Buried Treasure - Sorting Some Silver

If you want a true long-term store of value, look no further than silver and gold

I finally got around to having a look at my old coin collection, and sorting the good stuff from the not so good stuff. I don't call it junk because somewhere in there is still some numismatic value, even if it is only a few dollars. I did manage to find a few coins which had varying silver content, and separated them into another bag. This is the stack of not so good stuff from which I dug out my not so bad stuff...

After going through the "potentially contain silver" coins, and listing their percentage silver and weight, or tossing them into the not so good pile, I found a few interesting pieces, as well.

Here we have:

• A 1941 Malaysian 5 Cents - 0.750 Ag content, weighing 1.36g - and a 4000000 coin mintage
• A 1926 British King George V 6 Pence - 0.500 Ag, weighing 2.83g - and a 21809200 coin mintage
• A 1910 UK 3 Pence - 0.925 Ag, weighing 1.41g - and a 4565000 coin mintage
• A 1934 Southern Rhodesia One Shilling - 0.925 AG, weighing in at 5.56g - and a low 333000 coin mintage - lowest of all the one shilling years.

I thought the Rhodesian coin may have been copper-nickel, as many African coins were back then, but then again it was a British Colony, like South Africa, and so it was more likely to contain some silver. 0.925 was a good surprise as well.

Treasure Found

After digging around, and checking online for the silver content of the silvery coins, I came away with a small stack of almost 2 ounces of silver content. Look at these little gems...

A lot of them are worn quite badly, but that doesn't take away their precious metal worth. That right there is a store of value which has outlasted the face value of any of those coins.

Playing the Long Game

Of course, I do have my collection of 0.999 and 0.9999 Ag bullion going, which I need to keep adding to over time. Investing in silver, and even gold for that matter (if not more so), whatever the shape or form, is a long term store of wealth. Many items and currencies, including cryptos, will come and go, and fluctuate, or even crash at some stage. If there is one thing you can be sure of, the price you pay for gold and silver now, is very likely to be at least what you get back for it in the long term. Precious metals rarely go down for an extended period of time. they may head down for a few years, but history shows that in the long term they retain their value; a true store of wealth.

So keep on growing your stacks all you stackers, and one day you'll be smiling like a pirate because you did! That is, if you aren't smiling already!

Stack on!!

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