Valcambi Suisse 100 x 1 gram bars

[pyperb]

Opinions please on Valcambi Suisse 100 x 1 gram bars, can be purchased for £96. handy in a post apocalyptic world where you can break up the bars for bartering ?

 

Thanks

 

Brian

[Tn21]

£96 for a gram of gold?

[pyperb]

100 x 1gram bars silver....high premium but you have small bits of silver to barter with

[sixgun]

You would have bits of silver with junk silver of your own country - there are those who claim people do not recognise the old pre-1946 coinage. Well some won't.

You have to decide if people will barter with silver. i used to think this but i am less sure these days. i still have boxes of old UK coinage but i am not sure i will be haggling for goods with them. You also need to ask yourself if folk won't want to take an old UK 50% or Sterling coin would they want to take a tiny bit of snap off silver when they will virtually certainly not recognise it and not trust it.

[Tn21]

Right, yh I was looking at the same item after coming across it via youtube. I like the idea you can clip off 1g but as you said there is a hefty premium. I too am after some low weight silver but the closest thing I could find was silver shot and the scottsdale 5g bars (again a bit of a premium on the Scottsdale 5g bars).

 

[Silverhunter]

Not a good investment imo for the way you are thinking. In a post apocalyptic world generation 1 and 2 will be all about food generation 2 to 3 will be the traders I think 

[ilovesilverireallydo]

Buy a 100 gm flat pure silver sheet and square it off into 1x1 pieces and you have the same thing at half the price. You can but these sheets from bullion dealers or Arts and craft suppliers that supply to the jewellery market. 

[pyperb]

great thoughts on this ...  plenty to ponder, II think there may be some place for Silver once the whole system crashes like Venezuela.

 

Thanks,

 

Brian/

[FFkook]

I can't believe there are actually people who buy these seriously overpriced bars...

[pyperb]

Fook....do you just buy at spot price ?

[Goldhooked]

Nearly 3x spot at almost £1 a gram!  That's one hell of a premium!!  Buy some cheap milk spotted coins instead and cut them in to chunks.  A 1toz coin at £15 only works out at about 48p a gram so you'd have twice as much silver to barter with (although I still think cigarettes would be a far better currency in a real SHTF scenario).

[RoughDog]

You could try something like this

 

[Silverhunter]

13 minutes ago, RoughDog said:

You could try something like this

 

I'm sad now

[Peacemaker]

Im selling sheets of 10x10g emirates silver bars for £85 quid, can be popped out of the sheet and still in there own sealed pouch, excellent barter piece for the apocalypse 🤙

[Roy]

1 hour ago, Silverhunter said:

I'm sad now

Me too! Why?

Someone could have bought that JM bar and advertised it on here as rare and asked a very high premium.

What a waste.

[RoughDog]

High premium for a bar?  I thought bars where just bullion.  What is special about a JM bar?

 

[Goldhooked]

55 minutes ago, RoughDog said:

High premium for a bar?  I thought bars where just bullion.  What is special about a JM bar?

 

There are plenty of vintage bars that some collectors will pay hefty premiums for.  Check out this one for example, 1kg sold for nearly £900...

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F153136835190

[AndrewSL76]

I bought two of these Valcambi 100x1g silver bars today - hence me finding this page - looking for information on them! 

They are currently on Ebay around the 65 mark, but that's the US and you'd need to pay import and postage etc. The UK ones are still selling around the 90-100 mark. Crazy, really. I bought because I have liked them for a while and the price of silver has hiked from 12 in mid June (when I started keeping a record) to 14 today, why not! I paid a premium but a lot, lot less than they are selling for on Ebay.

Andrew.

[LiquidMetalsUK]

Bought one of these last year and sold it off (on ebay) as indavidual pieces at £2.50 a Gram. Sold the whole bar in just over 2 weeks. Was a £1 sellers fee so was quids in. May look to do it again at some point 😁

[AndrewSL76]

2 minutes ago, Jamesd said:

Bought one of these last year and sold it off as indavidual pieces at £2.50 a Gram. Sold the whole bar in just over 2 weeks. Was a £1 sellers fee so was quids in. May look to do it again at some point 😁

People were paying you 2.50 for a single gram of silver? Mind. Blown. 

A.

[LiquidMetalsUK]

Was only because I saw people buying at this price I thought it would be worth a shot with the £1 sellers deal. And it was 😁

[AndrewSL76]

Sorry, but how did the quid selling fee work - was it on all 100? I thought that only applied to items over a quid - i.e. sell something for 2.50 you still pay 25p? Am I going mad?

[LiquidMetalsUK]

Mainly sold in batches of 10 so works nicely.

These are what they sell for at the moment 

[AndrewSL76]

Thanks for this - my recent purchase may just be the best thing I ever did and may finance a bigger purchase! Nice one...

[Chicagodogs]

A lot of people don't know the value of PMs. I think in a SHTF scenario they would'nt know the value of silver either. This video is an example.