tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36546439342179177382024-03-13T20:03:41.157-07:00Ounces of SilverSilver One Ounce Coins and Rounds, Bullion and Numismatic.. All Types of Collectable Silver One Troy Ounce 999 or More at 31.1 gramsAMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.comBlogger287125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-26510291884055821902022-10-18T03:58:00.002-07:002022-10-18T03:58:14.596-07:00PURE SILVER VINTAGE GAMING TOKEN WORLD FAMOUS RIVER PICK $25<p>This is a "PIONEER RIVER PICK" PURE SILVER GAMING TOKEN issued in Lauchlin, Nevada. A VINTAGE SCARCE ISSUE pure silver bullion round with a $20 Casino face value.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd79Kjo_skz-g3XYy7hE2W_9HIgYl6YvEMw-FVmygh_jo74nbIL2cQGRdauUbeIvqe5AUyaihcE-WNb6olFdpm_v40ck-Sr45wiaL-WIUStG0bsKSKHKOJ1NpL7GnJLPq4x6fG_IhVWjo4Is7Jdwek6YOWOjSyfWOphwDPUm-TvVP0XJ871FGhL7ZG/s1600/pure-silver-gaming-token-bullion.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1558" data-original-width="1600" height="624" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd79Kjo_skz-g3XYy7hE2W_9HIgYl6YvEMw-FVmygh_jo74nbIL2cQGRdauUbeIvqe5AUyaihcE-WNb6olFdpm_v40ck-Sr45wiaL-WIUStG0bsKSKHKOJ1NpL7GnJLPq4x6fG_IhVWjo4Is7Jdwek6YOWOjSyfWOphwDPUm-TvVP0XJ871FGhL7ZG/w640-h624/pure-silver-gaming-token-bullion.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW3tPln1bkoQPGFdcOY1kmKSuf8m0PVLag3OXC8KmBdP8BDuR7NzSEaFU1_EUUaTXNSQAnrczZq9SZv-4Ohxqu-hyisEiUiybz8_U8XUYw9AKcvcmilZLeuF5SKEvq85VJeuViNgI6ZQ49MpD7QqAPTIWQheg6lulyQetjus2f6UcOpJlIDIbL9xQk/s1600/pure-silver-gaming-token-bullion-reverse.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1573" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW3tPln1bkoQPGFdcOY1kmKSuf8m0PVLag3OXC8KmBdP8BDuR7NzSEaFU1_EUUaTXNSQAnrczZq9SZv-4Ohxqu-hyisEiUiybz8_U8XUYw9AKcvcmilZLeuF5SKEvq85VJeuViNgI6ZQ49MpD7QqAPTIWQheg6lulyQetjus2f6UcOpJlIDIbL9xQk/w630-h640/pure-silver-gaming-token-bullion-reverse.jpg" width="630" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>AMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.com0Las Vegas, NV, USA36.171563 -115.13910097.8613291638211535 -150.29535090000002 64.481796836178845 -79.9828509tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-90761006121788605102016-06-14T02:17:00.001-07:002016-06-14T02:17:47.592-07:00Monty 2106 Saltwater Crocodile Carded Silver 1oz Coin RAM<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BxvppeAbLu0/V1_G6NRi62I/AAAAAAAASW8/jU1APrsJeMw4kOeBLsfBYZi7m0I4KHdXACLcB/s1600/2016-One-Dollar-Silver-Frosted-Uncirculated-Coin-Monty-Carded-Australian-Saltwater-Crocodile.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="466" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BxvppeAbLu0/V1_G6NRi62I/AAAAAAAASW8/jU1APrsJeMw4kOeBLsfBYZi7m0I4KHdXACLcB/s640/2016-One-Dollar-Silver-Frosted-Uncirculated-Coin-Monty-Carded-Australian-Saltwater-Crocodile.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The fourth crocodile to be featured in the annual Australian Saltwater Crocodiles series, a proud twelve-year collaboration with Australia Zoo. The Australia Zoo family has always seen another side to them with the Crocoseum providing the opportunity for visitors to discover their beautiful, graceful and playful qualities.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="2016-One-Dollar-Silver-Frosted-Uncirculated-Coin-Monty-Carded-Australian-Saltwater-Crocodile-close-up" class="aligncenter wp-image-2006 size-medium" src="http://australiasilver.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2016-One-Dollar-Silver-Frosted-Uncirculated-Coin-Monty-Carded-Australian-Saltwater-Crocodile-close-up-350x255.jpg" height="255" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0.4em auto 1.625em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px;" width="350" /></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Monty is one of Australia Zoo’s star crocodiles, who has been treated and raised with love since he was captured in 1975. He has been nurtured over the years, and grown to an amazing 3.7 metres and 400 kilograms. As well as being a star attraction to many Zoo visitors, he also starred alongside Steve and Terri Irwin in the 2002 film The Crocodile Hunter</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="2016-One-Dollar-Silver-Frosted-Uncirculated-Coin-Monty-Carded-Australian-Saltwater-Crocodile-reverse" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2005" src="http://australiasilver.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2016-One-Dollar-Silver-Frosted-Uncirculated-Coin-Monty-Carded-Australian-Saltwater-Crocodile-reverse-350x255.jpg" height="255" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0.4em auto 1.625em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px;" width="350" /></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">SPECIFICATIONS:</span></div><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-spacing: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #373737; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 584px;"><tbody style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 10px 6px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div align="center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Denomination</span></div></td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 10px 6px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div align="center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Metal</span></div></td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 10px 6px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div align="center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Diameter</span></div></td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 10px 6px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div align="center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Mass</span></div></td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 10px 6px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div align="center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Finish</span></div></td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 10px 6px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div align="center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Mintage</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 10px 6px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div align="center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">$1</span></div></td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 10px 6px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div align="center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">99.9% Ag</span></div></td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 10px 6px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div align="center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">40.00mm</span></div></td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 10px 6px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div align="center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">1oz</span></div></td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 10px 6px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div align="center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Frosted Uncirculated</span></div></td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 10px 6px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div align="center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">5000</span></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">You can purchase this <a href="https://eshop.ramint.gov.au/2016-1-Silver-Monty-Coin/310905.aspx" style="border: 0px; color: #8c8c8c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Monty 2106 Saltwater Crocodile Carded Silver 1oz Coin directly from the Royal Australian Mint</a></span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">#Silver #AustraliaSilver #RAM #RAMSILVER #SilverCoins #Coin #Proof #SilverBullion</span></div>AMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-53306702507971972282016-02-29T13:46:00.001-08:002016-02-29T13:46:20.429-08:00Perth Mint 10 Kg 2016 Lunar Monkey Silver Coin<div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Perth Mint announced that it will soon be selling its 2016 Year of the Monkey 10 Kilo Silver Coin on a mint-to-order basis.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Perth-Mint-To-Release-10-Kg-Lunar-Monkey-Silver-Coin-australia-silver" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1983" src="http://australiasilver.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Perth-Mint-To-Release-10-Kg-Lunar-Monkey-Silver-Coin-australia-silver-350x224.jpg" height="224" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0.4em auto 1.625em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px;" width="350" /></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Mint’s Web site notes that this item has a maximum mintage of 150 pieces.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="2016-Perth-Mint-10-Kg-Lunar-Monkey-Silver-Coin" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1982" src="http://australiasilver.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2016-Perth-Mint-10-Kg-Lunar-Monkey-Silver-Coin-350x350.jpg" height="350" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0.4em auto 1.625em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px;" width="350" /></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="2016-Perth-Mint-10-Kg-Lunar-Monkey-Silver-Coin-reverse" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1981" src="http://australiasilver.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2016-Perth-Mint-10-Kg-Lunar-Monkey-Silver-Coin-reverse-350x350.jpg" height="350" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0.4em auto 1.625em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px;" width="350" /><span style="background-color: white;">The reverse image depicts two monkeys sitting in a peach tree; peaches are a traditional symbol of longevity and immortality. Inscribed near the rim of the coin are the Chinese character for ‘monkey’ and YEAR OF THE MONKEY, along with the Perth Mint’s ‘P’ mintmark.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The obverse features Ian Rank-Broadley’s portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, with the inscriptions ELIZABETH II, AUSTRALIA, 10 KG 999 SILVER, 2016, and the denomination of 300 DOLLARS.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Year of the Monkey alludes to 2016’s place in a twelve-year lunar cycle according to Chinese astrology. The Year of the Monkey pertains to those whose year of birth includes 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, and, of course, 2016. People born in the Year of the Monkey are said to be intelligent, optimistic, and ambitious, according to a Mint press release.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The 2016 Year of the Monkey 10 Kilo Silver Coin will be available from the Perth Mint’s authorized bullion distributors – <a href="http://www.perthmintbullion.com/au/default.aspx" style="border: 0px; color: #8c8c8c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">To purchase this coin visit the Perth Mint Bullion Program</a></span></div>AMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-43283461747082881512015-12-01T02:54:00.001-08:002015-12-01T02:54:38.329-08:00Sales of American Eagle Silver Bullion Coin Break 2014 Record<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.0223px; line-height: 18.0323px; margin-bottom: 15px; max-height: 1e+06px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.0223px; line-height: 18.0323px; margin-bottom: 15px; max-height: 1e+06px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Sales of American Eagle silver bullion coins by the U.S. Mint on Nov. 30 helped the bureau establish a new record, with two and a half weeks worth of sales remaining to add to the count.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.0223px; line-height: 18.0323px; margin-bottom: 15px; max-height: 1e+06px;"><span style="background-color: white;">The sale Nov. 30 of 737,000 coins out of 920,500 allocated to authorized purchasers for the week beginning Nov. 30 raised cumulative 2015 sales totals to 44,666,500, or 660,500 coins beyond the record 44,006,000 set for calendar year 2014.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.0223px; line-height: 18.0323px; margin-bottom: 15px; max-height: 1e+06px;"><span style="background-color: white;">The authorized purchasers' Nov. 30 sales left 183,500 coins to fill orders for the remainder of the week ending Dec. 4.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.0223px; line-height: 18.0323px; margin-bottom: 15px; max-height: 1e+06px;"><span style="background-color: white;">U.S. Mint officials notified authorized purchasers Nov. 24 that the West Point Mint would continue to strike 2015 American Eagle 1-ounce .999 fine silver bullion coins through Dec. 7, with Dec. 14 likely being the last allocation date.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.0223px; line-height: 18.0323px; margin-bottom: 15px; max-height: 1e+06px;"><span style="background-color: white;">The U.S. Mint expects to begin taking orders for 2016 American Eagle silver bullion coins beginning Jan. 11.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.0223px; line-height: 18.0323px; margin-bottom: 15px; max-height: 1e+06px;"><span style="background-color: white;">January is the highest sales month for calendar-year 2015, with 5.53 million coins sold, followed by July with 5,529,000 coins. Additional monthly sales totals likely could have surpassed those two highs had sales not been under weekly restrictions because of the Mint's difficulty in acquiring sufficient planchets on which to strike the bullion coins.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.0223px; line-height: 18.0323px; margin-bottom: 15px; max-height: 1e+06px;"><span style="background-color: white;">The American Eagle silver bullion coins are not sold directly to the public. Instead, the coins are sold to a network of authorized purchasers who offer a two-way market for the coins. Orders are placed based on the closing London PM spot price per troy ounce plus a $2 premium per coin. The coins are then sold at a mark-up to other dealers, collectors and investors.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.0223px; line-height: 18.0323px; margin-bottom: 15px; max-height: 1e+06px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Sales of the American Eagle silver bullion coins to the authorized purchasers have been on weekly allocation for most of 2015 because of planchet shortages.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.0223px; line-height: 18.0323px; margin-bottom: 15px; max-height: 1e+06px;"><a href="http://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/2015/11/Silver-American-Eagle-bullion-coin-sales-break-record.html#" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">View Source</a></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.0223px; line-height: 18.0323px; margin-bottom: 15px; max-height: 1e+06px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Tags: American Eagle Silver, ase silver, silver coins, galeforcesales, galeforcesales silver, silver news, silver coin news, silver bullion, silver bullion news</span></div>AMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-26849022835420295072015-10-24T23:26:00.001-07:002015-10-24T23:26:53.252-07:001996 SILVER 999 1oz KANGAROO GOLD TONED<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fIERVwOwc2E/Vixukg01J6I/AAAAAAAANms/gZTL29Ekp7M/s1600/DSC01007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="358" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fIERVwOwc2E/Vixukg01J6I/AAAAAAAANms/gZTL29Ekp7M/s640/DSC01007.JPG" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="text-align: start;" /></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">Reverse of coin is completely tone free being original lustrous silver</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></span><span style="text-align: start;"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">1996 SILVER 999 1oz KANGAROO GOLD TONED </span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">1996 1oz Silver 999 Kangaroo Carded Bullion Coin from the Royal Australian Mint</span></span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;"><br style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /></span><span style="text-align: start;"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">This coin is completely golden toned on the obverse .. see image.