Home› Precious Metals

Want your opinion when it comes to silver bars...

MillerJWMillerJW Posts: 649 ✭✭
in Precious Metals
I have been looking at some nice Johnson Matthey silver bars, and some are advertised as having "Original Packaging". My question is... Would you pay extra for packaging or do you just buy the bar???

Let the discussions begin image
MSgt USAF Jan-06 - Present

Comments

  • gsa1fangsa1fan Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    Just the bar - but stay away from the ones that look like they have been dragged behind a SUV!image
    Avid collector of GSA's.
  • MoneyCollectorMoneyCollector Posts: 451 ✭✭✭
    I personally don't care about the packaging but we've had this discussion before and or course some do/some don't.

    I buy the silver and don't pay a premium for anything else. If you sell to a major dealer/MM, I don't think they care (but I could be wrong!)

    Randy
    My eBay Items for Sale
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,050 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Often "original packaging" does garner a small premium. I try not to pay this premium as I really don't care about the packaging. I store my silver and gold in my own way which usually requires me to remove it from any "original packaging" anyways.
  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,124 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I personally don't care about the packaging but we've had this discussion before and or course some do/some don't.

    I buy the silver and don't pay a premium for anything else. If you sell to a major dealer/MM, I don't think they care (but I could be wrong!)

    Randy >>



    That's a good analogy for bullion bars, but it will not work when it comes to silver Art Bars.
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,228 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I asked the same question here a few months ago. The general consensus was the original packaging brings a little more on eBay and makes the bar a little easier to sell.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • MillerJWMillerJW Posts: 649 ✭✭
    What if the original packaging was not in good condition?? Would you pay a premium then??
    MSgt USAF Jan-06 - Present
  • gsa1fangsa1fan Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    Not if it already has a premium!
    Avid collector of GSA's.
  • meluaufeetmeluaufeet Posts: 764 ✭✭✭
    With the exception of the 100 oz bars... how does one know that the 'plastic sleeve' is original?

  • halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭
    Question, hopefully not too OT from a bar newbie, does the original packaging of these bars contain PVCs?
    I have several little art bars where the pkg has turned a dingy brown, so much so that it's hard to see the condition of the bar.
    Just bullion so I haven't really worried too much about it.

    HH
    Need the following OBW rolls to complete my 46-64 Roosevelt roll set:
    1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S.
    Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
  • AgBloxAgBlox Posts: 744 ✭✭
    JM bars carry a hefty premium as is. Original plastic if not tattered adds a little value to the collectors but of course the dealers and bullion only people could care less.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,228 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Question, hopefully not too OT from a bar newbie, does the original packaging of these bars contain PVCs?
    I have several little art bars where the pkg has turned a dingy brown, so much so that it's hard to see the condition of the bar.
    Just bullion so I haven't really worried too much about it.

    HH >>



    Yes. Most are PVC.


    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

Sign In or Register to comment.