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Nick / FA

Gold Rises While No One Wants American Gold Eagles Anymore​

Jun 17, 2025
The price of gold is near the all time high but investors are abandoning American Gold eagles. Why is this, and why are the premiums that dealers pay for AGEs now dropping below spot to the same prices for less desirable gold coins like foreign gold and even generic bars? While the gold price is up, many coin dealers are saying that retail investors are selling much more gold they buy. The premiums are crashing because the refineries are offering less to the coin dealers. It is getting so bad that one coin dealer says they are American Gold Eagles to the refiners to melt. Is now a good time to buy American Gold Eagles since you can get the 1 oz coins for about 2% over the spot price of gold compared to the usual 7% over spot price?


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AGEs have a high premium. If you play the spread you can net +1% by purchasing foreign gold like Krugerrands and Brits.
 

SILVER STACKING SON SCHOOLS CRYPTO-DAD IN FRONT OF DEALER!​

Jun 18, 2025 #Crypto #Silver #Gold
In this video a 13-year-old silver stacker "schools" his crypto-dad when he buys a silver bar from my bullion dealer. Does he convince his father that stacking silver is the wiser investment? Will his dad start buying gold and silver after this visit to the Coin and Stamp Shop? Watch as Tim Marschner interacts with a VERY precocious young man who is exchanging his 2-dollar bills for silver. Tim also appraises a very old 5-dollar bill for the 13-year-old stacker and has to give him some disappointing news! This is an unprecedented time to buy precious metals. Protect yourself from out-of-control governments, evil central banks, and the failing US dollar's grip as the world's reserve currency. Make sure you build a stack of silver rounds, silver bars, silver coins, and gold coins as essential barter and wealth preservation!


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The thing is most people do not own physical gold bullion for investment, so they don't even think about these current prices until they need to buy jewelry. Spot prices are meaningless to them. They care more about how much a cup of coffee costs at Starbucks.

However, people like you and me will soon be priced out of the market because $4k gold might sound like a windfall to the old timers, but it's a flashing warning signal. Then, the new game will be fractional which everybody said to stay away from, but will be the new thing.
 
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SD Bullion Weekly

Americans 4x Poorer Than We Were in 1920!​

Jun 27, 2025
In US dollar terms, incomes may have nominally risen over time.
But in gold terms, we're getting poorer and poorer as time proceeds.
Meanwhile the largest gold buyers in the world on net continue selling fiat US dollars for gold, and more and more now the main stream financial media are reporting this fact.
The spot silver and gold markets sold lower on the week. With the spot silver price likely to close just over $36 oz bid and the spot gold price to finish the week around $3,280 oz bid.
The spot gold silver ratio lowered this week finishing at 90 with silver's relative recent strength over gold.
That will be all for our weekly SD Bullion Market Update. And as always to you out there, take great care of yourselves and those you love.


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- China Opens First Offshore Gold Vault and Contracts in Hong Konghttps://archive.is/N1Cgg
- INDIAN FirstPost: China SGE opens Hong Kong Vault as Gold Challenges US dollar • China Opens Offshore Gold Vault, Challenge...
- Daniel Ghali: Gold is technically over bought but actually under-owned'https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/markets/g...

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Salivate Metal

Silver Price Plunges But NOT Without A Fight! Here's What Happened!​


 
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Salivate Metal

 
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Platinum is a noble metal and does not tarnish like ag.
 
nickndfl said:
Platinum is a noble metal and does not tarnish like ag.
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Its such a pretty metal you have to root for it anyways even if you dont own any, which I dont. But in the recycle place I worked at they loved buying it in scrap. Very useful metal and makes fine jewelry.
 
Gold and silver perking up today. $3,318.33 and $36.26. Ratio down to 92 "105 was insane, I bought as much junk and 10 oz bars as I could back then".
 
