Silver eagles are nice in terms of using them as currency. They are actual currency and if i put silver eagles in a treasure chest it looks like real treasure
I like to look at each 10 ounce bar and say, "That was money I did NOT spend on the damn horse races, beer and pizza each Saturday night, buying junk on Amazon ..."
If it is not a hobby, always buy silver that you can afford with the least buy sell spread. Assume you will be selling back to a buyer of last resort, ie your LCS or bullion dealer. Any additional premium recovery from selling in the secondary market should be considered a bonus.
I started stacking a year ago - almost exclusively buying 1 oz bars and rounds. Then expanded to sovereign coins. Recently I started adding larger bars to the stack to add weight faster at a fairly low premium. Currently I’m waiting on a Scottsdale 10 oz stacker and an RCM 10 oz bar that had a great price as a pre-order sale from Monument Metals. MM almost always beats SD Bullion’s prices, as does PIMBEX. I have found some deals at SDB, but I definitely shop around to do price comparisons before I exchange my fiat currency for PM.
Ive gotten stuck on Germania Mint 10oz bars recently. They are the perfect size to stack. The packaging and protective film allows easy safe storage. Scottsdale poured bars are still my favorite by far though.
The Germania 10 oz are my favorite ..I don't know why, I just really like them ....the plastic wrap, the little box, the serial number, the holographic thingy ....I like the density and the shape ...okay, sorry, I just really like them
Thank you for this video. As a newby to the precious metals this info has been extremely useful for me. The dealers I’ve spoken to have also been helpful so my new venture is going to be an exciting ride. Thank you.
I just started stacking, received my first shipment two days ago. I listened to your advice and then checked prices and unless you're buying the big bars, there's little difference between one ounce rounds and 10 ounce bars, in fact the rounds are cheaper if you check the quantity prices. A ten ounce bar was $254.68 for 1-9 bars, one ounce rounds were 25.23 for 20-99. If you get 20 one ounce rounds it's $504.60 and two 10 ounce bars is $509.36. So you save $4.76 getting the 20 ounces in rounds.
I pretty well only stack 10 oz or Kilo sized poured or cast bars. As you mentioned, to me they have the feeling of true pirate treasure. For that reason I own no pressed bars whatsoever. Those just feel like they are made in a big factory somewhere. Earlier this years I was super pleased when I picked of a vintage poured JM Kilo bar and discovered is was listed as less than 50 mintage. Love the vintage bars.
I just started stacking this month, and from all the research and videos I’ve been through, that’s all I’m doing right now. I’ve already got my first 100oz and it’s 40 rounds and the rest 10oz bars. All at the lowest premiums I could find.
Ten Oz. RCM or Pamp Suisse are my personal favorites nadir and igr is a little harder to come by. Smart Silver Stacker, we may sometimes disagree on some issues discussed from time to time but man, you have a great channel which I subscribe to. Keep up the good work.
Of all these nice bars you have on the table there I liked the most: Scottsdale round bar and the unique 20 oz cast poured design, the little Monarchs hand poured bars and CNT 10 oz eagle design bar. I also like Canadian Royal mint 10 oz, APMEX 9Fine mint chunky hand or cast poured bars. Also the Turkish bars Nadir and IGR. The Swiss Pamp mint has amazing bars as well. And lastly, the UAE Emirates silver bars are also good looking.
I started buying 1 kilo bars, as they had the lowest premium. However, when i got to 18 kilo's, i realised i wanted some form of liquidity ability, ( just to cover the unknown feature of life and living ) and the kilo bars didn't realistically do that, with needing to sell 32 ounces at a time to just sell one bar. So I decided that a 1000 ounce cap on my present purchases, would be better achieved if half of my stack was in 1oz silver coins. So Ii am selling 2 of my 1 kilo bars and converting them into 64 ounces in coins. What i also discovered was, if i buy 32 ounces at a time in Britannia's, ( almost same weight as 1 kilo ) I could get a great discount on the ounce spot price of Britannia's, by buying multiple of them at a time. So that is what I do now, so for every 1 kilo bar I buy, I now then buy 32 ounces of Britannia's. I know a Kilo is 32.15to and 32 Britannia's are just 32to, but i dont intend to be selling Britannia's in 32 ounce amounts
What do you mean "Rather than having to sell off a whole kilo just to get back half a kilo of value required." Are you saying that if you only need in dollars, or product 1/2 of the total sale price of 1 kilo bar, it make less since to sell the whole kilo and only spend half the money. For example, you need to pocket X amount, but selling the kilo provides you with 2x.
History, unfortunately, repeats itself; so silver being used again is not a stretch. That being said, thinking debt is bad for our nation is short-sighted. The more countries that use/have our currency (we owe money to), means we maintain control of the market (as long as trust in its ability to perform continues). Food for thought. [Nice Post!]
