by AGgressive Metal » Sun Mar 10, 2013 11:20 am
If you are getting them at 80% of melt then by all means, provided they are 50% or higher purity. Even if you ended up just sending them to the refinery you aren't going to be charged 20% so far as I know. Silver is silver, especially if it spikes really high. As for SHTF barter, they aren't going to be as liquid due to widespread ignorance, but neither are numismatics or exotic metals but I think most people aren't only stacking for doomsday, they are trying to just preserve/increase wealth over the long term.
And he that hath lyberte ought to kepe hit wel
For nothyng is better than lyberte
For lyberte shold not be wel sold for alle the gold and syluer of all the world
-Aesop's Fables, Caxton edition 1484