Silver tarnishes, so you better figure that into you longer term plans. Buy "real" coins not bullion. Gold its less important who minted the coin.

I think we've got a land boom coming. You think house prices are bad now wait til people think that homes and land are the last store of value to be had.

I do think owning land is important but wonder if there will be a glut of properties for sale if interest rates go up even a few percentage points. I hope I am wrong as You are right, land has been my most successful investment and I am fortunate to not be carrying a mortgage on my home. I am just not sure that investing in a secondary property (Which is by far a much greater investment than I had in mind) would be MY best choice at this time.

Also thanks for the tip on coins, I think that is smart as there is also a collectors market then.

What do you mean with "real coins". Do you mean collector or proof coins? If yes wouldn't the additional premium for those coins be lost if you use them for barter. Wouldn't make junk silver coins make more sense as they have the lowest premium?

I mean coins issued by a mint with a reputation known further than its customers. I'm fond of US Mint silver eagles myself. There's a lot of "bullion" coins out there aimed at panic and ignorance, some of them aren't even full weight alloys.

There's also folks selling sacks of "silver quarters" and other old circulated coins with silver content... These are dross that's been picked over for value already. There's folks that will cheerfully sell them for 3x the face value of the coins tho.

I would be thrilled to buy some of these sacks at 3X face value, the best price I could find was 20X face. Are You sure You are not remembering what they were going for in the past?

here is a Google search I did regarding this idea:

>>> How many US silver coins make an ounce? There is 0.18084 troy ounce of pure silver in a standard pre-1965 90% silver quarter. So, it takes about 5.5 pre-1965 90% silver quarters to have a full troy ounce of silver.

Current spot price of silver ~22 , lets say $20...so 20/5.5 = $3.60 or approx 14.5 X Face. Still a better deal but that is not the prices the sellers are asking that would be more what a dealer may offer to buy at.

I have looked into buy these coins just now and it seems many people must think the same thing as they are way more expensive than buying uncirculated coins made by the British and Canadian mints. US silver eagles are also crazy expensive for some reason.

After society collapses, how much will silver be worth? It's not useful for a lot apart from decoration. Food, clean water sources, construction metals, tools, etc will be far more useful.

If currencies collapse, society will find ways to avoid a complete barter trade economy. Silver coins look like an obvious option to me.

Do You think society will collapse? I wasn't thinking in such extreme terms, my thoughts are more of a depression era situation.

> waiting to buy TP ever again.

what is TP?

Toilet Paper...lol