</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;"><br style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /></span><span style="text-align: start;"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">Coin itself looks to be beautiful uncirculated, </span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;"><br style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /></span><span style="text-align: start;"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">Toning is 100% natural and has happened due to it not being in its original plastic sleeve in storage</span></span>AMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-92215741464134626052015-09-03T18:56:00.001-07:002015-09-03T18:56:39.056-07:002016 Australia Lunar Monkey Silver Bullion Coin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s7ASLTZ1Yfo/Vej3M-HkUtI/AAAAAAAANdY/st81mqxvJqw/s1600/2016-Perth-Mint-Silver-Lunar-Year-of-the-Monkey-Coin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="396" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s7ASLTZ1Yfo/Vej3M-HkUtI/AAAAAAAANdY/st81mqxvJqw/s400/2016-Perth-Mint-Silver-Lunar-Year-of-the-Monkey-Coin.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">This Silver coin celebrates the ninth animal in the 12-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac. In Chinese culture, those who are born under the influence of this sign are said to be intelligent, quick-witted, optimistic, ambitious and adventurous.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The 2016 Silver Lunar Year of the Monkey coin features an adult monkey sitting on a branch of a peach tree, which is symbolic of lovevity and immortality.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Australian Lunar Monkey silver coin is available in the following weights:</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">1/2oz, 1oz, 2oz, 5oz, 10oz and 1kg</span></div><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_1939" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin: 0.4em auto 1.625em; max-width: 96%; outline: 0px; padding: 9px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 746px;"><img alt="2016 Silver Lunar Monkey available in 1/2oz, 1oz, 2oz, 5oz, 10oz and 1kg" class="wp-image-1939 size-full" src="http://australiasilver.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2016-Perth-Mint-Silver-Lunar-Year-of-the-Monkey-Coin-bullion-offerings.jpg" height="311" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); display: block; height: auto; margin: -2px 0px 0px -2px; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px; width: auto;" width="736" /><br /><br />
<div class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 5px 40px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">2016 Silver Lunar Monkey available in 1/2oz, 1oz, 2oz, 5oz, 10oz and 1kg</span></div></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Chinese character for ‘Monkey’ and the inscription ‘Year of the Monkey’ also appears in the design with The Perth Mint’s ‘P’ mintmark..</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The coin’s obverse depicts Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the year-date, weight, fineness and the monetary denomination.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">About the Design:</strong></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">A pattern of lines forming a circle immediately inside the rim, surrounding a representation of an adult monkey and a young monkey holding a peach, sitting on a branch with leafy foliage and a peach to the side.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The coin includes the following inscriptions ‘Year of the Monkey’, the Pinyin pictograph pronounce ‘hóu’ and meaning monkey and the initials of the designer Ing Ing Jong ‘IJ’.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Keywords:</strong></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">monkey, silver monkey, lunar monkey, perth mint monkey, bullion monkey, silver australia silver, silver coins, silver bullion</span></div>AMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-51286651662354980212015-07-18T07:05:00.001-07:002015-07-18T07:05:16.739-07:00New Engelhard Australia Silver Bullion Bars<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pFYhNW3XT3U/VapZ0Zvh47I/AAAAAAAAM5E/5-FyC0skq4s/s1600/5oz-silver-bar-engelhard-australia-new-2015-box.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pFYhNW3XT3U/VapZ0Zvh47I/AAAAAAAAM5E/5-FyC0skq4s/s400/5oz-silver-bar-engelhard-australia-new-2015-box.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Engelhard Australia is back! This historic brand is once again producing investment bullion bars. Engelhard silver bars are attractively cast with the modern Engelhard Australia logo on the front, and the weight and fineness on the back.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e1uY_YJp-Jc/VapZ1NcopNI/AAAAAAAAM5Q/9tVz0vFA7VM/s1600/5oz-silver-bar-engelhard-australia-new-2015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e1uY_YJp-Jc/VapZ1NcopNI/AAAAAAAAM5Q/9tVz0vFA7VM/s400/5oz-silver-bar-engelhard-australia-new-2015.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8YYZ-bsaPW0/VapZ1ooHjyI/AAAAAAAAM5U/hv9EYETLZds/s1600/australia-silver-engelhard-5oz-back.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8YYZ-bsaPW0/VapZ1ooHjyI/AAAAAAAAM5U/hv9EYETLZds/s400/australia-silver-engelhard-5oz-back.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Every bar is Every bar is serialised and individually boxed in a protective cardboard shipper for protection.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">These bars are available in 5oz & 10oz</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://australiasilver.com/bars/engelhard-silver/" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #8c8c8c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">See more about Engelhard Australia Silver Bars</a></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">New Engelhard, engelhard Australia, australia Silver, silver Bullion, bullion Bars</span></div>AMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-43225588226457801102015-07-13T18:33:00.001-07:002015-07-13T18:33:44.943-07:00Perth Mint Gold and Silver Bullion Sales Jump in June<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VmcNDb8Zb4w/VaRTJ4KRA5I/AAAAAAAAM3g/Sb83nppAh9A/s1600/Perth-Mint-Gold-and-Silver-Bullion-Sales-Jump-in-June.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VmcNDb8Zb4w/VaRTJ4KRA5I/AAAAAAAAM3g/Sb83nppAh9A/s640/Perth-Mint-Gold-and-Silver-Bullion-Sales-Jump-in-June.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Demand for Australian bullion coins surged in June, the latest Perth Mint figures show. Gold sales scored their highest level since March and silver sales moved the quickest since April. Bullion sales did retreat from a year earlier, however.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Perth Mint sales of gold coins and gold bars advanced 31,019 ounces last month, rallying 43.1% from the 21,671 ounces sold in May but down 21.3% from the 39,405 ounces delivered in June 2014. Gold sales through the first half of the year tally to 168,650 ounces, off 30% from last year’s starting six-month total of 240,991 ounces.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Perth Mint silver coins at 384,586 ounces in June jumped 13.9% from the prior month’s 337,511 ounces yet slipped 34.4% from sales of 586,358 ounces in June of last year. For the first half of 2015, silver sales combine to 2,810,994 ounces for a drop of 18% from the same six-month start in 2014 when sales reached 3,428,336 ounces.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><u>Perth Mint Gold and Silver Sales by Month</u></b><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Below is a monthly breakdown of Perth Mint bullion sales from June 2014 to June 2015.</span></span><br /><br />
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<tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><th colspan="3" height="20" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="312"><span style="background-color: white;">Perth Mint Bullion Sales (in troy ounces)</span></th></tr>
<tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Silver</strong></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gold</strong></td></tr>
<tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">June 2015</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">384,586</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">31,019</span></td></tr>
<tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">May 2015</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">337,511</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">21,671</span></td></tr>
<tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">April 2015</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">472,273</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">26,545</span></td></tr>
<tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">March 2015</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">638,557</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">34,260</span></td></tr>
<tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">February 2015</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">392,114</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">31,981</span></td></tr>
<tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">January 2015</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">585,953</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">23,174</span></td></tr>
<tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">December 2014</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">477,731</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">40,211</span></td></tr>
<tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">November 2014</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">851,836</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">49,904</span></td></tr>
<tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">October 2014</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">655,881</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">55,350</span></td></tr>
<tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">September 2014</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">756,839</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">68,781</span></td></tr>
<tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">August 2014</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">818,856</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">36,369</span></td></tr>
<tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">July 2014</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">577,988</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">25,103</span></td></tr>
<tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">June 2014</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">586,358</span></td><td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">39,405</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.9939994812012px; margin-bottom: 1.571em; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>United States Mint Bullion Sales in June</b><br /><br /><a href="http://www.coinnews.net/2015/07/01/us-mint-bullion-sales-soar-in-june-mixed-in-first-half-of-2015/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">U.S. Mint bullion sales in June</a> soared over the prior month and the year ago levels. The agency’s core American Gold Eagles at 76,000 ounces leapt 253.5% higher than May sales and jumped 56.7% higher than sales in June 2014. Its flagship American Silver Eagles at 4,840,000 ounces in June surged 139.2% from the prior month and rallied 79.8% from a year ago.</span></div>AMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-66256921535173055882015-07-11T19:43:00.001-07:002015-07-11T19:43:13.105-07:002015 Guy Harvey The Old Man and the Sea 10 oz 999 silver bar<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">Introducing the 2015 Guy Harvey "The Old Man and the Sea" 10 oz silver bar.</span></div><div style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZS9mYQLBcfQ/VaHAlqMN7XI/AAAAAAAAM2A/0wUeMi4QWlU/s1600/2015-Guy-Harvey-The-Old-Man-and-the-Sea-10-oz-999-silver-bar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #898989; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="282" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZS9mYQLBcfQ/VaHAlqMN7XI/AAAAAAAAM2A/0wUeMi4QWlU/s400/2015-Guy-Harvey-The-Old-Man-and-the-Sea-10-oz-999-silver-bar.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Famed marine artist and photographer Guy Harvey© has brought his artwork to a new medium - silver! Harvey was working on his PhD in marine biology when his one-man exhibition of sketches based on "The Old Man and the Sea" propelled him to international attention in 1985.</span><br /><br />
<div style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--Hvk7XcCj4Y/VaHBMNbdMUI/AAAAAAAAM2I/MYKjVF_reB0/s1600/2015-Guy-Harvey-The-Old-Man-and-the-Sea-10-oz-999-silver-bar-colour.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #898989; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--Hvk7XcCj4Y/VaHBMNbdMUI/AAAAAAAAM2I/MYKjVF_reB0/s400/2015-Guy-Harvey-The-Old-Man-and-the-Sea-10-oz-999-silver-bar-colour.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="325" /></a></div><div style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><br />Captivated by Hemingway's timeless story, the Jamaican native returns to the subject with this scene of the old man Santiago battling the blue marlin. The front of this .999 fine silver bar depicts Santiago standing in his rowboat as the majestic blue marlin catapults into the air near him. The back features another Guy Harvey© design, of an antique Spanish map of Florida.<br /><br />Both sides contain the Guy Harvey© logo, while the front includes the title "The Old Man and The Sea" and the weight and purity of 10 oz .999 fine silver.</span><br /><br />
<div><span style="background-color: white;"><br />This is a silver bar like no other, authorized by Guy Harvey© himself. Bring home this treasure for yourself, a Hemingway fan, or a lover of marine artwork. The Guy Harvey© "The Old Man and The Sea" 10 oz silver bar is sure to stand out!</span></div></div>AMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-58505343601485880652015-07-11T17:58:00.001-07:002015-07-11T17:58:58.996-07:00As Silver Prices Fall, U.S. Mint’s Silver Bullion Coins Sell Out<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3MBr0jtmPzk/VaG4t4KgdgI/AAAAAAAAM1o/JAB8U-RVJjU/s1600/As-Silver-Prices-Fall-US-Mints-Silver-Bullion-Coins-Sell-Out.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="411" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3MBr0jtmPzk/VaG4t4KgdgI/AAAAAAAAM1o/JAB8U-RVJjU/s640/As-Silver-Prices-Fall-US-Mints-Silver-Bullion-Coins-Sell-Out.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Investors still like silver—so much so that the U.S. Mint sold out of its American Eagle Silver Bullion Coins.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The Mint announced the temporary sellout on Tuesday. It said that the U.S. Mint facility at West Point, N.Y., continues to produce the coins and resumption of sales is expected in about two weeks.</span></span><br /><br />
