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a sojourner March 2, 2011 at 6:09 am

Colloidal silver………..its a scam!!!Go to Pubmed [a database of medical abstracts] and type argyria:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrezYou get 376 hits!!!Why would you want a pre-victorian quasy medicine when you can either have medically prescribed antibiotics that work and are life saving in fact or if you don’t need those and maybe want a preventative you can take grapefruit seed extract or oil of oregano instead as these both have powerful antibiotic [and antiviral and antifungal] properties and are safe…..unlike silver. Take a probiotic alongside any antibiotic [including herbal] to replenish gut friendly organisms that will also be removed, and continue to take this for at least a week after cessation of the antibiotic treatment. Stay away from silver. It is potentially toxic. Check out some of those medical abstracts on that medical link above. Thanks.

DON W March 2, 2011 at 5:58 pm

In the United States, and probably pretty much everywhere else in the world, you can only get paper money or coins made out of non-valuable materials. There was a time in the United States when you could demand gold or silver ($1 bills used to say on them “Redeemable in Silver”), but that was many years ago. There were also gold coins which could be obtained at face value. Silver was only withdrawn from US coinage about 30 years ago.If you want precious metals, you need to go to a dealer and pay the going rate, which changes more or less daily. You can also purchase some gold and silver coins from the US Mint, but you’ll pay a stiff surcharge for them on top of the nominal stamped value of the coin.

thequeenreigns March 3, 2011 at 5:59 am

interesting. I wonder with all of his calls with regards to corruption, that slipped McBush’s mind

sugar_pie March 3, 2011 at 5:59 pm

he’s worth money take him to an antique shop they’ll know

curtisports2 March 4, 2011 at 6:31 am

The bank will tell you they’re worth ten dollars. Banks aren’t in the business of paying you coin collector prices for waht they consider to be regular, everyday money.You’d have to have a dealer look at them to determine the grade of each one. Values are based on grade (condition) If they are not high grade uncirculated, they ARE worth just $10.

betotron March 4, 2011 at 5:49 pm

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muncie birder March 5, 2011 at 6:03 am

You can buy gold as a stock with the ticker GLD. One share equals 1/10 ounce. For platinum it is PTM. You could buy a company that mines platinum. Impala Platinum is one. It is down about 50% from a year ago.

garybing March 5, 2011 at 6:34 pm

You wouldn’t want to do this as the price of sliver is far greater than face value. Find a coin broker in your area or put it up on ebay. You’ll find people who will pay far more than face value. I just bought some uncirculated Morgans for a little more than $20 a piece.

nena aka NENA March 6, 2011 at 5:48 am

for a big investment like that, nena would definitely use a financial advisor or a stock broker.

curtisports2 March 6, 2011 at 5:52 pm

You would have to be a fool to give out silver coins at face value. Banks are not in the fool business. However, they take in rolled coins that they do not check and sell those to other customers. And in those rolls you do occasionally find silver coins. I am not going to say they were put there by fools, but by the careless/unknowing. It’s not that hard if you’re in a hurry to ‘lose’ a dime in a pile of pennies while rolling change, and not that hard to not notice it as it easily slides into the roll.I have been going through rolls of pennies – maybe $250 worth in the last year. I have found perhaps fifteen dimes in those rolls. That’s a pretty low percentage, 15 out of 500, or 3% of the rolls with a dime. But three of them have been silver, one a Mercury head.And I decided to go through a few rolls of dimes and nickels, looking for the low mintage 2009s. The nickels were a bust, but in one roll of dimes, I found 5 – 2009, and altogether, 2 silver dimes, including a Mercury head. The five silver dimes, at current value, turns out to have been a $7.50 bonus for my work. Nothing great, but enough to keep it fun.I wouldn’t expect to find too many quarters. I think if I were to drive around town with two grand, buying 10 rolls or $100 worth at twenty banks, I would be lucky to get two or three. That’s $8 – $12 in silver, and not worth the gas.Oh yeah, the pennies. I probably made 50 cents profit on extra pennies, and I got close to a dollar’s worth in wheats out of those 25,000 pennies – about one wheat in every five rolls. But those were a bonus. I was pulling out the copper pre-1982 cents. Ended up with a bit over $100 in copper cents, about 70 pounds, which I can sell to bullion investors for $150. But I think copper is going still higher. It was just under 2 cents of copper in a penny when I started, and it’s up to 2.4 cents each. I don’t care to sort through them to look for any of the more recent penny varieties, but that’s something anyone can easily do. You can probably put together a complete run of cents from both P and D mints from 1959 right through today and get a few of the varieties as well, if you wanted to, just out of rolls from the bank. Even all of the S mint business strikes, the few there were. They wouldn’t all be new and shiny, but you won’t be paying all new and shiny prices, either.

