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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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Salivate Metal

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


 
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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 platinym cost for delivery? Paper spot price won't matter to manufacturers.
 
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