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XN9pu_MJEEY/VaG486I2CYI/AAAAAAAAM1w/oJSN0ZFVj_Y/s1600/As-Silver-Prices-Fall-US-Mints-Silver-Bullion-Coins-Sell-Out-silver-price-index.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="446" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XN9pu_MJEEY/VaG486I2CYI/AAAAAAAAM1w/oJSN0ZFVj_Y/s640/As-Silver-Prices-Fall-US-Mints-Silver-Bullion-Coins-Sell-Out-silver-price-index.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />The shortages comes at a time when silver futures prices <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/future/siu5?mod=MW_story_quote" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">SIU5, +1.49%</a> are falling.<a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gold-slips-as-investors-await-physical-demand-2015-07-07" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">On Tuesday</a>, they sank 5% to $14.969 an ounce, the lowest settlement for a most-active contract since 2009. They recovered a bit <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gold-futures-see-a-glimmer-of-life-2015-07-08" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">on Wednesday</a>, though year to date prices have lost more than 3%.<br /><br />“Silver demand has really come back in the last two weeks, on the break below $16 per ounce,” Adrian Ash, head of research at BullionVault, told MarketWatch.<br /><br />BullionVault’s Silver Investor Index released Tuesday rose to 56.7 in June from below 50 in May, as the number of private investors buying silver climbed to its highest level in 9 months, while the number of sellers fell to its lowest level in 3 years. The index shows the balance of net buyers over net sellers.<br /><br />In a note Wednesday, Capital Economics’s Julian Jessop, pointed out that silver has been a “notable casualty of the selloff in commodity markets in the last few days.”<br /><br />That usually happens when prices of other metals, especially gold but also industrials, are falling, he said. But “assuming metals in general recovery over the remainder of the year, as we expect, silver could now be set to shine.”</span></div>AMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-14093824037378040602015-06-29T02:00:00.001-07:002015-06-29T02:00:19.525-07:00Silver Prices About to Hit $50.00 Per Ounce?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6cx8Eqh6mnk/VZEGDTPbnHI/AAAAAAAAMqA/k61PbYrW8hk/s1600/Silver-Prices-About-to-Hit-50-dollars-per-ounce-silver-news.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="426" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6cx8Eqh6mnk/VZEGDTPbnHI/AAAAAAAAMqA/k61PbYrW8hk/s640/Silver-Prices-About-to-Hit-50-dollars-per-ounce-silver-news.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Silver is one of the most under appreciated commodities around. Back in 2011, an ounce of gold was worth 32 ounces of silver. Today, that same ounce of gold translates to 74 ounces of the grey metal. Does that mean gold has gotten more valuable or that silver has gotten cheaper? </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Since its peak a few years ago, silver prices have dropped nearly 70%. </span><a href="http://www.profitconfidential.com/gold/gold-price-forecast-for-2015/" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Gold prices</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> have also fallen by an astonishing 35% during the same period, which convinces me that investors got overly pessimistic about silver during the pullback. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">So, what should the true price of silver be? </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">In order to properly value silver, we need the silver-to-gold ratio. Historically, silver shadows the movement of gold prices. When gold drops, silver prices are close behind. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Over the last 40 years, the conversion averages out to 42.8 ounces of silver for one ounce of gold. But the relationship fluctuates and sometimes one of the metals will become significantly undervalued.</span></span><br /><br />
<h1 class="article_title entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-evGoSnW8PFY/VZEFWwbhQ7I/AAAAAAAAMp4/fjlQ_MZHBzc/s1600/Silver-Prices-About-to-Hit-50-dollars-per-ounce.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="284" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-evGoSnW8PFY/VZEFWwbhQ7I/AAAAAAAAMp4/fjlQ_MZHBzc/s640/Silver-Prices-About-to-Hit-50-dollars-per-ounce.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></h1><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">When the ratio drifts too far from the historical average, it usually foreshadows a big run. This has happened three times in the last 20 years; in 1995, 2003, and 2011. The respective gains for silver prices were 70%, 200%, and 420%. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">If we assume the same gold price and use the 2011 conversion rate, silver should be around $36.60. Right now, the price of silver is hovering around $15.90, with a conversion rate of 74.0. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">That being said, how can silver possibly go to $50.00? </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Well, despite its apparent cheapness, silver is simply not as abundant a metal as investors seem to think. When you compare the actual deposits of silver and gold in the earth, the natural multiple is 17.0. Ideally, the physical relationship between silver and gold deposits should dictate the price relationship. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">In order for silver to hit $50.00, the ratio would have to drop to 23.0, assuming that gold stays at its current price of $1,170. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">However, if the stock market bubble finally bursts, investors may flee to gold and silver as a safe haven. Under those circumstances, silver could rise to $50.00 much quicker. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Follow the Smart Money </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I’m not the first person to notice this amazing buying opportunity. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">In the first quarter of 2015, billionaire investor Ray Dalio loaded up on more shares of Silver Wheaton Corp. (NYSE/SLW). The hedge fund manager now owns 510,000 shares valued at roughly $9.0 million. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">If you want to cash in on a huge silver run, but are hesitant to own silver directly, Silver Wheaton may be a wise choice. The company finances smaller mining firms and pays for any silver they find, thus limiting the downside risks associated with managing a mine. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The stock is down almost 34% over the last year because of depressed commodity prices, but Ray Dalio and I both think that will change. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Low interest rates from the Federal Reserve have been propping up the stock market, but a rate hike later this year is virtually guaranteed. And when the market loses support from the Fed, a flight to safety will mean huge gains for silver.</span></span>AMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-2992184835322121982015-06-22T04:32:00.003-07:002015-06-22T04:32:12.567-07:00Marco Polo 2oz Silver Coin - Journeys Of Discovery<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--cznmkEc3C0/VYft6JUSdBI/AAAAAAAAMm4/CIedGTNI7Ec/s1600/Journeys-Of-Discovery-Marco-Polo-silver-2oz-coin-nz-mint-numismatics.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--cznmkEc3C0/VYft6JUSdBI/AAAAAAAAMm4/CIedGTNI7Ec/s640/Journeys-Of-Discovery-Marco-Polo-silver-2oz-coin-nz-mint-numismatics.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.60000038146973px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Marco Polo 2oz Silver Coin - Journeys Of Discovery</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The Marco Polo 2 oz Silver Coin marks the first release in our new Journeys of Discovery Coin Collection, which celebrates exploration and discovery of the unknown. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This proof quality, fully engraved and high-relief coin captures the moment of Marco Polo meeting the great Kublai Khan. The scene is set in a stronghold of the powerful Mongol Empire which Polo marvelled so much at discovering. The packaging of a protective draw string sack has been designed to model the transport materials to trade around the globe at that time.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">With a limited mintage of only 2,000 coins worldwide, this would make a special gift for coin collectors and inspire intrepid travellers on their own Journeys of Discovery.</span></span><br /><br />
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UmYYYIAbGkw/VYfuMQINQtI/AAAAAAAAMnE/A3O3cAvIOTE/s1600/Journeys-Of-Discovery-Marco-Polo-silver-2oz-coin-nz-mint-numismatics-packaging.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UmYYYIAbGkw/VYfuMQINQtI/AAAAAAAAMnE/A3O3cAvIOTE/s640/Journeys-Of-Discovery-Marco-Polo-silver-2oz-coin-nz-mint-numismatics-packaging.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3J-dQ77pO4U/VYfuMCVEMXI/AAAAAAAAMnA/vwFhMcIAHxA/s1600/Journeys-Of-Discovery-Marco-Polo-silver-2oz-coin-nz-mint-numismatics-reverse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3J-dQ77pO4U/VYfuMCVEMXI/AAAAAAAAMnA/vwFhMcIAHxA/s640/Journeys-Of-Discovery-Marco-Polo-silver-2oz-coin-nz-mint-numismatics-reverse.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><br />*Please note that the image shown on the website is artwork and may differ slightly from the final product.</span><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Marco Polo:</b><br /><br />Marco Polo (1254 - 1324) was an Italian merchant traveller from Venice, who recorded his travels in Livres des Merveilles du Monde (Book of the Marvels of the World, also known as The Travels of Marco Polo). This account did much to introduce Europe to Central Asia and Chinese culture.<br /><br />Marco Polo learned the mercantile trade from his father and uncle, who travelled through Asia and met Kublai Khan. In 1271, the three embarked on a journey which would lead to 17 years spent in China. From his travels, Polo amassed great knowledge of the Mongol Empire. He marvelled at the use of paper money, and was in awe of its economy and scale of production.<br /><br />Soon after returning to Venice in 1295, war broke out with the rival city of Genoa. While in command of a ship, Polo was captured and imprisoned. It was during this period of time that he dictated stories of his travels to a cellmate. In 1299 he was released, and went on to become a wealthy merchant. While his writings were published in French, Italian, and Latin, few readers allowed themselves to believe his tales of strange lands far away.<br /><br />Although he was not the first European to reach China, Marco Polo’s detailed account of his experiences was ground breaking for its time. These writings went on to inspire Christopher Columbus and many other travellers. In the centuries since his death Marco Polo has received recognition that was not given during his lifetime, as much of his journey of discovery has been verified.<br /><br />TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS</span><ul><li><span style="background-color: white;">Coin Metal: 999 Fine Silver</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Coin Weight: 2 oz</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Coin Finish: Proof</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Coin Diameter: 40mm (Nominal)</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Coin Edge: Milled</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Coin Denomination: $5</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Year of Issue: 2015</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Coin Mintage: 2,000</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Effigy : Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Country of Issue : Niue</span></li>
</ul><div><span style="background-color: white;">Purchase at the <a href="http://www.nzmint.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">NZ Mint</a></span></div></div></div>AMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-31443666515087659462015-06-22T04:32:00.001-07:002015-06-22T04:32:11.828-07:00Marco Polo 2oz Silver Coin - Journeys Of Discovery<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--cznmkEc3C0/VYft6JUSdBI/AAAAAAAAMm4/CIedGTNI7Ec/s1600/Journeys-Of-Discovery-Marco-Polo-silver-2oz-coin-nz-mint-numismatics.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--cznmkEc3C0/VYft6JUSdBI/AAAAAAAAMm4/CIedGTNI7Ec/s640/Journeys-Of-Discovery-Marco-Polo-silver-2oz-coin-nz-mint-numismatics.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.60000038146973px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Marco Polo 2oz Silver Coin - Journeys Of Discovery</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The Marco Polo 2 oz Silver Coin marks the first release in our new Journeys of Discovery Coin Collection, which celebrates exploration and discovery of the unknown. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This proof quality, fully engraved and high-relief coin captures the moment of Marco Polo meeting the great Kublai Khan. The scene is set in a stronghold of the powerful Mongol Empire which Polo marvelled so much at discovering. The packaging of a protective draw string sack has been designed to model the transport materials to trade around the globe at that time.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">With a limited mintage of only 2,000 coins worldwide, this would make a special gift for coin collectors and inspire intrepid travellers on their own Journeys of Discovery.</span></span><br /><br />
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UmYYYIAbGkw/VYfuMQINQtI/AAAAAAAAMnE/A3O3cAvIOTE/s1600/Journeys-Of-Discovery-Marco-Polo-silver-2oz-coin-nz-mint-numismatics-packaging.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UmYYYIAbGkw/VYfuMQINQtI/AAAAAAAAMnE/A3O3cAvIOTE/s640/Journeys-Of-Discovery-Marco-Polo-silver-2oz-coin-nz-mint-numismatics-packaging.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3J-dQ77pO4U/VYfuMCVEMXI/AAAAAAAAMnA/vwFhMcIAHxA/s1600/Journeys-Of-Discovery-Marco-Polo-silver-2oz-coin-nz-mint-numismatics-reverse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3J-dQ77pO4U/VYfuMCVEMXI/AAAAAAAAMnA/vwFhMcIAHxA/s640/Journeys-Of-Discovery-Marco-Polo-silver-2oz-coin-nz-mint-numismatics-reverse.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><br />*Please note that the image shown on the website is artwork and may differ slightly from the final product.</span><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Marco Polo:</b><br /><br />Marco Polo (1254 - 1324) was an Italian merchant traveller from Venice, who recorded his travels in Livres des Merveilles du Monde (Book of the Marvels of the World, also known as The Travels of Marco Polo). This account did much to introduce Europe to Central Asia and Chinese culture.<br /><br />Marco Polo learned the mercantile trade from his father and uncle, who travelled through Asia and met Kublai Khan. In 1271, the three embarked on a journey which would lead to 17 years spent in China. From his travels, Polo amassed great knowledge of the Mongol Empire. He marvelled at the use of paper money, and was in awe of its economy and scale of production.<br /><br />Soon after returning to Venice in 1295, war broke out with the rival city of Genoa. While in command of a ship, Polo was captured and imprisoned. It was during this period of time that he dictated stories of his travels to a cellmate. In 1299 he was released, and went on to become a wealthy merchant. While his writings were published in French, Italian, and Latin, few readers allowed themselves to believe his tales of strange lands far away.<br /><br />Although he was not the first European to reach China, Marco Polo’s detailed account of his experiences was ground breaking for its time. These writings went on to inspire Christopher Columbus and many other travellers. In the centuries since his death Marco Polo has received recognition that was not given during his lifetime, as much of his journey of discovery has been verified.<br /><br />TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS</span><ul><li><span style="background-color: white;">Coin Metal: 999 Fine Silver</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Coin Weight: 2 oz</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Coin Finish: Proof</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Coin Diameter: 40mm (Nominal)</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Coin Edge: Milled</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Coin Denomination: $5</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Year of Issue: 2015</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Coin Mintage: 2,000</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Effigy : Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Country of Issue : Niue</span></li>
