(03-29-2020, 02:13 PM)MalabarJag Wrote:

(03-29-2020, 01:56 PM)Byron LeftTown Wrote: You must have a lot of wampum if you're talking about rooms full of silver.  My old coins fit in a couple of cigar boxes.  Mine are not for making money, they are a hedge against hyper-inflation.  A gallon of gasoline still costs 19 cents in silver coin, same as 1960.

Now you've got me doing the math. Ballpark figures here.


$20 per ounce. 16 oz per lb. Density around 10x that of water. I gallon of water weighs 8 lb., so 1 gallon of silver weighs 80 lb.

$320 x 80 = $25,600. So $250K of silver is about a 10 gallon aquarium in size.