Canadian Silver Bullion Coins - good buy?

[Photonaware]

Buy Maples instead of bars or rounds.

Maple is 9999 pure and one of the cheapest bullion coins.
Not particularly stunning and often marked, chipped or stained - not always though.
Treat them as currency i.e stack of silver by weight and easy to shift.

They are best bought as a tube of 25.

Collect the wildlife series for posterity - issued so far the Wolf, Grizzly and about now the Cougar.
Buy each issue to form a set in time and perhaps they will become attractive to collectors in a few years.

 

[Photonaware]

Made my first ever silver purchase yesterday and it was exactly what you were mentioning: rolls of kooks and a couple of loose 2 oz lunar dragons. Happy with that (even though I've already lost ~$50 by jumping the gun and not waiting a few more hours into the 'plunge' yesterday, lol).

I'm a dual US and Australian citizen and have bank accounts/addresses in both countries, and travel between the two quite often. Now that I've just started to buy PMs, I'm thinking this could be an advantage. I can order from APMEX and get it shipped to my place there, and just pick it up next time I'm in the US. Similarly I can buy Aussie coins here and sell them in the US (where kooks and lunars seem to attract very nice premiums compared to here).

Only question is whether customs in either country would raise an eyebrow at carrying bullion in luggage. Not huge amounts but a few rolls here and a few rolls there. What do you reckon?

Reckon you are in a winning position.
Customs will definitely be watching out for you now.
If passing through the UK en route I could perhaps save you carrying all that stuff round the world if the price was right.