</ul><div><span style="background-color: white;">Purchase at the <a href="http://www.nzmint.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">NZ Mint</a></span></div></div></div>AMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-60008486714804251632015-06-22T04:31:00.001-07:002015-06-22T04:31:36.288-07:00Marco Polo 2oz Silver Coin - Journeys Of Discovery<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The Marco Polo 2 oz Silver Coin marks the first release in our new Journeys of Discovery Coin Collection, which celebrates exploration and discovery of the unknown. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This proof quality, fully engraved and high-relief coin captures the moment of Marco Polo meeting the great Kublai Khan. The scene is set in a stronghold of the powerful Mongol Empire which Polo marvelled so much at discovering. The packaging of a protective draw string sack has been designed to model the transport materials to trade around the globe at that time.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">With a limited mintage of only 2,000 coins worldwide, this would make a special gift for coin collectors and inspire intrepid travellers on their own Journeys of Discovery.</span></span><br /><br />
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<div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Marco Polo:</b><br /><br />Marco Polo (1254 - 1324) was an Italian merchant traveller from Venice, who recorded his travels in Livres des Merveilles du Monde (Book of the Marvels of the World, also known as The Travels of Marco Polo). This account did much to introduce Europe to Central Asia and Chinese culture.<br /><br />Marco Polo learned the mercantile trade from his father and uncle, who travelled through Asia and met Kublai Khan. In 1271, the three embarked on a journey which would lead to 17 years spent in China. From his travels, Polo amassed great knowledge of the Mongol Empire. He marvelled at the use of paper money, and was in awe of its economy and scale of production.<br /><br />Soon after returning to Venice in 1295, war broke out with the rival city of Genoa. While in command of a ship, Polo was captured and imprisoned. It was during this period of time that he dictated stories of his travels to a cellmate. In 1299 he was released, and went on to become a wealthy merchant. While his writings were published in French, Italian, and Latin, few readers allowed themselves to believe his tales of strange lands far away.<br /><br />Although he was not the first European to reach China, Marco Polo’s detailed account of his experiences was ground breaking for its time. These writings went on to inspire Christopher Columbus and many other travellers. In the centuries since his death Marco Polo has received recognition that was not given during his lifetime, as much of his journey of discovery has been verified.<br /><br />TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS</span><br /><br />
<ul><li><span style="background-color: white;">Coin Metal: 999 Fine Silver</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Coin Weight: 2 oz</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Coin Finish: Proof</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Coin Diameter: 40mm (Nominal)</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Coin Edge: Milled</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Coin Denomination: $5</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Year of Issue: 2015</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Coin Mintage: 2,000</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Effigy : Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Country of Issue : Niue</span></li>
</ul><div><span style="background-color: white;">Purchase at the <a href="http://www.nzmint.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">NZMint</a></span></div></div></div>AMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-57586034200178490872015-05-15T16:34:00.001-07:002015-05-15T16:34:56.175-07:00Silver Buying Only Starting<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.60000038146973px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Silver Buying Only Starting - Silver Investment News</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Silver has enjoyed a fantastic week, awakening from its bottoming slumber to surge with gold. And this strong silver investment demand is likely only starting. American stock traders and futures speculators control two of the world’s largest pools of capital active in the silver market. And the former group still remains woefully under-invested in silver, while the latter still has massive short positions left to cover.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The global leader in fundamental silver analysis is the venerable </span><a href="http://www.silverinstitute.org/" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Silver Institute</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, a think tank primarily funded by the world’s biggest and best silver miners. Every year, it publishes excellent comprehensive data on global silver supply and demand. Last year, total worldwide silver demand ran 1067m ounces. But investing in silver coins, bars, and ETFs only accounted for 197m, less than 1/5th of total demand.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Silver investment’s relatively small slice of that demand pie implies it isn’t important, but nothing could be farther from the truth. Silver’s two largest demand categories are industrial fabrication and jewelry, weighing in at about 4/7ths and just over 1/5th respectively. But these are very inelastic, they just don’t change much regardless of silver’s price. This is readily evident in the Institute’s past decade of data.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The average silver price in the last 10 years has been a roller coaster, skyrocketing from just over $7 in 2005 to over $35 in 2011 before collapsing back down near $19 in 2014. Yet global industrial demand was 639m ounces in 2005, 628m in 2011, and 595m last year. There is often no substitute for silver in manufactured products, and they use so little per unit that companies really don’t care what silver’s price is.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">But silver investment demand varies dramatically with the shifting whims of traders’ sentiment towards this volatile metal. Over the past decade it has ranged from 52m ounces on the low side in 2005 to 289m on the high side in 2008, an incredibly volatile range! And since any market’s prices are effectively set by marginal new buying and selling, nothing is more important for silver prices than investment demand.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The past decade’s average annual silver investment demand was 196m ounces, which 2014’s 197m is dead on. For our purposes today, let’s round that to 200m ounces per year. That works out to under 17m per month. This basic background knowledge of global silver investment demand is essential in order to understand just how bullish silver looks today since this latest round of buying is likely only starting.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Traditional silver investing in physical coins and bars is the largest category of investment demand, averaging 136m ounces per year over the last decade. But it’s challenging to track, since the myriads of silver dealers and investors around the world don’t have to report their transactions. Silver ETFs, on the other hand, report their holdings daily and are easily collated. Their demand averages 67m ounces per year.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The world’s flagship silver ETF is the mighty iShares Silver Trust, which trades as SLV in the States. Its holdings this week were nearly 324m ounces, the equivalent of about a year and 2/3rds of worldwide investment demand. Launched in April 2006, it is the easiest, fastest, and cheapest way for American stock investors to gain silver exposure in their portfolios. This opened silver up to vast new pools of capital.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Silver has always had a zealous hardcore base of investors who decry any type of “paper silver”, which includes ETFs. If it’s not physical silver in their own possession, they want nothing to do with it. While I’ve always personally used and recommended that classic method of silver investing, it’s not for everyone. A lot of investors ranging from hedge funds to institutions legally can’t buy or don’t want the hassles of physical.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">And silver ETFs are a perfect alternative for them. These investors buy ETF shares for a trivial fraction of what the premiums run on physical silver, and SLV in particular tracks the silver price perfectly. This can only happen because SLV is a conduit for stock-market capital to flow into and out of physical silver bullion. SLV’s managers have to constantly adjust SLV’s holdings to keep their ETF’s price mirroring silver’s.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">When stock traders buy SLV shares faster than silver itself is being bought, they threaten to decouple to the upside. So SLV’s managers issue enough new ETF shares to offset this excess demand. Then they plow the proceeds directly into physical silver bullion held in trust for their shareholders. Thus any differential buying pressure on SLV shares directly bids up the underlying global physical silver market.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">And just as silver is on the verge of a major breakout following this week’s sharp rally, American stock investors owning silver via SLV are still woefully underinvested by recent standards. This first chart looks at SLV’s silver-bullion holdings, with SLV’s price superimposed on top. And it reveals big room for new SLV buying, which will shunt stock-market capital directly into silver and accelerate its price gains.</span></span><br /><br />
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K8WJI9bcElo/VVZ-qrj5_wI/AAAAAAAAMdI/a6ribqY_ouM/s1600/slv-holding-silver-investment-news.gif" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="448" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K8WJI9bcElo/VVZ-qrj5_wI/AAAAAAAAMdI/a6ribqY_ouM/s640/slv-holding-silver-investment-news.gif" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Despite the very weak silver prices in recent years and resulting extreme bearishness on this precious metal, SLV’s holdings have actually risen on balance. They have enjoyed an exceptionally well-defined uptrend channel in the last several years, which seems pretty amazing. But realize that as silver’s price dropped, the amount of stock-market capital invested in SLV shares still contracted though its holdings grew.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Over this chart’s span, silver peaked just under $37 per ounce in late February 2012. That day SLV’s holdings of 313m ounces were worth $11.6b. Silver’s brutal bear market finally looks to have bottomed in early November 2014 at just over $15 per ounce. By that day SLV’s holdings had grown to 343m ounces, but this hoard was only worth $5.3b. So the SLV holdings’ uptrend is not as counter-intuitive as it seems.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Though SLV’s holdings climbed 9.7% between silver’s two extremes of recent years, the value of that silver plummeted 54% which was right in line with silver’s 58% loss over this span. So American stock investors certainly haven’t been hot on silver. In the middle of this week, as silver surged 3.8% to retake $17, SLV’s holdings were worth just $5.5b. That is vanishingly small, a trivial drop in the stock-capital bucket.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">For comparison, of the 500 companies included in the benchmark S&P 500 stock index, only 26 had market capitalizations of $5.5b or less as of the end of last month. So American stock investors still have virtually nothing invested in silver. As silver continues rallying, they will start getting interested and then excited and buy in. And that differential buying will catapult silver higher, accelerating its rally and allure.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Only time will tell how much SLV buying we’re going to see, but it has the potential to be really big. This ETF’s peak silver holdings of just over 366m ounces came back in late April 2011 as silver was rocketing up over $48 in a speculative mania. That day SLV’s holdings were worth $17.2b, or 3.1x higherthan this week’s levels! But it could take massive silver gains over years to fuel such a big jump in stock capital invested.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">More interesting for the near-term is the SLV-holdings uptrend. Silver has remained epically out of favor since its dismal bottom late last year. Since then its price has largely languished in a super-low trading range, mostly grinding listlessly sideways. So American stock investors have had no incentives at all to up their silver exposure. But this week’s young rally is already starting to change that bearish psychology.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">SLV’s holdings around 324m ounces in the middle of this week certainly reflect the universal apathy and antipathy towards silver. As sentiment shifts from extreme bearishness back towards neutral, SLV is likely to see serious differential buying pressure on its shares. Remember that if stock traders bid up SLV shares faster than silver itself is rallying, SLV’s managers have to issue shares to buy more silver bullion.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Today the upper resistance of SLV holdings’ uptrend of recent years is around 352m ounces. Regaining that level would require over 28m ounces of differential buying. And even in silver’s dark recent years, SLV has witnessed multiple holdings surges from support to resistance that didn’t take much time at all. They happened in early 2013, mid-2013, and mid-2014, and each only took a couple months or so.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">So the near-term silver buying potential from American stock traders is great. They remain woefully underinvested in silver right as it’s starting to surge, and they are likely to buy SLV shares aggressively enough to force a holdings build on the order of 28m ounces in a couple months. Remember that global monthly investment demand averages under 17m, so that’s a colossal boost from SLV buying alone.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Running these numbers, enough SLV differential buying merely to return its holdings back up to recent resistance would boost global silver investment demand by 85% for a couple months! That’s one major reason why I suspect the recent silver buying is only starting. And the really bullish and exciting thing is nothing begets buying like buying. The more silver rallies, the more investors will notice it and start to chase it.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">But despite that large pool of capital by silver’s standards deployed in SLV, there’s another pool that just dwarfs it. There’s no one on the planet that moves more capital into and out of silver than the American futures speculators. They aggressively trade silver’s flows and ebbs with extreme leverage, exerting the greatest influence on silver’s daily price action. And theirshort positions are the key to silver’s near-term fortunes.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This next chart looks at the total levels of long and short silver futures contracts held by these dominant American futures speculators. This data is published weekly by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission in its famous Commitments of Traders reports. And the latest read current to last Tuesday reveals high short positions remaining in silver futures. These large bets will soon have to be covered.</span></span><br /><br />
