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I'd buy it, except the US financial year doesn't end on June 30 like it does here. If you wanted to maximise tax revenue on capital gains, there's no need to take action until shortly before the end of the fiscal year. Furthermore, inducing an asset to lose value in the hope that people will...

If you can take off the pre-conditioned blinders that most of us have due to the way in which, and society in which we were all bought up, and go back to the fundamentals, you begin to realise that money cannot be anything that can be created on demand in order for that money to be honest and...

You're about spot on with that line, Trew. I can't honestly recall a time when things have looked, and smelled "this bad" out there.

Very good point - I'm like all you folk around here in believing that precious metals are one of the few (only?) ways of preserving wealth with what's headed our way. But this (above) is an important point - like the old adage, "Don't go all in" - you need to keep other forms of trade open and...

This comes down to what you have "on the books" compared to "off the books". They can't confiscate something they don't know you have. The bigger picture on this is that we know a lot of what's going on today is going to decimate the middle class. TPTB aren't necessarily aiming for a 100%...

Personal opinion tells me that .9 fineness wouldn't fit the bill of being bullion for me. For gold and silver bullion, I would consider .99 to be the bare minimum starting point, and probably wouldn't stack that purity unless there was a compelling price reason to do so over and above .999...

Funny you should mention this, as I ran across an article today: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/golds-neglected-cousin-face-supply-092134565.html Essentially, South African mining problems + auto industry use + ETF demand may mean higher prices.

Sorry to hear of your loss Mickroy :( One note on insurance policies - the moment an insurer hears you're storing precious metals at home, and want any sort of contents coverage at all, they'll just hang up the phone on you (such has been my experience in the past)

Welcome to the "club" Chriskat :) Some of that will depend on the price of silver at the time you want to trade it back out, some will depend on the circumstances (i.e. economic meltdown/problems etc). Honestly, 1oz units are technically almost always a better bet from that point of view...

I'm not quite sure how to put this, because it's going to sound harsh and/or nasty - which is completely the opposite of my intention - so please forgive me in advance if this doesn't "read right" as it were. Let me first say, I hear you, and there was a time when I felt absolutely the same...

Please turn off compatibility view in IE, then CTRL-F5 to refresh the page and test, let us know how you go :)

For bars, I think it depends on what the stamp says. It it's something generic enough, and you have individual number stamps with it, to put on your own serial numbers as it were, it probably wouldn't hurt much. For example, "MM Stack SN#0001". I doubt though that coins would be able to be...

I know you asked for a PM, but I'd like to put this thought here for additional input, discussion and amendment/rejection. Considering the plan is to store this information in a database, I would imagine there is a plan/structure to this that will allow for various fields to be completed for...

I know I've "Said Thanks" under your post, Julie, but that really is a good summation of what I am thinking about all of this. And, as Holdfast says - keep stacking!

Anthony, I think it would be a great idea to have such a thing available. I would be happy to contribute whatever data I could (which is potentially not much, as my stack is pretty common, Perth Mint and other popular items). I'm no expert, but it would seem that you've identified the tricky...

Perfectly fine by me, it'll be about the only thing at the end of the day that will allow you to hold it and "wash out" the ill effects of inflation :) If gold goes sideways, it's working exactly as intended :)

Thanks for the opportunity to participate, feedback completed :)

LOL Phiber, you had me scratching my head for about a minute... I'm thinking, "Jamie Oliver", what's he got to do with gold? Then it dawned on me - you were talking about making Kookaburras in gold. Which I think would be an idea, but then to counter that, why not Silver Kangaroos? I think...

Thank you! Very beautiful case, that's for sure... I am now having visions of some woodwork occurring in the semi-near future :)