>>8871462>Not sure I'd consider gold/silver collecting as they are universally sellable vs something a nice community would purchase for inflated aftermarket prices.Gold and Silver can most certainly be collectable. Many people who buy go for the cheapest price possible, for the most weight possible, and usually that's utilitarian bars and generic rounds. However, people really do collect the sovereign/government-issued silver and gold coins.
It isn't really the same as numismatic coin collecting, because many of those types of coins really only have value based on things like rarity, or low mintage, or errors, etc, and have no real value based on the material used. Precious metals will always have some sort of value, so the coins will never lose too much, and although you might pay a slightly higher premium for special coins, you'll still be able to sell them for more than their spot/melt price.
So, you can either buy them as coins, so they're something valuable on top of being kind of collectible, or you can just buy the metals for their weight, and there's better ways to do that than coins.