Love Scottsdale bullion. They are investing tons into their business and won't be going anywhere for a long time, luckily. But i get what your sayin! New Scottsdale dragon coming soon, im stoked to get my 2 i ordered.
@Justin Taylor yes, just got mine a few days ago! Pretty awesome bar! Kinda pissed tho, they gave me serial #rs 0079 and 0081. Like wtf? They couldnt keep 2 bars together? Oh well, beside that they are sweet!
Britannia Bars, in 10 and 100 oz from the British Royal Mint, are my favorite bars. They are gorgeous and would be very difficult to counterfeit. They were introduced a few years ago at very low premiums. I remember buying some 10oz for $185. The BRM "Diamonds Are Forever" bars, in 1 and 10 oz are a glittering and super cool tribute to James Bond. . BRM also has a limited edition "Engravers Series." Really kicking myself for not picking up Una and the Lion bar. 😔 I could see any of the BRM bars being collectible, perhaps as designs change over the years. Best of all, no portrait of royalty on the bars- just the mint crest, which looks good.
Haven’t watched many coin channels but interesting to see sd bullion is the sponsor of 2 of the main ones I watch. I like sd too but I’ve been digging jm bullion. Got a nice mercury kilo bar on the “bar of our choice” listing. I was pretty happy.
Im stacking 5 oz and 10 oz bars when i buy silver. Ive tripled my silver goal for the year so ive pulled back on silver. Im concentrating on 1/4 oz gold or near 1/4 oz gold right now. Gold sovereigns and pesos in older gold and 1/4 oz gold Britannias, Maples, Roos and Philharmonics. After the first of the year ill switch back to silver again til i meet my goal again. I do try to add a full roll or two of Morgan Dollars a year as well. Sometimes i have a problem with Morgan Dollars by not stopping on a partial roll. I tend to wanna fill a whole roll and if i buy a lot of 3-5 Morgans and i only need 2 to complete a roll, i end up filling another roll lol. Morgans have been my weakness the last few years🤣😂🤣😂
love your videos. I am both a collector of coins, and a stacker of silver. I work very hard to accumulate as much as i can afford. thanks for your opinions.
Scottsdale 10oz stackers are my treasure bars. With a few they are ehh but when you get enough to fill ammo cans you start to feel like a pirate each time you open one up
Used to be able to go into the corner store and get a soda pop and a candy bar for pocket change. Can't give a kid $3 these days and pull that off. Silver is PROTECTION against the Keynesians' god of inflation.
Im in Europe. For silver and gold the VAT is over 20% when you buy and collect physical stuff. That's money lost and not regained when selling. Not only that, capital gains is 30%+ premiums+ delivery.
I'm glad you pointed out the potential collectability of certain silver bars. Stacking a few beautiful bars like the RCM or Royal Mint bars is probably a good idea for the long haul.
@@TheStaniG I just started buying silver and this is how I viewed it in America. Sure different bars and rounds might have their premiums but once SHTF occurs that premium isn't going to mean anything other than, "hey, that bar looks cooler." I mean a couple Maple Leaf's and Silver Eagles are cool to own but there really isn't a point to wasting money on high premium coins.
@@sudafedaddict4030 here you're just pissing away money no matter if societys still functioning or not. The fact "silver stacker" youtubers dont take that into account and always assume theyll recoup their premiums is astonishing. Theyre treating this like a thinly veiled addiction/hobby than a means of preserving wealth lol.
@@TheStaniG Seriously, it's funny some think that. I actually have recouped my premiums but there is no way if your spending 5 - 10 USD on premiums. Either you have to be lucky that silver spikes up and / or buy at the right time. The whole point of "buying" precious metals is to "exchange" currency and not buy it. Unless your a collector, but if your a stacker buying collector junk silver, then good luck haha.
Dame I must be the only one here that is into high premium silver versus just relying on spot only. Just recently I have started collecting raw silver again, something I said I wouldn’t do, but after collecting sovereign silver coins for some time I’m getting very bored with the present collection so now I’m buying vintage silver bars with serial numbers only. Yes weight is one thing and collecting is another thing your choice and no matter what your choice is you are still ahead of the game that most don’t even have a clue.
I've always stacked for weight. Don't care about fancy eagles with high premiums. I've gotten 10oz bars, Indian head (buffalo) & walking liberty rounds.
From 31 Trillion dollar national debt to 100 Trillion dollar national debt in just couple of months when this video was uploaded. It's kind of mind boggling.
The Bald Guy Money channel recommended a bar to government issued coins ratio of 3:1 within one's silver position. I think this is a prudent guideline to balance the countering considerations of recognizability and divisibility on the one hand and low cost basis on the other.
If I sell a 10oz bar to a large online retail buyer I'll get $1.75 under spot per oz. For a 1oz Canadian Maple Leaf coin I can sell @ spot. So my 10oz bar purchases need to have at least $1.75 better premium than the 10oz bars. Often this is not the case and 1oz maples are a net better buy.
