Anything Gold or Silver!

Greetings Collectors,

I am set up to get e-mail "alerts" from a company I have done business with on numerous occasions. This company is "Apmex". That is short for American Precious Metals Exchange. I have mentioned them before here but I felt it worth mentioning again, as at 2:16 EST, Gold pushed through $1200. It has since settled back just a few moments ago to $1198.30. Silver is up nicely as well to $19.14. I am always searching the "web" for the very lowest premiums on both Gold & Silver and these guys are always the best each and every time I check. I don't make a dime on sending you their way, all I get out of it is knowing I have turned a fellow collector onto a good deal. If interested, check them out at Apmex.com.

I have bought nice graded coins from them as well as bullion products. The prices change in real time but if you are in the process of buying an item, your price stays "locked in" for 10 minutes while you complete the checkout process. They accept all forms of payment and give a 3% discount if you pay with anything besides a credit card. They also have different "time frames" when it comes to the shipping. To get the very best deal and to have them ship in 1-3 days, I use a money order. This also has advantages due to the fact you can use "cash" to get that "postal" or other money order.

The one "buy" that stands out to me and one that has to do with "quality" is when I bought a 1/10th oz. 2008 Platinum coin in an order with a couple of other items. This was just a plain ordinary bullion piece, one that I bought strictly as bullion, never intending on getting it graded. When I got it, it came in a "flip" but apon closer examination, it looked really good. So good that I decided to include it with a submission to NGC. I thought I may possibly get a "69" out of the deal, but fully expecting the coin to grade no more than 68. Well when my coins were returned from NGC, low and behold, this 2008 coin was a perfect "70". How does that sound for quality? I can honestly say that I have never been dissapointed with anything I have purchased from them. I do think you would like doing business with them all the way around. They have just about anything you want in the way of coins and bullion and not only U.S. coins but from just about every country in the world.

So to the point of this post, I am just bored and have been toying with my camera and reading past issues of CoinWorld, Coinage and the like and when I got this e-mail alert from Apmex, I just wanted to stress once again that Gold and Silver prices, while at their "highs", are still a great deal. I do not know how much you all keep up with the economic "happenings" of the world but they are events that will continue to fuel this "bull market" in the metals. China has already started buying more Gold on the open market in leau of buying our (the USA) Treasury Bills. India and many other large countries are doing the same. I have also read where there was a purchase France made from "Barclays" in London and when they went to take actual possession of the gold, Barclays had oversold the contract and did not have enough gold to give them. There have also been instances of governments and large companies taking possession of the metal and some of it (the metal) was only "gold plated" iron. This has caused everyone to hold suspect the "gold houses" in the possibility that the paper contracts they hold are not backed by the "yellow metal" but by gold plated iron. Then to top all this off, the very "so-called" rich middle eastern country of "Dubai" has defaulted on their debt to the "World Bank". All of these things and things we haven't heard about yet is causing panic worldwide. There will never be a better time to buy Gold and silver than "RIGHT NOW!".

I leave you with a photo of a couple of "cheap" ways to buy Gold and Silver. "Rounds" as they are called have one of the lowest premiums above the "spot price". There are also smaller denomination coins as the 1/2 ounce Australian coins pictured here. And of course, Gold, which in the coin pictured is an 1886-Melbourn Australian Sovereign. This gold coin can be bought for close to melt, and in this size, it represents almost 1/4 ounce of pure gold. I did not buy any of what you see pictured here from Apmex but they do have all "three" items and much much more.

I trust everyones week has started off well and I hope "Santa" brings all of you "piles" of Gold & Silver. I'm still having lots of fun with my coins. I hope you are as well.

Happy Collecting/Investing WKF