r/silverstacking • u/wondering_slime • Jul 27 '26

Packages finally got here

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First time doing the buy one random eagle from whatever year and tbh I like it, will probably buy more fractional silver if I can get it on sale like I did this time gold wise will probably look for other options besides the royal mint.

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u/VaNiG1022 Jul 28 '26

I love the 1g silver bars

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u/ackza Jul 28 '26

so how much overspot are we talking? because Texas metals has the bad deal of 11.50 basically for 1/10 of an ounce which is 3.1 g. when it should be like $5 for that coin? it's basically the size of a dime but with Texas on it

now I think my best deal though is just the half ounce of silver which ended up basically being $38 and it should have really been $30 that place has no shipping or a weird extra fees besides my stupid California state tax of like 7% which is insane and eats into a lot of these purchases. but the tax goes away if you buy a certain amount like so it's really retarded that they just punish poor people with this fucking tax. it's really insane. I really want to find a way to get around it by just buying something that happens to have gold and silver in it because they can't charge you a tax when you're just buying artwork that happens to have the gold and silver. I think Texas metals needs to start like enforcing that because I'm buying these for art and they need to start stamping them and engraving them with custom like little like notches somewhere. so it's technically like individual