When stacking would you suggest focusing on .9999 for quality? When selling down the road will it matter on .999 vs .9999? Just getting into stacking and wanted to ask before getting too deep into it. Thank you
A currency collapse is a low probability event on any given day. It is a 100% probability event over time. Every fiat currency in history has collapsed. There are 5 stages to the lifespan of all fiat currencies. We are deep into stage 4. Inflation surges. Debt skyrockets. Fundamentals are ignored. Corruption prevails. And wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few. All of this has happened repeatedly throughout history. The end is always the same, and will be the same here.
I get that one should stack the low premium stuff but it gets me so bored that I stop stacking. What gets me going lately is Serialized Bars. Specially 1 oz and 10oz. Love the serial number bars. To me they are so much more unique and exiting. Please make a video on these.
Though I stacked way more tubes, I did manage to sprinkle in some bars along the journey. If I buy any silver these days, it’s 10oz bars. Mainly sticking with gold for now. Always enjoy your vids 👍🏼
How do you recommend storing the bars? What do you put them in individually to protect them? I just have mine in plastic snack bags. Should I get velvet bags?
Generally there is the price set by the Comex, the premium represents the true street value of if the product. Maybe the miners should disregard Comex LMA etc and just refuse to sell to the market at the price they regard as necessary, like Opec does with oil?
My understanding is that miners often sell directly to refineries. But spot price influences these sales price , if I am grasping this correctly, because COMEX and LBMA currently serve as sellers of last resort.
Always remember Precious Metals Dealers will not remain open for sale back into Fiat Currency. I’d amazed at anyone stacking today who was stupid enough to sell back into the U.S. Dollar. But dealers won’t have the currency to buy your metals back. And they know the prices are going to continue up. So they’d be doing you a favor closing their doors.
Engelhard and Johnson Matthey 100 oz silver bars have not been made in many years. Both of them carry a certain amount of collectible premium based on quality and rarity.
I'm still on the fence regarding stacking silver or gold and here's why. Buying silver or gold to preserve wealth is a solid strategy provided the national debt was manageable which may change within the next 12 months, the US Dollar is on the verge of falling off a cliff if it hasn't already. I don't recall if it was Venezuale or Argentina that experienced 3500% inflation overnight, that's right their currency became worthless while everyone was sleeping. In the event that scenerio plays out in the US the value of silver and gold would drop like a rock, the reason being is that everyone would be dumping their silver and gold on the market and the laws of supply and demand would rule. Too much supply drives the value down...way down. Plus, what would you convert your gold and silver to....Pesos, Rubles, Rupees, Yen? Just sayin. Please feel free to comment on this and make me feel stupid.
Yeah, I think your last words were the only accurate statement of your comments. No offense but you need to educate yourself on hyperinflation and history. I’m not here to educate you.
I am supportive of our countries currency and my ability to exchange it for silver. Its not an either or for me. The problem is education. I was 32 before I learned what fiat was. If people where taught that our currency is just a medium of exchange people would look for assets when they have idle dollars that will not be exchanged for monthly needs.
How about hand poured? In fact that makes me think. If you had a chance to buy clean silver at spot, would you? I mean if it was unsuitable to sell by a coin shop because they wouldn't get any takers at retail. Because my LCS just took in some odd 20 g silver rounds with a past president on it and I asked him what he was going to do with it and he said they would go straight into scrap. Now I understand these get sent to a salvage buyer for some fraction below spot and eventually end up in the hands of a refiner. But if there is a good possibility of silver increasing significantly in value over the next 3 years it seems that holding this would still make some sense. I might even pour my own bars.
And when it comes to collector silver coins get what you want but dont get nuts. I got a tmnt 40th anniversary coin but it was from perth with a denomination, so its sovereign and collectible at the same time, i need it and it was pricey
Finally, i live in new hampshire. So we dont have sales tax, yes premiums are still there, but do stackers in other states have to pay the premiums and also sales tax?
My first silver were bars. I love and prefer bars but I'm currently focused on stacking coins and rounds. I do have some copper for small transactions if we went back to metal as primary money.
I feel like 10 oz bars are a good way to go and things like 1 oz rounds or 1 oz bars from private mints like sunshine that have great failsafes to prove its real is great, but i feel like buffalo rounds are kind of risky to get even if the person and yourself know its real, that others might not be so trusting. But i guess ase have the most fakes. Im thinking maples are kind of the way. Though im also thinking of stacking a couple tubes of Britannias and philharmonics too. But for sure 10 oz bars and 1 oz bars are good too.....hell what am i saying stack it all at the price that works best for you at each time you get silver really. Just maybe cut it off at kilos, i guess unless you are making your own bars
For newbies, research your local coin shops/ bullion dealers. For example here in Australia they basically will ONLY PAY YOU SPOT and not give a shit how collectable or how "legitimate" (higher PAMP premium vs e.g. lower Perth Mint) the bar is, theyll pay you spot. So you'll never recoup the premium here and its not viewed as a collecting "hobby" so they wont buy it for spot + premium because of demand for x coin unlike America it seems.....
