Comments on: PNG Strikes 1-Ounce .999 Fine Silver Rounds

By: Joe Brown

Joe Brown — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 06:05:47 +0000

Thanks Seth, i knew i could count on you* for an answer. I’m sure you have some nice story’s in the world of coins over the many years you have been collecting. Wow, i have never seen anything “marked” 1000% or for that matter 100% pure silver. That’s a keeper* that set you have, the picture of crazy King Ludwig the 2nd must be pretty neat, i would say, God* only knows how many of that set you have, good score way back when i* must say. I’m not sure, but it was ether my dads or moms side of the family or both, someone would recite a poem about crazy King Ludwig, or just say crazy King Ludwig, when someone in our family did something “crazy” i’ll dream* on that one. I wonder if our mints their,y is, if it ant broke don’t fix it, even tho they are a light year or two behind, wasn’t that say’in* made in *America*? Thank God* for all the technology from around the world* one of the very good reasons we are *** The United States of America ***Thanks again coin dude man.*

By: Seth Riesling

Seth Riesling — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 04:19:44 +0000

Joe Brown –

When I lived in Germany 1976-1979 (as a teenager & coin collector) on our small NSA base south of Munich, we attended the world-famous original OktoberFest in Munich every year. The Bavarian state Mint (one of the 5 official Mints still in Germany to this day) struck for a local bank to sell at its kiosks on the grounds, 1-ounce cameo Proof silver medals with Bavarian scenes like the OktoberFest & King Ludwig II (the crazy King) etc. & they were marked 1000 fine silver – a first for a 100% pure silver medal or coin! I have never seen any other government Mint or private Mint strike 100% pure silver numismatic items. They were about $5 back then & in a nice leather case with COA. I still have the complete set & they must have sold a lot of them at the biggest annual event in Germany, but I don’t know the mintage figures. Most were probably sold by the owners & melted down just a few years later in 1980 when silver hit its all-time record price of about $50.35 per ounce (which is still the record price today). Germany had the technology way back then that no other Mint has today! Our U.S. Mint is so far behind others & uses mostly machinery & technology from Germany, Switzerland & The Netherlands companies.

Happy collecting Joe!

-NumisdudeTX

By: Joe Brown

Joe Brown — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 19:53:53 +0000

May be if they are a couple bucks $2.00 cheaper than the *ASE* basic coin with .999 silver content & free shipping like 1 company out there i know of. ? for any one who knows the answer. My ? is, i* don’t recall “hardly” any private *U*S* mints & our *U*S* mint, minting .9999 silver rounds, coins, medals. I sea* Canada & other world mints do. .9999 is more pure silver than .999 One more ?, has anyone ever gone to a coin buyer with one of each coin of .9999 &.999 silver & did they the same price for each coin, or did they offer a little more money for the .9999 ? Over the year i have purchased .9999 for less money than the .999, not always but it does happen a few many time. “”” over the years***** not year”””. Thanks*