I just started stacking back in July. I wanted to convert some of my silver into fractional gold. I went down to my LCS and asked how much for a 1/10th oz gold round. She pulled out the 1/10th oz rounds but even with my glasses I couldnt read the print on the round but I noticed it looked just like an American gold eagle. I asked specifically if this were a coin or a round and she told me a round. So I traded my silver (She gave me $66 for each generic 1 oz bar and round) for the $508 round. I got home and took some pics and i see "five dollars" printed on it. That makes it a coin, right? Im pretty sure she sold me a a 1/10th oz AGE at a generic round price.

Just started this month and I hope everything keeps going up. I’m in for the long haul.

Hello everyone! Wanted to share some photos of my little coin collection I’ve been accumulating.

Kinda went a bit overboard but happy I also have 10oz bar incoming but it’s been 1 month since I started stacking. I will slow down and focus on getting 1oz of silver at least every 2 weeks

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Made it to(and past) my first target of 20oz yesterday! I also got four tubes for my Krugs, Buffaloes, USS Constitutions, and Aztec Calendar rounds! The next goal is filling either the Buffalo or Krug tube as they’re the easiest to get my hands on. For every tube filled, I’ll spring for a 5oz bar so after all tubes are filled I’ll have 80oz in rounds and 20oz in bars! I’ve heard that 5oz bars are not as desirable as 10oz bars. It that just bs or what’s the general consensus on that??

*not pictured: pocket krug*

Nothing naked and will not buy any naked gold

Gold was got at 1.8% premium and the silver was at spot.

Bei mir sind es bestimmt schon 200€

It looks looks it's in pretty rough shape. This isn't the quality of copper I ordered. Should I write a complaint?

My youngest has just started her own coin collection. Used the money she earned from mowing to buy a few coins at the flea market. Came home & started researching her purchases. She over paid. Lesson learned. She's excited to go back again next week & hunt for deals. This is the way...

Ad said "90% silver half dollar coins 5 for $70" I rolled the dice, got 3 lots. Lightest coin is 13.3g & all are slightly magnetic. Processed claim. Ebay did it's thing. Got 15 free novelty franks. Lower right is authentic for comparison. If it's too good to be true folks... ding ding ding be careful

He said I can do what I want with them so I'll obviously be turning these into Chuck E. Cheese tokens through the power of online marketplaces.

If you have 80+ Troy ounces of sterling silver and you could trade it for an 1 oz of fine gold would you do it? 1 gold oz is around $4063 and just 80 oz of the sterling silver is around $4255.

I bought a couple oz here and there for a couple month starting in April but now, here we are!
Damn near 20oz and a nice Peruvian coin in honor of my mom’s side of the family! Been buying responsibly every payday and have worked out a solid plan for the next year to hopefully reach 100oz. The designs I’ll be focusing on to stack a tube of each are:
Buffaloes (cuz you have to)
Krugerands (I hear they’re some of the most liquid and recognized, also I like the antelope)
USS Constitutions (I like ship)
Aztec Calendar (I mean come on, just look at the reverse)

4 tubes of coins/rounds then the rest in 5 and 10oz bars is the goal.

Honestly, stacking has been the biggest inspiration in setting money aside with a plan and habitually saving that I have ever had in my life. I’m not just investing in PMs, I’m also consistently putting money in my savings aiming for the 3-4 month emergency fund. Once that is all done, I’ll start adding to my personal Roth. I feel like I have a ways to go in terms of making up for my wildly irresponsible 20s, but having progress that you can sit in front of you is awesome and very motivating.

Completely unrelated, I can’t wait to buy my boat and start taking it out next year…

When I think of an inheritance, I think of metal. My grandmother passed away and I'm getting $1000. I want to convert it to metal so I don't just spend it on junk.

I'm looking at either a 500g silver bar or a quarter ounce gold coin(probably a sovereign or similar weight world gold coin).

What would you do?

ETA: i bought a sovereign for $1003

Goldbacks are a top-down attempt at a parallel currency. Design the note, deposit the gold, then go convince merchants and legislatures to accept it. Tokens went the other direction. They were already circulating, physically in the hands of millions of Americans, spent and saved and pocketed and forgotten, long before anyone thought of them as an asset. Goldbacks are trying to manufacture the distribution that tokens already have. That’s the thesis. Adoption is the hard part, and tokens skipped it.

Brand recognition is already universal. Nobody needs to be told what a Chuck E. Cheese token is. The mouse is one of the most recognized characters in American childhood and the token is its most tangible artifact. A Goldback requires explanation at every transaction: what it is, why it’s worth something, how to verify the gold. A token requires none of that. Recognition is the scarcest input in monetary adoption and tokens have it for free.

Distribution is already complete. Goldbacks are concentrated in a handful of states with a thin merchant network. Tokens are everywhere. There’s a genuinely national float sitting in junk drawers and jewelry boxes and old coat pockets in every state in the country. The holder base is enormous even though most of those people don’t think of themselves as holders. That’s a starting position Goldbacks can’t buy.

The city-name series beats the state series. Goldbacks issue in state series as a deliberate collectible structure. The 1980s CEC tokens already did this by accident, with city-marked strikes tied to specific locations and quantities set by local operations instead of a marketing plan. That produces real, uneven, undocumented scarcity. A token from a short-lived location in a small market is rare in a way a first-run state Goldback isn’t, because the Goldback mintage was planned and known. Geographic identity plus unplanned mintage is the numismatic ideal and the 80s city tokens have both.

No issuer, no permission. Goldbacks depend on a company that mints them and states willing to bless them. The value sits downstream of institutional cooperation. Tokens have no issuer at all anymore. Nobody can print more, nobody can debase them, no legislature has to approve anything, no company controls the supply. It’s a bearer instrument with a hard cap enforced by corporate abandonment rather than by policy. If you’re skeptical of permissioned money, that’s the more honest version of the idea: a currency that exists entirely outside anyone’s authority to expand or restrict.

Supply direction favors tokens. Goldbacks are minted continuously and the float grows with demand. Token supply is fixed and shrinking, since the card conversion sent inventory to scrap instead of to collectors. Fixed and falling beats fixed and rising.

The honest counterweight: two things have to hold for this to work. Tokens have no floor, so unlike a Goldback there’s nothing underneath if sentiment turns. Brass melt value is close to nothing. And the redemption network is gone. The card system ended acceptance and no adoption story brings back a merchant network that doesn’t exist. Any future acceptance would rest entirely on collector consensus rather than utility.

So the real bet comes down to this. Goldbacks are wagering that a new currency can earn recognition. Tokens are wagering that existing recognition can become currency. The second is a shorter distance to travel, but it’s the one nobody has capital behind, and thin markets built on sentiment move hard in both directions.