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UPoA5vXWTQs/VVZ_FfpezKI/AAAAAAAAMdQ/NYkgNtg-5H4/s1600/silver-future-specs-silver-investment-news.gif" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="448" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UPoA5vXWTQs/VVZ_FfpezKI/AAAAAAAAMdQ/NYkgNtg-5H4/s640/silver-future-specs-silver-investment-news.gif" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">While silver’s long-term price levels are ultimately a function of global supply and demand, in the short term American futures trading is the whole game. Note the super-strong inverse correlation between the SLV price in blue and speculators’ total silver-futures short contracts in red. Silver plunges when they aggressively short it, and then rallies when they subsequently scramble to exit those leveraged bearish bets.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This outsized influence of futures shorting on silver’s price is primarily a function of two things. First, as silver has fallen deeply out of favor in recent years investing interest has dramatically waned. So the influence of futures speculation on silver prices rose proportionally. Second, futures trading is a hyper-risky zero-sum game played with extreme leverage. That gives futures speculators outsized silver-price impact.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Each silver futures contract controls 5000 ounces of silver, which is worth $85,000 even at this week’s still-terribly-depressed silver prices. Yet speculators only need to keep $7700 in their accounts for each silver contract they own, the current minimum maintenance margin. That means they can run leverage of up to 11x, which is extreme. In the US stock markets, leverage has been legally limited to 2x since 1974.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">At 11x leverage, a mere 9% move by silver against speculators’ positions will wipe out 100% of the capital they risked. And they could lose even more than originally bet if they face margin calls! Silver has always had a well-deserved reputation as an exceedingly-volatile metal, so 9% moves are nothing. This past Tuesday and Wednesday, silver surged 5.4% and that was modest by silver’s wild standards.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Speculators shorting silver, betting on its price falling, effectively have toborrow that silver before they sell it. This saddles them with the legal contractual obligation to buy that silver back to repay their silver debt. So high silver-futures short positions by this group of traders are very bullish for this white metal since they represent guaranteed near-future buying. As this chart shows, silver soon rallies after major shorting.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">While speculators’ silver-futures short positions today aren’t extreme by recent years’ epic levels, they are still very high. As of last Tuesday’s CoT data, the latest available when this essay was published, American speculators held 49.6k short-side contracts. That is a huge bearish bet on silver prices. Between 2009 to 2012, the last normal years for the precious-metals markets, their short-side bets averaged just 21.5k.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The reason silver collapsed in early 2013 was because gold suffered its worst quarterly loss in 93 years thanks to the Federal Reserve’s radically-unprecedented </span><a href="http://www.zealllc.com/2015/fedabdns.htm" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">QE3 manipulations</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> in the financial markets. As the Fed levitated the general stock markets, demand for alternative investments led by gold withered. And silver is ultimately a leveraged play on gold, amplifying the yellow metal’s price action in both directions.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">But even since then in the Fed’s epically-distorted markets, speculators’ total silver short contracts have rapidly contracted to or near 27k four separate times. This is support for speculator shorting in recent years. So it’s highly likely this group of traders’ downside silver bets will once again sharply fall back to these levels in the coming months. And that represents incredible levels of buying to catapult silver higher.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">As of that latest CoT report, American speculators would have to buy to cover 22.6k contracts merely to return to that 27k short-side support level. And in the futures markets, the price impact of buying a long contract to offset and cover an existing short and buying a new long contract is identical. With each short contract representing 5000 ounces, this support approach would require an amazing 113m ounces of buying!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Now remember annual global silver investment demand averages around 200m ounces, so this short covering alone is equivalent to about 7 months of normal demand. And as the chart above shows, once these short-covering episodes get underway they unfold fast. The more speculators who buy to cover, the faster the silver price rallies. And the sharper silver’s climb, the more pressure on remaining traders to cover.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">It’s only taken two or three months in recent years for speculators to buy back enough of their shorts to drive them back down to that 27k-contract support line. And that was from even higher total-short levels. So let’s assume a couple months for this next support approach. Run the numbers on that, and this coming short covering equates to staggering buying of over 56m ounces per month. That’s incredible!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">During that short-covering frenzy, silver demand from this mandatory futures buying would run 3.4x the normal monthly average just under 17m ounces! If investors are migrating back into silver at the same time, both in physical and ETF terms, silver is going to power dramatically higher during that brief span. And investors returning becomes more and more likely with each passing day of silver rallying on balance.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">So looking at SLV holdings and American speculators’ silver-futures shorts alone, silver buying is only starting. Both groups of traders are likely to shift large amounts of capital into silver in a short period of time, on the order of a couple months. And they will soon be joined by investors from around the world, in a surge of new buying that will almost certainly ignite silver’s next major upleg. Its upside potential is great.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Investors can certainly play this in traditional physical silver coins and bars or through the ETFs led by SLV. Since silver is so universally loathed these days, investors have forgotten that its price averaged over $31 in 2012 before the Fed’s extreme stock-market distortions. And as those are gradually unwound, starting with the </span><a href="http://www.zealllc.com/2015/goldfrhk.htm" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">coming rate hikes</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, precious metals should mean revert back up to pre-QE3 normal levels.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">But however great silver’s coming gains will be, the beaten-down silver stocks will achieve multiples of that. 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They explain what’s going on in the markets, why, and how to trade them with specific stocks. </span><a href="http://www.zealllc.com/subscribe.htm" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Subscribe today</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, as we are currently running a 33%-off Contrarian Extinction Sale!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The bottom line is the recent silver buying is likely only just starting. American stock investors remain woefully underinvested in silver, while American futures speculators remain heavily short it. Even in the anomalous recent years, it’s only taken a couple of months or so for both extremes to normalize. And that buying alone would run multiples of normal global silver investment demand over that span.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The resulting silver rally will probably be quite big and strong emerging from such bearish sentiment extremes. And it will motivate legions of investors around the world to redeploy in silver again. The more they buy, the faster silver will rally. And that will attract in even more investors, once again forming that very powerful bullish virtuous circle that silver is so famous for. Silver has real potential to surprise on the upside.</span></span>AMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-17267207548223528862015-05-12T15:28:00.001-07:002015-05-12T15:28:46.739-07:002015 Australian Wedge-Tailed Eagle 1oz Silver Bullion Coin<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eJ6AElVjbN8/VVJ6NZwTmNI/AAAAAAAAMbU/ixHAo1PfuOM/s1600/2015-Australian-Wedge-Tailed-Eagle-1oz-Silver-Bullion-Coin-perth-mint-australia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eJ6AElVjbN8/VVJ6NZwTmNI/AAAAAAAAMbU/ixHAo1PfuOM/s640/2015-Australian-Wedge-Tailed-Eagle-1oz-Silver-Bullion-Coin-perth-mint-australia.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.60000038146973px;"><span style="color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.375px; text-align: start;"><i><span style="background-color: white; font-size: xx-small;">2015 Australian Wedge-Tailed Eagle 1oz Silver Bullion Coin from the Perth Mint</span></i></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Perth Mint is delighted to offer investors a new bullion coin featuring this majestic bird which is known to soar to dizzying heights.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The coin’s reverse depicts an impressive Wedge-tailed Eagle in mid-flight as it prepares to land on a tree branch. The design also includes the inscription AUSTRALIAN WEDGE-TAILED EAGLE, the 2015 year-date and The Perth Mint’s ‘P’ mintmark.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Each bullion coin is presented in an acrylic capsule, from an unlimited mintage.</span></div><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_1838" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin: 0.4em auto 1.625em; max-width: 96%; outline: 0px; padding: 9px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 883px;"><img alt="2015 Australian Wedge-Tailed Eagle 1oz Silver Bullion Coin" class="size-full wp-image-1838" src="http://australiasilver.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-Australian-Wedge-Tailed-Eagle-1oz-Silver-Bullion-Coin.jpg" height="488" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); display: block; height: auto; margin: -2px 0px 0px -2px; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px; width: auto;" width="873" /></div><h3 style="border: 0px; clear: both; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24.375px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"></h3><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">One of our favourite silver bullion coins of 2014, indeed of modern times, the Wedge-Tailed Eagle coin designed by John Mercanti for the Perth Mint had its debut last year. First released as high-relief silver and gold coins with mintages of 10,000 and 1,000 respectively back in January 2014, they followed up with a standard silver proof and a fantastic five-ounce high relief coin last May. This year will almost certainly see new releases of most, or all of those.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The bullion coin, while not as impressive as the completely sublime High-Relief versions, remains a beautiful piece, and if last years mintage limit is repeated, a relatively rare one by bullion standards.</span></div><h3 style="border: 0px; clear: both; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24.375px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">COIN Specifications</strong></h3><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="purchaseTable" style="border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tbody style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Metal Content (Troy oz)</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="40%"><span style="background-color: white;">1.000</span></td></tr>
<tr class="altRow" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Fineness (% purity)</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">99.90</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Minimum Gross Weight (g)</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">31.135</span></td></tr>
<tr class="altRow" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Monetary Denomination (AUD)</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">1.00</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Maximum Diameter (mm)</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">40.600</span></td></tr>
<tr class="altRow" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Maximum Thickness (mm)</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">4.000</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">About the Wedge-Tailed Eagle</strong></span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Wedge-tailed Eagle is Australia’s largest bird of prey and one of the biggest eagles in the world. Found throughout mainland Australia, Tasmania and southern New Guinea, the Wedge-tailed Eagle has a wingspan of up to 2.7 metres, and displays a long, wedge-shaped tail and feathered legs.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Last year, 10% of the 50,000 mintage was sold by Australian dealer <a href="https://www.ainsliebullion.com.au/BuyBullion.aspx" style="border: 0px; color: #8c8c8c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ainslie Bullion</a> but we’re currently unsure when or if they will be the dealer selling them this year. We understand that any Australian issued coin has to have 10% of its mintage sold in Australia, thus explaining why GovMint don’t get all the coins to themselves. This would indicate that the same would be the case this year, but GovMint do not list a mintage for the 2015 release, so how many an Australian dealer would get is unclear at present.</span></div>AMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-68757332403456381682015-05-08T17:11:00.001-07:002015-05-08T17:11:06.280-07:00Yamaguchi Silver 1oz Proof Coloured Coin 2015 - Prefectures of Japan<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hlNZxdJvxvU/VU1LtgqL-sI/AAAAAAAAMUM/NTQFCZOAYic/s1600/yamaguchi-japan-2015-prefecture-silver-coloured-coin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #898989; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="634" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hlNZxdJvxvU/VU1LtgqL-sI/AAAAAAAAMUM/NTQFCZOAYic/s640/yamaguchi-japan-2015-prefecture-silver-coloured-coin.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