Jack March 7, 2011 at 6:34 am

Of course you can; but why would you want to. Depending on the year and the condition of the coins they may be worth more than a dollar to a collector.INTERESTING FACT: The United States is the ONLY nation on earth NEVER to have recalled or repudiated ANY of its currrency. This means that all American money, no matter when it was made is still legal tender. To prove this point, ten years ago, a man went to a store to purchase some groceries and payed for them with a hundred-year old ten dollar gold piece. The store at first balked (why, I can’t imagine, I’d love it if someone gave me a gold piece for a loaf of bread), and the man took them to court. The court issued an order requiring the store to accept the currency, because it’s still valid.So don’t take the coins to a bank, if you want, spend them. They’re good.

alcan52 March 7, 2011 at 5:56 pm

Those silver certificates were not redeemable in silver. The Treasury reneged on converting paper for gold or silver on 8/15/1971. Paper is redeemable in paper only. Paper is worthless. For each $20 silver note you could only trade it for 1 $20 Federal Reserve Note. This is exactly why Ron Paul has introduced a bill in Congress to have competing currencies as we used to and to legalize in statute law the Constitution and allow gold and silver to be used as money. If you want real money then you must acquire it on your own and buy physical metals and store them yourself. This is exactly what I do. Had those certificates been converted 40 years ago then they would be worth alot today in physical metal. This is the reason why 3 US dimes in 1964 would buy you 1.25 gal of gas. Today those same 3 silver US 1964 dime will buy you the same 1.25 gal of gas. It only takes more paper to buy the gas. The dimes didn’t go up in value the paper went down in value requiring more of it to buy the same goods and services.Additional Response. Do you understand that you were not ripped off in any way. The notes you deposited were worth no more then the face value. They were not silver, could not be converted into silver at that time and cant be converted into silver today and therefore not worth any more then the $20 printed upon them. The bank did nothing wrong. FDIC insurance only covers your deposit in Federal Reserve Notes if the bank is taken over by the FDIC. The bank has to be declared insolvent in order for FDIC to kick in. The bank did nothing wrong and the deposit was not worth 1 penny more then face value. It was never worth any more then face value. Clearly you are not much wiser due to hindsight. Otherwise you would not be assuming that they were worth any more then face value. I suggest you read history, mainly Ron Paul’s book The Case For Gold. The book is from his first term in Congress. It was the congressional report he wrote while he sat on the Gold Commission. In it he explains all about the different bank notes and the history behind it. Your addition details response shows just how ignorant and uneducated you really are. Just because you dont like an answer given doent mean you have the right to attack those that attempted to give you a response. Grow up!!!

I. B. Zoxx March 8, 2011 at 6:36 am

Since none have been printed since 1963, it would be extremely unlikely to find one at a bank.

carl March 8, 2011 at 6:36 pm

……yes they are and even the small enterprises like pawnshops…..

Scott W March 9, 2011 at 6:30 am

I can’t see how that has happened. How would the gov’t know that the gold or silver was in the safe box, especially if you don’t tell them? I would think that in hard economic times, the gov’t would be more communist then they already are.