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Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
From a resale perspective, would you purchase
1oz silver generic rounds, or 1oz foreign rounds,
such as Maples, Philharmonics, etc. Assuming
your purchase prices were the same?
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  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,379 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Libertads if same price all day.
  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭✭✭✭


    No to the Philharmonics in any case.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,137 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: bronco2078





    No to the Philharmonics in any case.




    Why? What's wrong with them?

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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,660 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Probably the S&P 500 index fund.

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  • tneigtneig Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭
    Buy one of each. Wait a week. Then try to resell them.
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,293 ✭✭✭✭✭
    From a resale perspective, I'd ask my customer what he wants. Resell was never my choice.
  • PokermandudePokermandude Posts: 2,713 ✭✭✭
    Assuming prices were the same, 1st choice Maples 2nd choice Libertads all day long.
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  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: PerryHall
    Originally posted by: bronco2078


    No to the Philharmonics in any case.


    Why? What's wrong with them?


    They are the red headed stepchild of the bullion world .

  • gsa1fangsa1fan Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: bronco2078
    Originally posted by: PerryHall
    Originally posted by: bronco2078


    No to the Philharmonics in any case.


    Why? What's wrong with them?


    They are the red headed stepchild of the bullion world .



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  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,823 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The foreign rounds mentioned are actually officially minted coins. Much, much better odds of stated purity. Go with them.

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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Assuming prices were the same? Maples. They have a strong following.

    But I'm not a fan of any of those options for physical silver. So I probably wouldn't want them.

    Eagles, or better yet, 90%, would be better to me.
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  • piecesofmepiecesofme Posts: 6,669 ✭✭✭
    Kind of an unrealistic question as I have yet to find the prices of said comparison to be the same.
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,144 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: bronco2078

    Originally posted by: PerryHall

    Originally posted by: bronco2078





    No to the Philharmonics in any case.




    Why? What's wrong with them?




    They are the red headed stepchild of the bullion world .







    Says who? I sold a few this Summer to pay for a vacation and got $5 each over spot.
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  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Phillies, like American Eagles are exempt from reporting.



    Now I'm talking gold as I would not buy silver under any circumstance.



    When buying both back in the day, I never spent more than 15% of the loot on silver. The lion's share ALWAYS goes to gold.
  • CakesCakes Posts: 3,629 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: topstuf
    Phillies, like American Eagles are exempt from reporting.

    Now I'm talking gold as I would not buy silver under any circumstance.

    When buying both back in the day, I never spent more than 15% of the loot on silver. The lion's share ALWAYS goes to gold.


    Top, can you please elaborate on why you wouldn't buy silver under any circumstance? Is it a storage issue?

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  • tincuptincup Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭✭✭
    90% is my favorite, when not priced at ridiculous premiums.

    That being said, any silver (and gold) has its place and I consider nearly all forms... nothing wrong what so ever with philharomics.
    ----- kj
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I prefer gold....and if buying silver, I prefer ASE's....although I do have some novelty rounds and rectangles. Cheers, RickO
  • Originally posted by: DrBuster

    Libertads if same price all day.






    Yep. Maples, Libertads over generic any day.

  • jdimmickjdimmick Posts: 9,676 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I can easily place ASE and maples

    Hard to sell generics, philh, other odd balls


    the only generic that are easily to sell for me are prospector
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,293 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Given the "same price" issue, of course take the government minted and issued coin. It's real money.
  • moonshinemoonshine Posts: 1,039 ✭✭

    well maybe then not stack the Philharmonics, but they have a very desirable design!

  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,823 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't put coins in the same category as rounds. Go with the foreign coins, preferably the maples since US buyers are more comfortable with them.

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

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