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- 0:00Today we're joined by coin Shop Chris and I'm going to ask him a
- 0:04question. I've never bought silver before
- 0:07in my life. I'm new to silver stacking and
- 0:10Chris is going to help guide me to avoid some pitfalls and some
- 0:15things that I should do when I go on this new journey of buying
- 0:19silver. Chris, welcome to Ron's
- 0:27Basement. Ron, week after week you have
- 0:30done amazing job is I always enjoy coming back on Yeah, well
- 0:35you know Chris, I don't own any silver or anything like that and
- 0:39I'm new to stacking or maybe even for the viewer who's
- 0:42joining us right now who has stacked silver or gold for that
- 0:46matter for decades, we might have some helpful tips for them.
- 0:51What's what's kind of the first thing you would tell someone
- 0:53who's new to silver stacking in terms of things they want to
- 0:57look out for as they as they start their journey?
- 1:01Well, you know, the first thing I, I really like to ask for,
- 1:04Ron, is where your mindset is. And what I mean by that, where
- 1:07your mindset is, is are you afraid of the dollar collapsing?
- 1:12Are you worried about the banks crashing down?
- 1:15Are you trying to get your money out of the bank?
- 1:17Where is, you know, you think the dollar is going to collapse
- 1:21completely, You know, then then we talk about, well, how much
- 1:25can you afford? How much do you want to buy
- 1:28today? Not buy, but transfer.
- 1:30Excuse me, I say that all the time.
- 1:33Or is this me a monthly thing? Is this me a quarterly thing?
- 1:38You know, trying to get people's mindset.
- 1:40So I mean let's let's just say. Your mindset is you think the
- 1:43dollar is going to collapse at some point.
- 1:46We don't know when I would recommend one ounce stuff.
- 1:49Wrong generic. Not know really generic or cheap
- 1:54coins from really overseas to like the Kangaroos.
- 2:00You know, I mean you know I would stay away from the Eagles
- 2:03with a new stacker at this at this time.
- 2:05I would tell them maybe 90 percent 40% server at this time.
- 2:10You want to gain as many ounces as you can for the cheapest
- 2:14price, and when you're and when and when you're starting out.
- 2:19Probably a good way to start is with with one ounce increments,
- 2:24whether that be bars or rounds or coins.
- 2:28But the key is, I think what I hear you saying is make sure
- 2:32that you're getting good quality silver from a reputable source.
- 2:37But maybe if you're just starting, don't run out and buy
- 2:40a 100 ounce bar or something like that.
- 2:43Well you know then you know you yeah repo sources like pinbacks
- 2:47you know you're you're but your sponsor.
- 2:49Yes. You know I don't have a promise
- 2:53somebody new coming and buying a one ounce, 100 ounce bar.
- 2:56It's just it's just how much you can afford.
- 2:59You know you don't want to get something on and have to turn
- 3:02around six months to a year and have to sell it right off the
- 3:05bat. It's really silver and goes a
- 3:07long time hold you. You know it's there if you need
- 3:12it and what are you going to get back from it.
- 3:15You don't want to. You really don't want to turn it
- 3:18back in the Fiat unless you don't have to.
- 3:21You you know it's it's really about your mindset.
- 3:23You know Again we all go back to that is what you want out of
- 3:28your silver. You know a lot of people.
- 3:30There's a lot of Youtubers out there.
- 3:32You, you know, and you talk about sometimes too, Ron, you
- 3:35know, silver's going to go to the moon.
- 3:37Gold's going to go to the moon. Yes, it could go to the moon.
- 3:41But you know, we we have to be cautious about that, you know,
- 3:45because we don't know if it's that's going to happen anytime
- 3:48soon. It might take five years, 10
- 3:49years might happen six months from now.
- 3:52It might happen tomorrow. But don't over get don't
- 3:56overspend what you can afford to spend at one time.
- 4:00Yeah, and if and if you're going to buy physical metal, going to
- 4:04buy the actual physical metal, don't buy it and expect that
- 4:08you're going to turn around and flip it three weeks or even 3
- 4:12months or maybe even three years later.
