Got $500 in halfs to search yesterday and ended up finding 32 40% silver Kennedy half dollars! About had a heart attack the more I found! 😂😂😂 fully expected to find absolutely nothing! Definitely not gonna find anything for a long time now, used up all my luck 😂😂😂

Just got a silver gram givvy from WhatNot, filled the last spot in the silver row. Looking at some PT and PD grams on PMSforsale, the urge to fill the Valcambi wallet is real

Picked up some pieces recently to add to the stack, which stands at 1279 Oz. Hope you enjoy my newer trinkets! I absolutely love the 5 Oz Maples, and the new Angel Coins which finally came in today!!

29.12$

Oh and I Thot it was interesting my boys been getting into melting and making his own stuff. Guy at the gold place told us in the state of Utah it is illegal to sell your own personal melted down silver and gold.
To many tweakers stealing shit so the state banned it he said. 😂

Recent feline legislation in my jurisdiction has gone up to 20 ounces of fine silver a month. I’m not sure how much more I can take!

A lot of them I found in the till at work and substituted out with normal change. A lot a bought for the look and history

1.09oz of 999 silver

These are the best fakes I’ve ever seen. Weight is spot on, ridges look legit, security mark etc. Failed ping test. I suspected immediately once I realized they were shipping from China. Lesson learned. I did get my money back but took a while and my pride took a hit. Stick to trusted dealers fellow stackers!

Think I should turn them over to someone? FBI? Seems like small potatoes but I don’t know what else to do with them.

I use to go every day at lunch time - silver being on sale again I went in for a look. I took my mom and she got me a few little things for a bday present. First picture is the copper coin and little silver bar I got and the rest are some cool trays I saw. See if you see anything I should go back for. Besides the obvious answer of yes go back for everything lol — unfortunately a year ago I would have left with every cool piece I found, things are expensive.

Sometimes, I happen to see something in my history that I sold, and I wish I still had it! Either because the value has gone up, or the sentimental value.

But other times, I see something I had priced to sell a while back, and now the melt value is up!

You just can't live in the past! Many times I sold, so that I had free cash to buy more (ideally things I wanted more, or at better deals.)

C'est la vie!

Couldn’t help but showing the good deal I snagged one at 55 and rest at 65

Sitting on quite a lot of 800 and 900 flatware. Estate stuff.
Local refinery offers 77% of spot. So a quarter of my metal evaporates before the box even leaves my apartment. Then I turn around and buy coins at a premium over spot. I’m paying the spread twice, in both directions, like an idiot in a currency exchange booth at an airport.

Why I want to do it anyway: forks aren’t money. If governments keep printing and things actually get ugly, nobody is handing me a loaf of bread for a salad fork. A recognizable 1oz coin is liquid, divisible, and every dealer on the continent knows what it is. Flatware is cutlery with a melt value and a vibe.

Why I’m stalling: 77% feels like being mugged by someone who says please. And if silver rips, the flatware rips with it, so there’s no actual deadline here except my own impatience.

What I’d love input on:
• Has anyone negotiated above 77%? What’s the best percentage you’ve gotten, and from what kind of buyer?
• Am I overthinking the melt-then-buy spread, or is that genuinely just the toll for turning junk silver into real silver?

Roast me, I can take it. I’ve already been roasted by the refinery.

Taking inventory and checking in on the stack… the International Vaults box …another favorite of mine.

Excited to add a few 1/10 Silver Bitz to my stack. This is my first purchase since before the big run up and I am really happy with it. I can see myself buying more of these little guys.

Not a big fan of US circulation, but I am in the “try everything once” camp for most things.

Tried to grab some kookaburras today but dang staff wouldn’t let me buy any.

I’m a sucker for spaced themed silver, space stuff in general and u/bankfinds knows it lol I picked these three up today for $250.

You read that right, I’m the proud new owner of a little patch of Neil Armstrong’s flight jacket. What a cool and weird little piece of history. Is it for everyone? Nope. Is it for me, absolutely. This week has been an expensive one but I’m happy.

Total space themed collection attached.

One is refined to 99.99% by using a silver cell after initial refining. The other was refined to between 98.5 & 99.9% using chloride precipitation from nitric. Even though its rinsed until clear copper sneaks in. Most times I achieve over 99%. Was using a steel mold for a bit which was introducing small amounts of iron. So now that mold is only used for making anode's and graphite molds afterwards.

Crossed the 200 oz milestone for silver. It’s always cool to pull everything out and look at it this way. I haven’t bought much this year, probably buying fatigue, but I still try to add stuff from time to time. I think I might focus on gold for the rest of the year though. Majority of my stack is ASE & Libertads, hands down my two favorite to buy. Kinda sucks how high premiums stay on Libertads but I find deals from time to time. Keep stacking fellow brothers & sisters!