When silver goes to $100/oz those 10oz bars will be like having a $1000 bill, how do you buy something with that without loosing most of the value to people not having the change to give you back, something really to think about. I will stick will 1oz and under, I have 1 ten oz bar and a couple 5oz bars just for second kinda cool but thats it, 1oz rounds are just as cheap as the big bars
I'm not big on junk silver. It's easier to smelt 9999 silver rounds down to fractional silver rounds. Easy to trade in shtf moment. All you need is a sigma verifier. I'll charge a premium to help others out when need be
It’s more responsible to think of the dollar fails, what replaces it? Probably, another fiat currency, what how will you get that new currency? Selling back your PM’s is a good idea.
You Kids are completely wrong. You start with several thousand 1 oz. Round Bullion. Once you’ve got a lot then move into bars. I never even looked at Bars until 1991 after being in the stacking for 15 years. Where I Purchased 10-100 oz. Bars @$350 dollars each. Yes 1000 ozs. for $3350.00 then. I have only bought 7 more 100oz. Bars since 91. Everything else was 10oz./ 5oz./ and very few 1 oz. Bars. Since then I still have added 10% of my income in metals.
I’m prone to stack 10 ounce bars. Started with silver eagles. But these days... bars all the way.
All honesty , I’m buying whatever is the cheapest per oz, sometimes it’s bars sometimes rounds, sometimes currency.
@@Jefwild that's what I do, buy whatever is lowest/oz.
Same here, but am currently focused on 90% US, and 80% CAN.
Silver eagles are nice in terms of using them as currency. They are actual currency and if i put silver eagles in a treasure chest it looks like real treasure
@@Jefwild 😊😊🎉😢wzs
I like to look at each 10 ounce bar and say, "That was money I did NOT spend on the damn horse races, beer and pizza each Saturday night, buying junk on Amazon ..."
and for da whowahs, the whowahs take a lot of money unless i put it in silver
LMAO this is actually very relatable
If it is not a hobby, always buy silver that you can afford with the least buy sell spread. Assume you will be selling back to a buyer of last resort, ie your LCS or bullion dealer. Any additional premium recovery from selling in the secondary market should be considered a bonus.
I started stacking a year ago - almost exclusively buying 1 oz bars and rounds. Then expanded to sovereign coins. Recently I started adding larger bars to the stack to add weight faster at a fairly low premium. Currently I’m waiting on a Scottsdale 10 oz stacker and an RCM 10 oz bar that had a great price as a pre-order sale from Monument Metals. MM almost always beats SD Bullion’s prices, as does PIMBEX. I have found some deals at SDB, but I definitely shop around to do price comparisons before I exchange my fiat currency for PM.
Ive gotten stuck on Germania Mint 10oz bars recently. They are the perfect size to stack. The packaging and protective film allows easy safe storage. Scottsdale poured bars are still my favorite by far though.
The Germania are lovely.
I like the Perth Roos. I bought one last time and now I want a pile.
The Germania 10 oz are my favorite ..I don't know why, I just really like them ....the plastic wrap, the little box, the serial number, the holographic thingy ....I like the density and the shape ...okay, sorry, I just really like them
Thank you for this video. As a newby to the precious metals this info has been extremely useful for me. The dealers I’ve spoken to have also been helpful so my new venture is going to be an exciting ride. Thank you.
I have 28 1 oz silver bars . It’s pretty easy to sell the 1 ounce and it’s nice to open the safe up to a bar rather then a coin
I just started stacking, received my first shipment two days ago. I listened to your advice and then checked prices and unless you're buying the big bars, there's little difference between one ounce rounds and 10 ounce bars, in fact the rounds are cheaper if you check the quantity prices. A ten ounce bar was $254.68 for 1-9 bars, one ounce rounds were 25.23 for 20-99. If you get 20 one ounce rounds it's $504.60 and two 10 ounce bars is $509.36. So you save $4.76 getting the 20 ounces in rounds.
Premiums and prices are fluid and fluctuate over time. Thanks for watching!
I pretty well only stack 10 oz or Kilo sized poured or cast bars. As you mentioned, to me they have the feeling of true pirate treasure. For that reason I own no pressed bars whatsoever. Those just feel like they are made in a big factory somewhere. Earlier this years I was super pleased when I picked of a vintage poured JM Kilo bar and discovered is was listed as less than 50 mintage. Love the vintage bars.
I have almost every size of bar there is. But now, I am focusing on 1 oz generic rounds and 10 oz bars.
I just started stacking this month, and from all the research and videos I’ve been through, that’s all I’m doing right now. I’ve already got my first 100oz and it’s 40 rounds and the rest 10oz bars. All at the lowest premiums I could find.