- 4:14Because the spread between what the any coin shop or or bullion
- 4:20dealer is going to buy it from you for and sell it to the
- 4:24public for will will, will will significantly eat into your
- 4:29profits. I mean I think if people are
- 4:32buying physical metal they almost, you know they almost
- 4:35have to buy it with a 5 or 10 year horizon or at least be
- 4:40comfortable with that. Sure, something could happen in
- 4:43the next three weeks or three months that that that makes the
- 4:46price of the metal skyrocket. But don't count on that.
- 4:49Make sure say what you're buying in your mind.
- 4:53You're comfortable saying, yeah, I'll hold on to this for five
- 4:55years or I'll hold on to this for 10 years or I'll hold on to
- 4:58it for the rest of me. I've bought silver for 20 years.
- 5:02I've never sold an ounce, right. I'm, I'm comfortable when I buy
- 5:06silver that I'm not going to be faced with the prospect of of
- 5:10needing to convert that, convert that back to Fiat at any time in
- 5:15the immediate future. Sure, in a case of emergency,
- 5:19you know, I know that I could do that, but I I think it's
- 5:23important for people to realize it's not a a get rich quick
- 5:28scheme. Absolutely not.
- 5:30And you know, and especially if you're a new stacker, you know,
- 5:34I I would really highly recommend not advice.
- 5:37I recommend this. Stay away from your graded
- 5:40coins, your semi numismatics and your numismatics was what I mean
- 5:44by that is like your Morgan. Dollars.
- 5:48You know you want, you know all your Australian Cougar Bears or
- 5:53the the crawlers. You know those have a carrier
- 5:56Prem. Your Silver Eagles carry a
- 5:57little bit of premium right? Right now.
- 5:58Still, you know really. One ounce Buffalo rounds.
- 6:02Those are the most recognizable rounds around the world.
- 6:07Around the world. One ounce Buffalo rounds.
- 6:10Pinbacks has them in stock last time I checked.
- 6:14I don't remember the price on top of my head, but just you
- 6:16know, we all gonna shop around and to see who has the best
- 6:19price. That might be your local coin
- 6:21shop. That might be an online dealer
- 6:24that might be going to E on eBay you know but stay with you know
- 6:28people have excellent feedbacks you know that Pinbacks pinbacks
- 6:33is a sponsor of the channel. What I have found this has been
- 6:37my experience and and I always recommend to people do your own
- 6:41work, do your own due diligence. But but for me what I found with
- 6:44Pembex, what I liked about Pembex was the quality and the
- 6:48price. So to me that presented a very
- 6:50good value proposition. When I compare their prices to
- 6:53other online bullying dealers, they're better or at minimum
- 6:59extremely competitive and I feel like I don't have to go
- 7:03searching all over the place and spending hours and hours and
- 7:06doing research on all these different companies that to me
- 7:09it's kind of like a one stop shop where I know I'm getting a
- 7:12really, really good value. If you're looking to buy gold,
- 7:15silver or platinum, do yourself a favor and check out Pim Bex,
- 7:20the online precious metals bullion dealer and sponsor of
- 7:24Ron's Basement. I was a happy customer before
- 7:27they offered to support the channel.
- 7:29You'll find they have the best prices, quality and service.
- 7:34I think Pim Bex is best, and you will too.
- 7:37And be sure to tell him that you're from Ron's basement and I
- 7:41want to circle back to something you mentioned earlier as well.
- 7:43That I think's important, especially for the new stackers
- 7:46out there. When Chris talks about
- 7:47numismatic coins, he's talking about collectible coins, coins
- 7:52that derive part of their value from the silver or gold content,
- 7:58but also derive maybe as much or even more of their value from
- 8:03their collectibility perspective.
- 8:05And the pitfall there is that if you're not an expert in that
- 8:09field, it's very difficult for the average person to get a
- 8:13really good value when buying numismatic coins.
- 8:16And unfortunately, what sometimes happens is that
- 8:20especially people new to stacking will be encouraged to
- 8:23get into new numismatics and and and they wind up unfortunately,
- 8:29sometimes vastly overpaying when really what they wanted to do
- 8:33was to get their hands on some silver and gold.
- 8:35And that's why the rounds or some of the sovereign coins with
- 8:39the lower premiums, or this one ounce silver bars, or five ounce
- 8:43silver bars, or 10 ounce silver bars, or gold for that matter,
- 8:47often represent what is the best option for someone who's first
- 8:52getting into purchasing precious metals.
