Rashka

That’s not Washington.
Its Mr Burns....
 

Some folks find the dreadlocks on this Bob Marley effigy ugly but I find it uber cool (a favorite in my meager collection)…

Nowhere near as glam as yours. .  Retired a while back but only just reached 55 so,in the uk I can access my pension. Lucky enough at the moment I don’t need it but obviously want to extract as much tax efficient cash out of it when I can.   What to do with it?   
Well I guess if you are into PM then gold. But I just love silver. 
sure physical PM is usually a terrible investment but I just like owning the stuff..  really developing an interest in the space of 2 months !

@CANV I sense a cliche coming so I might as well say it first, “If you don’t hold it, you don’t own it.”
That can be said of anything of course, but never has anyone ever said I own bread because I have a piece of paper that says I do. And yet, so many say the same about silver and gold. ETFs are paper. You don’t hold it, you don’t own it.

What's Your Silver Story?
 
By: Jordan Graveline
 
Everyone who has a fascination with silver and gold (or any other precious metal), has a story of how that fascination came about. Maybe your father or grandfather had an old coin collection that you stumbled across as a child. Perhaps you grew up liking pirates and were obsessed with tales of buried treasure. Maybe your fascination began because of an attraction to some shiny family heirloom tucked away in an old dusty attic. Regardless of how your fascination materialized, we all have a story to share. My story comes in two parts that were separated by years and then came together like land and the edge of the sea.
The first part to my story takes place as a child of 9 or 10. I enjoyed going for walks to the convenience store with my grandmother after church. She would give me a dollar and tell me I could get a candy bar or two. I was always excited for our walks, not just because of the candy, but because I got to keep any change leftover. I would rummage through the change and try to find the oldest pennies or nickels in the bunch. My grandmother was born in 1920 and I was determined at my young age to find something that was older than her. It was like a game for me, but it was also history in the palm of my hand. Looking for the existence of something that had been around the longest and changed many hands over the years. One day, the game got very exciting when I found a dime in my change that was from the year 1940. I was very happy and I showed my grandmother that I was getting close to finding something older than her in my change. She smile at me and said I was only off by 20 years, but that was indeed as close as I had ever gotten at the time. This went on for years and I would typically keep the oldest pennies, nickels, and dimes. Little did I know at the time, but that 1940 dime was made of silver.
The second part to my story takes place when I was 24 years old. It's not as reminiscent as part one, but it's the connection between the two that sparked my interests. In my twenties, I enjoyed picking up friends in my car and heading out to our local coffee shop. There we would share in stories of how our week went, some political topics, or just funny things we thought the group would laugh at. On one particular day, I paid for my coffee and received 30 cents change which I promptly placed into my pocket without looking at it. A bit later when I got home, I pulled the changed from my pocket and realized the queen's head was not on the back of one of the coins. As I examined the coin, I found it had the same head as the old 1940 dime I had from my childhood. Curious, I went online to see what the value of the coin could be worth and I came across a few different responses. The first was in relation to the condition of the coin (numismatics). An uncirculated coin was worth $XXX.XX (I can't remember). That didn't matter though because the coin I had was clearly circulated and pretty heavily at that. So I looked at the melt value of my coin and found it's value to be worth approximately $1.80 Canadian at the time. I laughed to myself because the coffee I had bought that day was $1.70 CAD. I found it amusing to think that I had bought something valued at $1.70 and then I get back my change valued more than the product I had just paid for. 
The connection between the dime from my childhood and the quarter from my twenties is that these two coins were both made of silver. That connection sparked an interest which ignited a fire into the realm of silver. The rest, as they say, is history. So what's your silver story?
 

 

My grandmother on her 100th birthday

Welcome to the Silver Forum!

Hi Everyone!
Newbie stacker from Brum. I've been watching a few gold/silver YT channels for a while but it was Backyard Bullion that introduced me to this forum. I am ashamed to say that I have bought silver on Ebay xD, but no more!
I got nowhere the amount of silver and gold I have seen from some people around here, but I am still proud of my humble stack.
I am loving all the info/posts and people I have seen so far. Looking forward to chatting about silver and gold with you all
 

Hi Everyone!
Newbie stacker from Brum. I've been watching a few gold/silver YT channels for a while but it was Backyard Bullion that introduced me to this forum. I am ashamed to say that I have bought silver on Ebay xD, but no more!
I got nowhere the amount of silver and gold I have seen from some people around here, but I am still proud of my humble stack.
I am loving all the info/posts and people I have seen so far. Looking forward to chatting about silver and gold with you all
 

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome :)!

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome :)!

Yes he got me here too... I hope he's getting commission.

Hello! Welcome to the forum. 😊
For me, eBay has been a good source for cheap silver. But that was in 2015-2017 !

Hello and welcome to the forum!  

Welcome matey, btw... I have bought off ebay... no shame lol.... depends what you want and the price, but great prices on here... 

Welcome aboard 

Welcome aboard!

Welcome to the forum!

Hi Everyone!
Newbie stacker from Brum. I've been watching a few gold/silver YT channels for a while but it was Backyard Bullion that introduced me to this forum. I am ashamed to say that I have bought silver on Ebay xD, but no more!
I got nowhere the amount of silver and gold I have seen from some people around here, but I am still proud of my humble stack.
I am loving all the info/posts and people I have seen so far. Looking forward to chatting about silver and gold with you all
 

Hi Everyone!
Newbie stacker from Brum. I've been watching a few gold/silver YT channels for a while but it was Backyard Bullion that introduced me to this forum. I am ashamed to say that I have bought silver on Ebay xD, but no more!
I got nowhere the amount of silver and gold I have seen from some people around here, but I am still proud of my humble stack.
I am loving all the info/posts and people I have seen so far. Looking forward to chatting about silver and gold with you all
 

Hi Everyone!
Newbie stacker from Brum. I've been watching a few gold/silver YT channels for a while but it was Backyard Bullion that introduced me to this forum. I am ashamed to say that I have bought silver on Ebay xD, but no more!
I got nowhere the amount of silver and gold I have seen from some people around here, but I am still proud of my humble stack.
I am loving all the info/posts and people I have seen so far. Looking forward to chatting about silver and gold with you all
 

Hi Everyone!
Newbie stacker from Brum. I've been watching a few gold/silver YT channels for a while but it was Backyard Bullion that introduced me to this forum. I am ashamed to say that I have bought silver on Ebay xD, but no more!
I got nowhere the amount of silver and gold I have seen from some people around here, but I am still proud of my humble stack.
I am loving all the info/posts and people I have seen so far. Looking forward to chatting about silver and gold with you all
 

Hi Everyone!
Newbie stacker from Brum. I've been watching a few gold/silver YT channels for a while but it was Backyard Bullion that introduced me to this forum. I am ashamed to say that I have bought silver on Ebay xD, but no more!
I got nowhere the amount of silver and gold I have seen from some people around here, but I am still proud of my humble stack.
I am loving all the info/posts and people I have seen so far. Looking forward to chatting about silver and gold with you all