk spots on quite of few of them too.
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