- 8:57Absolutely, Ron, you you, you know, I mean, I've seen at the
- 9:02shop that I work at Ron and you know, people come in and the
- 9:06granddad died or the father died or the mother died who stacked.
- 9:11And I've seen many times, there's a lot, a lot of fake
- 9:15Morgan and peace dolls out there.
- 9:19If you're really going to, if that's something anybody wants
- 9:22to stack, you know, I got very few of those.
- 9:24I'll be honest, I don't stack those.
- 9:27That to me they're they're not worth the money, but some people
- 9:30love them. Go to a rapid old place, don't
- 9:34even buy those off of eBay. I don't care how good their
- 9:38feedback is, it's just too many fakes out there for those.
- 9:41Make sure you're either buying something like pinbacks or your
- 9:45local coin shopper on. I I can't stress that's the one
- 9:48coin I will never buy off of eBay.
- 9:51The is the 2 coins, the Morgans and the piece dollars.
- 9:56I mean, I just won't touch them off there.
- 9:58But you know, in another point on we got to cost average.
- 10:01So let's say somebody's new and they got a couple 1000 bucks.
- 10:05Well, they got 1000 bucks. Don't mean you're going to get
- 10:08it all at one time, you know, get some one week, get some the
- 10:12other week. Watch the price because the
- 10:13price moves. We know the price moves all the
- 10:15time. So if you can save yourself 6
- 10:18bucks on the back end by not being all at once, you know 6
- 10:22bucks it adds up quick. You, you know, I mean, I can't
- 10:28tell anybody how, how to spend their money or how much to get
- 10:31at one time. But now cost average is key.
- 10:36You know, buy a little bit, buy a little bit every month, every
- 10:40three months, every six months, every week, however you want to
- 10:44do it, but can be consistent and you'll be amazed over time how
- 10:49fast your your stack will grow. Now and I would like to make two
- 10:53more points about this, Ron, I, you know another point about
- 10:55cost averaging. If you're watching the silver
- 10:58market and it goes down one day, goes down the next day, down the
- 11:02next day, that is probably the time to start gaining a little
- 11:05bit more because you want to try to buy on the way down.
- 11:08Yeah. Could it go down more than that?
- 11:10Yes, but we don't know. It's going to go down more than
- 11:11that. Now if you start seeing a three
- 11:13day run, drop, drop, drop, drop, that's when I come.
- 11:18That's when my eyes start opening.
- 11:20I'm I'm starting looking a little bit hotter now and trying
- 11:22to get a little bit more you know because when it starts
- 11:26going up three or four days I kind of back off because we just
- 11:29don't know how much more it's going to go up.
- 11:31I mean you know you you can play it that way too but my what I
- 11:36what I look for is the three or four day dips in in a row run
- 11:40then I really start zoning in Okay.
- 11:43We're in a downfall, a little bit of a downfall, maybe a good
- 11:47time. And it's worked.
- 11:48It's worked for me. And there's a couple items
- 11:52everybody should have you, you know, and really they're all
- 11:57cheap items. There's one little bit expensive
- 11:59item I'm going to talk about. Then we will wrap this up
- 12:02around, you know, there's a pocket pinger, probably about 20
- 12:06bucks, you know, that would tell you if you're there's the Coin
- 12:10Ping app that will work well with that, that will tell you if
- 12:13your Morgan dollars real you. You know most of your world
- 12:16known coins. It will work with gold.
- 12:21A pocket scale line, You know, especially with a gram scale,
- 12:25they're like 1015 bucks on the Amazon.
- 12:29It's worth. It's worth that money you don't
- 12:30need. Nobody needs a Sigma unless
- 12:34you're really into stacking. You know, Sigma's cost good,
- 12:38good 1100 dollars, 1200 bucks, 1000 bucks for used one.
- 12:42You know this is something cheaper, Yes.
- 12:45And if you really start stacking.
- 12:47Get yourself a good fireproof safe.
- 12:49I can you know you know that is 1.
- 12:52The biggest thing I do recommend you know Amazon.
- 12:56You know I I hate you. You can go everywhere you want.
- 12:58But if if you if especially have an Amazon credit card Amazon
- 13:04normally has the deal. You can pay it off in 12 months
- 13:06with no interest. And I and I got a Tiger King
- 13:10safe. The made in China.