Ten Oz. RCM or Pamp Suisse are my personal favorites nadir and igr is a little harder to come by.
Smart Silver Stacker, we may sometimes disagree on some issues discussed from time to time but man, you have a great channel which I subscribe to. Keep up the good work.
Thank you, we can agree on stacking silver!
I probably won’t pass my stack on to my kids.
…I don’t have any. I guess I’ll use it another way. Maybe look into how to use my stack in retirement
Of all these nice bars you have on the table there I liked the most: Scottsdale round bar and the unique 20 oz cast poured design, the little Monarchs hand poured bars and CNT 10 oz eagle design bar. I also like Canadian Royal mint 10 oz, APMEX 9Fine mint chunky hand or cast poured bars. Also the Turkish bars Nadir and IGR. The Swiss Pamp mint has amazing bars as well. And lastly, the UAE Emirates silver bars are also good looking.
But if you HAD to pick ONE❓😂 👍
Where's the chocolate bars?
I started buying 1 kilo bars, as they had the lowest premium. However, when i got to 18 kilo's, i realised i wanted some form of liquidity ability, ( just to cover the unknown feature of life and living ) and the kilo bars didn't realistically do that, with needing to sell 32 ounces at a time to just sell one bar. So I decided that a 1000 ounce cap on my present purchases, would be better achieved if half of my stack was in 1oz silver coins. So Ii am selling 2 of my 1 kilo bars and converting them into 64 ounces in coins. What i also discovered was, if i buy 32 ounces at a time in Britannia's, ( almost same weight as 1 kilo ) I could get a great discount on the ounce spot price of Britannia's, by buying multiple of them at a time. So that is what I do now, so for every 1 kilo bar I buy, I now then buy 32 ounces of Britannia's. I know a Kilo is 32.15to and 32 Britannia's are just 32to, but i dont intend to be selling Britannia's in 32 ounce amounts
What do you mean "Rather than having to sell off a whole kilo just to get back half a kilo of value required." Are you saying that if you only need in dollars, or product 1/2 of the total sale price of 1 kilo bar, it make less since to sell the whole kilo and only spend half the money. For example, you need to pocket X amount, but selling the kilo provides you with 2x.
I'm a fan of Silver Eagles. I also like the 5 oz coins and 4 and 5 oz bars. Mainly for liquidity.
History, unfortunately, repeats itself; so silver being used again is not a stretch. That being said, thinking debt is bad for our nation is short-sighted. The more countries that use/have our currency (we owe money to), means we maintain control of the market (as long as trust in its ability to perform continues). Food for thought. [Nice Post!]
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I love the Germania mint bars just got my first 250 gram bar ...so beautiful
I love them too. I've got 5 of the 10oz ones.
My favorite bar.
Germania 10 oz is my favorite
Love Scottsdale bullion. They are investing tons into their business and won't be going anywhere for a long time, luckily. But i get what your sayin! New Scottsdale dragon coming soon, im stoked to get my 2 i ordered.
The 888 lucky dragon bars?? I got two coming also
@Justin Taylor yes, just got mine a few days ago! Pretty awesome bar! Kinda pissed tho, they gave me serial #rs 0079 and 0081. Like wtf? They couldnt keep 2 bars together? Oh well, beside that they are sweet!
Just went to their site, cant get prices unless you give name and email? What? Only place ive seen do that, no thanks.
Britannia Bars, in 10 and 100 oz from the British Royal Mint, are my favorite bars. They are gorgeous and would be very difficult to counterfeit. They were introduced a few years ago at very low premiums. I remember buying some 10oz for $185. The BRM "Diamonds Are Forever" bars, in 1 and 10 oz are a glittering and super cool tribute to James Bond. . BRM also has a limited edition "Engravers Series." Really kicking myself for not picking up Una and the Lion bar. 😔 I could see any of the BRM bars being collectible, perhaps as designs change over the years. Best of all, no portrait of royalty on the bars- just the mint crest, which looks good.
Haven’t watched many coin channels but interesting to see sd bullion is the sponsor of 2 of the main ones I watch. I like sd too but I’ve been digging jm bullion. Got a nice mercury kilo bar on the “bar of our choice” listing. I was pretty happy.
Im stacking 5 oz and 10 oz bars when i buy silver. Ive tripled my silver goal for the year so ive pulled back on silver. Im concentrating on 1/4 oz gold or near 1/4 oz gold right now. Gold sovereigns and pesos in older gold and 1/4 oz gold Britannias, Maples, Roos and Philharmonics. After the first of the year ill switch back to silver again til i meet my goal again. I do try to add a full roll or two of Morgan Dollars a year as well. Sometimes i have a problem with Morgan Dollars by not stopping on a partial roll. I tend to wanna fill a whole roll and if i buy a lot of 3-5 Morgans and i only need 2 to complete a roll, i end up filling another roll lol. Morgans have been my weakness the last few years🤣😂🤣😂
Started with sovereign coins, then moved into 90%, recently only 10oz and Kilos going forward.