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</tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">The Mint of Japan have announced their latest prefecture silver coin which features a well-known landmark or structure as its obverse design. </span><br style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">This coin features the Kintaikyo Bridge, in the prefecture of Yamaguchi which is a historical wooden structure that consists of a series of five wooden arches and spans the Nishiki River in Iwakuni City. Built in 1673 by Kikkawa Hiroyoshi, the third lord of the Iwakuni domain, this bridge is known as one of the three most beautiful or unique bridges in Japan and was designated as a place of scenic beauty by the national government.</span><br style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">The obverse design includes a depiction of the Kintaikyo Bridge and the Akiyoshidai Plateau, which is the largest area of karst topography in Japan, located almost at the center of Yamaguchi Prefecture, and designated as a Quasi-National Park and a Special Natural Monument.</span><br style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span></span><br /><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-z5OkhFMFXk8/VU1MNS8Ai5I/AAAAAAAAMUU/YCaSDB7sPLI/s1600/yamaguchi-japan-2015-prefecture-silver-coloured-coin-1000-yen-legal-tender.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #898989; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="315" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-z5OkhFMFXk8/VU1MNS8Ai5I/AAAAAAAAMUU/YCaSDB7sPLI/s320/yamaguchi-japan-2015-prefecture-silver-coloured-coin-1000-yen-legal-tender.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">The common reverse design of 1000 yen silver coin: Snow crystals, moon and cherry blossoms. Latent image technology is applied to the center of the largest snow crystal to show the numerals of “47” representing the number of prefectures in Japan, and “60” representing the 60th Anniversary of Enforcement of the Local Autonomy Law appear alternately when viewed from different angles.</span><br style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Coin Specifications:</b></span><br style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span></span><br /><br />
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<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 6px 0px;" width="111"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Denomination</span></td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 6px 0px;" width="113"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Metal</span></td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 6px 0px;" width="104"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Weight</span></td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 6px 0px;" width="94"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Diameter</span></td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 6px 0px;" width="132"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Quality</span></td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 6px 0px;" width="133"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Mintage</span></td></tr>
<tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 6px 0px;" width="111"><span style="background-color: white;">1000 ¥en</span></td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 6px 0px;" width="113"><span style="background-color: white;">.999 silver</span></td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 6px 0px;" width="104"><span style="background-color: white;">31.1 grams</span></td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 6px 0px;" width="94"><span style="background-color: white;">40 mm.</span></td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 6px 0px;" width="132"><span style="background-color: white;">Proof & Colour</span></td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 6px 0px;" width="133"><span style="background-color: white;">100,000</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">The coin, which is the 39<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 9.75px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> consecutive issue within the series, will be available to order from now until the 30<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 9.75px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> June when the coin will officially be issued. A 500 Yen bi-metallic coin intended for circulation with the same design though not colorized is also to be issued at the same instance as the silver coin.</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">For more information on this and other coins available from the Mint of Japan, please visit their website at:<a href="http://www.mint.go.jp/eng/buy-eng/eng_coin_international_index.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">http://www.mint.go.jp/eng/buy-eng/eng_coin_international_index.html</a> </span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">For international distributors of Mint of Japan coins, please visit: <a href="http://www.mint.go.jp/eng/qa-eng/eng_qa_overseasqa_contract.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">http://www.mint.go.jp/eng/qa-eng/eng_qa_overseasqa_contract.html</a> Information offered in English and Japanese</span></div>AMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-51089621697028035882015-05-06T01:32:00.001-07:002015-05-06T01:32:10.129-07:002015 Agro Junior 1oz Silver $5 Proof Coin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g1eNoi7Ccbc/VUnMq-_c40I/AAAAAAAAMOM/DQsgF_nf94U/s1600/2015-Silver-Agro-Junior-1oz-silver-royal-australia-mint-5-dollar-coin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="466" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g1eNoi7Ccbc/VUnMq-_c40I/AAAAAAAAMOM/DQsgF_nf94U/s1600/2015-Silver-Agro-Junior-1oz-silver-royal-australia-mint-5-dollar-coin.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Mint’s collaboration with Australia Zoo, the sixth coin in the popular Australian Saltwater Crocodiles series features our favourite crocodile of the moment, Agro Junior.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Becoming fearfully lifelike on the newest coin, the meticulous high relief technique has allowed our coin designer to provide much more depth to the design.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Appearing like a scene captured from Australia Zoo’s Crocoseum, Agro Junior lies eagerly in wait on a creek bed. With an extremely low mintage of only 1500 and an unheard-of price for a strictly limited edition product, this stunning coin will not be lurking around for long.</span></div><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_1826" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin: 0.4em auto 1.625em; max-width: 96%; outline: 0px; padding: 9px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594px;"><a href="http://australiasilver.com/2015-agro-junior-silver-5-proof-coin/2015-silver-agro-junior-royal-australia-mint-silver-5-coin/" rel="attachment wp-att-1826" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #8c8c8c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="2015-Silver-Agro-Junior-royal-australia-mint-silver-$5-coin" class="wp-image-1826 size-large" height="425" src="http://australiasilver.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-Silver-Agro-Junior-royal-australia-mint-silver-5-coin-1024x746.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); display: block; height: auto; margin: -2px 0px 0px -2px; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px; position: relative; width: auto;" width="584" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 5px 40px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">2015 Agro Junior Silver $5 Proof Coin</span></div></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Product Information:</strong></div><ul style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Issue Mint:</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Royal Australian Mint</span></span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Legal Tender: </span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Australian </span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">$5</span></span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mintage:</strong> 1,500</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Material: </span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">99.9% Silver</span></span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Condition:</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Brand New in original issue condition.</span></span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Issue Price:</strong> $100.00 AUD</span></li>
</ul><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://australiasilver.com/2015-agro-junior-silver-5-proof-coin/2015-silver-agro-junior-royal-australia-mint-silver-5-coin-packaging/" rel="attachment wp-att-1827" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #8c8c8c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="2015-Silver-Agro-Junior-royal-australia-mint-silver-$5-coin-packaging" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-1827" height="425" src="http://australiasilver.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-Silver-Agro-Junior-royal-australia-mint-silver-5-coin-packaging-1024x746.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0.4em auto 1.625em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px; position: relative; width: auto;" width="584" /></a></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE:</strong></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Whether you call it the saltwater crocodile, the estuarine crocodile or crocodylus porosus, it is the largest reptile roaming the earth today. Lurking in dark and murky waters around the northern areas of Australia, they can surprise and terrify a wide range of prey. Anything that flies, swims or roams in its watery region is fair game for this formidable creature.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Since 1988, 37 year-old Agro has lived in the comfort of Australia Zoo’s Crocoseum. This 15 foot wonder was captured from the wild to protect him from the hunters who were stalking his Cattle Creek home. Not only did he find a new home, but he found love with Cookie, a ten-foot lady crocodile who is the calmest and gentlest of crocs in the enclosure.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Agro and Cookie raised a son, Agro Junior, the star of this new collectable coin.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FEATURES AND DESIGN:</strong></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">• A new coin in the Australian Saltwater Crocodile series, continuing a proud collaboration with Australia Zoo<br />• High relief coin captures Agro Junior in stunning detail, to the Royal Australian Mint’s exacting proof standards<br />• Strictly limited edition of 1500<br />• The coin and packaging features images of one of Australia Zoo’s beloved crocodiles, Agro Junior<br />• Minted in precious silver<br />• Packaged in an attractive presentation case with outer box<br />• numbered certificate of authenticity<br />• Obverse features Queen Elizabeth II effigy sculpted by Ian Rank-Broadley<br />• Australian legal tender</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Coin Specifications:</strong></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><ul style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><li><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px;">Denomination: $5</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px;">Metal : </span></span><span style="color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px;">999 Fine </span><span style="color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px;">Silver</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px;">Diameter: 32.00 mm</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px;">Mass: 1 oz</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px;">Finish: Proof</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px;">Mintage: 1500</span></li>
</ul>AMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-3207137468369062552015-05-04T01:15:00.001-07:002015-05-04T01:15:28.853-07:00Houston – Perth Sister Cities Silver 1/2oz Bullion Coin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TmVxZ_RUQxQ/VUcpO-dPcEI/AAAAAAAAMNs/VNErI0vZ8B0/s1600/Houston-Perth-Sister-Cities-Australia-Silver-half-ounce-Coin-perth-mint-legal-tender.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TmVxZ_RUQxQ/VUcpO-dPcEI/AAAAAAAAMNs/VNErI0vZ8B0/s1600/Houston-Perth-Sister-Cities-Australia-Silver-half-ounce-Coin-perth-mint-legal-tender.jpeg" height="378" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">This stunning coin pays homage to the special relationship shared by Houston, Texas and Perth, Australia.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The energy-themed coin originated with the founding of the Houston-Perth Sister City Association (HSPCA) in 1984, which was based on historical naval ties in WWII and the strong synergies between the two cities’ energy sectors.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Today, Houston and Perth are two of the largest energy hubs in the world, and recently celebrated 30 years of partnership.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The ties between Houston and Perth can initially be traced to the World War II battle of Sunda Strait, where both the USS Houston and HMAS Perth attacked a superior force of Japanese ships in an attempt to stall their advance towards Australia.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Both ships were lost along with many men, but their sacrifice allowed the American and Australian navies to halt the Japanese advance and helped forge the relationship now shared by Houston and Perth. The bond between the two cities was further strengthened during John Glenn’s 1962 spaceflight, when the citizens of Perth turned on all their lights, allowing the astronaut to view the city from orbit.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">In the 1980s, when Houston sought to expand its global ties, Perth was an ideal partner for cultural, historical, and economic reasons.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">This remarkable Sister Cities coin has been exclusively minted by Perth for <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Texas Precious Metals</strong>. Production will be limited to 500,000 coins.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">QUALITY</strong><br />The Perth Mint’s unbeatable minting experience and its use of advanced manufacturing technology contribute to the coins reputation of being the highest quality in the world.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT GUARANTEE</strong><br />Struck by the historic Perth Mint from 99.9% pure silver, each coin’s Australian legal tender status guarantees its weight and purity.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AFFORDABLE</strong><br />Perth Mint bullion coins are universally recognised as the most affordable means of purchasing silver bullion in the secure form of official, legal tender coins.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BEAUTIFUL</strong><br />Perth Mint bullion coins are tangible assets that are beautiful to behold. Featuring stunning new artistry each year, they are admired worldwide and are highly collectable.