SilverStacker said:
Its such a pretty metal you have to root for it anyways even if you dont own any, which I dont. But in the recycle place I worked at they loved buying it in scrap. Very useful metal and makes fine jewelry.
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I would go to call it almost THE top dog metal in all of chemistry. It is the best catalyst and catalysts are very, very important to just about all chemcials produced these days.

The only problem, is that its so good it is not consumed in the process. Just a bit to start and you're good for who knows how long.
 
Since it is the cool thing to do these days I went and asked Perplexity.

It estimated that dozens to Hundreds of Industrially produced chemicals use Platinum
Also, there are over 1,000 reactions known that it can act as a catalyst.
 
The thing about platinum is that it is so rare and the market is tiny. Wait until the physical market only runs through China. How much will platinum cost for delivery? Paper spot price won't matter to manufacturers.
 
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Edward Sterck - This is Why Investors Are Buying Platinum​

Jul 2, 2025 #gold #silver #wealthprotection #liquid #asset #singapore #platinum
World Platinum Investment Council Director of Research Edward Sterck joins us. Edward shares with us insights on platinum through his years of research and expertise. Just who is the market? Who is buying? Why are they buying? What is the outlook for platinum? Is the platinum supply really in a deficit? All of these questions and more are answered right here, right now.
Any and all views, opinions, expressed here are not reflective or endorsed by Silver Bullion Pte Ltd.


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Detailed Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:05 Shanghai platinum week
03:22 How tight is the physical platinum market?
05:32 Are there platinum stockpiles to meet deficits
07:15 Tariffs, political, geopolitical tensions on platinum
08:22 Platinum and the basket price
09:40 Suppression in the platinum price
10:45 Platinum is considered a critical metal
12:57 Mine nationalization considering platinum’s importance and scarcity
13:41 Can China’s platinum jewelry demand move the needle?
17:23 Green platinum
20:22 Coin and bar investment demand
21:44 The state of platinum mining and exploration
 
Yankee Stacking

DEALER'S NEW STUNNING PRICE PREDICTION! They Want To TANK Gold & Silver!! 📉​

Jul 2, 2025 #Silver #Gold #Manipulation
In this video my bullion dealer discusses the impact of silver eclipsing $40 an ounce and gold spot price reaching $3,000 an ounce. Will Tim Marschner of The Coin and Stamp Shop ever stop buying silver and gold from his customers? Will he eventually say "no more silver" when the spot price explodes? And what does Tim think will happen when silver hits $40 an ounce? Will it spark a surge in FOMO buying by new silver stackers? Tim's seen this play out before and his answer may surprise you! Watch as customers come in to buy silver and gold despite the vast majority of precious metals investors SELLING their silver and gold!

DEALER'S NEW STUNNING PRICE PREDICTION! They Want To TANK
 
$40 or 50 was where the price collapse last time but Powell mentioned cutting rates....I'll keep buying.
 
$37.02 an oz isn't a hit. Silver is strong right now. I did an audit of my stack the other day and was surprised to find that gold made up almost 1/2 the value. I knew its impact was skewed but I didn't expect to find it almost at 1/2, which means I really need to buy silver while the ratio is still fairly high and I think silver has a ways to go until the end of 2025 when I expect it to be $40.

Even still I dont like buying when its at a somewhat elevated price and would prefer to buy when its low. Immediately upon pay day, Aug 1st, I want to sink at least $1 K into silver but since Ive been buying mostly 10oz bars and junk silver, which is boring, I'd like to find some coinage on sale. I'd like to find about 10 1 oz Libertards just because, just because I like them so much, and they have become awfully hard to find but BE has BU's for $42 and Eagles at spot so I might go that route and maybe throw in a 10 oz generic bar.

But I just dont see silver going much cheaper if at all at least for the summer. It hasn't been sub-$30 since April and has been dancing with $36+ all thru June and now into Jul.
 