Indeed, 4 months strong this year focused on 10oz bars all the way through summer too
love your videos. I am both a collector of coins, and a stacker of silver. I work very hard to accumulate as much as i can
afford. thanks for your opinions.
Watching this in sept 2024. Right now 10oz bars cost exactly the same or more than rounds per ounce.
Basically no reason to buy bars at all right now.
Scottsdale 10oz stackers are my treasure bars. With a few they are ehh but when you get enough to fill ammo cans you start to feel like a pirate each time you open one up
Used to be able to go into the corner store and get a soda pop and a candy bar for pocket change. Can't give a kid $3 these days and pull that off. Silver is PROTECTION against the Keynesians' god of inflation.
It's a fun fact in regards to myself. I work in an underground gold mine, which portals from a big open open pit gold mine, and i buy silver in kilos
Im in Europe. For silver and gold the VAT is over 20% when you buy and collect physical stuff. That's money lost and not regained when selling. Not only that, capital gains is 30%+ premiums+ delivery.
So does SD bullion own every silver channel on you tube these days. Good lord.
I actually still own the channel, they're what we call a "sponsor"
SDB is very dependable, low premiums
I'm glad you pointed out the potential collectability of certain silver bars. Stacking a few beautiful bars like the RCM or Royal Mint bars is probably a good idea for the long haul.
Collectability doesnt mean shit here in Australia, theyll pay you spot and thats it.
@@TheStaniG I just started buying silver and this is how I viewed it in America. Sure different bars and rounds might have their premiums but once SHTF occurs that premium isn't going to mean anything other than, "hey, that bar looks cooler." I mean a couple Maple Leaf's and Silver Eagles are cool to own but there really isn't a point to wasting money on high premium coins.
@@sudafedaddict4030 here you're just pissing away money no matter if societys still functioning or not.
The fact "silver stacker" youtubers dont take that into account and always assume theyll recoup their premiums is astonishing. Theyre treating this like a thinly veiled addiction/hobby than a means of preserving wealth lol.
@@TheStaniG Seriously, it's funny some think that. I actually have recouped my premiums but there is no way if your spending 5 - 10 USD on premiums. Either you have to be lucky that silver spikes up and / or buy at the right time. The whole point of "buying" precious metals is to "exchange" currency and not buy it. Unless your a collector, but if your a stacker buying collector junk silver, then good luck haha.
I do stack a ton of collectible poured and cast small bars and rounds, they will be extremely valuable in any situation
Dame I must be the only one here that is into high premium silver versus just relying on spot only. Just recently I have started collecting raw silver again, something I said I wouldn’t do, but after collecting sovereign silver coins for some time I’m getting very bored with the present collection so now I’m buying vintage silver bars with serial numbers only. Yes weight is one thing and collecting is another thing your choice and no matter what your choice is you are still ahead of the game that most don’t even have a clue.
I've always stacked for weight. Don't care about fancy eagles with high premiums. I've gotten 10oz bars, Indian head (buffalo) & walking liberty rounds.
From 31 Trillion dollar national debt to 100 Trillion dollar national debt in just couple of months when this video was uploaded. It's kind of mind boggling.
Na it’s only 34 trillion. But still absurd and absolutely horrible.
@@noahharju 36 trillion now, how crazy is that!
Unfunded liabilities, $221 Trillion
25 quid now your fine 😎
Good luck everyone. Thanks Harry!!
The advice I wish I had gotten early is, call lcs and ask what they pay for what you are buying. Find the one with the littlest spread.
Love the kit kat bars
The Bald Guy Money channel recommended a bar to government issued coins ratio of 3:1 within one's silver position. I think this is a prudent guideline to balance the countering considerations of recognizability and divisibility on the one hand and low cost basis on the other.
What if you had bigger bars , and when the price of silver goes up, exchange them for smaller denominations at a LCS or something?
If I sell a 10oz bar to a large online retail buyer I'll get $1.75 under spot per oz. For a 1oz Canadian Maple Leaf coin I can sell @ spot. So my 10oz bar purchases need to have at least $1.75 better premium than the 10oz bars. Often this is not the case and 1oz maples are a net better buy.
When stacking would you suggest focusing on .9999 for quality? When selling down the road will it matter on .999 vs .9999? Just getting into stacking and wanted to ask before getting too deep into it. Thank you
A currency collapse is a low probability event on any given day. It is a 100% probability event over time. Every fiat currency in history has collapsed. There are 5 stages to the lifespan of all fiat currencies. We are deep into stage 4. Inflation surges. Debt skyrockets. Fundamentals are ignored. Corruption prevails. And wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few. All of this has happened repeatedly throughout history. The end is always the same, and will be the same here.
well said
True. The question everyone asks is when.
