I've been holding on to some Roosevelt Dimes (i.e. 90% silver) I bought in 2010. I haven't sold any since 2011 when silver came close to $50, and current holdings is the profit from the 2010 purchase. My only history selling more expensive items:

Gainesville Coin back in 2011. Isn't getting good reviews on Google or BBB (i.e. 2 star) so doesn't seem to be the same as they were in 2011.

Fleabay. Had a pretty good experience in 2011, but since then I hear too many horror stories of shady buyers claiming they didn't receive in condition stated and then Fleabay leaving the seller empty handed. This includes Fleabay screwing over an immediate family member so not just internet folklore.

Sigforum classified sold a few firearms in past, but it's on hiatus due to scammer scum.

Who is reputable these days?

No, this isn't an invitation to send me e-mails.

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Depends on how much you have. Smaller quantities, local coin/bullion dealer. Larger quantities I would go to Monument Metals or SD Bullion.

You might want to try one of our members here David Truong.
I wanted to think before the classified shut down he used to advertise he bought gold and silver.

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Who is reputable these days?

US Coins on Katy Freeway on the Eastbound side before you get to the 610 Loop, https://uscoinsandjewelry.com/about-us

I did selling and buying with them over twenty years ago, when I was into US coins. They are solid.

I'm sure you can find a local place. If you had to ship it, I would trust Apmex in Oklahoma City.

I bought a few silver eagles at $17ea in 2019. I sure wish I had bought a whole lot more back then! I also wish I knew if we are close to the top or have a long way to go. When to close a trade is half the equation of buy low, sell high!

Check out how good/bad the pricing is right now. Just a couple of weeks ago there were a lot of reports that no dealers were buying 90% silver (or other things like silver tableware etc) because there is a shortage in chemicals needed by refiners. So the refiners aren't buying up the 90% coins from dealers, and thus dealers aren't buying from individuals.

Maybe it's changed by now, but I'd at least make a phone call or two before driving anywhere.

I recently heard, could be Apmex or JM Bullion, that they raised their buyback minimum to $10k due to the onslaught of sellers. Another option is peer-to-peer, https://peermetals.com/ . Short of a pawnshop offering 10% back of spot if you're lucky, or a LCS when 90% becomes more desirable, I've always thought Craigslist was good. It could come back into vogue to avoid the middleman. Hard to believe a rosey or minty merc is around $6.50. I would recommend SD if you have quantity. Miles Franklin also comes to mind.

Para since the classified are down would it be acceptable for him to email me for an offer?

Spot on those little nuggets are almost $66×face value if my Constitutional math is correct. I have 2 rolls coming from SD Bullion I ordered for spot on 1/1 when spot was 72.27. It just shipped. Crazy times. Demand for Constitutional is cyclical, in 2021-22 premiums were more than for silver eagles. I hope they find a new home and not to a dealer who would probably send them off to be burned if that's how they make money on them.

You're in luck. The Houston Money Show is this weekend. Take it there to sell. Be prepared to get well less than spot.

Have you ever visited Shiner Texas, home of Shiner Bock beer? If not, a nice visit to tour the brewery/distillery and have some great on premise BBQ will also bring you to shiner to visit Texas Metals where you can buy and sell and store precious metals. Its a cool spot too!

Its the depository I use.

Unless you need to capital I would not sell the 90% right now, the market is swinging up and down so much which has driven down the price well below spot. On the wholesale side you can purchase 90% below melt around 63 x face and the larger refineries are about 15% back of spot when selling to them. There is so much junk silver on the market and very little buyers. I would allow the market to stabilize and allow the panic buying/selling to slow down.

In our shop we have been selling junk silver for 62 x face simply because my refinery has placed a limit on how much they will buy from dealers per week.

Thanks for all of the feedback and suggestions. Still recovering from achilles tendon reattachment surgery so no Money Shows or Shiner tours for me, but appreciate the suggestions.

I've been holding on to the dimes for nearly 16 years, and this is the best price in that time period. I'm 2 to 3 years from retirement, and this seems like the time to cash out. It'll have me liquid to fund a preretirement or early retirement purchase.

Following. I have a very good amount of both U.S. 99% silver dollars and the 99.99% Canadian Silver Maple Leafs, and then many large bags of 90% silver coins. I rarely check silver prices as they never seemed to go up and was shocked yesterday when I checked them. I am still thinking if I should hold or sell. I bought all of the Canadian through Goldline and could sell those back to them. I had bought all of the U.S. silver dollars at $15 each and the Canadian at $36 each the one time it last spiked.

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
Early retirement purchase.

Let me know when that Goldwing is in the garage

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I rarely check silver prices as they never seemed to go up and was shocked yesterday when I checked them.

A few months ago I was debating as well and decided to hold. I hadn’t kept track and this thread prompted me to look yesterday. Holy Cow!

I checked with a local coin shop the other day. He said Morgan dollars were at least $35 each. I estimated the silver weight and was surprised at how valuable the silver content is.

Price of silver, 16 Jan 2026 @ 0905am EST: $88.86/ounce (31.1035 grams)

U.S. Silver Coin weights (ASW)

90% Silver:
$1 = 0.7734 oz / 26.73 g
50¢ = 0.3617 oz / 12.5 g ($10 roll/20 ea = 7.234 oz)
25¢ = 0.1808 oz / 6.25 g ($10 roll/40 ea = 7.232 oz)
10¢ = 0.0723 oz / 2.5 g ($5 roll/50 ea = 3.615 oz)

40% Silver (billon):
Ike 40% Ag $1 = 0.3162 oz / 9.835 g
JFK 40% Ag 50¢ = 0.1479 oz / 4.60 g ($10 roll/20 ea = 2.958 oz)

I guess it all depends on why the price of silver and gold are where they are. If, as some suggest, they reflect central banks selling dollars to buy gold as an accelerating trend, then we may be looking back in a year or two and thinking that these prices which seem really high today were really low.

On the other hand, it could just be a momentary panic and the price could drop leaving one wishing they had sold. For a good while after silver was hovering around $50 one would have looked really smart to have sold then and restocked later.

I sure wish I had a crystal ball...

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I guess it all depends on why the price of silver and gold are where they are.

Gold and silver are each their own separate world. Gold is mostly a store of wealth, whereas silver also has a huge industrial usage. That they tend to generally move in similar directions does not predict anything specific.

Gold indeed is being bought by central banks and other large institutions in exchange for dollars. They are shifting their reserves from dollars to gold, indicating anticipation of the dollar devaluing and/or widespread instability of some sort. The various predictions of where the price is headed are, it seems, extrapolations of the recent dollar price movement along with looking at various ratios. I don't think gold is a bad buy now for the long term, but it could take a short term drop or stall out here for a while.

Silver has some real structural shortage problems, with more needed for industrial uses than is being mined, and it is difficult to increase mining. The futures market has been heavily manipulated down for decades, but now the demand for actual delivery is causing that manipulation to fail. Silver is a good barter item, so it is having a strong demand from prepper types. The historical ratios such as to gold say the price should be still quite a bit higher. Silver prices are very volatile, so it is a roller coaster ride.

We're terribly overweight in silver for a retiree portfolio, so I'm strategically taking small amounts off the table as the price goes up. I'm aiming for 10-15% of the portfolio being silver. At gold's current value I will be buying a bit more if it takes a big dip.