I might as well jump in with the purchases here in addition to my normal posts in the Metals forums since everyone seems to be jumping on the train here.
Went to one of my boy's shops today who normally doesn't have good priced stuff just to see if he got anything in lately (which hasn't been the case for the past couple weeks). I had just cleaned my other dealer out of the 90% he was willing to part with for me and I had another couple hundred bucks to blow before I leave for college tomorrow.
He always has silver out, but the prices are crazy. He had 1oz rounds and banged up morgans and peace dollars for $19.95 for like the last MONTH (one of the MANY dealers who refused to sell stuff he bought high for lower than what he paid). He only just lowered the prices yesterday down to $14.95 a pop on both of the trays, and he only sells them to regulars and only so many at a time so he isn't cleaned out.
I dove into the 1oz tray to see if I could dig anything up. I recently had to sell most of my silver cause I REALLY needed the cash, but am now buying all back (it worked out well as I sold at $17 an oz. and am now buying it back much cheaper
).
I ended up getting 1 - 1oz Sunshine bar, 1 - 1oz Prospector, his last Maple (unc shape), his last two normal eagles (decent shape), and his last 4 "painted" eagles (all 2000's and in GREAT shape).
I think I got a decent deal paying 14.95 for the maple and the eagles (even the painted dress ones - which when sold from the mint sold for a NICE premium but now aren't that hot ;P) and I grabbed one prospector and one sunshine because I didn't have either of them in my collection yet.
So the stash of silver is no where near fully recovered yet, but certainly on its way, and it looks A LOT nicer this time around, since last time it consisted like 99% of junk silver, and this time around I have a wide selection of 90% junk but also some nice .999/9 stuff.
~Dave
