I'm new! :)

My advice: Stick to standard 1oz coins and bars. Don't do fancy. Plain silver eagle 1 oz coins will be easier to trade later. Less hassle. Easier to work out what your portfolio of coins is too if you stick to the same type of coins or bars.
 
The best way to buy is online, from the lower priced dealers, which are SD Bullion and Silver.com. (I think SD Bullion is based in Michigan, by the way.)

But right now is bad time to buy retail physical silver. The premiums are unacceptably high because of an explosion of demand due to the pandemic. I would wait a few months for premiums to normalize.

If you want exposure to the silver market right now, I would buy silver ETFs or OneGold, which offers silver as well as gold. That way you don't have to pay the insane premiums.

PM is precious metals, as noted above. Another major acronym is ASE, for American Silver Eagle, and AGE for American Gold Eagle.

ASE have higher premiums than Maples, but they tend to hold their value pretty well. I like Maples too – very high quality, good anti-counterfeiting features, and 9999 fine vs. 999 for the ASE. Note that the 2021 ASE will have new anti-counterfeiting features too, finally. Another good reason to wait a few months...

Libertads have the highest premiums of any mainline silver coin. And they're hard to find. I haven't seen 2020 Libertads anywhere. You'll often see the 2 oz size more than the 1 oz.
 
I am relatively new as well. I am now working on what I refer to as Stack 2.0.

I wouldn't recommend buying 100 oz bars - they are harder to resell. That said I own several.
Kilos seem to offer the best balance in price per ounce.
1oz and 10 oz seem to carry the highest price premiums but are certainly the easiest to resell.

I am a software and platform guy in my day job and I am "THIS CLOSE" to building a purpose built precious metals marketplace because Ebay and the other auction outlets just don't work for transferring narrow margin goods like metals. So keep an eye out.
 
HoneyTree said:
I am relatively new as well. I am now working on what I refer to as Stack 2.0.

I wouldn't recommend buying 100 oz bars - they are harder to resell. That said I own several.
Kilos seem to offer the best balance in price per ounce.
1oz and 10 oz seem to carry the highest price premiums but are certainly the easiest to resell.

I am a software and platform guy in my day job and I am "THIS CLOSE" to building a purpose built precious metals marketplace because Ebay and the other auction outlets just don't work for transferring narrow margin goods like metals. So keep an eye out.
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Hi, good luck to your endeavour and looking forward to the success of Stack 2.0 as one of future market place platform in precious metal.
 
HoneyTree said:
I am relatively new as well. I am now working on what I refer to as Stack 2.0.

I am a software and platform guy in my day job and I am "THIS CLOSE" to building a purpose built precious metals marketplace because Ebay and the other auction outlets just don't work for transferring narrow margin goods like metals. So keep an eye out.
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Hope this works out for you, I know how hard it can be to break into this kind of thing, server and other costs add up quickly, you going with a container-based system or just "traditional" Bare Metal/VM system
 
ShadowPeo said:
Hope this works out for you, I know how hard it can be to break into this kind of thing, server and other costs add up quickly, you going with a container-based system or just "traditional" Bare Metal/VM system
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Going to be running it as a hybrid more for security than any other consideration: We run our own private cloud so it's our bare metal.
 
Welcome to the forum. Stack what you like, there are a lot of different ways of doing it. One think that I wish I would have done early on is when I bought my gold to have bought 2 half ounce coins once in awhile and not all one ounce coins. You never know if when you'll need to sell one and if you don;t need the money from a whole pounce why sell it. JMO
 
I haven't paid over $20 for silver but that's not very high anyway. Especially not if youre holding for 30+ years haha.
I have paid right at $20 for a few ounces but didnt sweat it. I wanted the coins so I got them.
It's only a dollar difference at that.

What kind of bullion is it?
 
Um.
All I’ll say is I wish I was never conned into silver.
And gold is God, as long as you buy as close to spot as possible,
I will now take my medications and try to go to sleep.
That is all.
Amen.
 
Alloy said:
Libertads have the highest premiums of any mainline silver coin. And they're hard to find. I haven't seen 2020 Libertads anywhere. You'll often see the 2 oz size more than the 1 oz.
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Speaking of Mexican Libertads, I'd like to have a 1 kilo Mexican Aztec Calendar for fun!

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swoydaz said:
Um.
All I’ll say is I wish I was never conned into silver.
And gold is God, as long as you buy as close to spot as possible,
I will now take my medications and try to go to sleep.
That is all.
Amen.
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Both have their uses but for wealth preservation nothing beats gold.
 
silverhair said:
I think in the current crazy market it is better to stack gold now instead of silver as silver premiums are crazy. I stack both.
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I do the same, Silver spot price is $23.4 AUD and dealers asking $33.40 - $34 Approx %50 above spot price.
Unfortunately, I have stopped buying silver
 
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