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It is probably Putin looking to see if the Russian Central Bank should buy more gold now or wait a bit to see if the price comes down.

They blend in so well...

I have a bunch of copper rounds that I got a few years ago at $1 per piece, still overpriced but nothing like todays prices. I reason that I can sell them for their artistic value later. I am not expecting to make too much on them. I got 100 of the "Voters Choice" copper rounds free from...

Actually Dopey felt Grumpy and Grumpy felt Happy.

PMV's can always be fooled by just the right type of forgery. XRF looks at the surface metal, density meters can be fooled by the right alloys etc... The more tests something passes the more likely it is to be genuine. You have to decide what tests you are prepared to perform before you are...

I try to aim for 25% or less.

I buy the same dollar amount of silver each month regardless of the price. This way I spend the same amount every month and the spot price only affects how much silver I get and not how much money I use. You end up scaling back your purchases when the price is high and ramping up when the price...

Recycling will become an option as prices rise to the point where it becomes profitable to do so.

I am not sure what the rules are on posting links to websites but http://about.ag has a few pages on a couple of bankruptcies here in the USA. Each one took a couple of years and people got back about 1% or 2% of what they were owed.

The last major bankruptcy in the USA was for Bullion Direct and that took a couple of years. In the end people got back about 2% of what they had stored with the company. The problem is that you cannot create money to give back to people so once the business is wound up you can only distribute...

Nope, I mean the old Australian Florins pre-war ones. The picture you have is for the UK Pound Coins (old ones not the new 12 sided ones).

I like Florins, the ones with the lion and the unicorn on them.

Yes you got a good deal. Over here in the USA there is a big market for our version which is pre-1964 quarters and dimes which are 90% silver. A lot of people stack them because they are very difficult to forge. Some key dates have a numismatic value as well but mostly they are stacked for their...

It is probably due to the different local gravity between Oz and the UK. Everything is a little bit different down under anyway ;-)

As long as you only plan on holding it for a couple of years you should be fine. Any longer and I would recommend holding it yourself.

Or maybe use the Gold to Silver ratio as a percentage? That has an advantage of getting you to buy more silver when silver is cheap compared to gold and buying more gold when it is the other way around. Currently the ratio (GSR) is about 89 so you would buy 89% silver and 11% gold right now.

How about 50/50 gold/silver based on cost?

American Silver Eagle? Armenian Noahs Ark? Mexican Silver Libertad? Austrian Philharmonic? None of them have the Queens head on them.

They are claiming that it "reduces white spots" and not eliminating them. That would suggest that it is something like washing the planchets more thoroughly. The name implies some sort of coating but the name could be a marketing invention and have nothing to do with how it works. If they...

X-Ray spectroscopy has shown that the milk spots are Silver Chloride deposits. The blank planchets are washed with Hydrochloric Acid and rinsed before being struck. If not all of the Hydrochloric Acid has been washed off then the remaining acid slowly reacts with the silver metal to form Silver...