{"id":8870,"date":"2026-01-24T01:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T01:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/?p=8870"},"modified":"2026-01-24T01:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T01:24:25","slug":"silver-and-happy-birfday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/silver-and-happy-birfday\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver and Happy Birfday!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Greetings and Salutations!
Well, THAT escalated quickly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now we’re into the nitty-gritty of currency

Me? I sold off 3 individual grams of gold yesterday when silver was under $99 and reinvested it to oz coins.

Not a bad play IMO.
I got $157 per gram (individual) and ended up with 4oz of Silver Rounds<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which today already in many respects paid off already.
NOW
Next on the list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things are ‘squirrelly’ to say the least.
My Mining stonks are doing well for me… I’m back on the positive side of the investment, but that don’t mean shytte long term.

MY question is what I’m looking at with my last bit of actual gold. I have a 1\/10oz Canadian Maple Leaf. Numismatically it’s about $700. HOWEVER this market seems to ONLY be dealing with spot.

And who can blame them.
Coin collecting is nice, and it’s good when the coin limitations and valuations are limited. However… during volatility timeframes like this? Spot is IT. The end-all-be-all

Hence my divestures of the gold
3 individual gram?
Nice for the long run
In a collapse?
Nosomucho
People are going to be like “Uh… yeah… a single gram of gold… BFD… what else you got?” with the follow on attempted loot grab and violence.

Better to keep the goldbacks (which yet may take on a valuation in common fashion) AND\/OR as I’m doing, which is divest the gold in favor of a more recognizable and intuitive valuation from the morons I might have to deal with Post Fiat-Bux situations…

Tough call…

But I do know that 8 months ago I bought (against my inner voice and Sapper’s advise) a roll of near-uncirculated Mercury 90% dimes… $5 worth… at $265 for the roll. The rationale was that silver was looking at an upswing (I had no idea<\/strong> how correct I was in that) and that I could do the “Sezzle Finance” thing of $64+\/- a month for a few months…

The same exact roll is NOW selling for $499.99 each<\/span><\/strong>

Sometimes you get lucky.

So make of it what you will
Me? I plan on making more $$ on my trades IF I can.
And BTW: It’s the Nukular Redhead’s Eighth Birfday today!<\/strong>
OMFG
WHen the hell did they grow up so quickly???

So more later
Big Country<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Greetings and Salutations!Well, THAT escalated quickly: Now we’re into the nitty-gritty of currency Me? I sold off 3 individual grams of gold yesterday when silver was under $99 and reinvested it to oz coins. Not a bad play IMO.I got $157 per gram (individual) and ended up with 4oz of Silver Rounds Which today already … Continue reading “Silver and Happy Birfday!!!!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8873,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8870\/revisions\/8873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}