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SD Bullion Weekly

Silver Media Attention is Getting Real Bullish​

Jul 4, 2025
We want to wish a safe and Happy 4th of July to all our United States viewers out there. There has been some good winning for gold, silver, and precious metal bulls in the first half of this year 2025.
Both silver and gold have moved up over 25% in fiat dollar values in the first half of the year, and of course platinum bulls have been enjoying over 50% gains in the first half of this year. Probably the most noteworthy bullion related news items on this holiday shortened week are few fold.
It appears both High Net Worth and average investors are beginning to plow additional investing capital into the silver sector. You likely recall in late March of this year 2025, we published a Youtube Weekly Bullion Market Update entitled, "$400 Million Silver Bullion Buyer Goes Public | New Silver Squeeze Findings" in which we covered the story of High Net Worth investor David Bateman going public on Twitter X about his massive bullion buying spree to start the year.
Well, he was back this week, announcing on Twitter X that he has added to his bullion positioning with an additional 800,000 oz of silver bullion, 7,000 oz of platinum, and even adding 4,300 oz of palladium bullion holdings. Game on he exclaimed.
Over the last month, average normie silver investors have been piling into unsecured Silver ETFs and ETPs in both the Western and Eastern world judging from Indias various 15 silver funds. Combined they reportedly added over 43 million oz in the last 4 weeks. That is over half of the world's monthly new line silver supply flowing to unsecured ETFs alone in June 2025.
Adding fuel to the potential silver investment demand picture is not merely a potential price breakout in the works both in spot terms but also in relative terms versus gold.
But also the recent bullish silver story coverage in both Western and Eastern financial news publications such as the Financial Times, The Economic Times of India, and the WSJ's MarketWatch website.


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BULLISH SILVER ARTICLES this Week:
Financial Times - https://archive.ph/8FiXv
The Economic Times of India - https://archive.is/xQCPJ
WSJ's MarketWatch - https://archive.ph/rqkhn

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The problem with domestic silver is the high premium unless you can find spot deals or + $0.99. In addition, silver is not as well accepted internationally because of the premiums relative to gold plus high taxes.
 
Yankee Stacking

DEALER SHOCK: PEOPLE ARE THROWING SILVER & GOLD OUT! 🗑️ "They literally don't care!"​

Jul 9, 2025 #Silver #Gold #CleanOuts
Dealer shock: People are throwing silver and gold out! In this video my bullion dealer and a very interesting customer explain what is going on with people literally throwing out their silver and gold along with diamond jewelry and brand new close. Is this more than just a "sign of the times"? Do people simply not care about valuable gold and silver bullion? And what is going on with rents, tenants, and landlords? Watch as Tim Marschner of the Coin and Stamp Shop talks with someone who cleans out homes for a living and see the silver treasure she discovers. Are the silver coins and medals worth anything? Find out in the latest coin shop video with Tim!

DEALER SHOCK: PEOPLE ARE THROWING SILVER & GOLD OUT!
 
Salivate Metals

ALERT! Silver Price EXPLODES To 14 Year High! But Heed This WARNING!​


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Yankee Stacking

SILVER SPIKE SHOCKS BULLION DEALER! "I'm Getting BURIED!"​

Jul 14, 2025 #Silver #Gold #SilverSqueeze
In this video my bullion dealer explains why he is shocked at the sudden rise in the price of silver, and why he thinks people are still selling their precious metals. What are the two hidden reasons that people are selling their silver? Will a cut in interest rates by the Federal Reserve change the behavior of gold and silver investors? Will the silver spot price continue to rise? And what will happen if the spot prices of gold and silver remain high? Watch as Tim Marschner of the Coin and Stamp Shop talks with customers on the phone and helps people figure out what is going on in the gold and silver markets. It's CRAZY! I also give an update on my silver spot price prediction by the end of 2025. This is an unprecedented time to buy precious metals. Protect yourself from out-of-control governments, evil central banks, and the failing US dollar's grip as the world's reserve currency. Make sure you build a stack of silver rounds, silver bars, silver coins, and gold coins as essential barter and wealth preservation!

SILVER SPIKE SHOCKS BULLION DEALER! "I'm Getting BURIED!"
 
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