Exactly the key word is average price. Helps weed out items that sell for way above fair market price

This post has been edited by aaronpang: Jul 1 2011, 10:43 AM

Best looking bars I've found on the market, I will trade for if anyone has the scottsdale available!


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NICE

well, the scottsdale has a cross symbol inside the bar, thus patang for Muslim.
I don;t have any scottsdale yet, but if you want to exchange any bar do PM me, I have lot of collection.

wow Scottsdale looks nice~

woot nice one! anyone selling or know where to get that scottsdale bar? tq

how do we test the quality of a silver? any detector that we can buy to test?

magnet

it is attracted to magnet?

I was told to use a magnet whenever I want to buy silver. A pure silver it will NOT stick. If it sticks, the it's a mixture of maybe copper.

If you're asking for the quality of a silver coin or bar, sorry I've no idea.

Two things digital gram or karat scale and digital micrometer...

Reject any pieces that wont have the correct dimensions and weight.

Silver could be tricky because there are metals which have very similar weight and color as real silver.

Gold is much harder to fake. Gold's unique density makes it difficult to pass off common metals as gold

thx for the hints. where can we get hold of digital gram or digital micrometer?

Where can I get air tight covers for silver coins in Malaysia?

Wow.. this looks really nice. Which ID documents did u send to perth mint went u registered initially? did it take long to get registered?

If you bought the silver coins from perth minth, they will come with plastic cover to seal the silver coins

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Added on July 2, 2011, 8:23 amgo to "assayer"
u can go and search from google.
Bring ur gold and silver then ask them to test and check for you

This post has been edited by asokakenji: Jul 2 2011, 08:23 AM

Hey there, I am interested to collect/ invest in silver coins. What do you think I should start with? I am planning to buy 1 to 2 oz a month cause I am still a student so very low budget. Should I buy one of each different coin or... ?

hi smokymcpot,
buy any one as long it pure .999 silver and compromises that the seller offering low spread. preferable Bar or Bullion. Coin charge higher premium than bar or bullion.. the best is invest in 5-10oz or more.. but 1oz bar is liquidity, easy to find seller. Ask yourself that, do you plan to buy and sell off and on and on... in a short time? if not, pool your fund to 5oz than 1oz.

This post has been edited by benedict1213: Jul 2 2011, 02:51 PM

If you live in Puchong I've seen a few scales for sale at Mr DIY shops.


Proof coins already come in coin capsules from the mint, bullion coins typically don't ship with capsules but tubes.

First you'll need to find out the diameter of your coins.

Then you can purchase the capsules either at numis (coin) shops or eBay.

Prefer eBay because numis shops don't always stock the sizes I want. Below is one such seller on eBay that I've purchased from several times.

http://shop.ebay.com/vernon.coin/m.html?_n...=&_trksid=p3686

I'd suggest you buy in quantities of 10 or more not single capsules.

This post has been edited by aaronpang: Jul 2 2011, 03:53 PM

Oh okay cool. May I know what are the rare coins that there is in the market? Preferably not more than RM200. I was interested in the andean cat 2010 cause there is only 10,000 in the whole world

hmmmm.. if you talking about rare coins, that is not investment but collection. to be honest, once financial or whole world economic crisis happen, collection, rare coin is worthless! to be sure that, "investment" and "collection" is different topic...

FYI, for rare coin likes China panda coin, perth mint, etc...
you can get it here..
http://www.perthmint.com.au/