- 13:12It's a good, you know, it's not the best say from, but it's
- 13:14fireproof. It's that one one hour
- 13:16protection if you have a fire. They're about 49 bucks.
- 13:20That's the most. And if for the viewers in the
- 13:23United States, if you're going to collect the American junk,
- 13:26silver or coinage or gold coins, pick yourself up the US coin
- 13:32book. You know, you can get them off
- 13:34of Amazon, eBay, you know, some even online deals or sell those
- 13:39books. They're they're they're around
- 13:421215 bucks For the current issue.
- 13:45The 2024 is out. Don't mean you gotta get the
- 13:472024. I recommend going on eBay and
- 13:50gaining A backdated if you're new.
- 13:52The prices have not changed that much for the past three years,
- 13:56so save yourself a few bucks, put that few bucks towards an
- 14:00ounce of silver and and you'll be happy.
- 14:05Thank you, Chris. So yes, thank you Ron.
- 14:07Sorry, I didn't mean to go on a long rant, but no, you you
- 14:10provided a a multitude of information for I think
- 14:16beginning stackers, intermediate stackers, and probably even the
- 14:21advanced stacker may have learned a thing or two from you
- 14:23for the people that are new. And correct me if I'm wrong on
- 14:25this, Chris, you mentioned the Sigma machine that's a expensive
- 14:30and if you said about $1100, it's most coin shops have them.
- 14:34It's a little like scale type machine, but it actually can
- 14:39confirm for you that like a silver coin is silver or that a
- 14:43gold coin is gold. Is that is that correct?
- 14:46Well, it's not. It's really not a scale, it's
- 14:47just a verifier and I I really don't know how the thing really
- 14:51works wrong. But you know, it can read the
- 14:55content of the metal. But the coin shops also have
- 14:58what's called an XRF machine. Not all coin shops use them.
- 15:02These machines are very, very expensive.
- 15:04They're like 15 grand, 14 grand. Some, you know, some that I've
- 15:09heard some shop owners have paid up to almost 20 grand for these
- 15:12machines. They can analyze, they can.
- 15:15Analyze the metal content. And it'll tell you exactly what
- 15:20you know. It'll tell you exactly what
- 15:21metal it is in that coin bar, what does whatever, so they
- 15:27don't have to drill a hole in it and test us to see the real
- 15:31silver. You know, a lot of coin shops
- 15:34don't have me yet because they are expensive.
- 15:38You know, we're forceful enough to have two of them in our shop.
- 15:43But you, you know, so Chris, can I ask you a quick question about
- 15:46those machines? Absolutely.
- 15:48Because I heard of, I heard a rumor that sometimes you like to
- 15:51like stick your head on there and then press the button to see
- 15:54what it comes up. And I'm going to recommend that
- 15:56you don't do that anymore because we don't know what that,
- 15:58what kind of, you know, radiation or whatever.
- 16:01It's shooting into you. Well for first, first of all, I
- 16:04went it when it worked. My head's too damn big because I
- 16:06eat too many damn Ding dongs on. But.
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- 16:20Yeah, we do. We appreciate everybody being
- 16:22here and I'm thinking maybe Chris, next thing he's going to
- 16:24say to me as well maybe they maybe we need to do a ping test
- 16:27on my head, right? I'm not going to comment on that
- 16:31one. It's hollow.
- 16:33It's hollow in there. Well, you know, maybe I would
- 16:37text Susie and Steve if she wants to get your brain scan.
- 16:40So, yeah, they're here. Let me see.
- 16:42Yeah, I'm pinging. Yeah.
- 16:43It's definitely sounds, definitely sounds hollow.
- 16:47Chris, thank you so much. There's something really wrong
- 16:49up there or something right now you're.
- 16:52I'm not you don't have to tell me that brother.
- 16:54Have a good have a good rest of the day.
- 16:56On behalf of all the viewers, thank you.
- 16:58Coin Shop Chris you're very generous.
- 17:00If you want to support Coin Shop Chris, there's links in the
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- 17:10some support for Chris. Chris, we'll talk to you soon.
- 17:13Thank you. And I and I appreciate all the
- 17:15support and I thank you, Ron. Thank you very much.