bar oz cut off point

[craig12]

what would be the highest oz bar cut off point you would go to ,

the reason I ask is  a member replied to a question the other day that silver wouldn't be taken as payment for a shtf scenario as the shops and busineses would not understand it  and therefore fiat may be required , which then brings in to the fold, if you want to sell your bar bars EASILY , which way to go

I only have 100g as my biggest bar , im looking at a 5 oz bar at the minute  and then onto a 10 oz

so is a move up from 10 oz a silly move where you will be stuck with it   is a 1kg bar  just a bit to big to move on easily?

as an average ounce the bigger bars do represent good value , so moving the shtf scenario to one side

wheres the best place to buy at

1 oz

5 oz

10 oz

100g

250g

500g

1 kilo

[Ares]

10oz. 

 

They're as big a bar as I want to go, nice size for stacking and the premiums aren't that bad. 

[craig12]

thanks ares  I do like em if not fancy brands like Scottsdale reserve

[Ares]

I'd be open to 10oz coins too, but it seems like when you get towards that size and higher then storage gets to be a real b*tch,

[Kman]

People currently will buy 100g gold bars or more

 

100g gold bar is around £2600 

 

1kg Silver bar is about £500 if you include VAT?

 

So even if silver goes up x5 there would still be buyers out there you would assume

[Danny-boy]

People shift 100oz bars all the time I assume.

I'd buy one as long as it was a decently low premium, and use for a GSR swap.

[craig12]

when you think of storage problems , it really should work out the same shouldn't it

does a 10 oz bar measure differently to 10 x 1 oz bars when stacked

therefore to store 10 x  1 kg bars  the equivilant   1   0z bars would take the same room up wouldn't they?

[Ares]

Nature of circles and rectangles. You can stack cuboids with less wasted space than squad cylinders, not much, but i'd sooner take the more efficient option.

 

If I buy a silver product which is reaching towards (or greater than) a 1oz gold coin in price, i'd sooner buy the gold coin.

[HighlandTiger]

I'd never buy bars. end of...

 

I'd rather buy junk silver or scrap silver. Cheaper, and when it comes to selling worth about the same.

[Fluttershy]

IKg is the biggest I would go, I have 3 of them so far and only have plans to get 1 more making 4 of them.

But I do have many demoninations smaller than this, 1g, 5g, 10g, 20g, 50g, 100g, 250g  these will act as Change to pay for small things depending on what sort of SHTF scenario plays out, and if nothibg happens then they`re still good silver anyway.

it`s Also handy that if I pop my clogs then all my stash can be equally split up between my 2 kids, so no matter what i buy now it can be spit evenly down to tha last Gram

[HelpingHands]

There are lots of bars in this video but if you don't want to watch it all there is a 5kg bar at 24 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A490e4CQL7M

[HighlandTiger]

There are lots of bars in this video but if you don't want to watch it all there is a 5kg bar at 24 minutes.

 

 

He swapped 13 Kruggerands for all that heavy Silver. The mind boggles. When I retire I'm changing all my silver to gold. Save a fortune on postage when I send my monthly package of a sov or two to the bullion dealer to top up my pension. Plus I can easily hide £100k of gold around the house. I ain't ever going to be able to hide £100k of silver. Even at todays prices that is 270 kilos of silver. 

[Ares]

I'm looking more and more at gold to be honest, a commodity which I don't think I could ever buy in bar form simply due to sheer diversity already existing and - IMO - when you hit 1oz it's a. If enough side enough to reduce the market.

Not saying there isn't one, not at all, just that I'd imagine it'd probably be easier to sell 4 sovereigns than one 1ozer especially in the UK. Sovereigns could probably be the best 'mass market' gold you can buy for resale.

[Stretch]

A kilos of silver's not that much in the scheme of things even if the price quadruples. Not keen on bars myself either so I'd go for a kilo coin which is on my shopping list for some time this year hopefully.

[ChrisSilver]

You forgot 5kg, 15kg, 100oz and 1000oz bars off your list. Those sizes are relatively quite common.

I might buy one of those huge bars one day, I bet they are impressive. Obviously if I would then sell it, it would most likely be to a dealer.

I think 1kg silver bars are a fine size. Even if spot price doubled, they aren't unaffordable. 10oz is however a much better tradable size.

I believe that 1kg and 10oz bars are the most popular sizes in terms of numbers sold.

[strenue]

Largest I would go for personal stack is 100oz.   They are quite often available at spot.

This then makes them a very good spot play for upward movements in spot.  Basically you can trade them back in at a dealer and generate some nice capital gains for other purchases.

 

Anything larger than 100oz is very difficult to take possession of as they are just too heavy to transport.

 

10oz, 500g, 20oz and 1 kilo are the main bar sizes that I stack. 

 

50oz is also a nice size bar.

[Pete]

I would decide based on total cost per ounce.

For a small difference I would recommend the smallest denomination within a few percent band so if I could stack 4 x 5 oz rather than 2 x 10 oz or 1 x 20 oz then take the smallest size.

However, why bars and not coins ?

I avoid bars as I see them only as a brick.

If you can buy a nice kilo coin at the same price as a poured kilo bar, it makes no sense to me to buy a bar.

Sometimes there are good deals on 10 oz Lunars so keep checking.