What was your last buy?? Silver FOMO has begun

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Mike59
Mike59 Posts: 424 ✭✭✭✭
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Last month I bought a vintage JM 100 ounce bar at spot for $4900 and I thought I was crazy. What was your last silver buy?

MIKE B.

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  • rte592
    rte592 Posts: 2,234 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Some Monarch Legos, random 90% dimes, quarters and a Morgan dollar money clip.

  • toadstrangler
    toadstrangler Posts: 10,032 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I recently snagged two $5 FV rolls of Barber Dimes.

    COPPER is gutter !

  • scotty1419
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    Loaded up at a middle of nowhere pawn while on vacation this week with lots of 90% around 30-40x face and some rounds/ASEs/Maples at 48-56/ea range. :D

  • MilesWaits
    MilesWaits Posts: 5,596 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    A US Mint ASE at a screaming FULL retail markup!

    Now riding the swell in PM's and surf.
  • blitzdude
    blitzdude Posts: 7,721 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    3 rolls of BU 1964 Kennedys (1 in original roll Pittsburgh branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland) 11/28 for $975.

    Prior to that the Proof ASE USMC privy back on 11/10. Should finally have this GEM tomorrow. Just processed through The Burgh. RGDS!

    The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.
    BOOMIN!™
    Wooooha! Did someone just say it's officially "TACO™" Tuesday????
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  • OnlyGoldIsMoney
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    Nothing since 2018.

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  • jmski52
    jmski52 Posts: 24,011 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Silver FOMO has begun

    Yup.

    Q: Are You Printing Money? Bernanke: Not Literally

    I knew it would happen.
  • rte592
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    edited December 26, 2025 12:53PM
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    Someone said if you wanted something for Christmas and didn't get it...buy it now when it's on sale :D
    Capital One Credit Card has a 9.5% rewards credit on eBay :o doesn't work on bullion unless you can find it in a different category.

  • DennisH
    DennisH Posts: 14,041 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    A roll of ASEs in March '23 for $27.31 each delivered.
    I picked out 8 to send to PCGS... 7 of them made MS70.

    When in doubt, don't.
  • coastaljerseyguy
    coastaljerseyguy Posts: 2,127 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I think full 6 or 8 serving sets are going for $3 - 5 grand. And our grandparents saved up a lifetime to buy them at $3-5 hundred $'s.

  • MaineJim
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    Last thing I bought was when I scrounged a 64 Kennedy and a Franklin plus 7 40% halves CRHing a couple weeks ago. That cost $4.50, I went out again this week and hit a few banks but was skunked for my efforts.

    Jim

  • Mike59
    Mike59 Posts: 424 ✭✭✭✭
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    End of Oct I bought 2 old 10 oz bars at spot $490 each and then a week later the

    100 oz JM bar

    MIKE B.

  • Mike59
    Mike59 Posts: 424 ✭✭✭✭
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    10 oz bar pic didn’t come through

    MIKE B.

  • jmski52
    jmski52 Posts: 24,011 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    90% @ $39.36 on 12/6/25

    Morgans & Peace @$40 on 11/22/25

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    I knew it would happen.
  • asheland
    asheland Posts: 24,545 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    About a month ago, I bought 50 ounces at $55 an ounce.

    I knew this was going to happen!
    The next time I buy it, it’s going to be painful :#

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  • Walkerguy21D
    Walkerguy21D Posts: 12,164 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    A bag of $10 FV of halves at 20x, and only because it had a fair amount of Barbers and walkers in it…..been awhile obviously!

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  • Mike59
    Mike59 Posts: 424 ✭✭✭✭
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    Dcarr said:
    This 5.26-troy-oz ingot cost almost as much as your 100-oz bar. But it has a very high collector premium.
    If the price of silver goes up, that won't affect the value of this bar very much.
    And if the price of silver crashes, that still won't change the value of it very much.
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    Yes I agree but that bar is US History and my bar was just a vintage JM 100 oz Silver bar.
    Why was the mint making or dealing in such small bars??
    Did they accept them from people, assay them and when they had enough weight make them into 90% blanks???
    Mike

    MIKE B.

  • Mike59
    Mike59 Posts: 424 ✭✭✭✭
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    @Walkerguy21D said:
    A bag of $10 FV of halves at 20x, and only because it had a fair amount of Barbers and walkers in it…..been awhile obviously!

    Great score, I’d take 20x any day.
    Congratulations
    Mike

    MIKE B.

  • edwardjulio
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    November 2023 - $300.00

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  • derryb
    derryb Posts: 38,604 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Been selling silver the past six months but still riding the wave with "paper."

    Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Bastiat

  • dcarr
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    @Mike59 said:
    Dcarr said:
    This 5.26-troy-oz ingot cost almost as much as your 100-oz bar. But it has a very high collector premium.
    If the price of silver goes up, that won't affect the value of this bar very much.
    And if the price of silver crashes, that still won't change the value of it very much.
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    Yes I agree but that bar is US History and my bar was just a vintage JM 100 oz Silver bar.
    Why was the mint making or dealing in such small bars??
    Did they accept them from people, assay them and when they had enough weight make them into 90% blanks???
    Mike

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    The reason for making the earlier bars (especially small ones) is somewhat of a mystery.
    One theory is that when a large pour was made for large ingots to be rolled out for planchets, remaining molten silver in quantities too small for a planchet ingot were poured into these smaller ingots.

    Some of the later ingots (circa 1964-1968) may have been used for silver certificate redemption. These later ingots often weigh about 100 troy ounces and often have no stamped markings, just a grease pencil weight written on them. These are known as "grease bars".

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    Moonlight Mint
  • jdimmick
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    Not me , but one of my customers came in yesterday and caught a pawn shop in town with ase at 59.00 each, he bought em all

  • mbogoman
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    Not my pic, but I bought one of these for $296 shipped in Feb of 2024. I love the Mayan Calendar design:

    mbogoman

    Asesabi Lutho

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  • DisneyFan
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    @derryb said:
    Been selling silver the past six months but still riding the wave with "paper."

    I've been doing the opposite!

  • toadstrangler
    toadstrangler Posts: 10,032 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @derryb said:
    Been selling silver the past six months but still riding the wave with "paper."

    My condolences to you.

    COPPER is gutter !

  • DisneyFan
    DisneyFan Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    FOMO?

  • PerryHall
    PerryHall Posts: 47,748 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @DisneyFan said:
    FOMO?

    Fear of missing out.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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  • blitzdude
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    @softparade said:

    @derryb said:
    Been selling silver the past six months but still riding the wave with "paper."

    My condolences to you.

    Condolences? Lol @Derryb is absolutely killing it. RGDS!

    The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.
    BOOMIN!™
    Wooooha! Did someone just say it's officially "TACO™" Tuesday????
    Retiring at 55, what day is today? :sunglasses:

  • jmski52
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    derryb is simply excuting his well-timed exit. Good job!

    Q: Are You Printing Money? Bernanke: Not Literally

    I knew it would happen.
  • rte592
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    Monarch Legos and a 1964 DC Peace dollar ;)

  • pmh1nic
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    edited December 31, 2025 9:34PM
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    Duplicate

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  • TwoSides2aCoin
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    I just bought about 22 grams of 10k and 14k jewelry from a young reddit user who got the idea there; to go to Walmart and buy the 75% off jewelry. Paid him and he said he was going to go find all
    he could. That’s what I would call “counter”-productive. Then I turned around and ordered another 400 oz silver (@$73.44), which isn’t enough to cover demand for the next few days, the way this surge on the white metal goes. And that concluded 2025. Happy new day.

  • asheland
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    @USMC_6115 said:
    Rolls of Mercs and Roosies along with a roll these:


    Those bars are gorgeous!

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  • psuman08
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    @Azurescens said:
    Oh, and I got this the other week for below melt and anticipate doubling my money but I'm hoping for some PF70 and doing better. I made a killing on a modern bullion submission I made forever ago, which paid for the 25 slabbed peace and morgans and this.

    Some guy decided he wanted the entire submission and didn't even care to send offers and just wiped me out. Then this fell in my lap so I was bound by coin law to buy it.

    Bought this set in March 2001 for $139.95. It is a beautiful set, nicely packaged.

  • rte592
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    Picked up a little something different today.

  • rte592
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    Am I the only one that does some urban Prospecting?

    I'll know more about these when they arrive.
    The 20 grams for 5 bracelets look a little odd.
    Seller said all marked .925

  • Göttinger
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    About 170 grams fine for 185 Dollars...

  • derryb
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    @jmski52 said:
    derryb is simply excuting his well-timed exit. . .

    . . . from physical

    Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Bastiat

  • bestmr
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    July of 2023. Bought some ASE’s, maples, kookaburras and libertads for some albums as well as several for my niece and nephew. That’s when silver was around $30.

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  • dcarr
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    @Göttinger said:

    About 170 grams fine for 185 Dollars...

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    That is quite a deal at the current silver price.
    There might even be a couple premium coins in there, depending on date and condition.

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