I've recently been loading up with 1kg silver bars though is there a better option in silver coins I should be looking at for better future marketability? Thanks again H
...and welcome to the wonderful world of picking winners. 1 kg lumps have a good premium/fungibility/portability score here in Oz (less so in the US). Investing in a single 100 Oz or bigger bar makes life a little tricky on sale. You can get a 15kg box of PAMPs to tuck away. Premium bars offer a slightly increased price (not if you are selling in a hurry, though) - have a look at Geiger, for example. As soon as you hit rounds or coins, premiums go up considerably; sometimes because of rarity, sometimes because of beauty, sometimes because of 'attitude', and then there is numismatic value. Generic rounds are likely to track the metal price pretty closely, with a predictable dollar premium. Limited edition rounds can get popular, or rise and fall. The current rise and fall of Silver Bullet Silver Shield is an ongoing drama as a designer wrestles with a Mint. Crap manufacturing can reduce the value of a range, or paradoxically increase the value of pristine coins. See Milk Spot in Maples and the Royal Mint's scratched Brittanias. Some people swear by Kooks, some by Pandas, and excellent specimens are prized and often slabbed, but slabbing is not a magic wand to value. Lunars can do well, then come back to Earth at slightly less rarified valuations. Dragons are still a touchstone, but there are small mintage and Series 1 coins which are worth a lot to the right buyer. Then there are completely random Black Swan events, like the ridiculous valuations of the Burning Maple - a third-party plating of a Mint's coin. Short answer? If everyone knew what would sell well later you wouldn't be able to buy. Buy something you like with an eye to the future, and avoid buying in to momentum unless you intend to trade and flip, and have the mentality to do so.
