ah but if we look at gold & silver consumption, we'll see that gold is mainly used for jewellery while silver is mainly for industrial

http://www.gold.org/investment/why_how_and...and_and_supply/

http://www.silverinstitute.org/supply_demand.php#supply

as such, much of the gold mined still exists in various forms such as gold necklace. but most of the silver is used in manufacturing and very little is used for investment. as to why i think silver has more long term potential than gold, if assuming there is a finite amount of silver and we are already consuming more than production, then in the long term silver would be more scarce than gold? hence my question, how much silver can we recycle back from industrial use? this is very important coz if for whatever reason we can't recycle back the silver used, then we are actually exhausting silver faster than gold.

between industrial demand and investment demand, which would you think will have far greater impact in the long run? which begets the next question, i always wonder what would silver be 10 - 20 years from now? would it be more expensive than gold or stay within the 40 - 50/1 ratio? 

where can i see the list of silver coins? maybe just wanna try to get some for fun and to keep for future.

BULLION (coins sahaja)

1. PRIVATE MINTING
1.1 Engelhard
1.2 Pamp Suisse
1.3 Johnson Matthey

2. AUSTRALIA
2.1 Kookaburra (minted from 1990 onwards)
2.2 Koala (minted from 2007 onwards)
2.3 Lunar Series (minted from 1999 onwards)
2.4 Kangaroo (BU and Proof, minted 1993 onwards)

3. USA
3.1 Silver Eagle (Bullion, BU and Proof, minted 1986 onwards)
3.2 America the Beautiful (2010 onwards, only in 5ozt)

4. CANADA
4.1 Maple Leaf (1998 onwards)
4.2 Wildlife Series (2011 onwards; only six coins authorised; wolf, bear and cougar so far)

5. CHINA
5.1 Panda (1983 onwards, with exceptions)

6. UK
6.1 Britannia (1997 onwards, gold from 1987)

7. AUSTRIA
7.1 Vienna Philharmonic (2008 onwards)

8. MEXICO
8.1 Libertad (1982 onwards)

9. RUSSIA
9.1 St George the Victorious (NEW, from 2009 onwards)

10. SOMALIA
10.1 Elephant (Wildlife Series; quite RARE)

11. SOMALILAND
11.1 Lunar Series (VERY RARE)

12. ARMENIA
12.1 Noah's Ark (500 Dram; NEW)

13. NEW ZEALAND
13.1 Kiwi (BU and Proof)
12.2 Fern (BU and Proof)

14. ANDORRA
14.1 Eagle (2008 onwards?)

15. FIJI
15.1 Taku (2010 onwards?)

16. COOK ISLANDS
16.1 Bounty (2009 onwards)

17. MALAWI
17.1 Springbock (NEW, 2010 onwards)

18. RWANDA
18.1 African Wildlife (2008(gorilla), 2009(elephant), 2010(lion), zebra(2011), only 5000pcs every year)

19. ZAMBIA
19.1 Elephant (only minted in 2003, LIMITED)

20. GUERNSEY
20.1 8 Doubles (mintage unknown)

21. KAZAKHSTAN
21.1 Snow Leopard (2010)

BARS

1. Morgan Bar
2. US Flag
3. Silvertowne
4. Public Gold Silverbar
5: TnT Silverbar
6: TnT Silvermint bar - Medina series
7: Oneasia Gold Mint (OGM)
8. Sunshine silver
9. Kitco bar
10. Apmex
11. Lunar Tiger
12. Emirates
13. Pamp Suisse
14. Scottsdale
15. NTR
16. Silver bar Kasih
17. Pan American
18. heraeus silver bar
19. perth mint silver bar
20. Engelhard
21. Johnson Matthey
22. Academy Silver Bar

closing price is 29.9. No winner, chef is the closer one. But still have consolation prize. Next time, if got jb gathering, i treat you roti canai and teh tarik. hehe

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Added on October 1, 2011, 6:21 am
but dragon was created by china man de ler. He no points to steal the dragon, haha. dragon minted by china will be 2 or 3 times higher than perth mint one. No doubt.

Don't cry, buy now.

You sure? What if buy now drop price, cry like hell?

Looks like chef won his barley and roti canai.  And wow, just 0.04 away from that ASE. Should have "bao" 4 numbers above.

I am a newbie and like some advice from all you sifus.

Does it matter whether you just buy one type of silver coin for investment like maple instead of different ones like panda, eagle etc. I am assuming it is better to buy 1 oz because easy to trade? I read in the threads that some but 1 kilo bars - where do they store these?

Also I note from Gainsville website need to pay $75 for international delivery orders. I guess only worth it for suppliers  and big time buyers?

i might wanna start small if so. just get some collections to keep. i dunno where to keep as i am renting room in sg. oh damn... hahahaa...

my hometown is sitiawan , perak. i doubt i can find silver coins sold there. hmmm...

Hi Marcus, seen your post around sometimes, but not much...

Yup, 1oz easier to trade and sell off, kilo bar for future use, keep for at least years. Your kilo bar? keep at home under your pillow lah, then you dream of silver everyday, swimming in flowing silver river. If you upgrade to gold, well....you get what I mean...

For gainsville, yeah, it's for people who are buying a lot, willing to risk shipment lost, pay the tax (argue with custom sometimes), can't find anyone else here selling below 15% markup. For me? If I buy from them, it's because they have some special bars not available locally. But I have not, not yet....

chef

I'm from Penang,
anyone has 2012 Dragon silver stock ?

Please PM me the
1.price
2.minimum purchase amount
By the way,
between APMEX and gainville
what is the main different ?

anyone has problems with custom before ?
and if order GOLD coin, 15% tax still apply ?
thank you

Actually have the same question. Anyone order from apmex? If got tax how will they bill you? Via the shipper or hv to go somewhere to collect? Any other problems?

i might wanna start small if so. just get some collections to keep. i dunno where to keep as i am renting room in sg. oh damn... hahahaa...

my hometown is sitiawan , perak. i doubt i can find silver coins sold there. hmmm...

There are quite a lot of safe box and normal box option in singapore, you are not looking hard enough, simple storage which is quite secure can be rented at very low price in singapore, you have access to it 24/7. with CCTV and security key etc..

chef

chef, tell me which company have 24/7 access ? bank ? i use certis cisco one, only 9am -9pm ler.