Quote Originally Posted by Dryfli View Post
On a funny side note I stopped by the pawn shop yesterday on the off chance they might have a few silver dollars. I've been in there a bunch of times before and they never had anything. To my surprise they had 7 Morgan dollars 1881 ect. Nothing special they had obviously need cleaned, I asked to see them I knew silver was under $20 an toz. What really surprised me was the price 54.95 each??!??!! Need less to say I didn't buy and and was too afraid to ask what they wanted for the 1915 $2 1/2 dollar gold Indian coin
That's because those were old US coins and "collectable", so they have a big premium tacked on. And they're only 90% silver. And it was a pawn shop.

Go to a COIN SHOP, and look for BULLION coins. They're not monetary coins, they're essentially pure silver stamped into coin form, called "rounds". They don't represent any currency and have no collectable premium, they only represent what they are.....which is one ounce of .999 pure silver, and their value is based on the price of silver, not a collectable value. Also look for silver bars, they run from 1/2 ounce to 1000 ounces.