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NUMISMATIC APPRECIATION</strong><br />As well as annual design changes, the coins’ restricted mintages create the potential for even greater investment return in the form of a numismatic premium.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://australiasilver.com/houston-perth-sister-cities-silver-bullion-coin/houston-perth-sister-cities-australia-silver-coin-perth-mint-legal-tender-close-up-thumb/" rel="attachment wp-att-1821" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #8c8c8c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Houston-Perth-Sister-Cities-Australia-Silver-Coin-perth-mint-legal-tender-close-up-thumb" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1821" src="http://australiasilver.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Houston-Perth-Sister-Cities-Australia-Silver-Coin-perth-mint-legal-tender-close-up-thumb.png" height="220" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0.4em auto 1.625em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px; position: relative; width: auto;" width="220" /></a></div><table class="specifications" style="border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><thead style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="caption" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">COIN SPECIFICS:</strong></div></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Year:</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">2014</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Condition:</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Brilliant Uncirculated</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Weight (Au, Ag, Pt):</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">1/2 ozt</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Minted by:</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Perth Mint</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Mintage:</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">500,000</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Face Value:</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">AUD$0.50</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Packaging:</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Plastic Tube</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Coins Per Tube:</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">25</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>AMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-91980387276938004672015-04-25T00:38:00.001-07:002015-04-25T00:38:24.611-07:00Hammerhead Shark Half Ounce Silver Bullion Coin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aPeBvvsszAg/VTs_8FvC8WI/AAAAAAAAMBg/N-lKI9g6NFo/s1600/great-hammerhead-shark-silver-half-ounce-coin-2015-perth-mint-australia-silver-bullion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aPeBvvsszAg/VTs_8FvC8WI/AAAAAAAAMBg/N-lKI9g6NFo/s1600/great-hammerhead-shark-silver-half-ounce-coin-2015-perth-mint-australia-silver-bullion.jpg" height="400" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Hammerhead Shark Silver Half Ounce Bullion Coin – Brand new from the <a href="http://www.perthmint.com.au/" style="border: 0px; color: #8c8c8c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Perth Mint</a></span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The hammerhead shark is one of the most recognizable creatures on the planet, and the largest of the species, the great hammerhead shark, is now immortalized in Silver. The Perth Mint has introduced the second release in their Shark Series celebrating this unique and unmistakable hunter.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Each of these Beautiful Uncirculated (BU) coins contains 1/2 oz of .999 fine Silver and exhibits a beautiful representation of the strong great hammerhead shark swimming through the water. The coin displays the Silver weight and purity, providing assurance of the high quality of each coin.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Since opening in 1899, the Perth Mint has produced and refined large quantities of Gold, Silver and other Precious Metals.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Today, the Perth Mint is highly involved in producing a wide array of items for collectors and investors. They beautifully combine unique collectible designs with quality bullion value</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: white;">Coin Highlights:</b></div><ul style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Contains 1/2 oz of .999 fine Silver.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Multiples of 25 come in a tube. 500 coins will come in “Monster” boxes. Individual coins come in a plastic flip.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Second release in the APMEX exclusive® Perth Mint Shark Series.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Obverse: The Ian Rank-Broadley likeness of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the monetary denomination.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Reverse: Features a great hammerhead shark, surrounded by the name, weight and purity, along with the Perth Mint’s “P” mintmark.</span></li>
</ul><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://australiasilver.com/1810/great-hammerhead-shark-silver-half-ounce-coin-2015-perth-mint-australia-silver-bullion-50c/" rel="attachment wp-att-1811" style="border: 0px; clear: right; color: #8c8c8c; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="1/2oz Hammerhead Shark Silver Bullion Coin" class="size-full wp-image-1811" src="http://australiasilver.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/great-hammerhead-shark-silver-half-ounce-coin-2015-perth-mint-australia-silver-bullion-50c.jpg" height="160" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); display: block; height: auto; margin: -2px 0px 0px -2px; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px; position: relative; width: auto;" width="160" /></a></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Keywords: silver, australia silver, hammerhead shark silver coin, shark coin, shark silver coin, australia silver</span></div>AMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-67620344761748617842015-04-20T04:53:00.001-07:002015-04-20T04:53:39.368-07:00Privateer Elemetal 2oz Silver Round Ultra High Relief<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NNYfizvPYY0/VTTmNpqy8PI/AAAAAAAAL94/ZkIpoQP6oSY/s1600/Elemetal-2-oz-Privateer-Ultra-High-Relief-Silver-Round-bullion-ship.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NNYfizvPYY0/VTTmNpqy8PI/AAAAAAAAL94/ZkIpoQP6oSY/s1600/Elemetal-2-oz-Privateer-Ultra-High-Relief-Silver-Round-bullion-ship.jpg" height="640" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TVR5XkwrklQ/VTTmOUvqUuI/AAAAAAAAL-A/NUjJMp1jtOg/s1600/Elemetal-2-oz-Privateer-Ultra-High-Relief-Silver-Round-bullion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TVR5XkwrklQ/VTTmOUvqUuI/AAAAAAAAL-A/NUjJMp1jtOg/s1600/Elemetal-2-oz-Privateer-Ultra-High-Relief-Silver-Round-bullion.jpg" height="640" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Each Elemetal Privateer Round consists of two ounces of .999 fine silver, and is manufactured in an IRA approved facility ensuring the metal purity and production quality.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The Elemetal Mint is a collaborative effort between three of the most prominent names in the </span></span><br /><br />
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Precious Metals industry: Ohio Precious Metals (OPM), NTR Metals, and Provident Metals. The goal of this collaboration is to offer high quality, investment grade bullion at a price that is accessible to every investor.<br /><br />Each partner in the Elemetal Mint offers unique attributes and assets that accommodate this goal. OPM, an LBMA certified mint, has a legacy of producing high quality Precious Metal Bullion that meets standards required for global institutional trades. </span><br /><br />
<div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">NTR Metals offers a production capacity that allows the Elemetal Mint to produce bullion as demand requires. Provident Metals leverages advanced fulfillment technology and processes to ensure that bullion is offered at the lowest possible price, and delivered in a timely manner.<br /><br />The obverse of the ultra high relief Elemetal 2oz Privateer Silver Round carries the inscription “NO PREY NO PAY”, which is a piratical term meaning that unless a raid was successful at acquiring valuable commodities, the privateers would not receive a commission. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Likewise, if contemporary investors are unwilling to invest in Silver Bullion, they will miss the security and value that only precious metals offer.<br /><br />The obverse of the Elemetal Privateer Round also features a skull over a ship’s wheel, reminiscent of the Jolly Roger, and the inscription "2OZ FINE SILVER .999".<br /><br />The reverse of this 2oz silver round features the stern of a pirate ship, the ship drifting through rough seawaters. High waves roar across the design as the ship’s sails flutter in the wind. The moon peaks out from the clouds on the right of the image.<br /><br />The Elemetal 2oz Ultra High Relief Privateer Silver Round is a beautiful addition to Provident Metals’ offerings of Privately Minted Bullion. Each of these 2oz Silver Rounds is IRA approved and will ship in New Condition. Individual rounds ship in poly bags, and quantities of 10 or more ship in plastic tubes.<br /><br />Expand your treasure chest with an Elemetal 2oz Privateer Silver Round</span></div></div>AMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-14302729749269454642015-04-14T16:41:00.001-07:002015-04-14T16:41:53.324-07:00Blue Tongue Lizard 2015 1oz Silver Proof Coin – Australia’s Remarkable Reptiles 2015<div id="details" style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XKrovB27EnI/VSxMf_CD55I/AAAAAAAAL8M/KAGBJXshTQs/s1600/blue-tongue-lizard-2015-one-ounce-silver-proof-coin-australias-remarkable-reptiles-2015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XKrovB27EnI/VSxMf_CD55I/AAAAAAAAL8M/KAGBJXshTQs/s1600/blue-tongue-lizard-2015-one-ounce-silver-proof-coin-australias-remarkable-reptiles-2015.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><h2 class="sIFR-replaced" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="sIFR-alternate" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="sIFR-replaced" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="sIFR-alternate" id="sIFR_replacement_3_alternate" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PROOF QUALITY 99.9% PURE SILVER</span></h2><div style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The coin is struck by The Perth Mint from 1oz of 99.9% silver in proof quality.</span></div><h2 class="sIFR-replaced" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="sIFR-alternate" id="sIFR_replacement_4_alternate" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">STUNNING COLOURED REVERSE DESIGN</span></h2><div style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The coin’s reverse portrays a coloured Blue Tongue Lizard displaying its tongue, bordered by a montage of exotic reptile skin patterns. The design also incorporates the inscription BLUE TONGUE LIZARD.</span></div><div style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://australiasilver.com/blue-tongue-lizard-2015-1oz-silver-proof-coin-australias-remarkable-reptiles-2015/blue-tongue-lizard-2015-1oz-silver-proof-coin-australias-remarkable-reptiles-2015-case/" rel="attachment wp-att-1778" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #8c8c8c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="blue-tongue-lizard-2015-1oz-silver-proof-coin-australias-remarkable-reptiles-2015-case" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1778" height="1000" src="http://australiasilver.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/blue-tongue-lizard-2015-1oz-silver-proof-coin-australias-remarkable-reptiles-2015-case.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0.4em auto 1.625em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px; position: relative; width: auto;" width="1000" /></a></div><h2 class="sIFR-replaced" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="sIFR-alternate" id="sIFR_replacement_5_alternate" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LIMITED MINTAGE</span></h2><div style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">No more than 5,000 Australia’s Remarkable Reptiles – Blue Tongue Lizard 2015 1oz Silver Proof Coins will be available for sale worldwide.</span></div><h2 class="sIFR-replaced" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="sIFR-alternate" id="sIFR_replacement_6_alternate" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TUVALU LEGAL TENDER</span></h2><div style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Issued as legal tender under the authority of the Government of Tuvalu, the obverse of the coin depicts the Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the monetary denomination and the 2015 year-date.</span></div><h2 class="sIFR-replaced" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="sIFR-alternate" id="sIFR_replacement_7_alternate" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PRESENTATION CASE AND NUMBERED CERTIFICATE</span></h2><div style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The coin is housed in a wooden presentation case and custom designed shipper, and is accompanied by a numbered Certificate of Authenticity</span></div><div style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://australiasilver.com/blue-tongue-lizard-2015-1oz-silver-proof-coin-australias-remarkable-reptiles-2015/blue-tongue-lizard-2015-1oz-silver-proof-coin-australias-remarkable-reptiles-2015-box/" rel="attachment wp-att-1779" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #8c8c8c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="blue-tongue-lizard-2015-1oz-silver-proof-coin-australias-remarkable-reptiles-2015-box" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-1779" height="584" src="http://australiasilver.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/blue-tongue-lizard-2015-1oz-silver-proof-coin-australias-remarkable-reptiles-2015-box.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0.4em auto 1.625em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px; position: relative; width: auto;" width="584" /></a></div></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Australia’s Remarkable Reptiles – Blue Tongue Lizard 2015 1oz Silver Proof Coin at The Perth Mint, featuring:</span></div><ul style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Proof Quality 99.9% Pure Silver</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Stunning Reverse Coloured Design</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Limited Mintage – 5,000</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Tuvalu Legal Tender</span></li>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Third Coin Release in Series</span></li>