That the thing. If its 10,20 years out.....no one cares.
Don’t forget the BRICS. That adds a twist to the list. It WILL happen sooner than you think.
@@gregmuensterman2928delusional
10 oz RCM bars are serialized and govt minted. Or Perth Mint 10 oz bars.
If you buy tubes of rounds, you get close to or better than the same price as a 10oz bar. They are more liquid and better for barter.
I get that one should stack the low premium stuff but it gets me so bored that I stop stacking. What gets me going lately is Serialized Bars. Specially 1 oz and 10oz. Love the serial number bars. To me they are so much more unique and exiting. Please make a video on these.
Payment surcharges are raising cost per oz. Maybe make a video on the surcharges on different payment terms !!
Thank you,im just starting this was very informative for me.
Though I stacked way more tubes, I did manage to sprinkle in some bars along the journey. If I buy any silver these days, it’s 10oz bars. Mainly sticking with gold for now. Always enjoy your vids 👍🏼
Same here.
How do you recommend storing the bars? What do you put them in individually to protect them? I just have mine in plastic snack bags. Should I get velvet bags?
nah that should work
@@SmartSilverStacker ok. Thank you!
10 oz bars fit perfect in ammo cans.
kilos are the way to go.. super cheap per ounce and not crazy per unit price
Agreed!
I'd focus on the buy sell spread when selling to buyer of last resort.
@@tslee8236 how do you define what a buyer of last resort is for physical silver. And how do you determine now what they will pay then?
I stack 1 and 5 kilo units
Generally there is the price set by the Comex, the premium represents the true street value of if the product.
Maybe the miners should disregard Comex LMA etc and just refuse to sell to the market at the price they regard as necessary, like Opec does with oil?
My understanding is that miners often sell directly to refineries. But spot price influences these sales price , if I am grasping this correctly, because COMEX and LBMA currently serve as sellers of last resort.
@@TheKris333I work in a gold mine is Australia. An
underground gold mine. Your comment seems incorrect to me
@@lewiscraw8294Please do enlighten us! Thanks!
100 ounce bars you can get spot plus .50 cents an ounce at a good coin shop. Just picked one up 2 weeks ago.
Always remember Precious Metals Dealers will not remain open for sale back into Fiat Currency. I’d amazed at anyone stacking today who was stupid enough to sell back into the U.S. Dollar. But dealers won’t have the currency to buy your metals back. And they know the prices are going to continue up. So they’d be doing you a favor closing their doors.
Engelhard and Johnson Matthey 100 oz silver bars have not been made in many years. Both of them carry a certain amount of collectible premium based on quality and rarity.
I almost got the Valcambi kilo bar but I got the Germania instead. The V is pretty too though. I enjoy still seeing lines on a cast bar.
Love those 10 oz Germanias
When you go to sell
The you get screwed on the big bars
I'm still on the fence regarding stacking silver or gold and here's why. Buying silver or gold to preserve wealth is a solid strategy provided the national debt was manageable which may change within the next 12 months, the US Dollar is on the verge of falling off a cliff if it hasn't already. I don't recall if it was Venezuale or Argentina that experienced 3500% inflation overnight, that's right their currency became worthless while everyone was sleeping. In the event that scenerio plays out in the US the value of silver and gold would drop like a rock, the reason being is that everyone would be dumping their silver and gold on the market and the laws of supply and demand would rule. Too much supply drives the value down...way down. Plus, what would you convert your gold and silver to....Pesos, Rubles, Rupees, Yen? Just sayin. Please feel free to comment on this and make me feel stupid.
Yeah, I think your last words were the only accurate statement of your comments. No offense but you need to educate yourself on hyperinflation and history. I’m not here to educate you.
After watching this video my next goal is to stack 100 oz of 10 oz bars. Thank you for the encouragement!
Thank you for the wonderful informative video. And I learned a lot watching it.
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!
Got a Kilo bar showing up at the PO Box tomorrow.
Im just starting out and moved some crypto into gold and silver, i bought 10 1oz silver bars, 10 10oz silver bars and 1 1oz gold bar
Revisited your channel. And buying the dip- looking at 10 oz bars.
how much must be the price of 100 OZ? market price plus making charge? how much percentage should the making charge be?
I'm stacking both bars and coins. Coins in 1-3 oz and bar's 1-10oz
By the way, I doubt SD bullion has really given a monster box of 🦅 away. 🤔
they do every year
Do they? When would that be?
I am supportive of our countries currency and my ability to exchange it for silver. Its not an either or for me. The problem is education. I was 32 before I learned what fiat was. If people where taught that our currency is just a medium of exchange people would look for assets when they have idle dollars that will not be exchanged for monthly needs.
