Silver Bullion Investor vs Silver Collector

What type of investor are you? Are you only keen in buying the cheapest silver bullion bar you can get or your are keen in the latest Perth Mint’s Lunar dragon? Do you hunt for limited edition silver coin? -or do you glue yourself to silver price chart all day long like a hawk?

There are two types of physical silver investor. They are namely The Bullion Investor and The Collector. Today we will discuss the difference between them.

The Bullion Investor’s Behaviour

• Buy more of silver bars
• Interested only in the value of silver.
• Buy high silver content bullion. At least .999 finest and above.
• Buying and selling based on COMEX silver price.
• Design of the bar does not matter at all.
• Are usually less emotional on their silver portfolio.
• Understands candlestick terms like Kicker Pattern, Bullish Abandoned Baby and Dark Cloud Cover.
• Set cash out targets – Sell off when Silver at USD$X/oz.
• Would buy paper silver (futures, stocks or funds on silver).
• Tarnished silver bar means silver is genuine.
• Read investment and financial news.
• Say statements like, “I am seeing a bull! Buy when it breaks resistant at USD$X/oz! Charge!!!”.

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How to Clean Your Tarnished Silver Bullion Coin

I always recommend investing only in silver bullion in either coin or bar format with triple nine finest or better. Compare that to jewelry grade silver, the silver sterling at 92.5% finest, investment grade silver is a pain to maintain their shines. They tend to get tarnished easily.

Worry not! Today, we will bring sexy back to your tarnished silver!

^ Tarnished Canadian Timber Wolf, but still worth RM200 a pop!

Three ingredients that we will be using for our cooking lesson are as follow:

^ You can buy baking soda and aluminium foil cheaply at any hardware shop.

1. Baking Soda (Arm & Hammer – RM9.90 from Ace Hardware)
2. Aluminum Foil
3. Hot Water

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2012 Cougar Is Third in Canadian Wildlife Series

It’s an exciting month for September. With Perth Mint introducing the2012 Lunar Dragon, Royal Canadian Mint will be updating their Canadian Wildlife Series with Cougar.

With one of the finest available 0.9999 pure silver bullion coin in market, Cougar is the third of a six-coin series of silver bullion coins celebrating Canada’s Wildlife.

It is limited to a mintage of one million coins and three more issues are scheduled to follow (one dated 2012 and two others dated 2013).
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Perth Mint’s Line Up for 2012

Perth Mint’s 2012 line up. Among all, the lunar dragon for gold and silver is the most anticipated.

Buy 2012 Lunar Dragon Silver

One of the most anticipated silver bullion by Perth Mint will be releasing this coming 1st September. You would have guessed it right, the fifth animal in the 12-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac, the 2012 dragon lunar.

Of all animal in the Chinese zodiac, dragon has always been the favorite. It is also the best selling animal for Lunar Series 1.

In this post, we will be looking into information and facts on what you should know about the lunar series.

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