</ul><div id="series" style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Blue Tongue Lizard is native to Australia and is recognised by its bright blue tongue and brownish grey scales. They are not poisonous and can often be found living peacefully in the same backyard for years, conveniently consuming slugs and snails and sunning themselves by the backdoor, or out under the clothesline.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">These slow-moving creatures are found in just about every part of Australia: on the coastal plains; in the mountains; in rainforest; deserts and at least one species is found in every Australian capital city.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Previous releases:</strong> <a href="http://www.perthmint.com.au/catalogue/australias-remarkable-reptiles-frilled-neck-lizard-2013-1oz-silver-proof-coin.aspx" style="border: 0px; color: #8c8c8c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Frilled Neck Lizard</a>, <a href="http://www.perthmint.com.au/catalogue/australias-remarkable-reptiles-thorny-devil-lizard-2014-1oz-silver-proof-coin.aspx" style="border: 0px; color: #8c8c8c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Thorny Devil Lizard</a></span></div></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:</b></span></div><table border="0" class="internalSpecTable" style="border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tbody style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Silver Content (Troy oz)</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">1</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Monetary Denomination (TVD)</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">1</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Fineness (% purity)</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">99.9</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Minimum Gross Weight (g)</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">31.135</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Maximum Diameter (mm)</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">40.60</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Maximum Thickness (mm)</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">4.00</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Maximum Mintage</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">5,000</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>AMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-36862767426781163082015-03-27T05:20:00.001-07:002015-03-27T05:20:11.639-07:00China’s Iron Ore Mines Keep Digging Despite Losses<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N-qs7llanPg/VRVGb3dL5LI/AAAAAAAALy8/4JzkX0v7reA/s1600/China%E2%80%99s-Iron-Ore-Mines-Keep-Digging-Despite-Losses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N-qs7llanPg/VRVGb3dL5LI/AAAAAAAALy8/4JzkX0v7reA/s1600/China%E2%80%99s-Iron-Ore-Mines-Keep-Digging-Despite-Losses.jpg" height="360" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">About three-quarters of Chinese iron ore mines are in the red, according to remarks on Friday by Yang Jiasheng, chairman of the Metallurgical Mines Association of China, with operating rates as low as 20 per cent of capacity.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Shi Zhenglei, iron ore analyst at Mysteel, reckoned that about half of China’s estimated 1,500 iron mines would be forced to close this year, removing 20 to 30 per cent of national capacity. Many Chinese mines produce low grades of ore.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">“Some miners will sell out, but the problem is that it will be hard to find buyers,” he said. “It is also difficult for state-owned companies to acquire small mines due to reasons pertaining to capital and local government.”</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">While many smaller, private iron ore miners may be willing to sell or at least mothball production, state-owned mines are locked into contracts with mills and may come under pressure to keep going.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Local governments also generally oppose closures that might raise local unemployment rolls. State-owned metals trader Minmetals, for example, has been unable to get permission to close a costly mine in northern China, in spite of the availability of cheaper imported ore.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">“Many of the iron ore mines have signed contracts with steel factories,” said Wang Lin, analyst at Lange Steel Information Resource Center in Beijing. “Many are still operating because they want to make sure they have stable supplies for steel factories.”</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The drop in prices has also hit higher-cost international miners including Australia’s Fortescue Metals Group, once hailed by the Chinese for its potential to break the market dominance of BHP Billiton and Rio. Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest, Fortescue founder and chairman, this week called for a cap to help revive prices.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">China’s flagship steel producer Baosteel has joined Rio Tinto in rejecting that suggestion.</span></span><br /><br />
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/132ba452-d465-11e4-9bfe-00144feab7de.html#axzz3VaLzVptJ" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">View Source</a></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Iron Ore, Iron Ore price, Iron Ore news, metals news, metals mining news, china metals, china demand, china mines, china iron ore, atlas iron, bhp</span></div>AMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-20747861672305676962015-03-17T05:13:00.001-07:002015-03-17T05:13:44.999-07:00Funnel-Web Spider Silver Bullion Coin 2015 Perth Mint<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CGpdPgpSMAo/VQgYNKgOB-I/AAAAAAAALnY/sNU7vU3m9yk/s1600/2015-Funnel-Web-Spider-silver-bullion-coin-Perth-Mint.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CGpdPgpSMAo/VQgYNKgOB-I/AAAAAAAALnY/sNU7vU3m9yk/s1600/2015-Funnel-Web-Spider-silver-bullion-coin-Perth-Mint.jpg" height="472" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Australia has more than 40 species of funnel-web spider which fall into two genera: Hadronyche and Atrax. Australian funnel-web spiders are medium to large in size and vary from one centimeter to 5 centimeters in length.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The male funnel-web is more lightly built than the female. Both sexes have a body color that can vary from black to brown, but the hard carapace covering the front part of the body is always sparsely haired and glossy.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Not all species are known to be dangerous, but several are renowned for their highly toxic and fast-acting venom. Funnel-webs make their burrows in moist, cool, sheltered habitats—under rocks, in and under rotting logs, some in rough-barked trees (occasionally metres above ground). They are commonly found in suburban rockeries and shrubberies, rarely in lawns or other open terrain.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">This 1oz silver bullion coin is issued as legal tender under the Australian Currency Act 1965.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">MINTAGE: The Perth Mint will release no more than 1,000,000 of these coins worldwide in 2015.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">REVERSE: The coin’s reverse features a large funnel-web spider, displaying its sprawled legs and hairy body. The design also includes the inscription AUSTRALIAN FUNNEL-WEB SPIDER, the 2015 year-date, the coin specifications, and The Perth Mint’s traditional ‘P’ mintmark.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">OBVERSE: The coin’s obverse depicts the Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the monetary denomination.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">PACKAGING: These bullion coins are presented without capsules in protective tubes of 25 coins. There are 20 tubes to a box. Each tube is sealed with The Perth Mint’s tamper evident security seal.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Last year saw the debut of a new series of bullion coins from collector favourite, the Perth Mint. Released much earlier in the year that it’s usual triumvirate of semi-numismatic silver bullion coins (Koala, Kookaburra, Lunar), and with a considerably higher fixed mintage at one-million units, the first coin depicted one of Australians best-known threats to human life, the Saltwater Crocodile. It was a hit and the mint sold out in just a couple of months.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Fast forward to 2015 and yet another of Australia’s menagerie of psychotic killers gets its own coin, the Funnel-Web Spider. Growing up to 5cm in length (the spider, not the coin…), these quite beautiful creatures are capable of inflicting a particularly nasty bite, and doing it in your own garden. Nice. The fangs in particular are an arachnophobes worst nightmare, along with their ability to walk along the bottom of your water-filled swimming pool for a couple of days while still being able to attack you.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The coin follows last years quite closely in design concept, a clean representation of the animal on a clean background, with all the inscriptions in a bordered surround near the rim. The spider lends itself well to this style, and we think it’s actually a slight step up from last years design as the crocodile seems a difficult animal to get right on a coin, although Perth did a good job twelve months ago.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Available in 25-coin tubes, or in monster-boxes of 500, it’s a low-premium, good quality silver bullion coin of good design and restricted mintage. Only available in the one-ounce format, there were no proof, or other collector versions of the Saltwater crocodile released last year, so we wouldn’t expect any of this either. Seems like a bullion winner to us. At present we’ve only seen it up for bulk sale at Texas Precious Metals, a big Perth Mint bullion dealer in the US, but expect this to crop up in loads of places over the next week.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SPECIFICATIONS:</strong></div><table style="border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><thead style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">SIZE</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">40.6 mm</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">FINISH</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">BRILLIANT UNCIRCULATED</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">BOX / COA</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">NO / NO</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>AMAZING WORLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939290446201572310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3654643934217917738.post-56924761684487272312015-03-08T04:28:00.001-07:002015-03-08T04:28:42.924-07:00Leaellynasaura 2015 1oz Australian Age Of Dinosaurs Silver Proof Coloured Coin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mlUAD54nHtE/VPwwil43uxI/AAAAAAAALjI/WEIv2mw5upQ/s1600/Leaellynasaura-2015-1oz-Australian-Age-Of-Dinosaurs-Silver-Proof-Coloured-Coin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mlUAD54nHtE/VPwwil43uxI/AAAAAAAALjI/WEIv2mw5upQ/s1600/Leaellynasaura-2015-1oz-Australian-Age-Of-Dinosaurs-Silver-Proof-Coloured-Coin.jpg" height="640" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Leaellynasaura is the third coin in this exciting five-coin series which features Australian dinosaurs that existed during the Cretaceous Period between 112 and 102 million years ago.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PROOF QUALITY 99.9% PURE SILVER</strong></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The coin is struck from 1oz of 99.9% pure silver in proof quality.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">UNIQUE COLOURED DINOSAUR DESIGN</strong></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The coin’s reverse depicts the Australian dinosaur Leaellynasaura amicagraphica set against a starlit prehistoric scene. The inscription LEAELLYNASAURA, the coin’s weight and purity, and The Perth Mint’s ‘P’ mintmark are also incorporated into the design.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AUSTRALIAN LEGAL TENDER</strong></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Issued as legal tender under the Australian Currency Act 1965, the coin’s obverse features the Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the 2015 year-date, and the monetary denomination.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LIMITED MINTAGE</strong></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Perth Mint will release no more than 5,000 of the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Series – Leaellynasaura 2015 1oz Silver Proof Coloured Coin.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PRESENTATION PACKAGING AND NUMBERED CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY</strong></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">The coin is housed in a classic display case within an illustrated shipper, and is accompanied by a numbered Certificate of Authenticity.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FIVE-COIN PLASTIC DISPLAY BOX</strong></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">A superb way to protect and present all five coins in their illustrated shippers, this series display box comprises an easy-to-assemble polypropylene charcoal tray and a transparent sleeve, and is complimentary with the delivery of the third coin release when purchased as a subscription.</span></div><ul style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Third Release in Series</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Proof Quality 99.9% Pure Silver</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Unique Coloured Dinosaur Design</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Australian Legal Tender</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Limited Mintage – 5,000</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Presentation Packaging</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Numbered Certificate of Authenticity</span></li>
</ul><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://australiasilver.com/leaellynasaura-2015-1oz-australian-age-dinosaurs-silver-proof-coloured-coin/leaellynasaura-2015-1oz-australian-age-of-dinosaurs-silver-proof-coloured-coin-box/" rel="attachment wp-att-1767" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #8c8c8c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Leaellynasaura-2015-1oz-Australian-Age-Of-Dinosaurs-Silver-Proof-Coloured-Coin-box" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1767" src="http://australiasilver.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Leaellynasaura-2015-1oz-Australian-Age-Of-Dinosaurs-Silver-Proof-Coloured-Coin-box.jpg" height="1000" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0.4em auto 1.625em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px; position: relative; width: auto;" width="1000" /></a></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin-bottom: 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:</strong></div><table border="0" class="internalSpecTable" style="border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.375px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tbody style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Silver Content (Troy oz)</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">1</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Monetary Denomination (AUD)</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">1.00</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Fineness (% purity)</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">99.9</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Minimum Gross Weight (g)</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">31.135</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Maximum Diameter (mm)</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">40.60</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Maximum Thickness (mm)</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">4.00</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Maximum Mintage</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">5,000</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Designer</span></td><td style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Tom Vaughan</span></td></tr>
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