chux03
29th March 2008, 03:58
I went into my local coin shop today looking to see what they had. I was in this same shop less than two weeks ago, buying a kilo J&M bar and at the time "they had lots of silver." Today I asked what kind of 10 ounce bars they had in stock and she looked at me and shook her head and said "we're out." O.K. any rolls, I asked. Nope...here I'll show you what we have. She reaches into the big safe and pulls out another Tuperware rectangular container full of various painted Eagles, odd ball small ingots, a few rounds and the like, basically it's the "junk box" but there was probably 50 to 60 ounces in there of all shapes and small sizes, nothing over 3 ounces tops. I start digging through it and see a few Sunshine rounds so I grab a couple of those. Then I see a Nat'l Bank of Commerce of Seattle 100 gram silver bar, made by J&M way back sometime before 1969 when that bank was bought out. I grab that.
Then I see these strange looking Bunker Hill (Idaho) silver rounds and notice that they seem to be different scenes on each of the 5 of them I managed to grab. Anyway, I have #2, #3, #4 & #5. They're in good shape no dings or dents. BH-2 features a scene showing the Kellogg Tunnel, BH-3 shows the lead smelter at Bradley, ID. BH-4 shows the Electrolytic Zinc Plant located at Silver King, ID and BH-5 shows the Electrolytic Silver Refinery at Kellogg, ID. These are nice looking rounds and if I could get my image file size down a wee bit I'd try and snap a few pics and post em here. My Canon SD-750 is a FANTASTIC camera. It takes really nice pics so if I can do that, I'll try and post a pic or two.
Anyone know anything about this set?? I have heard there's just the 5 of them. The lady at the coin shop said she has BH-1 in BU condition but was already in the safe as it was right before closing. So I'll grab that one Monday when I'm in near there. Then I'll have all 5 of them. I'm not really a collector per se but I'll probably keep these aside and who knows? These may wind up on Ebay if that'd be worth doing or they may just hang out here for a few years too.
Anyway, I was shocked that they were, for all intents and purposes, OUT OF SILVER BULLION in this store!! And this is a fair sized shop that handles more than just coins too. Last visit, I'd venture to say they had thousands of ounces of silver. Today, less than I own. HA! I overheard her talking to another lady telling her that the other 5 or 6 people in there were silver buyers and in fact the guy next to me was talking to the other clerk and he said..."soon as he (meaning me) gets what he wants out of that box, I'd like to have a look (in there). Overall, he was bumbed too, I'd say, about the declining (before his very eyes) inventory, though I walked out with only 15 ounces in various rounds and that 100 gram ingot. First thing this morning, I'm RUNNING up to the real local coin shop 15 minutes up the road and buying more silver as I know he still has 'lots." Barring that, if I can't find it locally here in a modern metro area that has 3.3 million people and numerous coin shops, I'll place an order with Sunshine Silver as they probably have just as good of a price as the local guy tho with shipping, I doubt that. But at least they can fill just about any order..."we can get you what you want", she said. Anyway, I'll let you know what I find up there later on today.
www.sunshinesilver.com
Then I see these strange looking Bunker Hill (Idaho) silver rounds and notice that they seem to be different scenes on each of the 5 of them I managed to grab. Anyway, I have #2, #3, #4 & #5. They're in good shape no dings or dents. BH-2 features a scene showing the Kellogg Tunnel, BH-3 shows the lead smelter at Bradley, ID. BH-4 shows the Electrolytic Zinc Plant located at Silver King, ID and BH-5 shows the Electrolytic Silver Refinery at Kellogg, ID. These are nice looking rounds and if I could get my image file size down a wee bit I'd try and snap a few pics and post em here. My Canon SD-750 is a FANTASTIC camera. It takes really nice pics so if I can do that, I'll try and post a pic or two.
Anyone know anything about this set?? I have heard there's just the 5 of them. The lady at the coin shop said she has BH-1 in BU condition but was already in the safe as it was right before closing. So I'll grab that one Monday when I'm in near there. Then I'll have all 5 of them. I'm not really a collector per se but I'll probably keep these aside and who knows? These may wind up on Ebay if that'd be worth doing or they may just hang out here for a few years too.
Anyway, I was shocked that they were, for all intents and purposes, OUT OF SILVER BULLION in this store!! And this is a fair sized shop that handles more than just coins too. Last visit, I'd venture to say they had thousands of ounces of silver. Today, less than I own. HA! I overheard her talking to another lady telling her that the other 5 or 6 people in there were silver buyers and in fact the guy next to me was talking to the other clerk and he said..."soon as he (meaning me) gets what he wants out of that box, I'd like to have a look (in there). Overall, he was bumbed too, I'd say, about the declining (before his very eyes) inventory, though I walked out with only 15 ounces in various rounds and that 100 gram ingot. First thing this morning, I'm RUNNING up to the real local coin shop 15 minutes up the road and buying more silver as I know he still has 'lots." Barring that, if I can't find it locally here in a modern metro area that has 3.3 million people and numerous coin shops, I'll place an order with Sunshine Silver as they probably have just as good of a price as the local guy tho with shipping, I doubt that. But at least they can fill just about any order..."we can get you what you want", she said. Anyway, I'll let you know what I find up there later on today.
www.sunshinesilver.com