That's a great stack. Congrats. My input... You've done well buying Sovereign silver coins from various countries. You've covered that. Small denomination gold is covered. I'd recommend small denomination in bar form instead of coins. I'd recommend the 50g Valcambi Combi bars. Gets you 50 individual grams of gold you can break apart. That one purchase covers your small denomination gold bars. Looks like you've covered 10oz silver bars. Perfect. I wouldn't buy anything larger than that. All you'd need in silver to complete your collection is "junk silver"... It's anything but junk. You should laser focus on dimes, quarters and halves. Get the bag of them or by the roll. If you want a collector item, buy uncirculated 1964 Kennedy halves in both business class and proof. The proof will be expensive, but they'll be very handy for reasons I won't get into. Well done, keep it moving. Just giving you my honest advice because you asked.
Wel done and something to drive toward for many. I’m told don’t be looking at other stack and worry about mine. I’ve got to ask why did you start. For me it’s was the needless spending I do. Time to make up for lost time. I paid for my first purchase Friday
I think America needs to start making them every year and step their game up. Like the maples and so many other beautiful 24k coins out there but America has to have the worst selection lol. You got eagles which is karat gold. Just don’t look and feel the same or the big buffalo. I think they really should consider making them both in all the sizes. And make the eagle 24k. No reason to be “stronger” 22k no one is walking around with them loose in their pockets. Lol it’s typically in an air tite anyways.
Valcambi Combibars are good because you can break them down. Also gold Maplegrams in packs of 25 x1 gram. Also, I hope you don’t tell anyone you have this. Not healthy!
I am concerned that you are financing this with debt, especially when you say you didn't have the cash to buy the philaharmonics. If that is the case, I'd highly suggest you stop stacking for now.
You managed to do triple the stack in three months mor than I have collected in two years, great job. You may want to consider constitutional silver dimes.💰🏴☠️
be advised that you are not escaping spot price by buying kooks, maples, pandas. these are basically just bullion coins...nice though they are. only way to really escape spot is with numismatics...and that is a whole different can of worms. If one likes silver and everything about it (and this goes for gold or plat also), it is tempting to load up on eye-pleasing stuff. If I had it to do over again, I'd get strictly US eagles in unopened, strapped monster boxes from whatever the current year was. Or Maples in monster box. The other option for me would be whole stack in 100 oz RCM bars. But being US, I'd stick with Eagles. Much, more easier to resell and no mumbling and hemming and hawing over fraud and need for assay, blah, blah. Instead, I have hundreds of ounces of four kinds of 100 oz bars, one monster box (US), HUGE number of ounces of US ASSAY silver coins and 10 oz bars where I paid absurd premium...why? Because I liked history of it all! DUMB. I'm likely to eat 2-5 $$$ and oz when I part with that huge load. DUMB. My opened Maples and Phils (one tube of 20 each...covered now in milk spots...another $2.50 per coin I'll never see). I do have a few of those Chinese re-strike coins that SEEM to be doing well on APMEX page but it would be interesting to see what THEY would pay me now. Somehow I don't think they'd pay me $100 for a coin that I paid $33 for last year. But I'll buy some more of those this weekend. Of course, with my state not having an exception to bullion and numis tax, APMEX tapped me for extra 7% last time. Ouch. Fortunately for me (or unfortunately), I have accumulated most of what I will accumulate (unless I have time at 57 to sell for healthy profit and turn around and amass some more in yrs to come), but it's a shame about that tax. I may eat it from time to time to get unique item or relatively small dollar items hard to get elsewhere...but no more big loads with 7% hammer on top. Both my neighboring states have exemption and any big loads will be coordinated through those locales (pain in the ass). Unless you just like silver, ease of handling screams that you emphasize gold over silver. There are lots of theories about how silver is going to return to this 20 or 30 to one ration with gold but who knows. That was then and this is now. I'd have majority in gold (US current year eagles or buffs- buffs are sealed) coins...if I had it to do over. Instead I have every kind of gold coin outside of Finland, Germany, Ethiopia and Uruguay (slight exaggeration). But why fool with Austro-Hungary restrikes from the truly wonderful Austrian Mint? Or super-cool looking 1945 1.2 oz 50 peso pieces? Or a 50 gram (in assay) bar from Perth Mint (with its very own number!)? Or 1.2 oz bars made in US for...Vietnam? Or a UK 1 oz Britannia (oriental)? Answer: it really makes no sense from strictly an investment point of view to have more than one or two types of items of gold and, if any silver, one or two types of vehicles there, as well. I don't tell you this to pee on your parade. You sound most happy and I'm happy for you...and I've been just as crazy for these little cuties as you have...believe me. Being likely 20 yrs older and having even more tied up than you do...you still have time, IF YOU CHOOSE TO CONSIDER THE MORE BORING BUT SIMPLER AND MORE COST EFFECTIVE METHOD imo, (unlike me) to streamline your plan and your holdings. Good luck and God bless you in life and in your endeavors.
Beginning stacker and you have that much?! Lol that’s insane that’s not a beginner lol I know it’s been a few years so I can only imagine what you have now
jeremy: Coin shops have a lot of "overheads" to pay (e.g. rent) so they have to charge higher prices to break even. You would get cheaper prices online but make sure you buy from a reputable seller.