How about hand poured? In fact that makes me think. If you had a chance to buy clean silver at spot, would you? I mean if it was unsuitable to sell by a coin shop because they wouldn't get any takers at retail. Because my LCS just took in some odd 20 g silver rounds with a past president on it and I asked him what he was going to do with it and he said they would go straight into scrap. Now I understand these get sent to a salvage buyer for some fraction below spot and eventually end up in the hands of a refiner. But if there is a good possibility of silver increasing significantly in value over the next 3 years it seems that holding this would still make some sense. I might even pour my own bars.
I like the 1 to 5 ounce bars
A 10 oz bar is not like a $100 bill, more like a $250 bill
It's like a $100 bill 15 years ago lol
And its around a $350 bill as of today
I tried vaulting. Cant get lower premiums than that.
The only wrong way to stack is not stacking. Keep stacking my friends.
And when it comes to collector silver coins get what you want but dont get nuts. I got a tmnt 40th anniversary coin but it was from perth with a denomination, so its sovereign and collectible at the same time, i need it and it was pricey
Thank you for this video.
My pleasure!
Would be “smart” to buy 100oz silver bars and melt it down to 1 oz round? Get the premium when selling?
Too much work and energy input needed, especially when 1 oz rounds are .99 cents over spot
Finally, i live in new hampshire. So we dont have sales tax, yes premiums are still there, but do stackers in other states have to pay the premiums and also sales tax?
My first silver were bars. I love and prefer bars but I'm currently focused on stacking coins and rounds.
I do have some copper for small transactions if we went back to metal as primary money.
@@DrSchor Don't say that to copper haters lol
I feel like 10 oz bars are a good way to go and things like 1 oz rounds or 1 oz bars from private mints like sunshine that have great failsafes to prove its real is great, but i feel like buffalo rounds are kind of risky to get even if the person and yourself know its real, that others might not be so trusting. But i guess ase have the most fakes. Im thinking maples are kind of the way. Though im also thinking of stacking a couple tubes of Britannias and philharmonics too. But for sure 10 oz bars and 1 oz bars are good too.....hell what am i saying stack it all at the price that works best for you at each time you get silver really. Just maybe cut it off at kilos, i guess unless you are making your own bars
Any opinions on 1/10 oz bars sold in bundles of 10? High premium but perhaps will be very handy in a collapse/trade/barter scenario......
August 22nd Gold backed BRICs goes live.
Same as before, only change is tome
Hopefully gold, silver and stocks all go up on Wednesday when the Fed announces pause in interest rate hike.
Get in touch.
Who makes the bar on the top right row with the flying eagle on it? Love my Vancambi kilo grams!
For newbies, research your local coin shops/ bullion dealers. For example here in Australia they basically will ONLY PAY YOU SPOT and not give a shit how collectable or how "legitimate" (higher PAMP premium vs e.g. lower Perth Mint) the bar is, theyll pay you spot. So you'll never recoup the premium here and its not viewed as a collecting "hobby" so they wont buy it for spot + premium because of demand for x coin unlike America it seems.....
110 beautiful Credit Swiss bars. All serial number with certificate. Got them a few years ago. Is Credit Swiss still in the metal market?
those might be collectibles now!
@@SmartSilverStacker Never bought to make money, just to protect what I have now that I'm retired.
Are secondary market 10 oz silver bars easy and safe to buy?
When silver goes to $100/oz those 10oz bars will be like having a $1000 bill, how do you buy something with that without loosing most of the value to people not having the change to give you back, something really to think about. I will stick will 1oz and under, I have 1 ten oz bar and a couple 5oz bars just for second kinda cool but thats it, 1oz rounds are just as cheap as the big bars
I just bought my first 2 1 ounce bars I wish I started earlier
I'm not big on junk silver. It's easier to smelt 9999 silver rounds down to fractional silver rounds. Easy to trade in shtf moment. All you need is a sigma verifier. I'll charge a premium to help others out when need be
SD Bullion and Silver and gold Bull will give you a good price for your silver ..
In a worst case scenario where you had to barter as long as you have a hack saw and a scale, you should have no problems using bars
I think this video just answered my question lol. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Pay less premium , butresale is less. I also think LCS are more interested in sovereign Bullion coin. So, easier to find a buyer
It’s more responsible to think of the dollar fails, what replaces it? Probably, another fiat currency, what how will you get that new currency? Selling back your PM’s is a good idea.
is this true? stack bars according to the size you can afford
Can I ask why you're saying the 10oz bar is like holding $100 when the price online is $250 and up?
You Kids are completely wrong. You start with several thousand 1 oz. Round Bullion. Once you’ve got a lot then move into bars. I never even looked at Bars until 1991 after being in the stacking for 15 years. Where I Purchased 10-100 oz. Bars @$350 dollars each. Yes 1000 ozs. for $3350.00 then. I have only bought 7 more 100oz. Bars since 91. Everything else was 10oz./ 5oz./ and very few 1 oz. Bars. Since then I still have added 10% of my income in metals.
My man..good on ya. I follow what yer saying and put it into practice too. Im 60. Silver Steve